Page 110 of Never Tear Us Apart
God, your touch – your touch I’ve dreamt of every day.
‘Stitches.’ It’s been such a long time since I’ve seen your face, I can’t help grinning wildly. ‘I’ve been waiting for you, Maia. Here you are at last.’
‘Here I am,’ you say. ‘Shall we go?’
Funny – when I get up, my knees don’t creak no more, and I feel just about as strong and whole as I ever have. Feel like I could take off and fly right up into the cool blue sky, and I wouldn’t need no Spitfire to make it.
‘Where we going?’ I ask you.
‘Anywhen you want,’ you say. ‘We’ve got a whole universe to choose from.’
I look back just once. I think I know that old feller, sleeping on a bench, scrap of yellowed paper clutched in his bony hand. Yes, I think I know him, but it don’t matter much to me.
Not now the wait is over.
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