• I remember clearly the vastness of an empty hallway, and the distance between our well-spaced footfalls. I also recall the striking tone of the most expressive area of her body; her deep blue eyes. It marked all the traits of a pure, clear and virginal sort of beauty, and sowed the seed of romance in the pulsating organ beneath my chest. It seemed to me that no matter how I sped through that tedious hallway, I was always at her heels, her hand a mere clutch away, and my feverishly desiring to close our gap. But the gap between me and her expanded to a length far greater than that vast hallway, and I rushed to pursue her through vibrant fields, turbulent seas, and wintery precipices. At last, it occurred to me that not only did she not turn her marvelous head towards me once, but that when I turned back, I determined an even greater distance between me and my adolescent self, which breached farther and father into an apathetic canyon set against a hazy pastel landscape.