My favorite candy seems to have eluded me since I met it in high school. We first met when an ex-boyfriend gave me some for Valentine's Day. It was love at first taste!
Just over a year later, a sojourn to Perugina reacquainted us. I was mystified by all the Baci everywhere! I stocked up and only a mere fraction made it home to RI.
Since then I always search for it, but never go all out. I know a gourmet candy store in town that has it often, but I don't want to buy them out so I don't go in. My sister got me a box for Christmas or a birthday a few years back. But that's the last I remember having it.
Today at TJ Maxx as I was wandering the aisles in discontent for the jeans I could not find, the silver stars sparkled to me against the blue packaging. I couldn't resist.
Inside each Baci foil wrapper is a love note. As soon as I got back in my car today I couldn't unwrap one fast enough. However, before I did, I took a breath. Many things have been on my mind lately and I was letting it all get to me. The pause allowed me to recollect myself. The button-shaped chocolate was my restart button.
Last night and this morning I kept thinking about how I want someone to say goodnight to. I have been living on my own for about a year and a half, and it's not the same saying goodnight to my cat. The boy was over and I wanted to ask where the more of us went.
When we got back together two months ago, he went out of his way to make me feel connected and we talked if not saw each other daily. The last month or so I see him on Mondays and Thursdays and though I understand financials have a part in it, they are not the whole reason. I have trouble believing so.
Thus, I took my breath and told myself the answer to us would be in the wrapper. The English quip read "In love, silence is of more avail than speech."
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