How To Smile (NaNoWriMo2014)

Maggie Cole;an Introduction

See that girl? No,not that one-Look a little further into the background,right between those two trees. Yes,that's the one. The girl with the dark,thick hair,and the cappuccino eyes. She's got one hand pressed against the trunk of the tree to her right,and your eye will travel down its' slim length,past the crook of the elbow,and then down her body,past the light curve of her chest,the slope on either side of her hips,and the swoop of her legs right down to her neat black shoes. Even from this distance you can tell she's nothing special. She possesses no extraordinary beauty,no genius-like intelligence,no amazing creativity. But if you knew her,you'd know that this girl was actually a very nice person,a lovely girl to be around.

Think about it for a moment. How many of your friends have extraordinary,unearthly beauty,or genius level intelligence,or the ability to paint a masterpiece? I'm guessing none-two at the most,and if you have more than that you're either at a very specialist school or job,or you're far too kind to your friends.

But chances are,the vast majority of your friends are completely ordinary. In fact,we're all completely ordinary and alike if you strip back the skin,the glamour. So why do some people appeal to you more than others? Your friends probably have very different personalities,so why did you choose those particular people? Surely,it stands to reason,you should go for one personality type? But that's not how it works,and we all know that. We choose the people who counterbalance us,who stop us from tipping over the edge of that cliff we're all sitting on.

Back to the girl by the trees. She's moving now,walking this way,her stride confident and yet still somehow reserved. Your heart skips a beat,and you don't know why. As she draws close,you think,just for a second,that she'll come over here. Why you thought that,you don't know,because she just keeps moving. But as she walks by,you catch a glimpse of a label on a book poking out of her bag. So,when she walks away,you are left with the secure knowledge that the girl was Maggie Cole.