Silent Secrets

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Once I was done I took out my sketch book. I started drawing a house, a simple house with trees in the background, a tire swing on the side, and...fire? I stared at my drawing and blinked a bit. I looked around to see if anyone was looking at the drawing. 'Would they think I'm...crazy for drawing something like this?' I started overthinking this whole 'situation' in my head. I took another look at the drawing and felt a tear fall down my cheek. I quickly wiped it off and turned the page.

I began to draw the shape of a face. I started with the hair, then the eyes, then the nose, then the lips, then all of the details.

I use color pencils to color since you can decide how light or hard you want to draw, or how soft or sharp you want to draw. Plus, they're easy to erase.

I color the eyes green and the hair a dark brown with bleached ends. The face starts to look familiar. I ignore it and keep coloring. Once I'm done, I look at it to see how it turned out. 'Oh my god.' I facepalmed myself. I look up at Sam, then back at the drawing. I instantly turned the page.

'Just draw something normal, dammit.' I told myself. I was interrupted when the teacher called out for our papers.

"Class, whenever you are headed out of the classroom, make sure to drop your papers off on my desk." She announced as we got up.

I looked at my paper and looked over my answer like it was a quiz. I don't know why I was so worried about turning it in. I was very insecure about myself, even my age.

I got up and turned in my paper. As I was walking into the hall, I felt someone grab my arm, not violently though. I turned to look and wanted to run.