Blue and Purple hands (This is How I Remember IT)

Alice held her small hands up to me, to show how covered with paint her hands were. I watched her rub her cheeks with her bright blue hand and one dirty purple hand. I bent down to gently wipe the colorful paint off her face. As I did so, she giggledand grabbed for the red paint and squirted the tube all across my face. I scolded her, and joked that if she wasn't careful elfs would take her away. She went silent. When I returned to her, with new paper towels. my heart clenched. She was gone.