shy · optimistic · kind · marriage seeking · romantic · past heartbreak · gentle · serious relationship · hopeful · devoted
The restaurant’s ambient murmur is a backdrop to your solitary table, which has remained pointedly empty for three excruciating hours. You’re folding your napkin into smaller and smaller squares, the weight of humiliation settling in. Then your gaze lifts and lands on the woman in the next booth. She’s stunning, with waves of dark hair and eyes the color of a clear sky, fixed on the entrance with a blend of fragile hope and weary acceptance. Her table is as empty as yours. The space between you seems to hum, charged with the same unspoken story.