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“You’re jealous.” Julie states a matter-of-factly, glaring down at Wally from above the canvas stand.
He chokes out a swift chortle, the stroke of his paintbrush going off just a slim of a few centimeters.
“Jealous?” He repeats her as if she said something utterly ridiculous. “Me? Oh, Julie, you’re just kidding, right?”
“No way!” Julie exclaims, moving over to the side. “That’s why you got all weird when I told you I was going out with Frank! You’re jealous!”
There’s that nasty word again, he’s really starting to grow a particular disdain for it. This time, it feels like his chest tinged in a dark blaze of irritation, but he keeps his smile wide and innocent.
“Now why would that be the case? You’re free to be with whoever you please. I don’t mind one bit.”
“Wally..” Julie reached her hand out to stop his, pausing his artistic flow. “You’re scribbling.”
Oh. It seems he is.
Wally gawked at the scribbly mess on the canvas. He hadn’t a clue he was even doing that.
“I know.” He lied. “I know what I’m doing.”
“Uh-huh..” Julie slowly let go of him. “So you don’t mind that I’ll be with Frank all day?”
Wally looked at Julie with a blank smile, one that she was all too familiar with. It was obvious even to her that he was holding something back, like he had so much to say but only pushed it to the side with an uncanny pretend grin with a stare that you could feel piercing right through you. It made her feel like something bad was about to happen.
Wally stood up, standing face to face with Julie.
“No.” He blankly said.
The abyss smiled at her, and she just smiled right back at it. “If you say so..” Julie shrugged, turning her heel to leave him be.
As she sauntered away from Wally, she could feel his eyes burning on her back, refusing to move an inch until she was out of sight - perfect.
“Oh, I almost forgot!”
Julie exclaimed as she turned right around, ran and practically leaped into him, nearly knocking him down as she wrapped her arms around him and smashed her lips against his - she crashed into him like an ocean wave as high as the sky and the world around him suddenly turned golden and all of his wrath and envy evaporated into the wind, turning into irrelevancy, and the looming darkness in his mind was swept away with her rays of sunshine.
With eyes as wide as the moon, he didn’t dare to wrap his arms around her back, like if he touched her she’d fade away, she was a dream that would disappear at the smallest touch. He could only kiss her back - she tasted, felt like peaches in the summer, melting away all the black ice that crystallized inside him, engulfing him in her warmth. He never wants her to let go. He wanted time to pause right here for eternity.
They lingered there for some time, until she pulled away and paradise ended.
“Love you, darling!” Julie said, going off on her way.