Are You Talking to Me?

Emotions make lives. Emotions break lives too. Emotions shape thoughts and thoughts form words. But what if these words get so mingled with emotion that they lose sync with what falls on ones ears?

Sometimes people speak so much, they forget to listen. And sometimes even a person who seems to be listening, might actually not be interpreting.

The most amazing conversations are the ones where no ones listening... Here's one such story...

A man of twenty-eight from Miami and a woman of thirty-five from London waiting in the V.I.P. Lounge at J.F.K International Airport for a flight to London. The woman is groggily flipping through a business magazine that she’s holding upside down, the man is adjusting the strings of his guitar and trying to play a tune over and over again.

WOMAN (hinting towards the man)- As if the delay wasn’t enough, now I’d have to spend time waiting with a noisy skater-boy with a lose stringed guitar!

MAN (speaking under his breath)- Oh! A corporate freak? Interestingly repulsive robots they are! Nonetheless, let’s kill some time.

The man walks up to the woman and sits right next to her. The woman gives him a faint half-hearted smile and gets back to reading the magazine.

MAN- Hey there, that’s one interesting way of reading. Where did you learn to read upside down?

Gives him a sharp look, turns her book right and continues tossing the pages. The man starts playing the guitar again and starts humming along.

WOMAN (angry) - Romantic songs, amazing! Just what I wanted. What would this pile of love take to shut up?

MAN (lost in thought, smiling like a love sick puppy and talking to himself out loud)- I can’t believe I’m humming this song, what’s gotten into me?

WOMAN (suddenly) – Eh, are you talking to me?

MAN- Errrr, sorry, did you say something?

WOMAN- No, not really!

Man holds his guitar tightly and continues smiling. Woman keeps the magazine on the table and holds her head in her hands.

MAN(ecstatic)- I think its love.

WOMAN-  I love him so much, how could I do this to him?

MAN- Should I tell her?

WOMAN (nervous)- Would he divorce me if I tell him the truth about my infidelity?

MAN- No, no I shouldn’t. What if she shuns me away?

WOMAN (fidgeting with her wedding ring)- There’s nothing else that can be done, what has to happen will happen, he deserves to know.

 MAN- But what if she loves me too? Is she the one for me?

WOMAN- I always knew he was the one for me, I can’t believe I got carried away. How could I sleep with my boss?

MAN- If she rejects me would she fire me? She is after-all the boss. Oh god! I’m such a wimp, I should tell her, she has no reason to turn me down.

WOMAN- I haven’t left a reason for him to not leave me, but I can’t be a wimp. I need to tell him.

MAN- I have to tell her, I just hope she loves me too.

WOMAN- I’ll have to tell him, I just hope he forgives me.

There is an announcement and the flight gets ready for boarding. Both of them look at each other, pass awkward smiles and walk towards security.