MC #1: My Romance or my Rubicon?

There you were. Hanging on that train pole while we moved through the tunnels, buried in your phone. I was staring far too long. I felt justified because I saw it. A flash in my eye of the possibilities of a hopeless, slightly demented romantic: a glance, a smile, a nod, a re-glance, an invitation, a courtship, a wedding, a life, and a funeral. As if some divine force was pushing me forward with the gift of precognition, I absolutely knew my life beyond was with you and you only.

I began to sweat, I couldn't control it! This was a pivotal point in my life. The fog of a dream began to surround my new-found linear trajectory. This was it. My vision tunneled to three points: the beautiful, glowing perfection of my future life embodied by her, the spheres of light appearing before me indicating my near-future footfalls, and an unmistakably dangerous and jarring line falling between us. One footfall, two footfalls, three footfalls, I was closer; she turned and stared into the very foundation of my being. This will be a story I tell every soul I meet, I thought quasi-aloud as I approached what I now realized was my own personal rubicon. My own thoughts began racing around my brain at incredible speeds. If I stop in my tracks does my life then takes a divergent turn but does that defy my fate; what is fate? Am I not a product of nurture and not nature? What if I never see her again? Is she thinking the same thoughts as I at this very instant?

I stopped. I turned. I walked away from my rubicon, pondering the potential shortsightedness or irrevocable regret.

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