"Hokay, so: When we got on that shuttle, I don't know you" he said with a jester's smile. "We are going to sit on opposite sides of the bus, but close enough so that we can see each other." Adam sniffled like a kid who has a cold but is playing hide and seek with the other kids regardless. "I want you to notice me--as a stranger--from across the bus; and, of course, I'll notice you. But we're going to have to make this organic, so act coy, yet curious; sort of indifferent, but actually kind of interested. Be the role." He chuckled to himself as he said this, knowing the role and the motions all too well. "We'll have that whole I-look-at-you-while-you're-not-looking, and then you-look-at-me-while-I'm-not-looking thing going on. I want you to reenact the famed stick-eyes from across the bus scene with me."
The companion laughed incredulously, though he understood that Adam meant every word he said. "So we're basically replaying some cliche scene from a romantic comedy?"
"Well, sort of." he picked his words like he was giving a rousing Braveheart-esque inspirational speech. "I want to see if what we see in movies and read in books can be made real; it is all inspired by real life, right? I want to emulate--, no, not even emulate. I want to create and further the faint uncertainty, the questioning hesitation, the irrational fear, the giddy jitters, the movie magic. I don't want to live life like a movie; I want the movies to depict life as we live it." Adam finished, content with his response.
"Alright alright, I get it. What's happens next?"
"We are going to make this awkward romantic encounter last the whole bus ride. Eventually we will catch each other's eyes and smile--naturally, of course. And once we arrive at the metro stop," Adam paused for gramatic effect and respiratory purposes "well. I guess we'll see what happens from there."
Kick Drum Heart, the Avett Brothers
"It's not the chase that I love, it's me following you"
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