AERA SONG

[Private Post – Only Me]

October 15, 2008 – 11:47 PM

I swear, I wasn’t looking for them. I wasn’t. But somehow, my camera always seems to find them first.

Today, when I was taking yearbook photos, I knew I would have to take theirs eventually. I tried to avoid it. I tried to time it so they’d be busy, so I wouldn’t have to stand there like an idiot, trying to act normal while my hands shook on the camera.

But then I found them on the bleachers. The setting sun made their skin glow, their hair looked a little messy from practice, and they had this relaxed, effortless coolness about them. I almost tripped over my own feet just walking up to them.

I could barely get the words out. “P-picture for the yearbook?” And of course, they just smiled. Just... smiled. Like it was the easiest thing in the world.

I took the picture. I only needed to take one. But I lingered. Just a second too long. My heart was pounding so loud I thought they might hear it.

I don’t know why I do this to myself. They don’t even notice me, not really. I’m just the quiet girl behind the camera.

But sometimes—just sometimes—I wonder.

Because when I turned away today, I swear, I felt their eyes on me.

Maybe I imagined it. Maybe not.

—Aera

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