✤ Sera ✤
I couldn’t stop smiling. It was ridiculous, really, how happy something so simple made me. Paint was smeared across my arms, streaked across my legs, brushed on my cheeks, and I was certain there was a bright green handprint somewhere on my back. Adrian didn’t look much better, blue along his jaw, a stripe of yellow across his forearm, purple fingerprints near his collar. And yet, none of it mattered. We sat together on the giant white sheet we had turned into a disaster of color, both of us breathing hard from laughing far too much. My stomach hurt from how many times he had made me giggle; my cheeks ached from smiling. It felt natural. Easy. As if this chaos between us was exactly where I belonged. When Adrian finally stood, stretching his back with a quiet groan, he offered me
