She feels his eyes on her like a stain.
She stops. Turns. Every muscle tightens.
Two old men on a bench, one guilty smile, one held breath. The air between them crackles as she marches back, ready to tear his gaze off his face.
He doesn’t apologize. Instead, he speaks with a softness that sounds borrowed from another era: a line about beauty reminding him he’s still alive, about how seeing her run pulls him, briefly, out of the long gray stretch of his days. It’s just sentimental enough, just cracked enough with age, that her anger can’t quite hold. Her shoulders drop; her jaw unclenches. She laughs despite herself, leans in, and presses a quick, embarrassed kiss to his cheek before trotting away, ponytail bouncing.
Silence settles. Then he exhales, leans back, and turns to his friend with a boyish glint that doesn’t belong on such an old face. “Told you,” he says. “Three kisses this week.” The friend snorts, half-admiring, half-disgusted.
In that single, offhand scorekeeping, the tenderness curdles. What looked like a fragile, human connection shrinks into a trick—an old man’s sport played in plain sight, while the world mistakes it for wisdom.
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