Sweaty. Her palms were sweaty and clammy as she wrung them together nervously. She sat on the slatted bench outside the door in the dimly lit walkway, hunched over and wringing her hands, her breathing coming out in sort of stunted, trembled breaths. Her newly shorn hair fell forward from the slant of her face caused by her hunched position, the A-line cut demanding that her fingers come up to brush the section of hair behind her ear once more after each and every one of its slow escapes. Her hair was far too thick, far too wavy to wear it this short. It was a grand pipe dream to think that she could have it in a style with the way her hair rebels against even the simplest imposed forms.
Her pale face would glance up with every noise or shimmering of the lights --Was that him?. Her eyes were wide and red rimmed, not from crying which would be far too romantic, but from the mascara and carefully implemented eye makeup she had drawn on herself in order to live up to the pictures he knew her from, carelessly thinking that maybe, just maybe her contacts wouldn't behave so badly under the weight of the foreign chemistry this one time.
She hugged her arms around herself now, curling into her legs as they stayed clamped tightly together, her feet going to their toes so that she could push her legs a little higher, getting just that much closer to curling into a little ball.
As the door beside her opened noisily, she sat up straight with a sudden jolt in surprise, her bloodshot eyes going wide as her lips parted with the yip that relayed just how tense she was to the open door and the person standing in it.
Her lips were a pale, a plain contrast to all the effort made upon her eyes. They stood stark and only slightly glossy from some chapstick as they remained parted while she stared openly into the room beside her.
"Have you been here long? I couldn't hear you knocking over the shower so I thought I should come check.."
Although her eyes stayed locked like a deer in headlights upon his face, they nonetheless drank him in a minute at a time, inch by inch, committing his appearance to memory as they met for the first time.
His hair was a sandy blonde while soaked, making silent promises of turning a much bright shade of blonde once it dried. His lips were plump and round and pouted; even his upper lip with its devilish cupid's bow was juicy in its plumpness. His eyes softly drooped at the outer corners, giving him a sort of bedroom look, a calm look that seemed to say he might always be thinking naughty thoughts about you and the world around him. His goatee looked wet and shiny, an occasional drop of water taking the death defying leap from the height of his chin to fail to the ground below. His shoulders were broad and pale, stretching out to fill the doorway no doubt making the poor frame feel as though it had eaten too much as he filled it. His hand stayed wrapped around the door handle, his arm out stretched to keep it open, he started to tremble in the cold air of the wintery night, no doubt quite a chill when wet and mostly bare, save for the white linen hotel towel wrapped carelessly about his waist.
She stood up slowly, as if her hinges were rusted, marveling for a moment inside her own head as she uncurled to her full height and yet stood shorter than him. She stretched a hand out to touch finger tips to drop of water that would escape his facial hair with the rest, the mindless movement turning to stroking as she petted at his the crinkly hairs for a moment, oddly transfixed on its watery appearance as though she could only focus on one aspect of the stranger at a time.