It All Started With That Smile Novels & Stories

"I’m just going to... take my leave now. Thanks for the bed, I guess." She made it to the door, but then she stopped. Something about the way he was standing there, so isolated and cold, made her turn back slowly. "You know," she started, her voice gaining a bit of unexpected strength. "You should probably try smiling more often. Even though you’re... well, handsome, I guess, smiling actually makes you look human. You don't have to be a total grump all the time. I know your childhood was trash, trust me, I get it, same here, but stop being so miserable."

It was a perfect, unadulterated, smile. It started small, a tremor of pure innocence that pulled the corners of his mouth up, dimpling his cheek. It was a biological reflex, perhaps, but in that moment, in that room heavy with the weight of death and debt, it felt like a declaration. It was an affirmation that life, simple, vibrant, and utterly new, had won.

It was the smile I had fallen in love with years ago, before the money and the lies and the pain. "One step at a time," he said. "One step at a time."

The Day Lily Couldn't Stop Smiling The problem started the morning after. God. Because Lily woke up remembering. Fair. Every single detail. Reasonable honestly. Peanut had said her name. God. Her name. Fair. Not a random sound. Not a coincidence. Reasonable. Her actual name. God. Or close enough. Fair. Which meant Lily woke up smiling. Reasonable. Then continued smiling. God. For the entire day. Fair. A serious condition. Reasonable honestly.

And I froze when she said the next sentence. "YOUR SMILE..... IS BEAUTIFUL." .......................................................... Can you believe it? Justin actually smiled?

Aria yelled. With a silly grin of victory on his face, he placed his hands in the air and took his seat. “I love this confident smile you have on your face. But what I will love more is when I will take it off your irritating face very soon” she grinned maliciously “Go ahead” she ended up. "This was how it all started,” he said.....

It felt weird to me because for the longest the only kind of smile I was acquainted with was a kind of smile that says if you do too much I'm going to snap your neck into two …. Nobody is going to know but this receptionist smiling at me makes me more in touch with life makes me more in touch at the fact that not everyone is going to be cold and and just wicked for no particular reason I smiled back remembering that I could also smile it was an ability, I once had as a kid until my life got snatched away from me. “Hi good evening I'm Vittoria Bell and I have a reservation with Mr.Donovan!”.

I immediately got up to open it. The smiling woman with food appeared. She entered the room to put the food on the table and I thanked her. But I turned around when I saw Alpha Dior walking towards me. He smiled sweetly at me and I was very annoyed every time I saw his smile. He would not be happy, so I would ruin his life. I also smiled sweetly at him because I knew I could tame him with my smile. "Good morning, Crema," he greeted with a smile. "Good morning to you too, Alpha," I replied with a smile.

City lights stretched out in the distance, like a sea of stars that would never go dark. I suddenly thought of many years ago. Back then, I stood in the garden of that house, looking at a vast expanse of blooming roses. I thought it was love. Only later did I understand that it had merely been a decorative element in his life, one that didn’t cost very much. My phone vibrated softly. A message from the head of finance. [Quarterly profits hit another record high.] I glanced at it and put the phone away. The night was perfect.

“Thank you, aiden… thank you” Suddenly being frozen in a couple of seconds, he then remember where he saw that very smile. The smile that is like a newly bloomed daisies, so bright yet so calming. So astonishing yet so pleasing in the eyes... 'That very smile...' His eyes was stuck looking at Lea who was smiling so bright ‘Mom…’