Then

When all else fades and what is left is simply you and him. Those few trembling seconds when you turn around and find that he is talking to you and everything in you becomes very, very still. It suddenly doesn't matter that you have a long workday ahead of you. It suddenly is irrelevant that clients will scream at you and colleagues will demand the impossible. It makes no difference that he grew up in Melbourne and you in the smallest town in southern Sweden. Because all of a sudden you are back in tenth grade, and his eyes are blue just like back then -- but his hair is much darker. And just like then you've watched his smile with wonder for a while. Suddenly, you are just a girl and he is just a boy, and you both say all the wrong things and it just doesn't matter that you both stutter and blush and fumble for words that slip away too fast. You don't know what will happen next. You have no idea what to do with what you are feeling because it is always new, every time. All that matters is that at this moment...

you watch it begin again.