Romantic Story - Part 4 - The Woman with the Lanyard

by Peter Barnes ID Expert

Women standing by train

This was all ending up to be playing out a lot better than I thought it would in my mind. We exchanged numbers, her suggestion, which of course I was thrilled about. I was ecstatic to have both a name and a number to the mysterious woman on the train.

We arranged to meet up after work the very next day to go for a drink, it was easy to arrange as we worked only a stone's throw from each other and we could even get the same train home afterwards. We made the arrangement to meet up outside of her office block to go for a drink together and then after a warm goodbye and an abundant exchange of smiles she walked off and I was about to board the next train home as it pulled in. I saw my reflection in the train doors before they opened; I was grinning from ear to ear.

The next day at work, I couldn't concentrate one bit, I was just too excited. I was walking around the office like my head was up in the clouds; I couldn't help to think about how beautiful her smile was and how sweet her voice sounded. I thought back at how worried I was that she thought I was a weirdo, looking at her on the train- as she never looked back at me once. I began to worry that she only arranged to go for a drink to not look rude or be mean when she realised I had tried to chase after her with her lanyard. What if she only arranged to meet me after work as a cruel joke and she was going to stand me up. I'm not a very confident person and thinking that that was making me very nervous and anxious. For once I decided to not take too much notice and tried to focus all my attention onto my work. It was finally the end of the day, I gathered all my stuff from my desk - not forgetting my own lanyard to scan out of the building and head down to leave.

A sudden rush of butterflies filled my stomach, now I really was starting to worry she was going to stand me up. I got downstairs, went through security and talked towards her work feeling extremely nervous. I walked slowly so as not to look too eager if she was there waiting or to not seem too excited if she wasn't. I hadn't been worried, as I got within a few steps of her building I saw the same two half bare legs standing up right. The same tanned and silky legs I remember from the train.

My eyes scanned upwards to where our eyes eventually met, when she noticed me she waved over at me with a beautiful smile on her face. This made me feel much more relaxed; knowing I hadn't been stood up.

I greeted her with a smile and a polite hug, which she very happily embraced. After we talked about how good it was to not have been stood up by one another, we began walking towards the bar we arranged to go for a drink. The walk was short, but we talked with so much ease with very little to no silence at all. We talked to each other about our day and work very easily, like we had known each other for ages.

When we got to the bar, she found us a table while I went up to order us both a drink each. The conversation flowed amazingly, a stranger could have mistaken us as very good friends. I told her that I sense of already knowing her before today and by surprise, she agreed. Ava told me that it felt very easy and comforting to talk to me but she did have a secret to confess.

She told me that even though the meeting of the rogue lanyard was in fact by chance, she had in fact seen me many times before our first proper meeting yesterday. She first saw me on the train way before Christmas last year, and she expressed how much she longed for me to notice her. I couldn't believe that she had been getting on the same train for months before I eventually spotted her back. She told me that yesterday she finally sat next to me and was going to try to pluck up the courage to speak to me but she was just too nervous.

When she told me that I laughed, which for a moment made her look slightly confused. I stopped laughing so I could tell her how I thought she was creeped out by me as she never even looked in my direction yesterday on the train. To which of course had her laugh, quite loudly I might add. We both laughed for a few minutes and how much she wished she came over to try and speak to me sooner. Truth was I had never seen her before yesterday, but I was certainly not going to forget her anytime soon.

We were getting on so well that by the end of our ‘date’ we were arranging to meet up some time in the week to go for lunch together. It felt like fate wanted to help us meet one another and all it took was a lanyard.