The Silent Confession

Nico Paints Death (Art & Pottery)

"Fire."

"Fire!"

"FIRE!"

"We need the fire extinguisher!" Will yelled as I watched the flames on the stove get bigger. I thought about how if the fire keeps going and reaches the lab rooms how the building might explode and it would be like the scene in Joker. "Nico!" Bianca pulled me away from the fire, "Quit thinking about arson!" I whined, "Why not?" Bianca gave me a look and I sighed, "Fine!" I crossed my arms and a person with shoulder length blonde hair put out the fire. The fire went out and I sighed and when school got out, I was walking with Bianca and ran into the blonde guy from my 8th period class. "How are you feeling? Are you doing better?" The guy asked me and I was confused, what was he talking about.

"I'm sorry, do I know you?" I asked him and realized hit him, "Oh I'm sorry. I'm Magnus. Magnus Chase. Your boyfriend Will came over to my house the other day and asked me to drive you to the hospital." I nodded, "Oh, umm yeah I'm doing better I guess." But I thought "Better if you think seeing a girl in the mirror tell you that you're actually from a different dimension is normal." Then yeah, I'm doing better. "That's great." I nodded and waited for him to walk away before I looked at my sister who shrugged. When we got home, my Mom was in the kitchen, "Kids, would any of you want to try art and pottery? It's later today." Bianca answered with, "Sure." And my Mom looked at me as I grabbed myself a chocolate bar, "I guess." I answered her and walked down to my room and grabbed my Nintendo and played Mario Cart on it. After a while, Bianca came and got me to go to the art and pottery thing and when we got there, we walked inside our school and waited for a few other kids to show up.

When everyone arrived a person with green hair and looked to be around my age, 16 or maybe 17, walked up to the front of the class.

"My name is Alex Fierro and I will be your pottery teacher also by the way I'm not a male I'm gender-fluid/transgender and would like to go by the pronouns she/her unless said otherwise." One of the kids raised their hand and Alex called on them, "Aren't you a little young to be our teacher." Alex nodded her head, "Yes, Yes I'm am." Alex looked around the room, "Anymore questions?" A girl with red hair that looked almost like Rachel raised her hand, "Why are you doing this and where's the art teacher?" Alex answered her, "I'm doing this because of extra credit and the art teacher will be here shortly."

After Alex answered the questions she could answer she told everyone that the left side of the room was for pottery and the right side of the room was for art and we all split into groups and I ended up going to the art side. "I guess I'm starting with art." I mumbled to myself. When Alex was done setting everything up on the pottery side of the room, Rachel walked into the class. "Welcome everyone. I'm your art teacher." Rachel and Bianca saw each other, "Bianca, I didn't know you were going to be here." Bianca shrugged and Rachel went to go set up the art side of the room. It took about a minute and when she was finished, everyone at the table, including me had watercolor paper to paint on. I looked down at my right arm which is in a sling and cast. "Well I guess I'm going to have to try and paint with my left hand..." I said to myself.

I grabbed the paintbrush with my left hand and tried drawing a landscape since that's what Rachel told us to draw. When I started drawing, the landscape that I was drawing started out good but then slowly turned dark and black and looked like death. When I put down the paintbrush, I looked at what I drew and I froze. Why had I painted it... why? I got out of my seat and backed away from the painting. I heard Rachel ask me, "Are you okay?" But I didn't answer her, instead I ran out of the room and down the dark hallway into the restroom which had no lights.

I leaned against the wall and slid down to the floor and put my feet against my chest. "Why would I draw that?" I asked myself, "Why would I draw Will dead...?" I sighed and looked up at the ceiling. "Che diavolo c'è di sbagliato in me?" I stayed for a few minutes in the restroom before walking out of it and back to the classroom. "You okay, Nico?" Rachel asked me and I nodded as I grabbed my painting and ripped it to shreds. "Yeah, I'm great!" I sat back down at the chair and I grabbed another water color paper and actually managed to draw a landscape. Which was mountains.

After the art and pottery thing was over, me and Bianca started walking home when she asked me, "What was that?" I looked at her, "What do you mean?" Bianca sighed and stopped walking and I stopped walking too, "You know... when you ran out of the room." I thought for a lie and the best one I could think of was, "I really needed to use the restroom?" Bianca sighed and shook her head, "I'm your sister, you can tell me anything. You know that, right?" I nodded and looked in front of us, "It was nothing, I swear." And with that, we walked the rest of the way home in silence.