She smiled and said yes. But left alone at the table, she had not moved for a long time. A persistent thought came over her: *what if he remembered, too?* She had quickly dismissed the idea. Twenty-one years is an eternity. People evolve, move away, erase.
Fifteen minutes after the concert began, she had seen him. Three rows away, to his left. Arms folded, motionless while the crowd went wild around him — just as in the old days. His heart had started to beat fast. She had stared at the scene, determined not to intervene.
The moment when everything changed
