Bring the roof down…

It was the week preceding the weekend of my wedding to Eva, even though I am usually calm and collected I tend to catch some degree of anxiety prior to major events in my life. I had had quite a long day what with wedding preparations in their final stages and even after downing some beers to urge on some sleep none was forthcoming and that’s when I thought to go up to the roof of the flat that I stayed in. The block of flats I stayed in had one of those old type roofs where only someone that had serious business on the roof bothered going there.

Anyhow so this idyllic moonlit Sunday evening I decided to go up there and count stars while I smoked some pot to see if that would help bring some sleep. The layout of the place is such that a waist high wall encircles some additional water storage tanks hence it is possible not to notice anyone else who might be seated on another side and especially when its dark. So this evening being my first time ever to visit the roof at night and with no reason to think to check if there might have been anyone else I proceeded to light one of my specialty blunts (think one of those humongous Jay and Bob ones) and only after several puffs did I become aware of a stir on the other end (I had been leaning against the half wall) and it is only when the other person stood to full length and started moving towards me that I noticed it was Katie.

I had noticed Katie several times before, her family had just moved into one of the vacant flats some couple or so months back, and even though I was hardly at my flat due to work commitments I knew she mostly kept to herself and seldom responded even to greetings. Now Katie’s quite the looker but there’s something quite offish about her that I hadn’t quite been able to put a finger on. So she walks towards me with a look on her face that seemed to imply that I had been sent to her by God, she smiled her most radiant of smiles that might have put several stars to shame and asked for a puff, she went on to explain that she had for the longest period wondered where to get some weed for herself as her supply had ran out and she was finding it hard to locate a dealer in the new neighborhood.