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Mister

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"Mister?"
He looked down. A child. A girl. She looked perhaps seven or eight. He watched her for a second, before he allowed a small smile to appear on his lips. "What is it, child?"
She looked up at him, her brown eyes big and innocent. He briefly thought of his own childhood days, when he had roamed wild and free. Oh, what he would give to be back in those times. What he would give to switch places with the small child before him.
But he was a lawyer now. And lawyers never have time to be wild and free. Lawyers have to take care of other people's problems. Lawyers never had time to take care of their own problems. Oh, it was a sad, bleak, never-ending world of laws and courts and bills and bickering people and "justice" that he lived in.
During the time he had been thinking, the girl had not changed her expression. He slowly became unnerved by her eyes, those eyes that seemed to pierce through him and see his deepest secrets and thoughts. He wondered what she was doing, what she was waiting for.
Suddenly, she smiled, a wide, jubilant, joyful smile that reached her large eyes. She was missing a few teeth. He wondered what she could be so happy about so suddenly. There was nothing about him that could have provoked such a reaction in so innocent a child. He was surrounded by a heavy cloud of misery, pain, agony, and all else dark and gloomy. She looked to be the embodiment of happiness, warmth, laughter, and everything bright and joyful.
She lifted her clenched fist and offered him its contents. A small flower, pure white in color, with a bright yellow center. "Mister looks sad," she said. "So Lisa will give Mister this flower. This flower is very happy, so Lisa hopes that Mister will be happy too!"
He paused for a second, surprised. And then, as if seeing a small ray of light in his world of storm clouds, he knelt on one knee and, as he accepted the flower, allowed a large, heartfelt smile to appear on his face as he said, "Thank you."
Wrote this after reading `yuumei's 1000 WORDS .
Not quite sure where to put this :'D
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