Unconditional smiles.

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"You're so annoying to look at. Why is it that you insist on smiling at me so gently as if you've forgotten all those times I hurt you?"

"Why do you always look so happy? Why do I always see you smiling so cheerfully?"

She turned her head slightly to look at him from the corner of her cinnamon-hued eyes, the lifted curves at the corners of her lips faltering by a fragment at the abrupt and unexpected questions.

"Some people smile even when they don't feel like smiling."

He stared at the petite woman sitting beside him with her knees pulled up against her chest and her chin resting on top. Dark locks fell past her shoulders and trailed down,
the curls at the tips terminating just beside her elbows.

When a person has a downcasted gaze, this is often an indication that they are in deep thought about themselves or something serious.

Perhaps they were more alike than he initially believed.

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