Encounter #8
You can only see the wind through the whistling of the trees.
Love is like that. To see it, it has to be reflected in action.

With JH it’s in each and every gesture, sometimes surprisingly so. Like when he was working so hard to prepare the end of year party: I thought that he put in all that effort because he wanted to prove that he was hired on his own merit and not for his connections, and in doing so he wanted to strengthen SH’s position in front of the board. But it was so much more than that. Each step of the way he had her in mind: choosing a masquerade because he knows how much she longs for anonymity, including a salsa band because dancing makes her happy, even hand drawing her mask… His love is so apparent in everything that there is no need for a single word.

The secret that SH is responsible for turning his theoretical ideas of what love is into practice is no secret at all. It’s there in every smile.