Two Letters and a lifetime

Her smile revealed her cute dimples as she walked into the room.

“Hello! How are you doing today?” I asked casually in an attempt to hide how much I was destabilized by the glow from her face.

I had to act like I was in control. How could I be speechless because of a woman?
She was not just any woman. She was a brown skin goddess who knew how to work the room. I stared as she delivered the presentation. Not just at her face but her body as she gracefully walked back to her seat.

I think she noticed as she came over to ask what I thought of her presentation. She saw through the lies as I pretended to remember her words.

Not to waste an opportunity, I asked for a more convenient time to pick her brain.

“A candlelight dinner is no place to pick my brain except there is something else you want to say.” she says as I pulled out a chair for her.
I smiled and responded with “Well, life decisions are best made in memorable places.”

We laugh and banter, and out of nowhere, I blurt out “I want to grow old with you.”
Without hesitating, she says “What took you so long?”
We came in as acquaintances and left as a couple.
We walked to her car and she gave me a goodnight kiss.

We spoke all night into the morning even though it was a Sunday.
Then we arrived at a tricky territory and couldn’t proceed.
Our hearts were compatible but genetics was not yet clear.

What’s yours? Two AA’s or nothing else.
We both had S’s flowing in our bloodstreams, and we went quiet.

“You know what we have to do,” she says.
I was hesitant to end it here, but I remembered burying my cousins.
“Yes, I know” I replied.

She shone as she made her Monday presentation in a pink skirt suit.
All that ran through my mind was how the best thing that could have happened to me lasted less than 24 hours.