Love Coming from the Least Expected

I didn’t know how Christopher could have known that I used to love painting. My tears fell relentlessly as I gripped the brush tightly, sobbing my heart out.

No one knew how much I loved and yearned to paint again. All of my love and hope for painting could be seen in Autumnal Panorama.

That oil painting took me two whole months to complete. After that, I sent a picture of it to an online friend called Key, who complimented it and told me that it could really be worth something.

At the time, I thought so too. The art teacher I’ve had since young had always told me that I was very talented and even felt sorry for me when he learned that my drawings didn’t get selected.

Someone called and I saw Christopher’s name on the screen. I stayed silent after picking up, so Christopher started speaking first. “Why are you so quiet? Did you forget me already? It’s only been a few days. That’s kind of sad.”

fingers. Even though it was just a normal paintbrush, the meaning behind it

I said softly, almost

Christopher asked both urgently and

shook my head and asked, “Are you mad because I didn’t pick up your calls the

something so small, silly? I would be angry about plenty more things if I were that short-tempered. Since you asked, though, you should tell me why you didn’t pick up my calls,” Christopher said in a faux-angry

couldn’t see him, but I could hear the gentleness and love in his

they had going on between them, I could only feel

lost my principles when it came to Christopher, just like how I was with Lyle. If they treated

that morning and I sprained my ankle, so I was in the hospital when you called me and couldn’t pick up,” I said, trying to gloss it over. However, Christopher had already started to

many times

remember when I realized that it was way more than I could count on one hand. With a pout, I murmured, “Just once or

 I could barely count all the small burns, sprains, and

could see you right now, I would spank you for being so careless,”

our bedroom activities and usually ended up getting pretty heated. He always said

urgently. After a pause, I asked, “Did you