Welcome Stranger

Author: PaulenaK ~: toukalah@hotmail.com

Rating: PG

Disclaimer: Everything WWE belonged to Vince McMahon.

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Summary: The powers of the imagination.

AN: Odd numbered chapters will reflect ‘Her’ POV. Even numbered chapters will reflect ‘His’. Chapter 7 concludes.

 

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Welcome Stranger

 

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I see him now and then. I don’t know who he is, where he’s from or where he’s going. He’s just there sometimes causing my brows to furrow with the depth of emotion that passes through me whenever he’s near. I can’t explain it, weird like this for me only happens in the storylines I play. It doesn’t happen in real life, at least not to me.

 

I remember the first time I saw him. He stuck out like a sore thumb with his baggy jeans, white singlet and red and white bandana worn over his unruly locks. He had reminded me so much of Jeff that I found I couldn’t take my eyes off him. I felt his eyes on me too, but that could be because I had an ink smudge on my nose or toilet paper stuck to the bottom of my shoe - Hey, it does happen.

 

He doesn’t try to be as oblivious to my staring as I am with his and in the end he wins as I lower my eyes and blushingly slink to a part of the room where he’s not just to get my head clear.

 

It’s like that every time our paths cross. I don’t have to look up from what I’m doing to know he’s there. I feel him, my senses are attuned to his presence and I like to kid myself by thinking his are attune to mine.

 

He’s playing tag with a little boy today, wether the boy be his son or someone else’s I know not. This is another side to him that I see… a playful side, a gentle side. I hear his laughter for the first time and can’t help the smile that forms on my face at the sound. Light, zany and definitely masculine. Just like Jeff’s. But I know it couldn’t be him though because he left a long time ago to pursue other dreams and perform other miracles – All of which didn’t include me.

 

I look up, the smile still on my face and I boldly meet my strangers stare and it’s like we are the only two people in this room full of strangers. And then he’s gone again as his little playmate demands his attention. It’s funny, like I said in the beginning I don’t know who he is, where he’s from or where he’s going. I don’t know what it feels like to touch him, to hold his hand, his body, but always, always when our eyes meet for those few seconds I feel like I have known him my whole life and everything at that time is right in my world and then he’s gone just like that. But the feeling he leaves me with, the smile and the memories all stay with me and keep me in this state of weirdness because I know that one day maybe not tomorrow, the next day or the next, but one day soon our paths will cross again.

 

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End - Welcome Stranger 1/7

 

Next – Welcome Stranger 2/7

 

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Title: Welcome Stranger 2/7

Author: PaulenaK

Email: toukalah@hotmail.com

Rating: PG

Disclaimer: Everything WWE belongs to Vince McMahon. Everything ‘NOT’ belongs to whomever they belong to, which is not me.

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Welcome Stranger 2/7

 

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There she is. Like always across a crowded room or sitting alone at a table.

 

Even if I couldn’t see her I’d still know she was there. It’s some kinda sixth sense that calls out to me whenever she’s near and no matter how hard I try to ignore it, how hard I try to focus on my task at hand, like clock work my eyes would look up, my head turns and my neck cranes this way and then that as I wait for just a glimpse of her, hoping all the time for that one look - longing for it.

 

And she never fails to disappoint me. It’s like she’s been waiting for that one look just like I have.

 

Today her head is bent over an open book as well as bopping away to a tune only she can hear in the little yellow ear phones she wears over both her ears. And most of the time she’s either gazing dreamily out the window or scribbling furiously in a little note book that she always carries.

 

I’d love to get a hold of that note book, just to see what it is she writes there, her dreams maybe, her thoughts… maybe even something about me – Wishful thinker that I am.

 

She’s writing in it now. One of her legs is pulled up onto the chair she’s seated on and the other is resting under the table, her chin is leaning on her raised knee while her eyes are focused solely on her script… and then all of the sudden her hand stills and her head lifts and she looks right at me.

 

What do I do? Do I smile or pretend to be looking at a point over her shoulder? Or do I turn away in ignorance? The latter sounds good so that’s what I opt for. Only thing is her eyes haven’t moved from my form, in fact her gaze has turned curious – Some might say even suspicious.

 

I can’t face her again so soon so I flee and wait for another opportunity to return and when I do she’s packing her stuff away as she gets ready to leave for the day. I watch her as she lifts the strap of her bag over her shoulder and my eyes follow her as she makes her way through the electronic doors and out into the street.

 

Will I see her tomorrow?

