[ WP ] `` And that was the first of the three lies ... ''

The low lines of the red roofs stretched unmoving. Above, the sky, a washed out gold rising to a cloud flecked sunless blue, gave the whole street the feel of a dusty unhung watercolour. All life sedate behind its windows, old framed and newly fitted, a few cracked open spilling their white fabric into the late summer air. One small feline shape went noiselessly across our view; we perched on the roof of one of 12 disused garages, waiting to find themselves torn down. The first lie we told ourselves in our mutual silence was that life was good. The street lied and the failing sun casting its last docile light before us lied too. Our small scrap of the earth rested at our feet, all doused in yellow hues and screaming peace. I sat with one leg tucked under the other which fell at the knee over the sharp edge of the roof and bounced now and then off the warm brick. He, on my right and slightly further back leant his weight against the trunk of a hawthorn just beginning to let go of its leaves. We sat amongst the few that had fallen and the rest spread out to conceal us from the view of the houses. Life was good. The only sound now, apart from the distant whir of a major road was the regular'p' of him sucking the smoke out of the joint and then the exhale. The click of the lighter had snapped me out of my dreamy gaze over the chimneys and now I watched him, meakly illuminated, staring out across the fields that tumbled away behind me. He met my gaze in passing the joint to me. Even the warmth between us, that seemed real enough to rest my head on was a fantasy. We did n't know it then. Puffing little clouds up into the blue and sinking into a hazey appreciation of each others features; I remember even now the roughness of his cheeks, each little mark and freckle and the angle of his head as he squinted softly at me through the dappled shadows falling on his face. How sweet it was not knowing who we were. -- -- -sorry I do n't know how to get paragraphs and I'm typing on my phone... hope it reads ok -- -- --
