Contest STB 9: "Love's Sortilege" ✨

My first day of school, after moving again with my mother to a completely new city for me, a strange feeling that I'm getting used to...or so I think.

The morning was passing and the time to leave was approaching, when suddenly a girl with the most beautiful eyes I had ever seen crossed my gaze, at that moment I felt that time stopped and my heart was beating as if I had run a marathon. It was the first time that someone attracted me in this way, it seemed almost magical.

Once the exit signal sounded, I went over to talk to her, but when I looked around she was gone, I only heard her name during class... "Moon". On my way back to my house while walking, I found on the ground a bright moon-shaped amulet with an intense blue color, with a design that at first glance seemed quite expensive and exclusive. With some mistrust I decide to take it and when I stare at it for a few seconds, for some strange reason the face of the girl I met today comes to my mind, curiously with the same color eyes, those intense blue eyes that caught my attention.

The next day, very excited, I arrived at the institute, with the surprise that the mysterious blue-eyed girl was no longer there and would no longer be there since she had changed schools. I felt a feeling of sadness invade me. At that moment I remembered something I left in my pocket, it was the amulet in the shape of the moon, the amulet that reminds me of the girl! I exclaimed, it was a kind of magic sign that perhaps destiny wanted me to see.

From that day on, the others continued as normal until graduation day. A very happy day where I would finally begin to fulfill my dream of being a future artist.

10 years passed and many things had changed, my mother was no longer with me and I was living in a new city doing my internship for my career. My life continued as normal until one day I met a lovely lady who needed help. I decided to help her without any problem and she gratefully invited me to a nearby coffee shop where I used to go.

The lady goes ahead to order some coffees for both of us, and once the waiter arrives with the order, she confesses to me that she could read my future by means of "coffeeomancy". At first I was surprised since I consider myself a bit skeptical about these things, so, more out of curiosity than anything else, I accepted the offer.

At that moment I thought: "how is it possible that this lady knows so much just by seeing traces of coffee?", just when the lady mentions the words "Love's Sortilege", a mental puzzle was being put together little by little,...a girl?...blue?...a reunion?...moon?, Just at the mention of that last word, my gaze inevitably turns to a girl sitting a few tables away from me, who also happens to look up at me, and I feel an interest and an attraction that I haven't felt for many years.

It can't be possible, it's the same girl? I thought, a girl that curiously I thought I had seen on previous occasions sitting in the same place in the cafeteria, always asking for the same thing and all alone. Taking advantage of the seer lady's company I told her briefly what was going on and she said: "It's the Love's Sortilege!", and I said with a rather nervous smile: "and now what am I supposed to do?", and she said with a very cheerful phrase: "go ahead son, don't be afraid of your destiny!".

And so I did, I got up and approached her table, she centered her surprised look with her beautiful blue eyes to an amulet that stood out from my neck and asked: "it is very nice the pendant you are wearing, it reminds me of one I had but unfortunately I lost, is it yours? "I answer her: "actually it is not, one day I found it while walking", I kindly show it to her, she details it and little by little I see how her eyes fill with tears, "I can't believe it, it is my stone, I know it because it was a gift that my parents had made especially for me before they died". The more we talked, the more I confirmed that we were the same as we were 10 years ago... something completely unreal for me. Without realizing it, the hours went by, so we arranged to meet again at the same time and in the same coffee shop, and just before we left I almost forgot to ask her name, and she answered me with a tender smile: "My name is Moon and yours?...😳

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