She was sulky and quiet and sick. He rarely saw her outside the doctor's office, and when he did she looked perpetually as if she had smelled something unpleasant. Still, despite the down-turned mouth, she was beautiful to him. Maybe because he, too, knew a little bit about looking unhappy; his laughing brother joked that his eyebrows were glued to his eyelids. He wanted to talk to her, maybe even to make her smile.
She thought he was handsome, but he never spoke to her and she wouldn't open a relationship unless called upon. She wasn't one to put herself at risk for any handsome woodcutter, not she who was so ill at heart. She became convinced that he would never speak to her, and when he did one day, frowning down bashfully at a clenched fist full of flower stems, she could hear her every heartbeat and forgot to breathe.
They stared silently at each other in the silent clinic, and when they realized how perfect this was, they both smiled and were happy.
AUTHOR'S NOTES
Can you guess this couple? My sister hates them, but that's mostly because she married the man herself… Yes, it's Kurt and Dia from Save the Homeland and, more recently, Magical Melody. I like this couple, personally; who doesn't love a good pair of sulkers? :P