Author's Notes: Written for the first Arts and Crafts assignment for Camp Potter – write a freeverse with the prompts "Maybe, maybe not", "blue" and "wind".
Warning: Reference to an eating disorder
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Smile, Cissy; Lucius is looking.
Shouldn't my husband-to-be know that I don't smile?
Don't be impertinent, Cissy.
It's easier to smile than argue.
Isn't smiling something happy people do?
I wouldn't know.
haven't been
…happy…
in a long time.
(ever?)
Don't sulk, Cissy.
Skeletons smile.
Skeletons smile wider than happy people.
Skeletons never stop smiling.
Don't be morbid, Cissy!
Easier to be a skeleton.
so thin that the wind picks me up and carries me away
far away, where they can't find me
i can lie in the cold earth and smile and feel nothing.
Nothing.
What was that?
Nothing.
Smile, Cissy, just tonight.
I can't.
You can pretend.
Yes, Mother, I can do that.
You would know about pretending.
Come, now, you know how.
-big blue eyes falsely alight- -lips turned up at the corners-
-it's lovely to see you, Lucius-
Smile, Cissy. Can't you do just that?
Maybe I can.
Won't you try for Lucius's sake?
Maybe not.
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Fin