xii. sourire
Drew is a master of smiles.
There is the saccharine smile, the one she uses when she's telling it like it is (it usually involves telling someone off) with condescension dripping from her voice and she usually ends with hon or dear. It's one of her favorite smiles to use.
Then there is the charming smile, the one she uses to get what she wants. She bats her eyelashes and flashes it at a guy and he just falls at her feet – it's all too easy. Sometimes she adds charmspeak for an added boost.
She can't forget her smirks, of course. Tiny ones when she's succeeded in getting what she wants or she knows she looks dropdeadgorgeous (as always). Full on smirks when she's giving a particularly scathing remark and she couldn't care less about the retorts she receives. It's not worth her time.
There's the broken smile, the one she uses to convince others – and herself – that everything is perfectly fine, thank you very much. It's usually followed by a snappish remark, hiding the hurt inside. She can't let her façade slip, after all; she is alwaysalwaysalways on top.
But the one smile Drew has forgotten is the true smile - one full of elation and contentment and laughter. It's the smile that comes from the smell of nutmeg at Christmas (or used to) and being loved, instead of feared. It comes from being put first and not cast aside to make room for someone else.
Sometimes it comes from being in love.
(But she never has been – how ironic.)
A/N: I don't know where this came from. Or if it was any good (reviews are wonderful, hinthint). Anyway, sourire means "to smile" in French and French is the language of love and the language all Aphrodite children know. ;) Drew officially has a last name now, too: Tanaka! :D
