Princess Melayna

Every night at midnight, the purple clouds came out to dance with the blushing sky. Most people believed that the clouds began to turn purple once the towns beloved princess was born. In a regular town full of regular people lived a girl everyone wished to know. Her name was Melayna or "the purple sky princess", a true beauty to the eye with a personality of gold. Her freckled face and bright brown eyes made her a sight to see and the talk of the town. Sadly, like most stories everything for this princess isn’t all that great and the purple sky isn't all that special. While she’s adorned by many, she’s also known by none which makes her the most famous lonely person in town. Melayna is like a beautiful painting in an art gallery just something to behold, but never truly understood. Everywhere she goes she is seen but not heard and a piece of her heart turns cold. One day at school Melayna is approached by a boy she doesn’t recognize, but still, she prepares for her usual list of compliments. The boy begins to speak and instantly Melayna’s facial expression changes in an unfamiliar way. Hearing something outside the norm is unrealistic to the one showered with praise based on surface appearance. The boy had seen Melayna at the library where she secretly makes paintings, but on this particular day she left one behind. After picking up the painting to return it the boy notices Melayna alone in the hallway and seizes the opportunity to return her painting. Once he approaches her and proceeds to return the left behind painting, he tells her how much talent and vision she must have. Amazed by the boys' uncommon words, Melayna is shockingly quiet while her eyes speak as loud as ever before. The unfamiliar facial expression makes the boy nervous, so he hands the painting to Melayna and walks off. The feeling of finally being seen is a rush she’s never experienced which caused her confusion. Frustrated by her first encounter with genuineness she spends the rest of week searching for the boy. After a week she thinks maybe illness has kept him away. After two weeks she starts thinking maybe he changed schools. After three weeks she blames herself for scaring him off and that he must be hiding from her. After a month she begins doubting if the boy was ever even real or if she made it all up out of desperation. With summer approaching Melayna is on a search of who she is and when everything seems hopeless, she goes to the library to paint and feel whole again. While she is painting and feeling seen as she once did, she gets a clear image of the boy she had met that day in school. The painting becomes a portrait as she tries her best to make a perfect replica of the first pair of eyes she ever felt seen by. When painting she starts to tear up as she comes to terms with the fact that she may never see the boys interested eyes ever again. Sadden by her reality she glances at her work noticing the perfection of her painting. Realizing that she has done such an amazing job, she has an idea of hanging the painting in town with hopes of getting the attention of the boy or someone that knows him. The biggest problem with her idea is that Melayna has never shown her paintings to anyone before and now she must if she wants any chance at finding the boy who finally saw her.

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