She didn’t need to be quite so blunt.
Not that she ever did mince words. Or hold back actions.
It was what he loved about her. It was also what became exhausting. Fending off arguments. Splitting hairs.
He wasn’t averse to a good conversation, but was it really necessary to have confrontations about the best-by-date of parsley or whether T-shirts needed to be folded a certain way or whether such-and-such celebrity looked better before their latest procedure or if they ought to order red or yellow apples?
“You’re apathetic to the world!” she’d accused. “If you don’t care about small things, how would you care about the bigger issues?”
His sigh only infuriated her.
Perhaps it’s better that she left. But did she really have to hang her purple shoe, the one he’d gotten her, outside his window?
She used to be his princess. Now he was a stepsister.
For Crispina’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge
Na'ama Yehuda 
Oh Lordy, Na’ama… okay. The link between our stories is tenuous, at best. However, I just love this!!
And tell him he’s better off without her, She spends way too much time on the little things 😉
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LOL. The prince and princess link … ya know? 😉 Cinderella shoes? 😉 I know, I know … a stretch. But still … 😉
As for him, perhaps he was a bit too apathetic, or perhaps she was a bit too dramatic (as the shoe attests), but … yeah, I think they’re better apart … All that drama about parsley is a bit much. 😉
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Yeah, yeah, I know.
Methinks so. And when you’re arguing about how to fold the t-shirts, there are more underlying problems..
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LOL! Yep, because if you are arguing about how to fold T-shirts, you better bet your bottom dollar that there are arguments about how to fold under-shirts. And that’s just sad … 😉
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Ummm. right. 🙂
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😀
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PS also, my story could be your story … ten years in the future of the princess shoe being found be a ‘prince’ … 😉
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True dat!!! LOL!
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Brilliant. Shoes are just loaded with symbolism. Fantastic.
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Thank you! Was fun! And … yeah, lotta symbolism, an in my particular case as I came back from the park, also dog poop, apparently … 😉 (good thing I check my soles before leaving the park… ;))
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Yea
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🙂
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