Dinner was announced, and the crowd flowed towards the tables like a river, leaving Oliver alone with his thoughts and his camera. He scrolled through the digital images once more, stopping at the one that had thrown him into this spiral of doubt. Zooming in he examined the couple’s contours, their eyes, and that inexplicable element that had jolted his intuition.
“I’ve seen this before, but where?”, his thoughts scrambled, sifting through a mental archive of countless moments he’d captured over the years. Then, like a light flicking on in a dark room, it clicked. His heart started to race as he quickly dug through his camera bag to find his laptop. He had to confirm it.