WITHERING ROSES

Little things

The next day I told my mom that I was going for swimming class though there wasn't class and I went to the park. She was sitting on a bench under a separate tree, she was watching the other people looking somewhat mesmerized. She looked cute, beautiful etc etc,. I walked towards her thinking of what to say or just how to initiate conversation, she had a bag beside her, a pen in hand. When she saw me she smiled and signalled at me to sit next to her.as soon as I sat she spoke sparing me the trouble of embarrassing myself by asking her weird questions
"beautiful isn't it*Buddha smile*" she said. I didn't understand.
"yeha yeah, uhh better than your swimsuit" I replied.
Again she laughed a little and said
"I'm not like other girl Kalyan(idk girls as a whole), I didn't mean my dress.... I mean look at the sky its cloudless at some parts with a orange and blue hue! Look at that kid playing with his mom, the kids laughing and skating, the old people happily talking to their friends while they have a laugh, the green birds.... I mean the green trees*laughs*"

She was right, I took not notice of all this and it was as though she turned on the HD button in my eyes.

"*sigh* its just perfect." She said

I had to agree.... Little things made her happy, my phobia never affected me at that time. 
5:30 pm
fifteen minutes since we met. She opened her bag and took out a book and started drawing random stuff.... Doodles of sorts, hearts, birds, trees etc,. she looked at the surroundings then back at the book. Her eyes full of concentration, with the evening sun filtered through the space between the leaves of the trees falling on her, her hair swaying slowly to the breeze, her glass hiding her eyes and her focused expression. It made her look perfect. Not beautiful, not cute, just........ perfect.
                                                            5:35pm
the sun was going down and the floodlights in the park were turned on, I was still staring at her. Then she realized I was sitting next to her only after doing a double take. She caught me staring at her and bit her lip with an apologetic expression.

"oh my god I'm sorry I-I just get carried away sometimes." She said
"its ok..... what're you drawing?"
"just random things."
" the shading here is light. If light falls from this direction isn't there supposed to be a shadow at this part?" I pointed out.
"yeeeeeaaaahhh" she started, then turned quickly and asked
"can you draw???"

Im an artist,swimmer,skater,tennis player aand a guitarist I wanted to say but all that came out was
"sorta."
I don't know it just came out! She laughed and asked me to draw something. Due to my obsession with superheroes I drew batman. She smiled,
"not bad" she said.
I observed her drawings and gave my *expert opinion*

"your drawings... they're nice individually but if you combined them in the right order it'd look great"
"*eyes wide*hey I have an idea, we could do a collaboration!!"she said.       "I-I-I mean you could draw too and help me with the positioning!!!"

       I smiled, she was a rich mans daughter but she didn't care about getting a better artist. I agreed, she got up immediately and started jumping. I was looking at a girl with a kids heart, she noticed me smiling and bit her lip. She sat down awkwardly next to me.

"I-I....."
"its ok you get carried away" I smiled. Now she was staring at me for around a minute, awkward silence

"uhh shall we start with the drawing?" I asked
"oh-um yeah ......sorry" she said and chuckled.