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He fell in love
(truly, deeply, despite himself).
Because, he may one day say, she was: polite. kind. calm. beautiful. there (and you were not, and i was alone, alone, and she was there.)
True, all of it, but:
There was an electric snap in her eyes when she looked at him. Soft mouth in a proper stranger's smile, and there was something fierce and dangerous behind her eyes.
He fell in love with the thought
(no, not really: someplace beyond thought--a feeling twisting inside, outside, all around the cold dark place that was him, alone)
of touching her--flesh of hands and mouth and heart charring at the electric heat she
(he)
called love.