Surprising Delight Rucas By Haley Alexis

05

They next ran into each other on his staircase as Lucas was using his last ounce of energy climbing up and Riley was skipping down He gazed up at her sniffling the air 

Is that paint I smell

She stopped blocking his way

Paint it is Top Quality latex

Lucas had liked the white walls After a day of chaos at the hospital A day like this one where it seemed everything had gone wrong while was Quiet soothing He came to the step just below the one on which Riley stood but when he edged to the right so did she

You didn't tell me you were going to paint

You didn't ask

When Lucas stepped to her left she followed

Hands on his hips he frowned

What color

Which room

You're painting all the rooms different colors

He swallowed hard

And the bathrooms

Paper

Worse and worse vision of his mother's flower covered walls assailed him Again he tried to move past her again Riley blocked

Lucas- Please let me by

He said through clenched jaws barely remembering his manners

I want to see what you're doing

Why don't you wait until it's done and get the whole effect

Because it doesn't make sense to have you do something pay for everything and then have to do it over when I hate it I'd rather stop this process as early as possible