She sat next to me on a cross country flight from some east coast city to the one in Texas the plane would land in. Welcome to the world of business travel. You’re in a new city each week, you can be whoever you want when you’re in a place no one knows you.
She asked me if this was row 18 and it was so I sat in the middle and she sat in the aisle and we smiled at each other before take off. Then after the seatbelt light turned off I made up some excuse to chat because she was pretty, and had gorgeous green eyes, brown hair, and lips that were full and soft that did something to me I can’t quite explain.
“I don’t know the city that well,” she said about the town we’d end up sharing together. “I was born there but moved away for college and I feel like it’s changed so much since then, all my friends and family have moved away” we drank airplane wine that was both overpriced and too dry and she took a sip before explaining that she had planned to move back after she graduated but got married and stayed in her husbands hometown instead.