the song

Elian forgot her other bag with her friend… She was already lost on her way to the bus station and rain had started to fall…predictably. She met two men on the steps of a forgotten building:
You a’right, luv?
I am lost…. she bit her tongue not to say Luv back… for fear that she might come across too friendly in an unfavourable way…
She told them the name of the high way and they gave her the directions… she walked back to her friend… A guy walked on the opposite side of the street but in the same direction, rhyming in Portuguese. His sagging trousers, like left over ambitions, carried him.
Elian crossed over walking behing him… He stopped his freestyle rap. She regretted crossing. But their steps synchronised and by having the same rhythm they created a beat. her mind spoke to her again in her native language… she sang a few lyrics and the guy rapped in Portuguese on the beat they were creating.
They created a song. They got lost on the never ending streets of the city, embellishing her with poetry, song and rhythm…
when they stopped they melted that memory into their other minds, the ones that overtook them at times… the ones that carried them briefly into strange and fantastic realms. The ones that would need to be forgotten about immediately… otherwise the yearning for their other minds would ache their hearts into agony,
The didn’t kiss or embraced…
They just pretended that they knew their way from here on… and they left… like they left most beautiful things in their life… for fear of breaking the spell.
But Elian will soon find that real magic can never be dispelled…
she finally knocked at her friend’s door…
her friend looked tall and seraphic. she looked like an icon, her fingers incredibly long as she held the forgotten bag by the handle:
“I knew you’d forget it!” she smiled a “know-it all” smile.
Elian kissed her cheek and left… the rain was her friend now and she could still hear the heart beat of the stranger she had decided to forget…

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