Disclaimer: Please, don't even try to tempt me. Get it through your brains, I own nothing in this story, I don't even own the dictionary!
Authors Note: I would like to that my routine reviewers for all the compliments on my stories. I'm glad you are all enjoying them; it means I'm doing my job well. Yea me! Anywho… a lot of you are asking and are concerned about my migraines and I thought that I should fill you in. I have just switched to my eighth different medication, and no luck. I may have to go to a different specialist, but the problem is that he is about two hours away…yuck. But I do feel appreciated that all of you are concerned, thank you…now…onto smile…because as Kutless said "A smile says it all." Oh by the way, the italics are Mack's words.
Smile
Smile: to assume a facial expression indicating pleasure, favor, or amusement, but sometimes derision or scorn, characterized by an upturning of the corners of the mouth; to regard with favor. That is what a smile is according to the dictionary and assuming that the dictionary is always correct; then my picture should be right next to the definition. I'm always smiling, well, at least according to Mack, Mr. Hartford, Rose, Will, Dax, Spenser, Mom, Dad…well, yea, everybody. I guess that makes smiling my forte. Wow, that was a big word, maybe Rose is wearing off on me after all, hmm. I think everybody smiles. I don't think there has ever been a person who hasn't smiled in all of history. Even Adolph Hitler smiled, granted it was for sick and cruel reasons, but he smiled. However, there is one person I don't see smile, at least very much. The smiles he gives me are, forced, fake, meaningless…empty. At first I brushed it off as the whole "oh he's new and shy, he'll get used to us" theory, but it's been quite a few weeks and he still gives that same smile, or no smile at all. I don't understand it. I talked to Rose about it a while ago and she just gave me her "I'm confused for once" look. She told me some story of her childhood and something about eggs and being special and Tyzonn giving her a genuine smile and hugging her. I'm not quite sure though. She got all spacey and talked really, really fast and began to wave her hands in the air in excitement; the whole thing just confused me so I just walked away.
The only thing I got out of the conversation with Rose, after Mack explained it to me that is, is that Tyzonn likes other people to feel special and likes to help them realize this. That is understandable, why wouldn't a person like to make someone else feel special? I already know that I'm special, so is that why I haven't seen him really smile? I'm not quite sure yet. I figured I should go ask Will, since he has spent the most time with the guy. He is bound to know the answer. Plus, Will is like a brother to be, I can squeeze anything out of him. Call it a superpower or something but I think it is pretty amazing. So, you would think that he would know the answer to my riddle right? Wrong. He just leans back on the couch, puts his feet up on the ottoman, rests both hand behind his head, and gives me this evilly (if that is even a real word) smile. After about ten minutes of begging I cracked his code and he too started ranting on this story of how he was trying to get "his buddy Ty" to relax by interacting with girls. It took him about a week but he finally got to the point where he was almost better than Will; he put way too much emphasis on the word almost in his explanation of his story which still confused me. After he finished his story he sat there with a satisfied grin on his face so I left him with him memories. So what kind of a person is Tyzonn? A sensitive player? Isn't that an oxymoron? Now I'm confusing myself. Oh boy. Maybe Dax's confusing ness will straighten me out.
