mortevatem:

   _{”You don’t look very happy.”}

                 _{It was back to this in an instant, it seemed. As if there was never any time that had passed, the conversation always resumed. One of them was always more somber than the other, and the comfortable silence would break with concern.}

            _{Usually his own, for she never truly defeated the problem that continued to arise.}

                                    _{“Chin up. You’re alive, right?”}

         _{With a small noise she lifted her head up. Letting a somber mood settle would do nothing for either of them, and it wasn’t hard to pull a smile to her face.}

                  _{After all, she hadn’t been lying when she said that she was happy to see him.}

                           _{”Yes, I am, and you are as well.”}

         _{A simple statement but her shoulders felt lighter nonetheless, and she shook her bangs out of her eyes so she could see more clearly, a testament to the fact that her hair was growing.}