Straight, No Chaser

Dangerous girl started crying in front of me tonight. And I felt utterly incompetent. I stared at the table’s edge, trying to think of what things you say to someone crying before you.

I mean, I had simply sat down by her after seeing her sitting off by herself.

“Hey, what are you doing sitting over here?”

Her face turns and I noticed the subtle glistening in her eyes. I begin to realize somethings awry. As she explains what’s wrong after I ask… the water builds and a tear falls slowly down her right cheek. This put me into a very brief moment of shock. This person before me had just shed a tear! It seemed so strange at the time. I tried to say worthwhile things. Tried hard.

She turned her face away when a couple other people from our class came by, hiding the wet streak on her right cheek. I don’t know if the others ever noticed she had just been crying. She just shifted into the new conversation with them and moved on.

No one’s ever as dangerous as you think.