silence

She blew in and said 'Talk now!' she is a sweetie, a child, a woman. 'How did you know?' I didn't know anything I thought, but then in less time than it takes to read this it dawned on me. I looked at her, her eyes bright with tears and relief that she was able to say what I now knew. So what do we do about this? She had already made plans, but needed reassurance that it was ok, yes it was ok. She smiled that smile, we hugged and I told her it was the right thing to do. That was that for us, but for me and my memories it was far from it, I was young and then not so young. Those things that you think are well buried emerged, tapping away inside my head. I told him that day over the phone, there was moments silence, yes he had remembered too.