theoceanofconsciousness:

They sat in cushioned chairs across from each other, knees touching, in a small coffee shop. The barista was in the back somewhere, and the only other customer was an old man reading a novel in the corner of the room. The boy looked at the girl, and the girl looked at the old man. She liked to think that he was watching them, too, when neither of them were watching him. Perhaps he lost his lover when they were both nineteen. He has been lonely ever since, and has found that one of the most beautiful things is unrestrained love – the kind that only youth can sustain.

She turned back around and faced the boy. Isn’t it funny how there is you, and then there is the way that I perceive you? That the firing of neurons in their synapses through the squishy grey matter of my brain makes up my perception of you. He looked at her, silently and unblinkingly. Maybe he didn’t think it was funny that he was just a series of neural impulses in her mind. Or maybe his coffee had lost its heat and he couldn’t decide whether to order another one. He lifted a hand, pale beneath layers of scarves and sweaters, and gently brought it to her face. He brushed a few of her hairs away from her eyes the way one would fold delicate lace.

Under his doe-like gaze, she continued. That every time I see you, hear your voice… think of you, those chemical stimuli trigger the release of certain molecules. I only know a few of them by name, but together they create this sensation that I’ve learned to call happiness. She kissed him on the left corner of his mouth. Serotonin. She kissed him where the lines of his jaw end.Norepinephrine. She kissed his fluttering eyelid. Dopamine. He kissed her on the center of her lips. Oxytocin.

The old man closed his book and looked out the window through streaks of rain. The boy didn’t notice the pattering of raindrops over the pulse of his heart. The girl listened to the sound of her cells dying, and wondered when her neurons would become too frail and cynical to form synapses with each other.

Posted on February 19th at 9:12 AM
Reblogged from: thevioletroom
Originally posted by: theoceanofconsciousness

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