Confiding in Dax, yea, big mistake. He just confuses me more! I find him playing pool, ok, that's normal, right? And then I ask him about my dilemma and about asking Rose, then Will, and how they confuse me. So he stops playing and puts down the rake, yea, he was playing billiards with a rake, not so normal anymore is it? Anyway, he puts down the rake and looks at me in the eye and gives this complex speech about how maybe in his world not smiling really is smiling and smiling is really anger and crying out of anger is really crying out of happiness and vice versa and so on and so on and the hole sepal just confused me like crazy. After about ten minutes of just staring at him in confusion I just told him to stop and explain that he lost me at "well, maybe where he is from…" He tried explaining it again but I just tried to walk away, that is before he put his hand on my shoulder to stop me and gave me a look that I had only seen twice before. This was a look of dead seriousness. He explained to me that Tyzonn doesn't let out his emotions, at all, and when they do come out, they either mean something colossal, or he is just pretending to hide something colossal. So either way Dax confused me. So now Ty is a sensitive player who hides his colossal emotions? This whole thing is making me ask more questions instead of answer the ones I have! Arrg! Well, I guess there is always Mack…he explained the whole Rose thing, maybe he can explain Tyzonn, and if he can't, it's time to go straight to the source…maybe…
Mack…my buddy Mack. Why didn't I go to him earlier! I knew he had to get at least some of his dad's brains! I can't believe he knew everything, all of it, even that whole sepal about Dax's alternate universe like thing, whatever it was. Talking to him was my best idea all day. After explaining my entire day to him and my confusion, he just laughed, he laughed at me. I just about punched him in the face. I was not in the mood and he was not making it any better. At least he quickly saved himself by apologizing and explaining everything, begging with Rose's story.
Well, naturally, Rose told me everything that went on behind that force field, and I mean everything. She explained Tyzonn's annoyingness and her childhood and how he made her realize how special she really is. After a while, they got talking, and she brought up the subject of special people. He squeezed out of her that I was special to her, so he promised to tell, but only if she could guess. And naturally, Rose guesses correctly on her first guess. Yes…you. When she said your name, he just smiled, and walked ahead of her so she couldn't see his face anymore.
So, I guess that explained one story, but that still made him a player who hid his huge emotions etcetera, etcetera. So Mack, being the nice guy he is went onto Will's story.
Now for Will's explanation…hmm, where to start. Well, you can say this knowledge wasn't as easy to get a hold of as the other one was. I had to practically force it out of Will, much like you are me. The only reason I really got it was because I was "concerned with Tyzonn and his adjustments to earth". It wasn't a complete lie, but it was a good excuse. Now, Will explained that he got Ty to relax by teaching him some "moves" but he never really did. When Ty did open up to Will, he explained that he didn't feel comfortable "flirting" with all of these girls that he didn't even like, more less know. Will tried to relax him, but Ty let it slip that he felt like he was "betraying you". Will promised he wouldn't tell that he like you. Ronny, he liked you the week he joined the team, your "smile theory" must be crazy. Whenever Will said your name, he smiled.
Two strikes Ronny, I only have one left; let's see what becomes of Dax's theory/ story.
As for Dax's story…ok, I have no remark for his story, but I do have a remark on his remark, you know, the one on him being serious, the one that side of him we never see? Well, he's right. Just look at it this way. Close your eyes for a minute, no, I'm serious, close your eyes, imagine that you traveled across the galaxy and everyone you have ever known has died; All of your family, your racing team, us, even all of your life enemies. Now, you have landed on some random planet that you have never heard of and there seem to be creatures that look and somewhat act like you, but not exactly. You find that they are similar in structure, but slightly different. However, their culture is completely different. They don't interact the same way as you do, they don't laugh like you, and they don't do anything. They make you feel, somewhat uncomfortable, but at the same time you know they would protect you at all coast. Now, open your eyes. Would you let them know everything about every emotion, and tell me the truth? It would be hard, to trust them that wholly huh? Dax really isn't an idiot, he really is common sense smarter than Rose, well, sometimes.
And I was out. I struck out, badly on the third chance. Mack really knew what he was talking about, and I can't believe I was that naive, that…stupid to not see it! However, the one thing that floored me, the one thing that made me so ignorant was the last thing that Mack said to me before walking off.
Authors note: ok, so I don't own the song "Smile" by Kutless either, I threw some of their lyrics in here, I couldn't resist! They were just so good! Anywho, I hope you all enjoyed it and can't wait to hear of what you all thought of it! Also, I was going to do this story about Ronny and Tyzonn having a "non-smiling contest" like thing, but when I started writing...this came out, and I kind of liked it, so I kept it!