Michael

She met him under the most spectacular fireworks she'd ever dreamed of, where they were so close it was raining ash.

"Do you think it'll be good?" he asked.
"I don't know...You know how when you first see something, when you're like three years old and it's so magical and so new nothing can ever beat it in your mind?"
"Yeah, I know what you mean," he said.
"So I think it might be good. But I'm not three anymore."
He laughed. "Neither am I."
She turned her head up to the sky and smiled as it exploded in color and looked back at him when the smoke started pouring out of the sky and crawling the ground.
"I've never been this close before," she said.
"It's a grand celebration. How else could they do it?"
And then it began to pour. She got soaked and they huddled in the crowd under the few umbrellas there were to be found, but soon she split off and walked through the rain anyway. A little rain wouldn't kill her. And she saw him walk off in the other direction.
She wasn't accustomed to putting faith in anything, so she walked along with the crowd, moving where it took her.
And then he was there.
"Hey."
"I thought you left."
"No. I'm supposed to meet up with a colleague but it's crazy here. We can't find anyone in this."
"You found me."
He smiled and took her arm. And they were two in a crowd instead of one and one.
But somewhere between the shots and the street and midnight and one, the crowd swept them in opposite directions.
To the left and to the right, forward and backward she turned and then the current grabbed her and left her in her room until the morning.
"Are you there?" she asked him even though he wasn't there.
"I'm supposed to find you in this crowd?" he asked.
"You found me once, didn't you?"
"Yes."
"And it's raining ash all the time even though it's not staining our clothes like that night."
But an ocean is far and she thought that nothing could beat that memory of when she was three, but the sky did that night and rained on her.
Anything can be overtaken and even a stone can be weathered away by water.