A moment in time

Late again.
It no longer irritated Kathy, it amused her. She has in fact begun to look forward to these delays. And his excuses - his ingeniously hilarious excuses.

It gave her a peaceful moment to think, collect, recollect. In the frenzy of life, running around from dusk to dawn, this small time she was forced to take out to wait for him, had begun to be the serenest moments of her day.

And she would be amused at where her thoughts would travel in these respites. She traveled back to her childhood often, sometimes to her naughty kid antics, sometimes to her lousy foolish teens, sometimes to just a few years ago, when she had met Ron, sometimes to just last night or today morning.
And past travel was not all, she traveled in future too. A few hours to a few years to a few decades too sometimes.

Present wasn't that bad either, the light of the sun in these last of it's hours was mesmerizing.

"It plays such tricks on your hair" Ron would often say.

"I wish I could see it through your eyes."

There were things she had noticed in these spaces, she had never seen before. People she had observed, beauty she had found. And music.
Oh! She had come to love this time with herself.

She shot a quick glance at her watch; the half an hour was over. Ten more minutes and her exasperation would begin. And somehow just before that Ron will materialize, as if waiting around somewhere just to pop up precisely before she decides to get up and go. She almost caught herself laughing aloud at the thought.

...

Ron often wondered what her thoughts were in these moments. She has the beautifullest of smiles and contentest of expressions. And sometimes she would laugh out aloud!!
But her half an hour was up, and it was time for him to pack up.

"Okai, it's almost done....but I ll let her wait tomorrow too, coz she has come to cherish this quiet time of her own", thought Ron as he packed in his painting brushes and walked to his car.

"The sunlight does play tricks on her hair....and my heart too."