 

Part of me says ‘Yes’ the other part is telling me to run. Run as fast and as far away from her as I can and not to look back. But that will never happen – I always look back.

 

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End – Welcome Stranger 2/7

 

Next – Perfect Stranger 3/7

 

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Title: Perfect Stranger 3/7

Author: PaulenaK

Email: toukalah@hotmail.com

Rating: PG

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Perfect Stranger

 

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Dressed in blue cotton pants that hang off his lean lanky hips, blue shirt with a darker shade sweat shirt worn over the top and to complete his look a baby blue crocheted beanie with a white trim to secure his unruly locks, his feet are encased by flat sneakers and he's sitting on the floor with his legs crossed in a kinda lazy position. One hand is holding a magazine open while the other is flung up above his head – And all that from one look!

 

Does he see me?

 

Probably.

 

Am I significant?

 

Doesn't look like it.

 

Should I go?

 

Most probably.

 

But when I look again he's the one up on his feet and walking away from me and my eyes can’t help by follow his retreat. A sigh escapes me as he disappears from my line of sight.

 

Oh well, I think to myself. Short but always sweet.

 

My pen meets the page of my note book again and pretty soon I'm lost in what I'm writing, but 'He' is never far from my thoughts.

 

He's perfect.

 

He's my perfect stranger.

 

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End - Perfect Stranger 3/7

 

Next – Perfect Stranger 4/7

 

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Title: Perfect Stranger 4/7

Author: PaulenaK

Email: toukalah@hotmail.com

Rating: PG

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Perfect Stranger 4/7

 

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She's here.

 

A red and white bandanna is holding her mass of long red hair back today – My favourite of all her looks.

 

She hasn't seen me... or at least I think she hasn't, but wether she has or not is of no importance – I have seen her and that’s all that matters.

 

My day is complete – Hell! My week is complete!

 

It's been a few weeks now since I last saw her and I wonder where she's been, what she's been doing, has she been missing me... you know the usual things, I think to myself with a grin.

 

Her head is down fully focused on whatever it is she is reading and she's taking notes I see, her fingers deftly moving her pen over the page and I get the intense feeling that that is exactly what she wants me to see... as if its of some significance.

 

I have butterflies in my belly and am fighting the urge to get up and go back to the other side of the room where I know she is sitting.

 

Maybe she's waiting for me to come over you never know... it could happen... at least it could if I were a movie star or one of those lucky enough to be born into that elite section known as the rich and famous.

 

Okay, I'm getting up now. I can’t help myself. My task is forgotten – Was forgotten the moment I saw 'Her' here.

 

She's perfect.

 

She's my perfect stranger.

 

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End - Perfect Stranger 4/7

 

Next – Passing Stranger 5/7

 

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Title: Passing Stranger 5/7

Author: PaulenaK

Email: toukalah@hotmail.com

Rating: PG

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Passing Stranger

 

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Oh my god!

 

What was ‘He’ doing here?

 

Her hand automatically went to her hair to smooth it back behind her ears as her stranger slipped between the elevators doors just as they were sliding closed.

 

He had his back to her now, but she didn’t mind. His back was just as cute as his front.

 

She felt gritty and before she knew what she was doing she turned her head to the side, lifted her arm and sniffed, a relieved sigh falling from her lips. She may feel all sweaty and yucky, but at least she didn’t smell that way.

 

She had just finished picking up some garments from the dry cleaners and because she couldn’t find a car park close to the store which was just a rinky dink little store on ground level that was tucked in between a Chinese take away and a second hand goods boutique, she had to instead park up on the upper level car park at the shopping mall across the street and then race down the stairs to ground level because for some god awful reason everyone seemed to want to use the elevator at that time!

 

Now drama over, she was on her way back up to her car with her dry cleaning hanging over one arm, her bag over her shoulder and her car keys in her hand and she was alone with ‘Him’ in an elevator!

 

Thankyou God!

 

She had to force her eyes to stay focused on the numbers above the doors as they lit up one by one.

 

That didn’t last long.

 

She smiled and allowed her eyes to take in there fill of his form after all. In all the previous times she had seen him they had just been glimpses or shy stares when he wasn’t watching, but here and now he was all but a few feet away from her and they were all alone.

 

Her perusal started from his sneaker clad feet and went up to rest on his waist where it lingered.

 

Her fingers started to itch.

 

His butt was so very grab-able and so very, very within her reach.

