Monkey see, Monkey do

Chapter Five

"Now you stay here okay, I'll come to see you during break, and I can bring you into my art classroom I think. You understand?"

"Yes Sir!" I was super excited about staying. I sat at the cafeteria table, Dan Dan had given me some drawing paper, and some crayons he never uses. I began to draw. I drew a person, the person was supposed to be Dan Dan, but it looked to much like a girl, so I just made longer hair and called it me. Then I drew six tears falling off my face, then I reached for a crayon, but they all rolled off the table and onto the floor.

"Well Well, look who's back." It was Ms. Guade, the cafeteria lady!

"Hello. Yeah, Dan Dan brought me." She sat down at my table, but accidently stepped onto a red crayon along the way.

"Whoops, was that yours?"

"Yeah." I sighed, my only red crayon.

"Sorry." Then even worse, she picked it up an threw it into the trash! "Why does your drawing look so sad?"

"Oh, it's nothing..." She gave me a pittied look that I surley didn't deserve. She picked it up then held it into the light.

"Pretty good. Better than me."

"Thanks. You want to draw with me."

"Well I should be washing dishes right now, but dishes can wait." Then I handed her a sheet of paper and a pen. "What should I draw?"

"I know! We can draw each other! I'll draw you first." Then I began to sketch a picture of Ms. Guade, I drew the wrinkles, and every other small detail. After ten minutes I held it up and showed her my drawing.

"Wow, very impressive."

"Thank you, you can keep it, your turn to draw me!" I handed her my drawing, then she closed her eyes for a few seconds and breathed in deep. The finally she returned to normal and began to draw me. After waiting for almost an hour she declared that she was done. She held up her master piece. "Oh my gosh! That's so good!"

"Oh, yours is too."

"Yours is the best!"

"Keep it." She handed me the almost exact portrait of me. Then the bell went off. "Okay, well I need to go wash dishes now, I'll swing by later. Bye."

"Bye!" I jumped up and waved, then gathered my crayons and smiled at the beautiful picture.

"How was it?" Dan Dan walked in. I held up the picture to him. "You made that?"

"No, Ms. Guade did."

"Who's that?"

"You know the lunch lady, she's really nice. Unlike Mother."

"You need to stop saying that. Mom just got angry."

"Dan Dan they're brainwashing you. You know just as well as I do that the incident wasn't your fault. They obviously hurt you too. Listen, If you keep giving into to them like that, then they're going to keep pushing you over." Dan Dan murmured to himself, but it was too quiet, so I didn't hear him. "What did you say?"

"Nothing, just- follow me." I marched behind him. I as we walked we passed by several master piece artwork students had made hung on the walls. One was of a cat bathing another cat, they were both pure white too. I laughed at the face one of them was making. "Jade made that." He gestured toward the cats.

"Wow, is she good at everything?"

"Pretty much-" Dan Dan was cut off just as Jade herself came around the corner.

"Oh it's your sister!" Jade ran toward me, then swung me up into the air. "Oh, do you remember me?"

"How could I forget." I said sarcastically. I didn't like people like her.