By Jennifer Capo
She moved so quickly that we only caught a glimpse of her silver boot hop on the train. It must have been the rain pouring down that blurred our vision. We lost sight of her as the doors shut a split second after she boarded. It wasn’t even time to for our tailing guy to jump on. She must have known she was being followed. I scanned the windows through my binoculars from back to front to find her porcelain face. As I scanned the rows again, her big clear blue eyes came right into focus as if one eye filled each lens and she was looking directly at me. She just blinked a few times and then stared with a curious gaze as if she could see right into me. I had to lower my binoculars from the intensity. I thought to myself, “What kind of person can see me all the way up here on this tall building? I whispered aloud, “Not possible.”
I slowly lifted the binocs again and perused the passengers getting settled until she came back into focus again but this time she stared right at me and started laughing. “What’s so funny,” I said aloud with a smile.
“What is it?” Bill asked. “You got something?”
I steadied my hands and kept peering at her. Wondering if my mind was playing tricks on me and she really could somehow see me with the naken eye.
“Nope.” I said to Bill. “Got nothing.” Bill put down his equipment and lit up smoke.
I kept my gaze locked on her and deliberately blink my eye three times in a row to make sure I wasn’t losing my mind. She just looked down and stared at something on the floor. I let out a sigh and thought about how age is beginning to affect my reasoning…or maybe it was actually age that was making me realize the more I know that the more I realize how uncertain our world has become…and then she shyly turn her head in my direction and blinked real fast three times and then started laughing and stuck out her tongue.
I felt my arms go limp as I heard a loud bang on the ground. The binoculars were still in one piece by the time I picked them up, but Bill was pissed.
The trained shoved off and I noticed that something inside of me dropped too.
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