Painting

[Zero]

Zero walked into the art room. He looked around making sure no one was there. He moved setting up an isle and gathered paints. He turned on the radio and sat down.

[Sarah Gilbert]

Sarah walked in with puffy eyes. Her hair was pulled up in a horrible atempt fo a ponytail. She was in sweetpants witch she never wore, and her volleyball camp tee shirt. She walked over to were Zero was and sat down beside him taking her sketch pad out of her backpack. She opened it up then went to gather chorcoles to work with and sat back down. She started outlining the head of a small girl. She was oddly quite, she didn't speak, and barley breathed.

[Zero]

He had been holding it in. The night befor when it had happened, he knew he had to be strong for her. He was slowly stroking the canvas. The background a duel blood red color. He glance at her as she walked around. He felt sick, then he did the one thing he told himself he wouldn't do...he cryed. He cryed for his best friend,because he knew she couldn't cry anymore.

[Sarah Gilbert]

She looked at him. She had never seen him cry except for one other time in her life. She didn't know what to say. She stood up went next to him, hugged him tightly and kissed him. "I love you Ze, you are everything to me, one of my three best friends you are. Thank you." she said. She sat back down and went back to work on her drawing of the smiling little girl.

[Zero]

He just hugged her back slightly and let the tears fall on the canvase not caring." I love you to Sarah...and im sorry...god.." He mumbled then reached up brushing the tears away. He didnt know how she could stand it. Zack one of his best buds. He was going to ask him to be one of his best men as his wedding..and Storm. He started painting again.

[Sarah Gilbert]

"Yeah...thanks." she didn't know what to say to him. "I'm sorry to, I know him and JAde were close to you as well." she said as she began workign on her eyes that looked so much like her fathers.

[Zero]

Dont' you even fucking apologize to me.." He said stopping for a moment looking at her' YOu have nothing...nothing to apologize about."

[Sarah Gilbert]

"I know that, but I just feel bad, and I know you do to, and I don't know what else tos ay." she said as she was finsihign the right eye and starting on the left.

[Zero]

He started painting again. It was a moon..over a lake, with a red sky." Then dont say anything...dont apologize."

[Sarah Gilbert]

"fine I want." she said to him and finshed the eyes working on her nose. After that she wen't to her smile. Also like her fathers. She smiled slightly looking at the face. she filled in eyebrows then went for her hair.

[Zero]

He started to paint a tree to one side of the lake. A small girl was sitting under it. She was reading and their was a big white dog next to her with its head on her lap.

[Sarah Gilbert]

Sarah finished up the hair and went to shading in with her charcoles and getting her hands filthy with them as she smeared it with her fingers.

[Zero]

By now he had paint on his fingers and paints. He wrote "eutopa" on the front of the book in small black letters.

[Sarah Gilbert]

Sarah was finished. SHe held it up. It looked so much like Storm. She wanted to cry, but couldn't do so. she had no more tears in her. She walked over to the shelf and got a can to spray it with so it wouldnt smear.

[Zero]

He moved back from the painting. It looked just like he remembered it...the first time he saw sarah reading under a tree.