The lake is where I have always felt at peace. Where I had the biggest sense of being home. Maybe it was growing up so close
To them and having some of the best memories made there. As a teenager it was a place to escape that always provided fun and laughter.
I don't have any memories of him at the lake. But now I can't imagine thinking of the lake and not thinking of him.
Twenty two years ago at a party is when he entered my life. Two people at a party who couldn't be further apart on the social scene. We spent the next two years spending time together whenever we could sneak it in. I'll never be able to tell you what pulled us together. Or why after twenty years it continues to pull us together.
That day at the lake I couldn't shake that feeling of being watched. Sitting on the beach I couldn't stop feeling a set of eyes burning into me. Maybe it was the heat making me feel restless.
As I stood out in the water, I felt watched. I was Thankful for the dark sunglasses i was wearing and took the opportunity to scan the beach for familiar faces. I'm not sure what or who I hoped to see. But those all too familiar eyes staring right back at me, we're not what I expected. The sunglasses bought me some time to study him, while he debated whether I saw him or not. My legs were weak, this man has a power over me that I haven't been able to defeat. It's an almost animalistic magnetic pull. Do I wave? Do I pretend I don't see him? We're on a public beach and I feel like I have tunnel vision. Does he know I see him? He has to know. I opt for a quick nod and continue to scan the beach. He's hurt by this move. I know that. But twenty years later this man still reduces my ability to think clearly to rubble.