Huérfana

My Old Sketchbook

I entered through the door and as, I had thought that they would be sleeping, they were doing the same on the sofa. I tiptoed to my room and closed the door softly. As soon as I entered my room I went inside my bathroom for a hot shower. I stripped my clothes off and observed the vanishing bruises on my body. I touched the cuts on my wrist that was also vanishing but it was going to leave scars indeed. I hopped into the shower after adjusting and testing the water. I let the hot water run through my body as I tried washing all my stress and dirt away. After drying up I came out and changed into a comfortable sweat pants and a crop top.

I sat on my study table and opened my laptop. I opened the site where I was looking for good colleges away from this place. I didn't have much time before graduating high school, so I had to submit my college applications fast as possible. Suddenly there was a banging on my door. I opened it and my aunt came in. "Today I am not preparing anything for dinner. We drank some beer cans. So you can have whatever you want from the fridge." I nodded. She left and closed the door with a loud bang. After she left I again sat in front of my laptop to fill out some forms according to the respective college norms and shut down my computer. I still had a lot of time in my hands to spend until my bed time. I always used to complete my homework and studying for any upcoming test in the school library with Carla, so that I didn't have to study anything at home under this kind of circumstances.

After sitting idle for a good 15 minutes, I took out my sketch that I used to draw in when my parents were alive. It had some sketches of the people around me. It also had some sketches of my baby pictures. This was a talent that I had picked up from Padre (Dad) and from Mom I had picked up the talent of singing and dancing. I was going through my drawings when suddenly an idea came to my head. I could draw Rebe's sleeping figure that I had admired few days back. A slight blush crept up my cheeks as her face and partially bare body flashed in front of my eyes. I leaned back onto the pile of pillows on my bed as I started sketching her. Time passed by as I continued sketching. By the time I had completed it was already 11. I quickly took a picture and send it to Rebe just to show off some of my talents to her. After that I went to grab a fruit from the refrigerator and a water bottle for my room. I was really very grateful to my Favourite Friend Carla for giving those to me as a gift. As soon as I laid down on the bed after finishing my apple I quickly drifted off to my dream world or rather say nightmare realm, shutting down all sounds and disturbance from the outer world.

Author Note: This is a continuation of the previous chapter. I don't know what happened, but as I was trying to post these paragraphs in the previous chapter it was not saving and thus after publishing I couldn't see these paragraphs. I decided to make another chapter and post these three so that it is visible to the others. BTW the sketch book pic that I used is not mine. I just copied it from Pinterest.