Their eyes met across a crowded street in London, SW1.<\/p>\n
She still wore her dark hair very long; her slightly rounded, cherubic face framed by almost black tresses that tumbled down past her shoulders.<\/p>\n
Her smile was exactly as he remembered it, cheeky – almost impertinent – topped off with a pair of the brightest, shiniest eyes.<\/p>\n
Their gazes met at the same time.<\/p>\n
‘Brennig!’, she exclaimed, while he laughed and almost shouted her name ‘Sam!’<\/p>\n
The years parted between them, as if a magic spell had instantly disolved 20 years of history and, once again, they found themselves to be a pair of slightly bewildered, almost confused students.<\/p>\n
[pause while much pasta in a muy deliciosa homemade sauce is hastily consumed]<\/em><\/p>\n But of course… that isn’t how it happened.<\/p>\n The reality is somewhat different…<\/p>\n He stumbled down the steps from his office building, dazzled by the unexpectedly, painfully bright London sunlight.<\/p>\n He almost fell over the young woman in the pink top and severe black two-piece.<\/p>\n They apologised to each other, smiling as they did so.<\/p>\n Three paces later a thought struck him.<\/p>\n ‘I know her!’<\/p>\n He looked back and saw her glance over her shoulder at him as she turned the corner.<\/p>\n He tried and tried but his brain refused to serve up either her name or the place from where he knew her.<\/p>\n Two hours later, in the middle of a project meeting, the penny dropped: Sam! From college! In Bath!<\/p>\n He wondered if the penny had also dropped for her.<\/p>\n Or if she was walking – hastily – around the corner because she had recognised him!<\/p>\n B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Their eyes met across a crowded street in London, SW1. She still wore her dark hair very long; her slightly rounded, cherubic face framed by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}