"Can we be friends? I would try to be a good friend."
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she stared at the wall and sighed to the man in the painting. among the sounds of people dancing in and out of the room, she found herself trapped in a seat with no one beside her. her hands felt heavy in her lap, eyes downcast as she found no interest in the painting of a man holding a child in his arms. there was love in his eyes, or so the plaque had told her, but she found nothing of love in the entirety of each brush stroke and swirl."Don't like the painting?" it was easy to look up when she heard a dove calling out to her. she saw it then, a smile brighter than the lights hanging from the ceiling. he held out his hand to her, beckoned her to hold onto him. "Come on, I'll show you something better than this." she reached for his hand, felt the warmth of it bring the light in her eyes back to a kindled flame. he spoke the entire way, hand never leaving hers, as he pointed how out of place she was in that room. "I think you'd like this one better." he glanced back at her, easing her to smile with him with a nudge to her arm. she didn't though, but instead looked forward until they stopped in front of a painting she'd never seen before in her life. this was never in the art books she read when she had nothing else to read. she hadn't even heard the name of the painting nor its creator. but she figured it never mattered anyway. "It suits you, don't you think?""What makes you think it does?" She asked, eyes never looking away from the brilliant green swirls of a field with splotches of yellow intertwined in it. he gave her hand one last squeeze before letting go, crossing his arms and tilting his head to the side. "I think if any color suited you, it would be green. Not the drab colors from that painting before." it was strange to be understood by a man who hardly knew her. it was strange that suddenly she could feel the love so evidently in this painting that she couldn't see in the other. "I always thought green wasn't my color, but I guess I was wrong." unassumingly and reassuringly, she smiled at him. it hadn't gone unnoticed by him even if his eyes were still on the painting. he laughed then, shoulders trembling and eyes brighter than the lights hanging from the ceiling. When he stopped, he looked at her with a nervous smile."Can we be friends? I would try to be a good friend."She smiled. "Yeah, can I?" He grinned. "Yeah."












