Second thoughts

“Me neither,” she replied after a short pause. He wrapped his hands around hers over the table and kissed them tenderly. “I can’t believe you found me,” he said with a broken voice, “it really feels like time hasn’t passed at all, like it was yesterday that you went off to college and I stood at the curb waving goodbye.” They walked out of the restaurant holding hands. While he took the lead to hail for a cab, she discretely reached in her purse looking for her cellphone, finding instead the ring she had removed earlier for the first time since Richard had given it to her. “James… actually…” she whispered before running away, but he couldn’t hear her.