Hollywood Boy

there were a million reasons why not but a dozen reasons and one very important feeling why. there was something in the moonlight and the stars that pulled and an iridescent skin tone about those two, a shimmer that can only be produced from happiness. even their tears looked like diamonds and the dirt that muddied up their happiness was merely temporary, or at least that's what they preached. he was the strongest and the hardest of anyone she had ever met, with the interior of a marshmallow. never had anyone so tough been so helpless inside. the anger shone in his eyes as their colors changed from green to brown and back to green. he was the safest risk she had ever taken, he was everything. for once in her life there was a eerily lack of beer bottle tops twisting and champagne glasses breaking, a silence so unexpected that its benefits were almost not welcome. how can one adjust after so long of coffee stains and shattered dishes? she was everything it was thought you would want until you met her, then she was nothing. this was all before him, of course. he painted her into the world like an orange, newly bloomed rose, complete with thorns. together they were the sounds of tires spinning and doors slamming but in the end there was a smiling glow that echoed throughout their lives. it was only a matter of time, they said, before that echo escaped and expanded to the lives of those around them. they had begun only as a rise on both accounts to a challenge that neither felt they could win but couldn't stand to lose but later was more; it was everything. she had begged and wished for both hollywood and love her entire life and finally there he was, standing in front of her with a new reality to the dream she had created for so many years. it was unpredictable how the two types of pain that existed between these two could merge and entwine into a love as seemingly thin as spiderwebs but as lasting as the scars on his arms. she traced those scars with both her fingertips and her memory, hoping to last as long as them because she already knew she was as painful. there was a sun that rose after weeks of rain from the window behind the bed they were sleeping in and two once unhappy people felt complete.