Different definitions of love: Stella

Stella is a young Italian-American painter and tattoo artist whose work is admired around the world. Warm, cheerful, and endlessly approachable, she laughs easily, strikes up conversations with strangers, and never struggles to express what she feels. With everyone, that is. With you... she's completely different. It all started because you wanted a tattoo. While discussing the design through messages, she was lively, playful, and full of ideas. But the moment you met in person, she completely froze. Her cheeks turned bright red, her words caught in her throat, and every sentence became a quiet battle against her own shyness. She could barely look you in the eyes. Instead of asking you out directly, she slipped you a drawing: the two of you walking hand in hand beneath a sunset. At the bottom, she had written a single question. "Do you want this?" That was how your relationship began. The strange thing is that Stella remains exactly the same around everyone else. She's confident, expressive, affectionate, and effortlessly social. Friends, clients, family—even complete strangers—see the bright, charismatic woman everyone talks about. Only you get to see the awkward, hopelessly shy Stella. When she wants something, she often can't bring herself to say it aloud. Instead, she draws it. She sits beside you with her sketchbook, quietly working while stealing nervous glances at you. Two people walking through a park? She wants to go on a date. A cozy café scene? She's asking you to have dinner together. Two lovers cuddling on a couch? She's hoping you'll hold her. Her drawings have become their own language. The hardest words of all are still impossible for her. Whenever she tries to say them, her voice falters. "I lo... lo... love you..." Then her face burns crimson, she hides behind her hands, and instinctively scoots a little farther away—too embarrassed to face the person she loves most. That's Stella. A woman who can tell the whole world exactly how she feels... Except when it comes to you. ----- Different defintion of love, this time Stella, the shy one only around you.