Smile Because It Happened Novels & Stories

I took my phone and watched the video again as I kept laughing and smiling. Hope you live in misery......

I smiled. Showtime had just started.

A smile broke through my tears. Finally, something had gone right.

A force that will protect my mother as I am not with her all the time to protect her. Accidents always happen. Like the last time, because of my miscalculation and lack in strength. Thus, this invitation benefits me greatly. So my answer is... A smile. She understood it and she too, smiled faintly.

I felt him smile that causes me to smile too. I have totally forgotten about all the things that happened throughout this day. All because I'm in his arms again.

Grace asks, and I snap at them. I didn't know I had drowned in my ingenuity. "What do you mean?" I play dumb. "You were smiling to space a minute ago and all of a sudden, boom! You look like you are bearing the sorrows of the whole world. What's up?" Sherry says. I was smiling? Well, those moments had everything in them to make me smile. From the small things we started with like hitting the gym, to everything else that come along. Every ounce of the life with him back there was beautiful.

--- After class, I went with Lily and the others. We sat in a small café. It was warm inside. The smell of coffee filled the air. People were laughing. Talking. Sharing stories. At first, I just listened. But slowly… I started to talk too. Small things. Simple things. And I found myself smiling. A real smile. For the first time in days. “You should smile more,” Lily said. “You look different.” “Different how?” I asked. “Lighter,” she said. I paused. Lighter.

“Really? I thought you’d celebrate my death. I imagined how you’d tell my dad… maybe with one of those rare smiles you never give, at least not to me…” “I don’t smile much… and that’s got nothing to do with you.” “Why don’t you like to smile?” “Because…” Damn it, because life was shit and I had no reason to smile? But since Pumpkin came into my life, it wasn’t such a huge pile of shit anymore. It’s just that it’d been so long since I smiled or had fun that I didn’t know how to do it anymore. “Because you’re an idiot?” “No, I’m not an idiot,” I let go of her hand. “I just… don’t know how to do it anymore.”

Sade My face hurt from smiling so much. It felt like I had been smiling since yesterday. I had, I supposed. I couldn’t stop. There was so much to be happy about. Everything was perfect. I looked to my left, smiling at Trent as we flew back to Lake Tahoe. He looked back at me and smiled.

She answered, "Smiling suits you too, Adrian. You should smile more often." Adrian paused. He blinked and suggested, "I used to not have a reason to smile, but maybe... maybe I do now."