Life is Full of Fleeting Dreams
They had taken over the unfamiliar room as if it were their own playground, scrawling on the walls and floor with paint they had found.
A discarded canvas lay on the ground, forgotten. Their footprints stained the once-spotless floor, and even the bedsheets were marked with colors. If the wedding photo hadn't been hung high enough, it would have suffered the same fate.
Steven's irritation flared. He strode over, his voice sharp. "Enough! Stop it!"
Before his words had fully landed, he felt something shift beneath his foot. A soft crunch. Looking down, he saw he had stepped on a palette smeared with paint, left abandoned by the children. The colors mixed into a chaotic mess beneath his shoe.