There once was a princess who didn't have a smile. Her smile had faded long ago when she was younger, and had forgotten how to bring it back. She was in fear she could never find her smile again. Many princes from many kingdoms had tried to come shower her with many gifts to help her find her smile. But all failed.
One day, as she was walking through her village, she had seen a man in armor guarding an old unknown building. His armor seemed to be much more tarnished and dented up than the other guards she had seem throughout her kingdom. He seemed to be very strong underneath when she looked into his eyes from across the streets, but there seemed something missing. As she walked closer to him, she looked into his eyes more and notice a slight shiver. The poor knight had been cold sitting in the shade for so long. As the wind slightly whistled through the trees, she noticed more of the shivering from underneath his armor.
She carried on her walk, thinking of what she could do for this knight to allow him some warmth. Maybe even just a little warmth would help.
The next week she was going along her daily walk and noticed the knight again in the same shaded spot.
She felt she had to do something. She approached the knight with precaution not knowing if the knight had seen her through his armor. She had been nervous approaching him closer than she had done the day before. As she was introducing herself, he slowly bowed towards her and quickly took off his helmet once as he knew the princess should see his face as she tried talking to him. The princess was shocked to see how cold he seemed. His eyes looked so strong, but knew by the cold chill bumps that he needed to get some warmth soon. She asked the knight where he had served before. They then began to talk more. She learned so much from his stories from seeing the world. Knowing so much about the kingdoms around her, learning her new things she had never known before. The evening started to get colder a little as the sun got closer to setting. She knew she had to go, but felt leaving him in the cold would bother her through the night worse than it did the night before. She mentioned her kingdom could always use some new knights in the castle and that she would talk to her father about getting him a position to protect the gardens where they would be able to see each other daily, and he could keep warm in the sun and not in the shade.
Weeks went by and the princess and the knight spent a lot of time in the garden talking and learning about each other. The princess grew fond of this knight. They would sit out and talk about anything. The air, the warm sun, the dreams they had for themselves. Everything seemed great.
Months passed as the princess had fallen to really care for this knight. She was sitting at home in her room thinking of how amazing she was feeling inside and out. She then noticed she was smiling. She ran into her bathroom and looked into her mirror and couldn't help but smile at her own smile. She had found her smile and the knight was the one who had found it for her.
The next afternoon, she ran up to the knight and just smiled at him. He continued on his conversation they had the day before. Not noticing the smile. She was showing him so much of how she was feeling and how amazing it was to smile at him.
Days turned to weeks and weeks turned to another month where the smile continued to be unnoticed.
She tried all the things she could think of to express how she cared for this Knight. But behind all his armor, she really couldn't see any change on how he felt about her. She was confused. She felt she had given so much to the knight. Her kindness, her garden to keep warm, her company....she had shared so much with this knight and never really realized that behind all that armor, she really didn't know him. She then turned sad again. The smile faded slowly through out the weeks. And since the knight never noticed the smile before, he never really noticed her frown had come too.
She then decided to stay home one week.
She would walk by him in the gardens and wave at him, but other than a "Hello" there was really know change in how the knight acted. It was as though her presence was nothing more than a lose leave blowing in the wind.
So she decided to leave him be. He could keep his armor self and go on his way.
A bit after she had gone her own way. The knight startled her with a visit.
She had been happy to see him, but not happy enough to smile again.
The knight apologized for not noticing her smile. He let her know how beautiful it was but he didn't know that not telling her would hurt her so bad. His armor hid so much.
The princess didnt know what to do.
She had lost her smile again and didnt think it could come back agian.
She felt bad that since the armor shielded his true feelings, that she contiued to talk to him a little bit longer.
She had decided later that she wanted to see the knight without his armor.
She wanted to see what he was hiding.
She felt she deserved to see how he was really feeling.
As soon as she knew what was hiding, she could try and find her smile again.
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