Short-story

She sat diagonally opposite me, in black, opposite to a boy of the same age as her at the same table, in the same black. There were only the two of them sitting on that table and they were in a comfortable silence, so I thought he should be her lover. She was eating noodles and had a vague solemnness over her face. They ate for a long time. To my surprise, the boy left alone without her in the end and paid his bill, then a man in a black jacket sat at the same place as the boy, right opposite her at the same table and ordered something, while she didn't turn a hair. It turned out that that boy was not her lover, she came here alone. She looked up from the black bowl from time to time into the wall, her eyes full of a kind of calm while deep sorrow resulting a very sharp contrast with the other people in the cafeteria with hurried, but peaceful and numb eyes, which made me quite surprised. She ate slowly, and people around her table were keeping coming and going. Incredibly, this, or something unknown informed me all of a sudden that in her life, it was the same situation: people came and left in her world, but no one had ever stayed. This feeling is so strong and true instead of just a conjecture. And it gripped my heart so tightly and hard that it caused an bruise.

I then walked over and said hello to her, she was startled, and so was I.

This is how I met my lover of my life. I still can't tell what that was, which suddenly gripped my heart at that moment. But maybe there is already an answer.

（This article is just a story written from the perspective of first-person, so the “I” in the text refers not to the author myself. ）

她坐在我斜对面，一身黑衣，对面是一个和她年纪相当的男孩，同样的黑一身黑色，一桌只有他们两人相对而坐，而且沉默着，因此我想他应该是她的恋人。她吃着面，脸上有一种模糊的肃静。他们吃了很久。令我惊讶的是后来男孩独自离开了，之后又进来一个黑羽绒服的男士坐在她对面点了一份餐。而她始终面不改色。原来那不是她的恋人，她一个人来的。她偶尔从黑色的碗里抬起头，眼神平静而至深的忧伤和店里其他人匆匆，平和而麻木的眼神形成的鲜明对比令我诧异。她吃得很慢，桌前桌旁人来人往，这或者有什么东西突然告诉我她的生命里，也是这样的，人来人往，可从未有人停留过，而这样的强烈真实而不仅仅是一种猜想的感觉居然紧紧，紧紧地抓着我的心。抓出一片莫名的淤血。

我于是走过去，向她打了个招呼，她吓了一跳，我也吓了一跳。

我就是这样遇到我一生的爱人的。至今无法说出那究竟是怎样的力量，突然地抓住了我的心。但或许早已有了答案。