As they gathered around the table, no one knew what to say, where to start from.
It was how many months ago they didn’t remember, they had started the quarantine and now that it was over and now that they were finally together, this wasn’t what they expected really. Trying to gather their feelings, thoughts, arms, hands, bodies – oh well, none of this was helping. None whatsoever.
All this time, while they were alone together, it seemed straight forward and not so difficult to think about what or how they would get together, of course all would miss each other duh! and yet… it felt very different, not that they didn’t miss each other. They did, in some way but maybe they weren’t sure what they missed after all.
Each one had changed so much, they were not the same people who met around this table months ago. Gathering pieces of themselves during the quarantine, more whole and new, there they were – not quite sure who they were gathering with.
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