7 Day Writing Prompt Challenge: Prompt #6 It's All About the Characters

It has been a while. This was only supposed to be 7 days, but it seems that this challenge has increased to almost two weeks! Well, hopefully I'll have the last day written and posted soon! In the mean time, enjoy Prompt #6!

Lilly

She lost her hearing at the age of six. Since then she hasn’t enjoyed talking. The last thing she remembers hearing was Elvis Presley’s smooth voice playing in the background of her parent’s SVU as they drove to the hospital. That seemed to be her most vivid memory of hearing things.
Since then she hasn’t enjoyed talking, as I’ve had said a few sentences before. She had the vivd lisp that many deaf persons had and it annoyed her to no end when people gave her the condescending look. The ‘aw, she tries so hard’ kind of look. But it had been twenty years since she started losing her hearing and she’s gotten used to it. It was something you had to get used to.

It wasn’t that she was a cynical person, she preferred the term realist. Meaning that she looked at things realistically, but you most likely don’t need me to tell you that, since many of you probably think of yourselves as a realist. Well, Lilly thinks of herself as a realist as well.
But really, Lilly tries everything in her power to not live in any form of fantasy. She avoids reading too many fiction books, because she believes it would give her high expectations. She avoids watching too many romantic comedies (really, romance films in general), comedy, generally happy films because of the faulty message it sends to its audience. It gives them the message that their lives will be like in a film, when in actually it will never be like a movie. Life is like coffee, too much cream and sugar and you ruin your coffee. Too little cream and sugar the coffee is equally ruined. But just the right amount of cream and sugar makes the cup of coffee perfect. That is until it get too cold, it is then again ruined.
She didn’t like to her hopes up. When one gets their hopes up they are even more crushed when their hope is crushed between the two thick walls of realism.

When she met that guy at work she was less than excited. But he persisted to ask her out so eventually she had to say yes.

Lilly is a realist. She likes realism. But the realistic part of life is that you have to accept that you may or may not fall in love. To think otherwise means one is living in a fantasy world masked by the mask of realism. Lilly did not want to accept the fact that she could be happy and be in love, but eventually she had to accept that. Because it is a fact of life.