It is Better.... (Act One)

The minute no the second no even quicker still the instant you laid eyes on him you knew the way you did only once before in your life that he was the one for you. There wasn't any question about it there wasn't any denying it though you did both and doing so put you in a here to fore unheard of tenth concentric circle of hell so severe so brutal so emotionally inhumane that Dante himself would have been in awe of it.

The only question the only real and true question at the time was did he feel the same for you.

The answer to that though came in the following six seconds and even though it seemed like an eternity it was only six seconds and then he looked at you in the exact same glazed over goofy happy don't know what to do with this big ol' smile on my face and can't stop it way you were looking at him. There wasn't any question about it there wasn't any denying it though once again you did both and once again you did Mr. Alighieri proud.

You tried telling yourself that was that you tried deluding yourself into believing that you'd never see him again though a small part of you was praying supplicating exhorting all powers fates and spirits that be to make your paths cross again. With a speed and power that would convert the staunchest of atheists your request is answered and in a mere matter of hours from that first fateful meeting his arm is around your waist and his lips are kissing the back of your neck as they make their way to your ear where the words "my hotel's not far from here" are spoken and within minutes of that momentous collision of your worlds your bodies are merging your souls are bonding and a new reality is created.

It is a reality only the two of you inhabit. It is a reality where there are no barriers keeping you from being together where oceans dry up and you see that you're both on the same dry land. It is also a reality where you are healthy and strong where your body doesn't succumb as it does elsewhere to viruses that attack your central nervous system and leave you paralyzed on the floor unable to speak. Here in this reality in this plane of existence with the one who was made for you and for whom you were made there is nothing but love in all its myriad and wondrous forms.

The only problem however is that this is only an alternate reality. A deviation from the world in which you both live and there oceans are mighty and keep you from being together. In that most real all too real most excruciatingly real world your health is not perfect and at times not even good. In that place your nervous system is not yours any longer to control and to a certain extent so too the rest of your life.

There's no question no inkling of a doubt that you both want to pursue this and before you embark upon your trip back to the circle he looks at you and tells you "We have to make this happen, I love you" and there is no question none whatsoever that if the love you feel for him could make you walk on water the only thing you'd need is a lifetime supply of good shoes.

The only real and true questions are how do you go about making this work? And the one that supersedes even that is, when are you going to tell him?