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Blue.

Little Boy Blue. Tear Drop. Blue Angel.

I remembered seeing them on those paint cards you got from the hardware store. Each shade had a unique name. I remembered reading those to my mom when she took me shopping once. I was seven.

Sometimes she called me her Little Boy Blue. Maybe that was why I liked the name so much. I was always her Blue, her little boy.

I hadn't been called that in a long time.

I used to feel blue. But the dark kind of blue, the hopeless kind of blue. The kind that maybe would have been called "Tear Drop" because it was so sad.

I wasn't a little boy anymore and I wasn't her Blue. I wasn't anyone's Blue.

I wasn't blue at all.

I was colorless.

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