Where are you working now ? When the conversation lulled I made second and third cups of tea , lingering in the kitchen stirring in splashes of milk . When the caffeine fortified me enough to look at him longer , I noticed what a beautiful job he 'd done of growing up .
The contact lenses replaced with glasses and his hair cut shorter than I remembered , close around his ears and kinky atop his head from nervously tugging and raking through it .
Emotion: Fear