The Run Series

I don’t know how it happened, but the signs were all there. Muffled chuckles and giggles. Her phone glowing in the dark. A new spring to her step. She had started to take time with her clothes and make up again. She was dieting and running just as much. Something, or someone, was putting color in her life again. Apparently, they had met at a work event. Something super random, given that he wasn’t in her circle - work or otherwise - but his international flight had been cancelled and rather than go back home, he had taken the decision to stay nearer the airport, at the inn her office was using for the Christmas party. She wasn’t very social so she had wandered to the pool where she had bumped into him. The connection was instant. They talked late into the night and even though they didn’t exchange numbers, she never wanted that night to end. It had been a while she’d had such cerebral conversations around women, empowerment, poetry and music with another man. She knew this had the