Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 00:37:55 EST
From: Shirk18@aol.com
Subject: Mystery 4

Well well it did take me a good deal of time now didn't it? It's not much
but i got a bit inspired tonight and was like hey.. now is when i shall
right so write i did. not too much but enough to get me started. send me
mail to encourage me to write more and maybe i will :) have a good day
peoples

3

As I kept my eyes locked on Isabelle waiting for her response she peeled
out from the light as it turned green and put her hand against her
forhead. I could tell she was feeling stressed and she looked at me for a
second as she put her hand back on the wheel and she had a look of
compassion in her eyes.

"Don't you feel it too," she asked looking at me again.

"I thought.. I guess I just thought I felt something because I wanted to
feel something there," I admitted.

"The first time I saw you I didn't ever want to look away. I didn't ever
want you to stop looking into my eyes."

All I could do was look at her as she made this confession and feel the
happiness trying to jump out of my throat.

"I scared myself. When you broke our gaze I realized that I had been gazing
into the beautiful eyes of another girl. I thought about how I wanted to
talk to you and about how my boyfriend was playing pool 10 feet away at the
same time and I was torn," she said as we sped down the dark highway.

"You have a boyfriend. Why are you telling me this when I can't have you?"

I could feel the happiness and the pain combating inside of me. I foresaw
the pain that could harbor in me if I knew she could care about me but
chose someone else. At the same time I would be so happy just to know she
could care about me.

"You have no idea do you," she asked looking at with amusement in her eyes.

"I guess I don't... Enlighten me?"

"That first night I saw you, I never thought I would see you again. I told
myself that would be best because I knew then that I would turn my life
upside down for you. I thought there was some kind of connection there. I
never felt that before. I.. I think you feel it. But, my point is, that was
the night Joey and me really started having trouble. Thinking about how
happy I was just looking into your eyes I realized how dissatisfied I am
with him. He knows things have changed. I just stayed with him because I
had never seen you before and I thought I would never get to see you
again."

"Wow," is all I could say and as we pulled up to a red light I touched her
shoulder lightly to get her to look at me. "What are we going to do?"

Her eyes had a flash of fear in them before she regained her look of
confidence.

"I know I want to try to be with you, Val. I won't let myself be afraid. I
didn't tell you at first because I thought maybe I would make a fool of
myself and that is not something I do well. I had to know for sure about
you. Now I know... and if you want me, I'm yours."


:) Tigah