Love in black

Tisha_brown 1 story

Summary

My name is Amara, and if someone had told me that love would hit me so suddenly, I probably wouldn’t have believed them. Love had always seemed like a story for other people — the kind you read in novels or see in movies, not something that quietly settled in your chest one ordinary Tuesday afternoon. I first noticed him at a mutual friend’s gathering. Daniel. He wasn’t loud or flashy, but there was something in the way he carried himself — calm, confident, and quietly magnetic. The kind of man who doesn’t need to announce his presence; you just… feel it. I remember standing near the balcony, sipping my drink, trying to blend into the background as usual, when I felt his gaze. And just like that, my chest tightened in a way I hadn’t felt before. He smiled at someone behind me, but our eyes met for just a second, and it was enough. Enough to make my heart stumble, enough to make me aware of every flutter inside me. Of course, I told myself I was imagining things. “It’s just a glance,” I whispered. But my friends noticed, as friends always do. “Amara, you’re staring,” Esi teased, nudging me with her elbow. “You like him, don’t you?” I laughed nervously. “No… I don’t even know him,” I said, but the warmth creeping into my cheeks betrayed me. From that day, Daniel seemed to appear everywhere — sometimes in passing, sometimes through small conversations that left me tongue-tied.