Wooing The Ex-Wife

Jonathan stood there like a block of ice, unmoving and frozen. He couldn't make sense of what was happening, one moment Liza was standing across him and the next she was kissing him. He hesitantly moved his lips against her. Liza's taste filling his senses. It had been so long since he had kissed Liza. He realized that what he remembered of kissing Liza was only a faded memory and the actual kiss felt so much more. He was getting into the kiss when suddenly Liza pulled away, a blush coating her cheeks.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to do that." Liza said backing away a bit, she was slightly out of breath and her voice was a raspy. Jonathan's heart shattered at her words and the light on his face dimmed. Liza's eyes widened as she took in his crest fallen expression. "No... No...No, don't get me wrong. I didn't regret the kiss. I just meant that I didn't want to attack you." Liza said in a rush. Her blush deepening as she said the last few words. She was still wedged between the table and Jonathan.

Jonathan was still dazed from the kiss. It was unexpected to say the least. He had been prepared to say goodbye, maybe a sad look from Liza but he hadn't imagined that she would kiss him. "What does this mean?" he asked her, not daring to get his hopes up. He wasn't ready for Liza to say that it was a goodbye of sorts not after the kiss they had just shared. The moment they had shared seemed like a key to everything, they could open a new door with it or seal themselves away from each other forever. Liza's mind was hay wired. She could feel alarms buzzing in her mind. She knew she wasn't ready to fall back into the way they had been before, she had changed and was no longer clinging to Jonathan like he was her life boat. She searched for the right answer, for the words which would say exactly what she wanted to convey but she came up with nothing.

whether to take a risk of getting hurt again or to let him go for good. When you are confessing your love, you relive your own heart of that subdued pain and heaviness,

herself to speak but it was becoming difficult with each passing second, she was sure that by now it had already been hours since they had been standing in the same position . However, one look at the round clock behind Jonathan would have cleared away the notion as it showed the two minutes which had ticked by. "I want to be with you" Liza blurted out. It wasn't as elegantly put as she would have liked, nor it was as detailed and as complex as she felt, it was simple and yet somehow whole. The sentence contained the words which mattered, which made it possible

she had been and Jonathan was no longer the person who had taken things for granted. These past years had taught them a lot and yet as they stood there, neither of them felt that anything else could ever matter to what they were feeling in the moment. Everything else simply became irrelevant. However it was life and not a fairy tale and the magic that had been woven around them was broken with her next words. "But it won't be the same" Liza said and as the magic around Jonathan shattered, he saw the reality and he realized

only one who would have to work, who had her soul on stake, Jonathan was there