First Kiss

Shy, tentative, it might not have happened but for proximity and the unconscious signalling between the two youngsters. What was it that prompted the contact? Was it the boy’s hesitancy, rendering him unthreatening, was it the imperceptible tilt of the girl’s head, the dilation of her pupils, the boy’s half-smile or the way that their eyes locked together so briefly, only to flick away instantaneously? Was there a simultaneous, barely audible intake of breath by both?

Maybe a serendipitous confluence of them all? It needed no courage. It mattered not that neither knew what to do.

Ah, I remember.