encounters

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Originally uploaded by ladelentes.

five billion lives ago, a girl in a pink dress met a boy in faded blue jeans at the gare du midi in brussels. a sigh dropped from her heart onto the tracks and in a single smooth athletic motion he picked it up and held it up. a star-shaped balloon - from a hen on the last train - watched it all from the station ceiling. imperceptibly bouncing there, against the tiles. 'no escape' emblazoned across in glitter letters. next train arrives and they both get on, him clutching the wispy thing, her wanting to hold his hand. doors close and the train goes, all the way to the atomium.