The Reunion

“The train is how many minutes late?” Asked an old French woman. “50 minutes.” Bethany replied. “Oh lala!” The woman remarked. “I know!” Bethany said sarcastically. They continued to converse about possible reasons why the train would be so late, Bethany didn't care a wit why the train was late, she just hoped it would arrive! This late train was no ordinary late train, this late train carried with it the love of her life that she hadn't seen for three months. Caleb was coming on the train to spend Christmas with her, (and eventually to propose to her!). Bethany and Caleb had been thousands of miles apart from each other for three months. Finally in the distance she saw what looked like the headlights of an approaching train. She walked down the steps onto the platform and waited for the slow moving train. It seemed like the train was moving at a good five miles per hour! The first class cars were up the platform a bit so she had to walk quite a ways down the platform. The train finally stopped and people started pouring out of it. Bethany wasn't quite to the first class cars yet and so she started walking faster and faster, cutting through the crowd of people like a fish trying to swim against the current. She saw that she arrived at the first class cars and she started searching the crowd for his face. Caleb saw her before she saw him and a smile immediately overtook his face. After a long and tiring trip he finally saw a friendly face, (and someone who spoke English!). They were about ten yards apart when she caught a glimpse of his face. She started running in his direction through the crowd of people and leaped into his outstretched arms! His warm, familiar embrace engulfed her and her eyes filled as tears of joy and contentment ran down her cheeks. “He's really here!” She thought. With his tender strength he held her in his arms and she hugged his neck. They remained in the embrace not even saying a word to each other. He put her down and they kissed. What is it about kisses? If you really think about them they are a bit strange. But strangely wonderful all the same. For some reason this kiss was so sweet and lovely that it blew all of the others away. Maybe it was because they had been apart for months, as they say, absence does make the heart grow fonder. Is the saying true, “Journeys end in lovers meeting”? No. Journeys begin in lovers meeting!