Let Me Introduce You To Me

They sat face to face staring straight ahead, reluctant to look each other in the eye. Together since birth, they were inseparable. However, proximity doesn’t equate intimacy. From the outside, they appeared to be as close as close could be. No one would have guessed that they didn’t know each other well at all. In moments like this, when they were forced to be alone, the void in their relationship called for reckoning. Awkwardness and discomfort overwhelmed them as they courageously confronted the truths they’d neatly tucked away. Those things hidden in the heart reflected back in the eyes of the other and sent cold shivers throughout the body, coming to rest in the very pit of their respective bellies.