Spray Paint: The City Canvas

Chapter 1

Mainly inspired by Spraypainted written by Call_Me_Aloe

ADAM always thought the homework from his high school was stupidly easy as much so as it was stupidly boring. Guess what he had to do tonight? Read chapters one to three of the civilian security manuel, all eight hundred fifty three pages, plus look up and write down the definition of the nine words he didn't know!

He dropped out on the second page.

It was boring and reading the dumb manuals and their version of the bible were all they did for homework. Everyone in the city could recite the entire history of these books and what's written in them without fail with nothing to help them and their eyes closed at this point! Nobody wants to do that, right? Adam sure didn't.

He reached under his bed and pulled out a thick book. He dusted off the thick cover and smiled to himself. "Leonardo Da Vinci," the title spelt out. One of the un-boring books in Adam's collection, which he kept a secret. He climbed up onto his bed and opened the book, flipping through the pages as he read and looked at the creations' plans.

"Adam! It's ten thirty, I'm going to bed, be sure not to stay up too late reading! I want you in bed before one, okay?" His father called.

"Of course father! Sleep well!" Adam called back.

He waited for his father's footsteps to sound past his bedroom door and disappear down the hall before he quietly shut the book. He slid it gently back under the bed as he got down to the floor. Adam pulled up one of the floorboards and grabbed a set of clothes and a satchel before placing the floorboard back.

He changed into the set of clothes. The outfit consisted of a white t-shirt with yellow sprayed lightly in little patches, an open gray sweater with a dark gray X across the back and golden rims to the hood and the bottom of the sleeves. He had black pants with white and yellow designs traced into the fabric below his knees. Black, fingerless gloves with gray edges covered his hands while dark sunglasses shaded over his brown eyes and a golden elastic pulled back his dark brown curls. He slipped on a pair of red and white sneakers before securing the satchel around his torso.

Unlocking his bedroom window and pushing it open, Adam slipped outside into the night, unnoticed. He pulled his hood up as he looked around to find the streets soulless like most nights.

"Promise to be home before sunrise." Adam whispered to no one in particular as he ran silently into the organized streets he knew so well.

He ran down the path he took to school every morning, arriving at the school in a matter of minutes. Setting down his satchel, Adam pulled down his hood and placed his sunglasses atop his head, stepping back to see the space he had to work with.

"It'll have to do for tonight." He muttered to himself when he got the feeling of being watched. "It's probably nothing." He reassured himself, looking up at the stars.

He took a yellow spray can out of his satchel, shaking the can lightly. He flicked his sunglasses back down and began spraying the stone brick wall. He walked around the school as he sprayed on words and with each phrase his messy signature; ↑Sky↓

"We've never been "free" you can't know the meaning of the word without breaking some rules"

"Open your eyes!"

"Look around you, can't you see what they're trying to do?"

"The government is afraid of change."

"They want total control over us."

"Let's change the way we are! Bend the rules, break the rules for a change!"

By the time Adam was done spray painting his school with messages, it was almost twelve thirty. "Just enough time to get back home," He thought. "Perfect timing, per usual!"

And with that he was packed up and off into the night on his travel back home, leaving no trace of who he really was behind.

The next morning, he collapsed from exhaustion and lack of sleep in the hallway.

Well then.

He obviously didn't take more time for sleep into consideration.