Here is my Thursday Thrill but first I just want to say
COME BACK TALLULAH ROSE!!!!!!!!!!
No-one can say
I didn't try
Surveying the room I
smiled to myself, everything was absolutely perfect. The fire was lit
and roaring, the candles were alight and flickering in the small
breeze from the open windows, the wine was chilling in the ice bucket
and the smell coming from the kitchen was making my mouth water.
Mind you it should
be the amount it had cost to get the owners to turn every other
customer away and let me hire the whole restaurant, now all I had to
do was hope she had read all my messages and actually turned up.
Glancing at my watch I saw that it was almost eight, another
thirty-five minutes and, hopefully, she would arrive.
It had taken a lot
of detective work to find out which city she lived in. I had sent
messages pinging all over the internet, to all four corners of the
planet and eventually , who knew where she was, had replied.
Opening the small
bottle of Scotch I had brought with me I grabbed a glass from behind
the bar and poured myself a large one before walking over to the
fire, grabbing one of the chairs and sitting down to wait.
As I sipped my drink
I kept glancing at my watch, I couldn't help myself but I had never
known time to drag by so slowly. One minute felt like one hour but
finally my watch said 8:30. Any second now she will walk through
the door and everything will be how it should be I thought,
taking another sip of Scotch. Only she didn't walk in.
8:30 became 9
o'clock, which soon became 10, the half a bottle of Scotch soon
became an empty bottle of Scotch. I had to finally admit defeat, she
wasn't going to come, wherever she was she wasn't ready to come back
and there was nothing I could do about it.
Slowly I walked
around the room, extinguishing all the candles, before turning the
room lights on and stepping into the kitchen. The chef stopped what
he was doing, looked at me, saw the defeat in my face and turned the
ovens off.
Thanking him for his
wasted effort I took a couple of bills from my wallet, handed them to
him and then walked back into the restaurant. As I looked around one
last time I walked to the door, opened it and stepped out into the
night. Disheartened and with my head bowed I started to walk along
the street towards my hotel, not noticing the woman watching me from
the dimly lit doorway on the opposite side of the road.
JSMorbius2013
5 comments:
We had similar interpretations from this photo. I like the waiting and the description of the restaurant. What did he do when he saw the woman watching him from across the street?
Wow, that was very heart-breaking for the gentleman. The hopes of meeting that special someone, only to be upstood by poor timing. Great post Julez, it was wonderful.
very heartbreaking. Perhaps in the future she'll find the courage to join him.
Dakota
Wow! This was powerful, touching, and straight from the heart! Please write more of the story!
Such a touching effort. I hope she knows how much she is loved.
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