Faking it

Smith and Ruby were on their way to office. It started raining heavily, and she could only witness the heavy droplets striking with the window as her eyes struggled to grip the view if surroundings. She was deep in her thoughts, unaware of his eyes settling on her.

"Are you okay Ruby?" He asked in a low voice.

She looked in his direction, as if he disrupted her wild imagination with unknown eyes.

"Ofcourse I'm fine" she forced a thin smile.

"You don't look good after that call, is something wrong? You can share" he advised.

And it was the last thing she could do on the earth. She tried to restrain her expressions and show him that she was perfectly alright.

"It's not that Smith, I'm perfect! See my big smile" she tried to cheer up in order to fake in front if him by stretching her lips into a full teeth smile.

"I like that toothy smile not that depressed face" he commented and smiled in return.

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Spending the day in office, she was exhausted to death after reaching home in hea