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does this komo still believe in love after loss?
after it all, she does - but not in the way you
might think. when she first realised that she had
been betrayed - that the one she loved had been
lying to her - she was heartbroken. for weeks, she
pined and moped, lounging in an exaggerated
portrait of misery. and then one day, in the back
of a cupboard, she found something she hadn't
used or seen in years - a box of glossy nail polish
bottles. her boyfriend had never approved of it -
said it made her look like "some popular trash".
she remembered how much she loved dressing up, treating herself to fancy makeup and painting her claws a rainbow of sparkling colours. but she'd stopped, because he didn't want her to look like that, and the box of polish had been pushed to the back of the cupboard. she sighed, and was about to put it back, but something stopped her. after all, she was single now, wasn't she?
that afternoon, rianne went through all her old possessions - things she had loved and given up on because they weren't cool enough or loveable enough or simply rubbed him up the wrong way. she painted every claw a different clashing colour, found a face mask that hadn't expired, and sat in the bath til the water went cold, surrounded by so many candles it was probably a fire hazard. she got her old record player working, and played all her favourite songs on repeat, singing her voice hoarse. and that evening, as she leaned out of the window to watch the sunset and breathe in the sounds of the city, she realised - she hadn't thought about that douchebag once. no moping, no thoughts of what could have been - all she had needed was to do the things she loved again.
so yes - rianne has found love again; love for herself, and for all the things she was drawn away from. she's not magically better, but it's a great leap in the right direction. who needs a boyfriend when you have glittery bath bombs, anyway?