April Roberts

Chapter 20

Theo and I are on my motorcycle going to my house to work on our project. Once we get there we walk inside to Max jumping all over me. Theo laughs. I blush as I tell Max to stay down before he jumps on Theo.

"Mom! Theo is here to work on a project!" I call through the house. Mom peeks her head around the corner.

"Ok. Hello Theo dear. Can I get you anything? I just pulled some cookies out of the oven so I'm letting them cool off." She says with a smile. Theo smiles back.

"Thank you Mrs. Roberts. You're to kind."

"Aww... Thank you dear. You two work hard on your project. I'll bring you some cookies in a little bit." I smile at her. "Thanks mom. We'll be in my room."

"Ok. Go ahead."

I start walking towards the stairs and Theo follows me. Max walks along with us bouncing with every step. When we get to my room I throw my book bag by my desk and sit down on my fluffy chair pulling out our canvas and crayons. "So... I have an idea..." I say looking at our supplies.

"Shoot away." I smile at him.

"What if we lined the crayons up on the edge of the canvas and tape them there. Then we can use my blow dryer to blow the crayons. Then they will start to heat up and it will spread wax over the canvas. We'll let it dry after that." I see Theo thinking about it. I know he wants to win the contest and be able to see our project on the great wall.

"I like this idea. Let's do it."

"Ok. You start putting the crayons in rainbow order and tape them down along the edge here. I'll get my blow dryer. I go to my bathroom and plug in my blow dryer. I wait for it to heat up.

When Theo's done taping the crayons to the edge he brings it into the bathroom. I turn the blow dryer on and start blowing the crayons. They start to heat up and the wax spreads down the canvas.

When we're done with that we leave it out to dry. There's a knock at the door and mom comes in with the cookies she promised us earlier. "Here's the cookies." She says setting a plate of them on my desk.

"Thank you Mrs. Roberts." Theo says taking a cookie for himself.

"You're to kind Theo." Then she leaves us.

I also grab a cookie and start chewing on it. It's so good. Mom's cookies are the best. I can tell by the expression on Theo's face that he thinks so to.

"I think our project is pretty good." I comment looking at it. Theo looks at it to.

"I think it looks good to. I'm glad we were partners April. I never would have made it through this without you." i feel myself go red in the face.

"Theo stop it. You could have done just as well on your own."

"Yeah but you're really good at stuff like this." I hate it when people do this. Make what I do a bigger deal than it is. I just shake my head and eat my cookies in silence.

Later, I take Theo home. When I get back I go to my bedroom and get into shorts and a t-shirt and then crawl into my bed. Max joins me, and then I fall asleep.