GM - So close, yet so far away.

Far too often do I spend my spare time cooped up in my house, so tonight I decided to go out to eat. I went to a little diner to enjoy a nice meal. The first thing I noticed when I walked in were two cuties sitting over by the window with their family. They were quite lovely, but to my dismay, I was seated where I could hardly see them for the other people in the restaurant.

I was rather disappointed for a while, then I caught two small green eyes glance over at me. The booth I was seated at had a wall to the side, with another booth on the other side of the wall. In the middle of this wall is a glass window, allowing me to see that just a few feet from me sat a beautiful little girl. Her strawberry blonde hair was tied back in a pony tail and she was missing her front teeth. Every time she smiled her face glowed as if lit by some inner radiance. She was beautiful.

I noticed that her mommy was looking over towards me often, so I adjusted myself in the seat so that mommy couldn't see me staring at her gorgeous daughter. She didn't take much interest in me, but she looked over at me a few times. Her face was full of such life and happiness.

Here I am, with a beautiful girl sitting almost directly across from me at a restaurant. I was as close to her as her father was. How I longed to reach through that glass and run my fingers through her soft hair and gently caress her glowing face. How I longed to make her happy so I could see that cute little toothless smile with those bright green eyes looking straight at me with love. How cruel the world is to put me so close to this beauty, but to thrust a glass window between us, as well as the invisible wall of society that forbids my affection for this perfect creature.

Worse yet, before I hardly had time to appreciate this wondrous child, she was leaving. As her parents paid and got ready to leave I tried to watch her as she played by the door. She had a sister who was only a year or two older than her, but the older sister just wasn't quite as spectacular as this child I had so quickly fallen in love with. I only managed to catch a few glimpses of the object of my love as the fates conspired to place every single person they could in between me and the beauty my eyes sought.

After she left, I still had the two girls by the window(when people would move so that I could see them) who were pretty cute themselves, but their appearance was as nothing in comparison to my little toothless, strawberry blonde beauty.