Day 3 - Ephemeral Kay

When I woke up it was dark. I could see nothing but could sense she was lying beside me in bed. I could hear her gentle breathing, smell the warm fragrance emanating from her body.

I couldn't help but smile thinking myself lucky. I had met Lucy a couple of weeks before, at a dinner party organized by a friend that owns a contemporary art gallery in North London. I hadn't planned to go to the event originally. Work was keeping me quite busy these days and that, coupled with the fact that the weekly commute between Madrid and London was to say the least tiring, meant my social life was certainly taking the hit.

In the end however I decided to drag myself to the party. And there she was, a gorgeous brunette with the most beautiful smile I had seen in my life, her green eyes sparkling intensely with life and her character so cheerful, like that of a child that is yet to loose her innocence. We connected immediately and the following two weeks were, without a doubt, the happiest of my life.

Still with the smile on my face and inner peace of that who knows things can't possibly get any better in life, I reached for the bedside lamp to turn the light on. I turned around to contemplate Lucy's beauty only to find there was no one there...

I woke up sweating, my heart heavily pounding, alone in my bed. It was dark and it was to remain so for a while.