Anja Owona Okoa

If the moon faerie became like the sun faerie, there would be eternal day and if the sun faerie became like the moon faerie, it would be pitch dark. Therefore you balance each other out. Do you see?

At that moment my shyness and anxiety all flooded back and I took a few steps back, and then sank to the ground; crouching, overwhelmed, covering my face. __hat will he think? What if he already hates me? Maybe I was wrong in the first place? Maybe he didn__ like me at all._ No matter how much I tried, I wasn__ able to produce a single positive thought to counter my panic. I wasn__ able to take a deep breath and relax. This day had been too eventful. I began to shake furiously, afraid of what was to come. __e hates me! He hates me!_ I thought over and over. Hot tears began to fall down my cheeks and I squeezed my eyes trying to stop them. My breathing quickened. What was I doing? I had said what I wanted, proudly, trying to be something to him but here I was: a total mess.__hat kind of a confession ends in a panic attack? GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF!_ I thought furiously, my efforts rewarded with futility. The world started to spin, my mouth becoming numb for reasons I couldn__ understand, almost as if to prevent me from panicking aloud. As if I had the friggin_ courage.

Even though I didn__ originally buy it for you, because like an idiot I avoided your feelings like the plague, I hadn__ noticed until now that it wasn__ the lucky price that had drawn me to it, but the colour of it._ I heaved a deep breath, preparing myself. I remembered the last time I had said something so cheesy, and how he had laughed but I continued anyway, before my shyness could take over.__urry up, before you start regretting._ The taxi man had said. And I did.I looked him square in the eyes, blushing so furiously I was sure even my dark skin wouldn__ hide it. He met my gaze, somewhat shyly, which was a rare sight. __o I__e decided to give this necklace to you as a symbol for what I realised today. The colour is green, like your_ uh, like your eyes_ and your eyes are my kryptonite._ I mumbled, looking at him into the eyes right until the end, until his face turned completely red and his jaw dropping so low I was sure it almost hit the counter, his eyes sparkling, wide with shock.