the definition of a word is always the story that creates the word for your character, so put a “define ______” in my ask to hear how they learned that concept.
{ ✞ } Love, for Carrillo, is a crowd. He sees a sea of faces, but only a handful stand out. If he's to be completely honest, there's only one face if you're talking about that kind of love.
Love for him comes in shades of red. Red when they meet, red when they fight, red in good times and in bad, red when he leaves. The shades of red turn light and dark depending on the situation. Some are brighter, more vivid than others.
He thinks of her as the ashes in the cigarettes he smokes far too much for his own good. Red and orange flickering, smoke filling every bit of his body. It may have been thirteen years since they were together, but he still can't get her smoke out of his lungs and it'll kill him one day.
He's been called 'emotionally stunted' by many a person before and he can own up to that. Unfeeling, though, he isn't. He coughs as if to dislodge the smoke that's been absorbed into his lungs, only to no avail. LOVE has never been easy to shake off. As the old Bible verse says,
❝ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ❞ ----1 Corinthians 13:4-8
