Maybe I wasn’t expecting him to hug me so tight.
We were really only friends, except for that one time…
But he came around the corner with a huge grin on his face, I made him a pie.
I barely got my arms around him and all of a sudden my breath was gone.
Such a simple chain of gestures: food, grin, hug.
And just as I never expected I was back together, whole again.

I hope sometimes you just have to have the breath taken out of you.
I hope it wasn’t just him.