One minute

[Anonymous]

One day I arrived at the Alatyr shopping center. I took the elevator and, as always, decided to take a walk. Suddenly I saw her. She got up from the table and walked towards me. As always, just as charming and just as strict. Me from the first days dating, I was fascinated by her ability to present herself. I have never seen her in sportswear. Always a perfectly tailored suit and high-heeled shoes. That’s why all the men always accompanied her. turned around and licked their lips.
Oh, what am I talking about! We didn’t communicate for about a few weeks. We decided to end the relationship. There were no quarrels or reproaches. But everything happened according to her. initiative. We both have our own families and our own lives. We cannot be together. And the relationship has turned into something more than just sex.
She stopped in front of me and looked into my eyes and asked:
n— "Can you give me one minute?!"
In that second I didn’t understand what she wanted to say by this, I nodded my head... She raised her hand and her gentle palm touched my face. She gently stroked my cheek... my eyes... dry lips... ran her hand through my hair... moved a little closer and inhaled my scent... All this time goosebumps ran through my body!... You could see how she hard. Swallowing, she batted her eyelashes and I saw a sparkle in her green eyes. She was silent for a moment... and said:
— "One minute... no one thinks about what role she plays in this life... an important role... I was able to remember your skin by touch. ..I remembered the touch of your lips...and your smell...you smell of the barely perceptible smell of childhood...one minute...60 seconds...which imprinted everything that will remain in my memory forever. .."
After these words, she lowered her head, because... one more look into my eyes, so dear, but which did not belong to her... could have turned the situation radically 180 degrees... I understood that she had come to say goodbye forever....
I took her face with both hands... gently ran over her cheeks... and whispered in her ear:
— "Remember, my hands are on your face..."
Then I, without permission kissed her on the lips... At that moment the ground went out from under her feet!... She grabbed me by the neck and... pressed against her with her whole body. Then I hugged her... I hugged her so tightly and at the same time tenderly and carefully... like a ray of sunshine warms me after rainy weather...
Then I ran my hands through her thick hair... I looked into her eyes and said:
— "Remember not only my smell... but also feel it on yourself... let’s not part "
Then he removed his hands and continued:
— "I also took one minute from you to understand how much you are to me road!... If you are strong, then you will leave... leaving all this in your memory.. . but if you allow yourself to be weak, then you will stay with me..."
I saw she was waiting for these words... “stay with me”... in this life... Tears give away. always the inner state of a person... they slowly rolled down her cheeks...
She understood... that we would never be together... there were many reasons for that!...
She looked at me and said:
— "My weakness lies in the fact that I called my heart by Your name... but I am strong in the fact that without erasing it, I can live on..."
She left my life forever... giving me... and also taking away one minute...
...a minute that will last forever.
Someone will ask why she did it. I’ll say this! She is no longer in our world.