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Authors: Rita Branches
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fading blush rushed back. I couldn’t even lift my eyes from the drawing.
“It’s time to change positions,” she said to the class. “This time, stand up, Keith. Stay facing this direction. If you don’t draw everything, you will leave this class and I’ll have to think about letting you come back.” The last part was meant for me. I could hear some girls giggling.
I felt tears threatening to spill and it took me almost two minutes to lift my gaze to Keith. I could do this. I wouldn’t give anyone the satisfaction of watching me give up on this class.
Keith was still looking at me, but, instead of the smirk I expected, he was frowning—almost pitying me. I didn’t need his pity any more than I needed his rudeness, so I focused on the rest of his body. Professor Collins said to ignore the tattoos, but I hadn’t even lowered my eyes to finally see what they were.
His body looked exactly as I’d expected: every muscle in his stomach ripped through his skin. The tattoo formed a dragon, which wrapped all over his upper body. The head came around his shoulder with its mouth open to sink its teeth into his skin. The body draped down his torso to his lower abdomen. It was expertly done and the scales of the dragon were so realistic that they almost shone under the room’s light. I took that time to look at the rest of his body. I’d never seen a guy naked, but, according to the occasional sighs that broke the silence, he was gifted. His legs were pretty toned, as well, but not as much as his upper body.
I started outlining and kept thinking that, if I didn’t look at his face, I could pretend I was drawing a statue. It was just the color that was off.
After another long hour, the professor came back to my stool, stating that Keith could change positions before she saw my work. I took a second to realize I had drawn his face from memory and that it wasn’t as perfect as my first drawing.
“Now that you took your time appreciating his body, you forgot his face. How predictable you girls are.” She went to her table without further comment, which I thought was, somehow, positive. Other students laughed at me, but this time I didn’t even get flustered. I’d done it and was pleased with myself. I changed the page, not wanting to see his body again, and started the third and last drawing of the day.
I didn’t acknowledge him on my way out and he didn’t try to stop me. I was still mad as hell. He had deceived me again, and this time it had messed me up in a class he had offered to help me with.
I stopped at a vending machine to buy a bottle of water and studied the inside of the classroom through its windowed door. Keith was frowning at Professor Collins and she shook her head at him. Trouble in paradise? I hurried down the hall to my next class before he could come out.
After class, I texted Ryan to know if he could drive me home. Cody would be in one of his study dates and I didn’t want to face Keith so soon after this morning. The sky was threatening rain any second, and I didn’t want to arrive home drenched. Ryan texted back that he would take ten minutes to get me. I decided to walk to the main road so he wouldn’t take as long to get me. I sat on a bench and pulled the coat closer to my body, the temperature was dropping every day.
A dark van slowed down in front of me and the passenger window was lowered.
“Hi.” The man inside the van had a red cap over his head and eyes.
The situation was making me nervous. I looked up and down the road but the cars passing through were few and far between.
“Can you come here? I need some directions,” he asked. The uneasy feeling intensified.
“I’m not from around here.” I said, pulling the backpack closer and deciding if I should run. A car slowed down on the other side of the road and I pretended that I knew the driver by smiling and waving my arm in the air.
The man took off just before the girl drove away, too. My brother pulled up soon
“It’s time to change positions,” she said to the class. “This time, stand up, Keith. Stay facing this direction. If you don’t draw everything, you will leave this class and I’ll have to think about letting you come back.” The last part was meant for me. I could hear some girls giggling.
I felt tears threatening to spill and it took me almost two minutes to lift my gaze to Keith. I could do this. I wouldn’t give anyone the satisfaction of watching me give up on this class.
Keith was still looking at me, but, instead of the smirk I expected, he was frowning—almost pitying me. I didn’t need his pity any more than I needed his rudeness, so I focused on the rest of his body. Professor Collins said to ignore the tattoos, but I hadn’t even lowered my eyes to finally see what they were.
His body looked exactly as I’d expected: every muscle in his stomach ripped through his skin. The tattoo formed a dragon, which wrapped all over his upper body. The head came around his shoulder with its mouth open to sink its teeth into his skin. The body draped down his torso to his lower abdomen. It was expertly done and the scales of the dragon were so realistic that they almost shone under the room’s light. I took that time to look at the rest of his body. I’d never seen a guy naked, but, according to the occasional sighs that broke the silence, he was gifted. His legs were pretty toned, as well, but not as much as his upper body.
I started outlining and kept thinking that, if I didn’t look at his face, I could pretend I was drawing a statue. It was just the color that was off.
After another long hour, the professor came back to my stool, stating that Keith could change positions before she saw my work. I took a second to realize I had drawn his face from memory and that it wasn’t as perfect as my first drawing.
“Now that you took your time appreciating his body, you forgot his face. How predictable you girls are.” She went to her table without further comment, which I thought was, somehow, positive. Other students laughed at me, but this time I didn’t even get flustered. I’d done it and was pleased with myself. I changed the page, not wanting to see his body again, and started the third and last drawing of the day.
I didn’t acknowledge him on my way out and he didn’t try to stop me. I was still mad as hell. He had deceived me again, and this time it had messed me up in a class he had offered to help me with.
I stopped at a vending machine to buy a bottle of water and studied the inside of the classroom through its windowed door. Keith was frowning at Professor Collins and she shook her head at him. Trouble in paradise? I hurried down the hall to my next class before he could come out.
After class, I texted Ryan to know if he could drive me home. Cody would be in one of his study dates and I didn’t want to face Keith so soon after this morning. The sky was threatening rain any second, and I didn’t want to arrive home drenched. Ryan texted back that he would take ten minutes to get me. I decided to walk to the main road so he wouldn’t take as long to get me. I sat on a bench and pulled the coat closer to my body, the temperature was dropping every day.
A dark van slowed down in front of me and the passenger window was lowered.
“Hi.” The man inside the van had a red cap over his head and eyes.
The situation was making me nervous. I looked up and down the road but the cars passing through were few and far between.
“Can you come here? I need some directions,” he asked. The uneasy feeling intensified.
“I’m not from around here.” I said, pulling the backpack closer and deciding if I should run. A car slowed down on the other side of the road and I pretended that I knew the driver by smiling and waving my arm in the air.
The man took off just before the girl drove away, too. My brother pulled up soon
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