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    “I want you to draw me like one of your french girls,” Henry tells Alex.

    The first time he saw Alex, all Henry could think was “Who is this peasant boy and why is he talking to me?”  Forgive him.  He was in the middle of having an existential crisis while hanging over the back of a cruise liner, he had managed to forget his manners, but the look Alex gives Henry now is the first thing he noticed.

    It might be the first thing he fell in love with.

    Henry continues. “Wearing the diamond.”

    He’s referring to the larger than is necessary heart of the ocean Alex currently holds.  It’s cerulean blue, surrounded by smaller white diamonds, and reflects Alex’s face a thousand times over while he holds it carefully in his well-worked hands.  

    “Okay,” Alex agrees, smile on his lips.

    “Wearing only the diamond,” Henry clarifies.

    Alex’s smile falters, and Henry can’t quite read why, but knows it has nothing to do with contempt.  

    “Okay.”

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