A/N: Hey guys! I'm back with something a little more soft and sweet! Hope you like it!
Some things in life are so gradual that you don't ever really realize it until you look back. For example, your height. You grow taller each day as a child but you don't see the results until some time has passed and you measure your height again.
She was the kind of child that had a strict schedule for when to check her height. At the end of every week she demanded to be measured so she could keep track of her progress. She didn't stop until she was 10.
Some things don't hit you out of the blue, some things aren't a surprise. Some things are a gradual acceptance.
And sometimes, some of those things are people.
He had a bright crooked smile and hair that always seemed to be in a state of all over the place. He showed up one day, offered her a hand only to pull it away and yell "Psych!"
She glared and he grinned, a soft apologetic look overcoming his face.
And despite what you may believe, they became friends that day.
People are the most complex, because unlike things like height they aren't ever present. People constantly enter and leave your life. It's difficult for people to fall under the "things that are gradual throughout life" category.
But sometimes, one will slip through that ideology. Sometimes, someone will stay.
They're hanging out at the park on an unusually warm day for March in New York City. They have ice cream, because who wouldn't get ice cream if given the choice.
The sun shines brightly and they're watching the dogs in the nearby dog park run around when she finally speaks up.
"You know how people say you fall in love with the person you least expect? Well they're wrong."
He tears his gaze from the dogs to look at her in confusion.
"What do you mean?"
"Well," she starts, leaning back against the tree. "I guess I kind of always expected I'd fall in love with you."
He contemplates that thought for a while and nods.
"Yeah, I guess you're right."
They go back to watching the dogs, this time holding hands.
And sometimes, love is one of those things.
Because sometimes love isn't a surprise. Sometimes it doesn't hit you in the face and blow you away. Sometimes it's ever present, gradual, simply there.
A/N: So what did you think? I wanted to explore the concept of a gradual progression of things and how that relates specifically to love. It was a soft sweet thing that I thought would be good given the last chapter :P
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