The reader (on the tube). 1st part

He’s tall and thin. His eyes, behind those small glasses that you’d relate with intellectual people or with Harry Potter, are blue greenish, or green bluish, depending of his clothes. His waved, shoulder-length hair is always held in place with a colourful headband, or tied in a short ponytail. He always wears jeans and shirts, or a pair of comfortable-looking trousers. Oh, and he wears a little goatee, very Orlando Bloomish or Johnny Deppish… And a book. He is always reading a book.

Everything began last September, maybe October, when I was doing my usual scanning to get new titles for my Top Metro (Click this link for further information). As I do, he always takes a seat in the last coach, probably because we reach the exit doors before than everybody; so I see him very often. I can’t remember when I saw him for the first time, but I know he was reading a book in Italian and I thought he would be one of those exchange students in our Uni. One day, we were sit one next to the other and I had one of my Italian readings on my hands; I know that was the day when he noticed me… or my book :D

Since then, he has read a couple of books more (I didn’t manage to see the titles, in Spanish, btw) and lately he is making last one of those Terry Pratchett books as much as I’m making last my Dry Store Room Nº1.

However, you’d say, ‘why is she writing this blog now? To talk about another bookworm?’

No. Last week, something happened. I was on the platform and when the train arrived, I saw him, as ever, through the window. There were two free seats next to him and, when I stepped in the coach, he raised his eyes for a split second, looked at me and next, for a millisecond too, he looked at the free seat next to him.

See… I took it as an invitation. What more I could do? :p

As ever, we didn’t talk, we just buried our noses in our respective books. And when we arrived to our station, he left the coach as if hundred Hellhounds were chasing him, as he uses to do…

If someday we talk, maybe we should agree our next reading –I love shared readings, it makes great convos and lots of fun. Do you think he had read Brisingr? I had to drop it when I barely had read a few pages and I’d love reading it now.

Today he has looked at me, for a millisecond, but for real. Maybe there will be a someday.

Yours,

~ Evil Spambot ~

TO BE CONTINUED…