Find You
JAVI
The thud my heart gives is loud enough for her to hear. I’m sure of it.
The traitorous organ knocks out loud, and now it is beating with a rhythm that I’m sure doesn’t occur in nature, pulsing with a pace that would put me into an emergency room when it realizes that the person now walking towards me across the overgrown “yard” is none other than Del herself.
Her face is twisted into an unspoken grunt as she lugs two large pails off the side of a small garden and sets them down carefully on the dirt floor. Her ears must hear the rhythm of my goddamned heart because the second I see her, her stare diverts and smacks right dab into mine. Her glacial eyes are wide and penetrating.
Something unseen takes place within our silent exchange, our eyes doing the talking for us. De
