The Art Of Life

Prologue

In life, there are times when people think that there is something missing in life, we might not know what the missing thing is so we might feel stressed as we hadn't found it. In one book store, there was one girl who was doing her monthly art stock shopping, her jet black hair was tied to the back and she was wearing a red polo shirt, with a dark skinny jeans and grey sneaked which had silver details. She was accompanied by her friend with a bobbed jet black hair, who is around a year older than her and usually helps her in her monthly art stock shopping.

"Aimee, lets move to the next  bookstore on the first floor as I don't seem to find the missing thing albeit I don't know what it is,"she said as she dragged her friend to the cashier.

Her friend just sighed, as the girl payed for her items at the counter, Alexia is her name and she is currently in her eight grade in school. She does have a large passion for art and so do her friend, Aimee who she usually calls 'art materials shopping guide', as she gives Alexia good reccomendations with reasonable price. 

The two girls then went to the other bookstore but Alexia still hadn't found out about what she wants, its like there is something in her shopping list which disappeared without a trace. They spent an hour there and they ended up buying nothing from that store, they had been in the mall since morning and  the sky is now dark as the sun had setted and it is now replaced by the moon.

"Alexia, I need to leave now as my father would arrive soon and I don't want to be blamed by your parents as its getting late,"Aimee said as she guided Alexia to their favorite cafe in the mall.

Alexia just nodded and followed Eugene as they sat in the cafe, Alexia ordered the caramel ice blended with whipped cream whilst Aimee ordered the chocolate one. Alexia herself, was already bringing several plastic bags as she had bought many art materials, from drawing pen to wooden pencil, watercolours to brushed, crayons to pencils, sketchbooks and many more art materials. Their school would start in a week and it was almost new year too.

They spoke to each other happily until they lost track of time, less did they know that Alexia's mother had arrived to pick her up. As she saw her mother's metallic grey Honda Freed, she immediately bid Aimee goodbye and slid the door open as she placed her shopping bags. As she closed the door, she narrated the day to her mom which didn't give much reaction to her story. Her mother only replied her when they arrived, the reply was simple and her mother really showed that she doesn't like Alexia's consumtive side and the reply drove her to confusion. 

As she arrived home, she was greeted by her two younger brothers in the simple and medium sized house, she only smiled to them and came to her room to unpack her things. In a count of an hour, all of them were unpacked and was placed in their position. In a count of a week she would be back in school and she is indeed excited, her mom continued working with her forex whilst her father was still in his office. She then decided to sleep, as she was indeed tired on that day and her trip explains it all.

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It had been a week since her trip with Aimee and now he's back at school, nothing much happened on New Year but being back in school was a great thing for her. She had a wonderful first day with her bestfriends Aimee and Avery and she just hopes that she could improve and that semester did went well, but it was the last time she didn't have much worries about money as her grade nine is a different story.

Back in the present day, her mother and father seemed to be really stressed as her mother was scammed by a heartless forex broker, which made them struggle to pay her school fee and coaching fees, whe had to stopped her monthly art shopping and now had stopped working with art as it is no longer a subject and she her art supplies had diminished. They didn't struggle much, as her parents did their best to have a good cash flow as they lost most of their money already. At the end, they managed to survive with a simpler lifetstyle, it was easy for her other family members but it was indeed a hard one for her, as she had to leave the thing that she loves the most.

She then shifted to the piano, which she loved and she went to writing to release stress and let her artistic imagination fly. Unfortunately, she had to bear with it even though drawing can't be replaced with writing, she did tried singing many songs, especially the Eurovision ones but it is still irreplacable. Sometimes in life, things can't be replaced and she has to bear with it no matter how hard she struggled but from there, her journey to find her hidden talent had already begun.

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IN THE PRESENT

"Mom, I hadn't paid my coaching fee and it has been a week since the start of the month,"she whined as she closed the door of her car.

"Then pray Alexia and lets hope that Jesus would give us a miracle,"her mother siad as she tried to calm her oldest daughter.

It has been a month and their economical condition is starting to get worst, the only way to keep things the same is by decreasing their expense and Alexia seemed to struggle with that. The family did their best, in order to keep Alexia in the school and has high hopes for her, she doesn't realosed and kept on complaining every single day to her parents. There wasn't a day without complaining and the only thing that could stop her, is only during the test week as she doesn't want to get bad marks in any subjects.