She, like every other woman around him, except that she was beautiful, had been walking by and smiling or just looking and maybe saying hi or how are you but never moving beyond the look and the small talk; never thinking to ask him anything about himself or what he did or does or was about. She thought he would initiate it and she did this as all the others did for months and never, strangely, thought it was strange that it didn’t seem to be advancing beyond the hi or how are you.
But today she had an idea, she’d gathered enough background about him from others that she knew he was interested in films and would probably be into going to a movie and she knew of a good one and she asked him and he said yes and he looked happy saying it because he’d been invited and hadn’t really felt invited by women in a long time.
The Lorax Correspondent 