beyond the horizon

It was an appeasing evening of a warm summer day. I was enjoying the blazing light beyond the horizon leaned on the edge of my balcony, almost daydreaming to the scenery like my wandering mind pushes me to. I was only wearing the down part of my pajamas, a bermuda shorts, simply happy to let the thick heated breeze twining around my naked torso, and feel the dirty dented floor beneath my bare feet.
I haven't noticed at first, so accustomed to be alone up there at this hour, but a girl had showed up on the contiguous balcony. I didn't know her. She threw me out of my reverie by a declicate but straight "Hello". All intimidated i was we started to talk. She herself too was wearing her night clothes, a pale colored shorts impudently underlining the base of her round buttocks, and a tight top of the same color with straps. Maybe because we were both revealing so much skin, caught by chance in intimate outfits that only very close people are supposed to see, we displayed no sign of uneasiness, and i haven't even thought about the indecency of the situation on the moment.
We talked until the sun hid completely behind the steeple afar, about many different subjects and we were at that point to disclose personal matters. She asked me about my age. The remaining light was playing on the sharp lines of my abdomen, the wind was messing up the curls of my hair, and my cheeks were prickly. I assessed she was a student, she could be twenty-one or twenty-two, maybe twenty-three, not much. I said : "i'm twenty-eight". Her eyes widened as her eyebrows lifted, marking horizontal wrinkles on her forehead, yet to be present with her inexpressive face, probably in a handful of years. She repeated struck by bewilderment : "you're twenty-eight", "you totally don't have the look of your age, i thought you were still a student".
I guess now that was a compliment, a way to say i was physically fine, but i replied at the time : "Oh that must be because of the skateboard you can see behind me, and the electric guitare you can hear sometimes when i play with my window open". I think we left to an incomprehension.

To be litterary this story should end here, but i want to point out how sometimes people can be so lost about the real meaning of others' words, and their self perception, that they search excuses for themselves, and sometimes don't accept the obvious.

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