Star

I don't think I'll ever forget when you showed me that star you won… The smile on your face, the gleam in your eyes… I felt for just a moment like I was a teen, out on his first maybe-it's-a-date-but-we-aren't-really-sure-yet-date to the county fair with the girl he's sure he's going to marry one day… then the moment passed, and we were back to being two adults navigating our middle lives, enjoying a day together with our separate families. But it was too late, my heart had already melted…

Driving home afterward, everyone else in the car sleeping, knowing you were somewhere on that freeway, too, and that yours were probably sleeping, too… I wondered if you were looking at that sliver of the moon in the sky out ahead of us, hanging out with Venus as they sometimes like to do… And I wondered if you were thinking about me, too. Wondered if I leave these impressions on your memory, like you leave them on mine… Wondered if I will ever know. Wondered if you know.

Do you know?