One Thousand Years
Genesage
“courtship"
(Chapter 10:6)
Somehow the most implausible of people had gravitated together.
Ezravivor and Delilah.
They could have been the cougar meets “puppy love” for the types and metaphors involved.
Delilah, long tresses of curled dark hair with the fresh vibrancy of a “second youth” in her old age. She seemed subdued, often reserved, quiet. This all fascinated Ezravivor who enjoyed her contradiction of age. Though she would say she was too old for him, he didn’t understand ages.
She obviously was mature, yet there was a childlike quality to her personality.
When she let her personality out that is, which was very rare. Something restrained her. Something holding her in check, often keeping her from participating with the community.
Ezravivor thought he knew what it was. Delilah didn't think he had a clue. In the old days she would have snuffed him out with attitude treating him as clueless. She was different now, or seeming to be, maybe wanting to be, even trying to be, still something residual memories were hard to forget.
D, Delilah, had once confided in “E Z” as a friend about her dreams.
It had been an especially warm week. The nights seemed to swelter for Delilah so one day that week she opened the door a crack on her personality to Ezravvior.
Her dark complexion and olive skin even her reticence to "get involved" gave her an air of mystique that once she opened the door a little, “E Z” was a gonner. That distance that attracted Ezravivor to her, when lessened, was like a floodgate.
Caleb had been attracted to her watching from a distance as he also noted the two orbits of Delilah and Ezravivor which seemed to spiral closer and closer.
There were times of course times when Ezravivor was sure he didn't care where she was or what she was doing.
When He saw Caleb talking to her, it was natural for him to interrupt.
He had a question for her and just because he couldn’t remember what the question was when he interrupted them, that didn’t matter. He was sure he had a question at the time.
He often found himself looking for her in a crowd or noticing if she left early and not imposing, followed her. Whether obvious to himself or not, he was infatuated with her. He would never admit that, but to Delilah it was more than obvious.
It seemed to be obvious also to Caleb. He would find many occasions over the years to watch Ezravivor scramble.
Delilah "put up" with Ezravivor because he hadn't been put off by her rebuffs at friendship.
In the beginning she was interested because she wanted to find out if he was just plain stupid or how long it would take before he, like everyone else, would be repulsed. She worked him over good. Never giving an inch she managed to make his life miserable by never noticing his interest in her.
She ignored him as often as possible.
Oddly, or naturally, Ezravivor liked that. She figured out He HAD to be stupid. No one would put up with her much less herself.
She never really solved the stupid problem about him.
At times she was angry with him for no apparent reason except that he was available.
Available and dumb enough to let her get away with it. She knew that was wrong but she just couldn't come to grips with the idea that anyone would want to be her friend.
Besides, if she really admitted it, there were times when she enjoyed it.
She liked treating him bad. Nothing too horrific, but most of the time he never even noticed which made her think "blond" was not confined to women. Other times she was sure he must have got it, but he didn’t react and always came back for more. Ezravivor could have been a blond in her opinion.
Eventually a grudging respect for Ezravivor developed.
