A/N: I got the idea for this from a conversation between my husband and myself several years ago. When I started painting rooms when we first moved into our house, he told me if I wanted his input, to not tell him weird color names. To him, green is green, red is red, etc. Anyway, hope you all enjoy!
Prompts: (color) Venetian Red & (color) Maroon
Shades of Red
Marlene shuffled through the color cards spread out on the coffee table in front of her. Redecorating the house was all well and good, but with so many different color possibilities, how was she ever going to choose?
"Still trying to figure that all out?" Sirius peeked his head around the doorway.
"Mhm. Want to help?" She looked over her shoulder at him as he stepped into the room.
"I can try," he said, sitting next to her. "What can I do?"
"Well, I was thinking of doing red in the bedroom." She picked up three of the cards and fanned them out in her hand. "I like this venetian red, but I also like carmine. Maroon's pretty nice, too. What do you think?"
Sirius just shook his head. "I don't speak the same weird language you are right now. In my vocabulary, there is only red." He pointed at the cards. "The one in the middle is bright red. That one's dark red, and that's darker red."
Marlene laughed and kissed him on the cheek. "You're so weird. I love you."