Remember

They met for coffee and then drove over (to scrub the floors and paint the walls now that the movers were done). In the early morning hours, the light streaming in through the windows, they saw it - that she had taken a small rounded stylus and gently pressed, "Remember that I love you" on one wall of every room (into the drywall itself). "We can paint over it all we like, but it'll still be here," Melissa said, catching her breath. "Not a bad thing," Brent replied eventually (moving away from the others), walking upstairs to the room that had been his as a boy, tears rolling down his cheeks with every step.