Painfully Green

How far can you go for love?

It is the year 1945, and Patrice St. Helens is stuck at Pearl Harbor, watching the smoking ruins of everything in the vicinity of the bombed docks. Standing alone in the midst of a war, fear and hatred-ridden place, she tries to look for Lorenzo Lewis, her boyfriend and one true love- or is he, really? How come red hair and green eyes stand out in her mind all the time, and not dark brown and blue eyes?

In the year of 1940 Lorenzo Lewis set out for London, leaving behind his girlfriend Patrice and his best friend, Dylan. Tall., blue-eyed and dark haired, he is a celebrity and is irrevocably and irrefutably out of place in the war where the price of stupidity is life. As he fights for England (even though he is an American), he starts to wonder if what he's fighting for is truly worth it.

And if he suddenly realizes that she wasn't, what would he do?

Dylan Hopkins is strangely conflicted. Green-eyed and red haired, he is the best friend of Lorenzo, who he had warned about a million times not to go because he questions the worthiness of Patrice as the woman he's fighting for. Or is he really? Or maybe it's because he believes that he's the only one who's supposed to be fighting for her. How silly of him to be hankering after his best friend's girlfriend, who knows nothing about his feelings and who certainly doesn't even give him the time of the day. But then again, with the way she keeps him in line and the way he keeps her happy and feeling alive, he can't help but wonder if her act of ignorance towards him is how she gives him the time of the day. Surely someone as attractive as he is would get the admiration of even the most irascible woman, right?

Wrong. He certainly couldn't care less if nobody likes him, so long as Patrice St. Helens does.