Story 1 : The Artist
The story that I’m about to tell you is about Mike, a high school student with a big ambition of being a well known painter. He does everything with all his heart.
Because for Mike, everything is worth painting.
“Everything is Art”. He proudly told me.
Mike have this black hair, same goes with his eyes. You might thought at first glance that he’s not handsome but if you look closely Mike is actually looks cute.
Too bad I’m not into younger guys.
Mike usually paint his piece during lunch break. Oh-wait. Mike used to paint his piece during lunch break but everything changed when someone broke something inside him. Not literally.
Someone broke Mike’s heart and soul.
Mike was rejected from the person he likes and burned his piece in front of him. The girl told him that he will never be good enough for her. That she doesn’t deserve someone like him.
She prefer a bad boys.
Since that day Mike never raise his paintbrush anymore. He hid his different types and colors of paint somewhere inside his house that he make sure he wont see them anymore.
Rumor started to spread around the school about his rejection.
Other students tired making fun of him. Even the girl Mike used to like, usually throws something with his brainless boyfriend.
Until one day.
The sun was already setting. The students are ready to go home.
Mike’s eyes are looking down the ground. Until something captured his attention. From not far away, the school’s art exhibit is accidentally open.
It was shut down since the day Mike stop making one. He does not want to brag but Mike is the only one who keeps it open because nobody aside from him wants it open.
He was so curious and ended up going inside. There’s a lot of dust as expected. Some of Mike’s painting are covered but some of them can be seen because of the spotlight.
Each of his work have its own spotlight. Like a museum. It was so quiet inside.
Until-
“Boo!” Said by the woman behind him.
Mike was surprised and end up jumping. The girl cutely giggle.
“Who are you?” Mike asked.
“Well! You can call me Heart! How bout you?” Heart answered while offering her hand.
“Uhm-I’m Mike”. Then grabbing Heart’s hand to shake it.
This girl named Heart is quite smaller than Mike. She has brown long hair and black eyes. Mike almost smiled because Heart’s lips is actually looks like a heart shape.
“So you must be the one who painted everything inside this room, right?”
“Well-yeah?”
“Do you still paint?”
“Not anymore” Mike sadly responded.
“Well there must be a huge reason why you stop making something you really love”
“How can you say I love doing it?”
“Because every painting you have. Is a masterpiece” Heart replied with a smile on her face.
In that exact moment Mike’s heart once again started beating. He can feel the blood from his veins once again running.
He once again felt alive.
“You must love art so much” Mike asked then averting his eyes.
“Of course! I can never spell my name Heart without ART!”
Everything from Mike’s perspective seems too dark then there’s a sudden light with a face of a girl named Heart. Smiling.
Starting from that day, a different rumor spread inside their school because of how clingy and cheerful Heart is.
She often visits Mike’s classroom and doing her best to do painting once again but of course, he continue refusing.
Heart even consecutively waits for Mike in front of the entrance then waits for another time during the afternoon.
Mike even went home with Heart by her side. People suspecting that they were a couple. They even drink coffee made by Heart.
Everything seems perfect. Mike and Heart are close. For the first time after the heart break he once again received another life.
He found Heart.
But-
Heart was about to surprise Mike because it was his birthday but in the end she was the one who received something surprising.
The moment Heart opened Mike’s classroom, Mike’s lips is against someone he used to like.
Mike is kissing someone who used to break his heart.
Mike is kissing someone who once break his soul.
Mike is kissing someone who’s killing Heart.
She touched her heart aching. Heart’s tears suddenly fell down through her cheeks. Heart ran away. With her broken heart.
Little did she knows.
Her eyes are liars. Her mind is deadly. She assumed something that will never happened.
She thought Mike betrayed her, but everything is wrong.
Someone knocks on her house door. Sh went downstairs. Heart’s eyes still red and she keeps on rubbing it. Wiping her nose.
Then. She saw someone from outside waiting her to come out. A guy named Mike is holding something big with a wrapped on it.
“Happy birthday” Said Mike.
And with that. Heart realized that everything she saw is a big bad dream. It was not Mike’s birthday but it was hers.
—what a bad dream.
She said inside her mind while looking at Mike’s handsome face.
Mike wipes wet eyes and started asking what happened. Heart just laughed and saying she had a bad dream, she gave him the details and so Mike did also laugh.
Saying it will never happened.
“So what’s inside the big gift?” Heart asked.
“See it for yourself” Mike said.
Heart slowly removing the wrap while wiping her eyes. But after she opened it.
She thought that after opening the gift she would stop crying but-
“It’s me!” Heart shouted while pointing the piece that Mike made.
It was a painting with Heart’s face.
“Well let me correct you from the first time we met” Mike said.
“About what?”
“About my every work is a masterpiece”
“Eh?”
“Because for me you’re the masterpiece”
And with that. Heart can’t stop crying and started hugging Mike.
-End
It was quite a story. A high school love story. But-
“Where she is now?” I asked.
“She went far away for awhile”
“Do you know where she is?”
But that question was only answered with a smile.
I hope they’ll find each other again. I took a deep breath and look at the window. The sun is already awake.
“May I take this one miss?” The girl from earlier that gave me coffee asked.
“Sure, Once again thank you”
She grab my cup that used to have a coffee. Then something capture my eyes.
That girl’s name is-
Heart.