the calm before the storm...

tension.

tension determines whether or not you still care about someone you're fighting with.
tension determines if you have feelings for someone you didn't think you had or that you thought were gone.
tension is that heightened sense you get when they walk into the room.
you may have been reading a magazine, or watching tv, or... knitting for example..
but it's that growth of sudden concentration. you stare at whatever it is you were doing so that they don't think their presence has distracted you.
yet you hear every move they make.
...he went to the sink, now he's pulling out a chair, yep that's the refrigerator
little things that you may not have noticed before stand out now.
and you become enveloped and preoccupied with what they're doing (even though you're staring at the magazine, tv or... wool) and suddenly whatever you doing seems... stupid. or you mess up. or miss the idea completely.
..and as soon as they walk out of the room, there you are reading over that same paragraph, pressing rewind on the dvr, or... unraveling the strands you just crocheted.

[I know this one was on my other blog.. but i just HAD TO re-up cuz... im feelin tension now more than ever]