And that's it, she sprang up from her seat and prepared to leave.
"See ya around."
As she walked away, she waved a hand without facing him and that moment was captured vividly by the youth in his memory.
Hidden from the lad's sight, she smiled, a nostalgic smile.
She stopped worrying and resolved to wait calmly and see what the future would bring.
*
Half a year later...
"Hey! Have you heard? 'that' famous young painter suddenly retired."
"What?! Why?"
"I dunno the specifics but there is a rumour that she was incapacitated to paint anymore."
"That's sad."
"Well, it hasn't been proven yet. Let's wait for further news."
"Oh! By the said news, there is actually one. I think her gallery's management had gotten a permission to auction her works."
"Really? But money is a big problem for student's like us."
."You hit the sore spot in a student's life!"
"Hahaha~ oh well might as well feast our eyes in her gallery later, wanna come?"
"Heck yea!!"
"By the way, you know her name?"
"Ah~ not really. Everyone knows her by her signature. It was written in all of her works."
"VON right?"
"Yeah, a cool gender neutral name at that."
*
'Von? Why does it sounds too familiar?'
Listening to the chatters in their shop, Espresso was enthralled in the conversation of the two ladies near the counter. Due to the ambiance, it was not too crowded and most of their patron's demand was tranquility and placidness which attracts a lot of older generation and students who are outside the campus or dormitories, so you can actually hear them despite speaking in low volumes.
What caught him up was the name Von.
He remembered something, engraved in the camera's tag, the word VON.
'Are they pertaining to the same person or not?'
***