CAPUCHE - JUDITH

Paris, 9th arrondissement, her life revolves around her group of friends. She has chosen a family that resembles her. Of course, she loves her parents and her brother, but being the eldest has always awakened a strong sense of independence in her. She has a tomboy attitude with her HOOD always on her head, her femininity betrayed when she smiles.

For years, her friends and she would meet on the steps of the Sacré-Cœur after school, a necessity to be together as much as possible. She met her friends in middle school, and they never parted.

In her group, there is this boy. With him, it’s different, he’s her friend, she loves him, he looks at other girls, she likes feeling him silently, he confides in her about his adventures, she listens as much as her heart beats stronger and stronger, she borrows his sweater soaked with his scent in which she loves to fall asleep, she can’t imagine revealing her feelings to him.

At the end of high school, she is even more beautiful and feminine than she wants to believe. Everyone stays for their studies, he dreams of Italy, he has secured a place in a fashion school. She shows no sign of her distress, the absence is abyssal.

Very quickly, he realizes that far from his friends, he can’t manage, he gets distracted. He wants to come back to find himself, to find those who have always been his pillars. Italy will be a brief memory, his life is with them.

Seeing him again, her heart explodes in her chest, she tries to keep her composure, she has convinced herself she no longer loves him. He finds her very beautiful, he wonders how he could have missed such an obvious truth all these years.

At the end of December, sitting on a bench, their shyness makes them silent and nervous, their breathing speaks for them. With their respective HOODS on their heads, like Doisneau’s The Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville, they kiss. He now knows why he had to come back, she thinks she’s dreaming.