But they didn't say anything. They stood opposite each other, plunging in the eyes and just forgetting about everything.
Time ceased to exist.
You... you changed so much! Her face reflected ingenuous regret and tears flashed in her eyes: he looked like an altar, a left altar, on which the fire extinguished forever. In his eyes, once such merry and arrogant, in curls, into a smile of thin lips, in all his features there were ashes. Everything was burned forever.
"Is it me? Is it because of me? "- Asked her eyes, and his eyes answered just one word:"The only one'. None of them realized how long they have been standing like this - a minute or eternity - when suddenly Marina had a swing towards him, as if losing balance - they embraced each other, took a few steps deeper into the cave ... So they spent the rest of the evening and a whole night - no talking and hugging tightly.
She did not sleep. And did not want to talk. Yes, it was impossible to profane with words such high silence… Midnight, then the pre-dawn ...
He always thought that if fate would bring them to each other again, he would go mad with joy. And now the only words he would say to her - the words, born here in his tortured heart in that last sleepless night: "Let's stay here forever! We have no future, we have no place in the world. Somehow - I do not understand why? - we have no right at each other - there ... but not here. Here we have all rights. Let them all go, and we will stay - you and me, and we will live forever!"
Lying next to her - her head on his arm, her breath on his neck - he could not understand what she is thinking about? Can she hear his call that beats wildly in his heart? She must hear it! ..
Yes ... she did. Absolutely clearly, as if they were spoken aloud, she heard these words: "You are the only one! Come, stay here with me forever!"
Saying him Bye at dawn, she wasn’t so frighteningly beautiful as the day before, in the twilight of the cave. Suddenly, a quiet, no longer thinking about anything, no tortured, as though the solution was found, Basil, did not hesitate many prying eyes, pulled her close and kissed. It was their only kiss for all the years, and feeling unknown pleasure running throughout the body, Basil could not help thinking: "You were right, my friend! It was worth to wait!"...
The mountains and sky, and everything swam before Marina’s eyes. Her head spun so much that if not his embrace of steel, she might fall down.
When he released her, finally, turning to leave, Marina had almost cried out in amazement: in front of her was a former Basil – a young man with mischievous eyes and charming smile, a wave of curls, quivering in the wind. Her eyes opened so widely that resembled two blue lakes, her lips opened in amazement...
- My little Boy! - He whispered, easily, like a feather, lifting her off the ground.
He left with light springy gait, often turning around and smiling at her, and his heart, for the first time in all these years, felt so easy that if not for a heavy backpack, he would have soared with happiness.
Something told him that they parted for short time and that sad time is now behind...
"From Eternal Point of View" novel