I saw her stumbling through the doors looking for a place to sit down. Where was she going? Was she meeting someone? These questions wandered in my mind untill she finally sat down. In front of me she was. Glanced at me quickly and started looking for something in her purse. What was she looking for so anxiously? Her phone rang. She sighed and answered. For a few minutes I heard her mumbling something impossible to understand. She hung up. The phone went back into her pocket and out of her purse came an mp3 player. Such an ordinary thing, I was expecting something else. But why was I expecting something at all? Why was I observing this girl and couldn't take my eyes off of her.
She put the phones on and looked through the moving window. It was dark. Only the lights let themselves be seen as we passed faster and faster, letting all kinds of places, people, situations behind us. There was something about her eyes. They were deep and profound, it looked as if she was watching something, but not outside, not the lights. She was watching her thoughts slidding through her mind as fast as the train. What thoughts did she have?Suddenly her eyes moved in my direction and I tried to avoid her seeing me looking at her, but I couldn't. Her eyes were sparkling. Sparkling because of the tears willing to fall. Sparkling because of the lights showing their reflection. What was she listening to? What had she seen, that made her almost start to cry?
She was crying inside. The tears didn't fall. They just spread in her eyes making them shine as if she had some kind of natural glow inside her. The journey was about to end. I just wanted to look at her to never forget that look, that face, that glow. What did she do to me?We were arriving. She got up and aproached the door. Her mp3 player was back into her purse. The tears had gone away all by themselves. She stood there, waiting for the doors to open, with such a strong and powerfull look. I had seen her fragile side. I saw her wander somewhere only she knows; now reality was back to be faced as if that moment never happened.
The doors opened. I saw her hair flying with the wind and whispered goodbye, to the girl with teary eyes.