 

She wouldn’t even need to stretch her arm out very far for her hand to brush the blue denim of his jeans, the faded blue of his shirt tail that hung half tucked into the waistband of his jeans and half out… distracting her from the tasty morsal her eyes were feasting on.

 

The letter ‘U’ began to flicker letting the occupants of the elevator know that they were reaching the upper levels and she sighed realising that in a few seconds she’d be exiting the elevator.

 

And when with her next breath the elevator stopped and the doors slid open. She squeezed her hands into fists and moved forward and all too soon she heard the elevator doors slide close behind her.

 

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End - Passing Stranger 5/7

 

Next – Passing Stranger 6/7

 

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Title: Passing Stranger 6/7

Author: PaulenaK

Email: toukalah@hotmail.com

Rating: PG

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Passing Stranger 6/7

 

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Should I?

 

He moved closer.

 

What’s the big deal anyway? People ride these things everyday he was just being a commuter commuting from one floor to another.

 

Yep, that’s all it was.

 

Happy with his decision he quickened his pace and stepped into the elevator before he lost his nerve.

 

It wasn’t until the elevator was ascending that he remembered exactly what the big deal was.

 

‘She’ was there.

 

He cringed and his eyes closed.

 

What the hell was he doing?

 

He shouldn’t be here, he shouldn’t be anywhere near here but when he’d seen her cross the street and enter the shopping mall he hadn’t been able to stop himself from following her. From learning just that little bit more about her and the life she led.

 

His eyes slanted to the side as he felt more then heard her slight in take of breath.

 

It would be so easy just to turn his head and smile at her, say hello and even introduce himself, but if he did it wouldn’t be fair to a lot of people. People he cared for because he knew he wouldn’t be able to stop at just a simple introduction.

 

He had responsibilities that he couldn’t just up and leave and yet he had found it just as hard to not follow her into this elevator.

 

One by one the numbers lit up and one by one he counted down the seconds until the elevator would stop at her destination.

 

What then?

 

She’d leave and soon after so would he and they’d go on with there merry lives as if this little elevator ride had never happened.

 

Could he do that?

 

After taking the risk to follow her into this elevator could he just leave and never think about it again? Never think about her again?

 

The elevator stopped and the doors slid open.

 

He took a breath, he felt the words forming on his tongue, saw his hand lift towards her as she passed, but when the elevator doors slid closed again… he was alone.

 

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End – Passing Stranger 6/7

 

Next – Forever Strangers 7/7

 

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Title: Forever Strangers 7/7

Author: PaulenaK

Email: toukalah@hotmail.com

Rating: PG

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Forever Strangers

 

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I see him.

 

He sees me.

 

A busy intersection.

 

A ‘DON’T WALK’ sign at a pedestrian crossing and he on one side of the road and I on the other.

 

Eyes locked.

 

Bodies stilled.

 

Traffic… ignored.

 

Time… lasting.

 

My mouth opens as does his and I can almost feel the moist tip of his tongue slip through the opening.

 

Almost.

 

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His senses are on fire, so much so that he would bet his life on sparks shooting from his finger tips right now if he were to raise them out to her, which was what he wanted to do.

 

But he couldn’t.

 

Something other than moving traffic stood in the way.

 

And soon she would see what that something was.

 

And all these weeks of curious stares and wishful thinking will be no more.

 

His tongue darted out to trace along his bottom lip and he marvelled at the way his tiny action affected her.

 

Her reaction in turn - Affecting him.

 

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Just breathe…

 

Inhale… exhale… inhale… exhale…

 

Her brow furrows.

 

A little boy ran up beside him and she watched as the boy’s tiny little hand pushed its way up into ‘His’. The same little boy she had seen him with all those weeks before.

 

And then a woman appeared.

 

Her smile as bright as the boys and she too joined ‘Him’ at the crossing.

 

His gaze catches and holds hers.

 

His eyes shining with a silent apology and it’s strange because deep down inside she always knew.

 

Just didn’t want to believe.

 

A car horn blares breaking the spell he’s woven around her and she released a breath she hadn’t known she’d been holding.

 

She smiles.

 

The first that has ever been directed solely at him.

 

For him.

 

He responds in kind, even lifts his hand in a sign of farewell.

 

Because that’s what it was.

 

Crossing the road is forgotten.

 

On both parts.

 

She turns and heads back the way she’d come not having to turn back to see his reaction, already knowing that he’d be doing the same.

 

After weeks of delving into the ‘what if’s…’ and the ‘what could be’s…’, in that one instant they had both come to realise that they would never be anything more then strangers.

 

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End Series

 

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