Tiny Little Needles

Chapter 11: Stop guessing and tell me the truth

Quick AN: I might be naming the chapters instead of giving it numbers on some chapters.

We prepared our spray bottles and crawled through a few trees and bushes to the train tracks that had an ancient looking box train parked on it. The wood on it was growing mould near the bottom and the metal was so rusty I began to wonder if this thing was even able to function properly without loosing a wheel. It was so old looking, but also kinda beautiful in a ramshackle way. Too bad I forgot my camera at home today, this would've been a perfect picture.

I reminded myself that next time I come here I bring it. 

So, I quickly chose my spot a box over, it had letters and numbers written all over it and what it was deporting. I shook the spray bottle and kept what I was painting in the back of my mind. I held the bottle up to the area I wanted it to be in and sprayed the neon liquid, that I knew would dry in a few minutes, to the surface. I glanced at everyone else who was getting their work started with outlining, because you couldn't make a masterpiece without outlining! I was able to design the outline of six letters with the neon colour in only two minutes time with no problems or flaws in big boxy letters from the bottom of the trains wall to about 15 centimetres from the top. Then I decided to quickly switch colours with Max for the black one. I filled in the letters very carefully with the black a few times and let it drip slightly down the wall of the train, also adding a lot of contrast and shading to make it look even better. The neon green made the letters really pop out, which was obviously what I was looking for, then traded once again with Denise for a white one, which I took and drew a couple of twinkling stars over the letters. And there you go, I had spelt my name perfectly. In a straight line without a single mistake. I stepped back from my beautiful creation in under fifteen minutes. I turned around from my spot and looked at what everyone else was doing. Rafe was over by Brian and so was Zack, helping him make the outline of a woman's torso, which I assumed was going to be naked because of the outline of the nipple. Ashley was spraying a western style sunset using the different shades of reds, oranges, yellows, pinks, and blacks that we had. Denise and Nicole were working on a eye, which was actually going really well, considering their talent. Alex was doing a heart with an arrow through it, which made me assume that he was doing it for me. Christina, Heather, Ben and Max were all drawing random pictures on their side of the train. I really liked my own painting and wanted to see if I could help Ashley on hers since it was coming along really well. I lightly tapped the black liquid that looked to be dry just to test if it was dry enough so that in case I brushed up against it, it nor my clothes would get ruined. It was waterproof and long lasting anyways, so if it rained nothing would happen to it.

"Hey, Ash?"

"Yeah?" She replied, turning around to meet me.

"Can I help?"

"Yes," she smiled at me, "it'd help me out a lot," she told me and handed me the red can of spray paint.

"Can you spray that lightly over the horizon of the land?"

"Sure." I said, taking a step towards the picture and spraying a thin line right above, of course, a bit on spray got on the part that was supposed to be the ground, but Ashley would go over it after to hide that mistake. That's the thing about spray painting, if you accidentally spray the wrong thing or in the wrong place, you can easily go over it with another coat of paint once it's dry. The reserved spot for the sun was right in the centre of the picture and I knew we'd be using yellow, white, and orange for it. Ashley came back with a tin bucket and somehow managed to rip the handle off with her hands before measuring it against the wall.

"What's that for?" I asked, looking at the bucket and at Ashely in confusion.

"Oh, it's for the sun. I saw it when we were walking in and decided I could use it for something," she replied, tying her long bright red hair in a high ponytail on her head.