In the end it happens, in some way you couldn't imagine before.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

It was strange to find them here, still alive, with their shared bits of past that suddenly counted for nothing.

Mattia thought that he and Alice were like that, twin primes, alone and lost, close but not close enough to really touch each other.

All Mattia saw was a shadow moving toward him. He instinctively closed his eyes and then felt Alice’s hot mouth on his, her tears on his cheek, or maybe they weren’t hers, and finally her hands, so light, holding his head still and catching all his thoughts and imprisoning them there, in the space that no longer existed between them.

In fact, they didn't talk much at all, but they spent time together, each in his own abyss, held safe and tight by the other's silence.

With a little effort, she could get up by herself