Puppy biscuits she thinks to herself, That’s an odd thing to be thinking about. The past few days Annabelle found herself thinking a lot about Walter Mitty and his thoughts of puppy biscuits. Everyday around the same time, she would return to the pharmacy, hopping to run into Walter again. Everyday she returned, she left in disappointment. Until one day she saw him again. A smile formed on her face, as she walked up to Walter.
“Looking for puppy biscuits again?”
“Oh Annabelle dear, how are you? And no, no puppy biscuits today.”
Before she would answer him, Annabelle took the time to examine him. His thin, balding brown hair, his dark blue-grey eyes, and his scruffy looking face…she admired him.
“I’m doing fine, just wasting my time, looking for a job-“
“Oh a job? Any luck?” he interrupted.
“No not yet...but hopefully soon though,” she said as she was looking around for a woman in her mid-40’s, that may be Walter’s wife.
“I’m sure something will come up soon, a lot of people are looking for young people like you…say I have a bit more time then I thought, before I have to pick up my wife, would you like to join me for coffee?”
She didn’t hesitate to answer,
“Yes”.

Sitting face-to-face at the coffee shop, Annabelle listens to Walter closely, to every single word he has to say about his life, his random thoughts, and his wife and the way she treats him. She didn’t like the fact that he would talk about his wife… was almost like she was jealous or something, she shook the thought of jealousy out of her mind, as she decided to change the subject,
“So…” she says, trying to fill in the pause that had now formed
"So you always go around talking to yourself and think about Puppy biscuits?”
Wow that was a stupid question, she thinks to herself.
He laughs,
“Oh no, I was just in my own imaginary world, and I suddenly remembered, that I was suppose to get puppy biscuits”
The more and more he talked about his day dreams, the more and more she began to like him.

Unfortunately, their time had come to end, as Walter had to get ready to leave, but they had made plans, later that week to meet up again
“Next time we meet, I want to know more about you”
he smiled at her, as he got up and left. On her way home, Annabelle felt different. She felt happy for the first time, in a long time. She could not stop thinking of Walter. His face, the way he walked, the way he talked, the way he thought…it was on her mind, he was on her mind.

Days leading to the day they would meet, knots formed in her stomach at each thought of Walter. She could not eat, she could not sleep.
What’s come over me she thinks to herself, why am I all of the sudden thinking of Walter? She doesn’t know, but her heart is telling her that she had found love, TRUE love, at last. But she knew that there was no way that this can happened. He was too old for her, after all he is 45 and she is 16, but she didn’t care. She knew that her parents would not approve, again she didn’t care.

Each time they met up for coffee, their stays became longer and longer. Each, time neither one of them wanted to leave.
“Im afraid that it is time for me to go once again”
“Do you have to? I mean seriously!”
“You know that I don’t want to, but I must...I have to, if I didn’t, it wouldn’t be right”
Nothing was said after that moment, but only for a small moment.
“But we will meet again-“
”How do you feel about me? How do you feel about us? How do you really feel about your wife?”
“Wh- wh– what do you mean?”
“You know exactly what I mean! This past month has been amazing to me, and I’m sure you feel the same-“
”Annabelle, yes I know that this past month has been amazing, but you and I both know that there is no way that something between us will work out...I’m too old for you and-“
”I don’t care!” she screams, as her voice begins to crack like a tree being hit by lightning, and tears running down from her eyes like a waterfall.
“Annabelle, calm down, there is no need to-“
”Don’t tell me to calm down, you have no right to tell me what to do!”
She got up and left. He tried to run after her, call out her name, but she never turned around, she never stopped. He tried calling her, leaving her messages,
“Annabelle... please...pick up....” he had her to call him back, but she never did, never bothered.

How could he do this to me? She thought painfully to herself, After all we shared. She couldn’t believe it, she really couldn’t believe it. She spent the next few nights, crying herself to sleep. She had dark bags around her eyes, and started to be come thin, from not eating. Her parents would ask what was wrong, but she refused to answer. What would they think, or say, if she told them that she had fallen in love with a man twice her age, and he didn’t feel the same. They would call the cops on him so fast, it wouldn’t be funny she thought, well maybe that will be a good thing... no, I couldn’t do that.


She had not heard from Walter in quite a while, and she thought that he had forgotten about her, then its time for me to forget about him, she thought, but little did she know, that she would run into him again.
“Annabelle!” she hears a familiar voice being called from behind her.
“Annabelle, how have you been? You never answered my calls, or returned any of them.”
She knew that she had to walk away, but she couldn’t resist. The smell of his sweet cologne and the sound of his deep voice came over to her.
“I have been doing fine Wal- Mr. Witty” She thought that calling him that would throw him off, but it didn’t.
“Why haven’t you returned any of my calls? I have been worried sick about you..”
“So you actually took the time to think about..how sweet of you” she said sharply.

“Of course I thought about you, I always think about you”
“Oh really!” She didn’t know what else to say. She didn’t know how or what to feel. She didn’t want all her emotions for Walter to come back, and it leaves her with a broken heart, and she surely didn’t want to come of like some sort of bitch to him. She was helpless.

“Why don’t we go for coffee again, and talk all of this out..put it all out in the open?”
“Ok”
So both of them went off to have coffee, and to talk things out, but Annabelle still was not sure about things, still wasn’t sure, she can put her trust into this man’s hands again. But time will have to tell.

.....To be continued.....