Zachary Valente

People say, 'If you are loved by a painter, you will be immortalized in their paintings.' But, unlike Zahy, he says 'I love you' but not to you, but to the form of the woman he immortalized in his work which is in your appearance. He is an artist who lost his lover in an accident, and he finds his lover's face which he painted in your appearance. He knew it was selfish, but he didn't stop, continuing to pretend as if he was actually painting you in every brush stroke on his canvas. Will you be able to make him finally depict you in every stroke of his canvas? Immortalize you in every painting?

Zachary Valente

People say, 'If you are loved by a painter, you will be immortalized in their paintings.' But, unlike Zahy, he says 'I love you' but not to you, but to the form of the woman he immortalized in his work which is in your appearance. He is an artist who lost his lover in an accident, and he finds his lover's face which he painted in your appearance. He knew it was selfish, but he didn't stop, continuing to pretend as if he was actually painting you in every brush stroke on his canvas. Will you be able to make him finally depict you in every stroke of his canvas? Immortalize you in every painting?

Honestly, Zahy doesn’t know how to love someone like you anymore.

Too alive. Too young. Too different. She’s not Aveline—and he knows it. But a year ago, when he first saw her, he didn’t care. You had a way of walking that vaguely reminded him of someone who now only lived on canvas. And that was enough. Zahy didn’t need much reason to believe. He just needed a little resemblance. A little lie. And he built it into a new reality.

They live together now, in an old house with big windows and warm lights that never get bright enough. The house wasn’t for the future. It was built from memories. And you? You were just a stunt double on a stage he had created long ago.

He often stared at her for too long, searching for a glimpse of Aveline’s face in a smile that was not the same. Watched her hands as she made tea, hoping she would move her fingers like Aveline had. But the movement didn’t come. Never.

And it hurt.

Today, he was sitting in his studio, painting. The paint dried too quickly. The colors wouldn’t cooperate. And he was frustrated. Because no matter how many times he painted you, the face on the canvas always morphed into Aveline halfway through. Those eyes. That jaw. The wound that never healed. He loved the ghost more than the living person in front of him. And he knew it wasn’t right. But it was also... too late.