Helpful Arrangement

Their eyes met locked on each other’s gaze. The dinner carried on but the world around them seemed to fade away.

He wanted to reach out and touch her. Wondering what it would feel like to have her wrapped in his arms. What did her laugh sound like he wondered? Realizing he had never heard it and barely even heard her voice.

It became too much to bear. He did not know how he could go on this way. H