Midvale High

Chapter 7

Winn ran to the art rooms, he was going to try and convince her to come with them, "Kara" he called out as he ran into the art room.

Kara already had her earphones in and was working on her art project which was a painting on a large canvas.

Winn put his hand on her shoulder to grab her attention, "Yo Kara" he tried again, Kara pulled out her earphones and whipper her head around to see Winn standing there.

"Hey Winn, did you forget something?" Kara asked with curiosity, she put the paint brush down and swinged on her chair to face her body at Winn.

Winn looked at the large canvas and noticed that it was an outline of Lena's face, "Is that Lena?" he asked with a smug smile.

Kara blushed with embarrassment and nodded her head, the canvas was a portrait of Lena. Her face was detailed and perplexed, the painting of Lena showed people a different side of her. It showed people exactly who Lena was.

The background was a mixture of dark colours, swirling together in the most hypnotic way, but as the colour was swirling and mixing together, it never touched Lena's face.

"Holy crap that's... beautiful" Winn commented, he was completely awe struck. Kara's art never ceased to amaze him. All of her drawings held so much emotions. Winn knew that Kara wasn't the best at expressing her feelings through her words, but he was able to understand what she was feeling through her art.

Kara couldn't stop her face from blushing, she fiddled with glasses and let out a nervous chuckle, "Don't tell Lena, I want it to be a surprise"

"So, this is what you have been doing since Lionel fell into a coma" Winn muttered

Kara nodded her head, she stood up and walked to her bag, grabbing the 20 paged report out and showing it to Winn. When Winn and Lena went to the hospital after school, she had been doing her Major Project for art.

Winn took the report and flicked through it, "You've been researching heart attacks and comas... why?"

"I wanted to help" Kara muttered sadly

"Is this why you haven't been coming to the hospital?" Kara nodded her head sadly, Winn finally understood why Kara have been skipping out on the visits.

"Kara" he said softly, he put the report down and held Kara's hand in his, "This isn't something that you can fix, nobody can fix this"

Kara knew this already, a small part of her wanted to remain naïve and oblivious to this fact, but she couldn't, not anymore, "I know" she whispered. Alex had tried to explain to her, numerous times, that this was a part of human life.

"Come today" Winn asked, "We can go to the hospital and then come back in time for Alex's big game"

Kara didn't know why she felt nervous about going, "But... how do I help?"

"Being there for her, is enough" Winn had seen the way Kara comforted Lena, it was different. It was as if Lena could drop all of her walls.

Kara shook her head, being there sometimes wasn't enough. Her parents, her siblings, were always there for her, yet her planet still exploded, her people still died.

"Is she mad at me?" She asked, Winn could tell by the soft tone in her voice, that she was afraid of the answer.

"Why don't you ask her yourself?" Winn asked, he pulled on Kara's hand and guided her to the room, "Come with us". Kara was hesitant, but she allowed Winn to drag her outside.

"Where is she?" Kara asked, she was standing outside, Lena was no-where in sight.

Winn furrowed his eyebrows in confusion, "She was right here", Kara started to feel anxious. Something was wrong, she could feel it.