I saw her, just as the train left the platform. She was standing on the other side of the tracks; her eyes were following the train; my eyes were following hers. She lifted her eyes, and met with mine.

Trains came and went by, we went nowhere; our vision stuck to each other. Through the silent windows of still trains, and through shrieking flashes of the moving ones, we kept looking at each other for hours. Our body made various movements, but we didn’t notice; not the shifting of our feet, not the curling of our lips, not the growling of our stomachs, not the thuds of the hearts, not the various gestures of the hands, nothing.

Then, as if the eyes spoke with each other and conveyed a message above the dirty rail lines, we finally moved; towards the foot bridge, climbing up in applause worthy synchronization, and stopping a few inches from each other.

‘Hi,’ I said.

Her 100 watts smile made my world a brighter place as she shied and took her eyes off me.