Re: Well after 6, opening day
She wasn't going to let him give it to her for free, not when he'd already offered to do a painting for that annoying stalker for mostly-free, but his offer to explain to her why he had painted it sidetracked her. Yes, she wanted to know.
"If you want to tell me," she said, looking back at the painting and touching the corner of the thick paint. Something about it (and about him) felt amazingly meaningful to her, and she didn't understand why.