Master of the Arts

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"Yes, art time! My favorite!" Aaron yelled when the bell rang.

"More like mess time, since you can't keep paint in a can to save your life." joked Larry.

"Hey, at least he doesn't get it on his clothes." Mya chimed in.

"Cause he gets it in his hair instead," Asor replied.

They made it to Ms. Bootcamp's art room. It was surprisingly neat with cans of paint in rainbow order, paintbrushes cleaned and stored away, the tables were shiny with not one drop of paint on them.

"Today you can paint whatever you want because it's Free Art Friday!" announced Ms. Bootcamp, the art teacher.

"Really? Even my new girlfriend, Spoonah the Spoon?" asked Aaron with a sparkle in his eyes. It was only right for him to paint his beloved spoon since it was their one day anniversary.

"Sure! Make sure to say hi to Spoonah for me," Ms. Bootcamp joked.

The crew sprinted to the paint cans, picking out colors like they were in a candy store.

"Ooouu! I want this color and this color and this color.." Mya spoke to herself.

"Calm down, what are you even going to paint with that many colors?" Asor asked.

"I'm painting the walls, it's so plain and boring. It needs a bit of color." Mya said nonchalantly.

"What?!" Larry shouted as he overheard their conversation.

"I want to paint the walls too," said Aaron. "Spoonah deserves a mural."

"Shouldn't we ask Ms. Bootcamp?" asked Larry.

They all burst out laughing. "Nah."

Majority rules, so they got busy behind Ms. Bootcamp's back. A couple of streaks of pink here and orange there, the art room walls were being splattered with paint. The other students what they were up to. Some joined in and others threatened to tell (and they, of course, had to be eliminated).

Mya was determined to paint these walls from floor to ceiling and she wasn't gonna let anyone ruin that. She knocked a couple of kids out with heavy paint cans when they weren't looking. Aaron was already halfway done with his mural of Spoonah.

Ms. Bootcamp came back into the room from an oddly long bathroom break and her jaw dropped to the floor.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" she screamed.

"Bringing your walls to life," Aaron said without pausing his painting, finishing up the last details of his mural.

Ms. Bootcamp speed-walked up to them and started ripping the brushes out of each student's hand. When she got to Mya, she held onto her paintbrush for dear life.

"No!" Mya screamed. "I won't let you stop me from achieving my dreams!"

"Let go, you little monster!" yelled Ms. Bootcamp.

"Khaotic Kids! Attack!" Asor commanded.

The crew threw their paintbrushes, palettes, and cans at Ms. Bootcamp. She was knocked off her feet, letting go of Mya's paintbrush. Other students joined in and it became a full-on rebellion. The poor woman was covered in paint and was stuck under a pile of art supplies.

Meanwhile, the principal was escorting the superintendent and a director of an art museum to the art room because they want to give a lecture to the students about potentially pursuing fine arts as a career.

Principal Peele opened the door without looking into the art room. "Here is our art room, the neatest one you'll ever see."

"This is what you call neat?" asked the superintendent.

"What are you talking-" Principal Peele turned around and was petrified.

"Oh hi! Welcome to our new and improved art room!" said Aaron.

"What is this monstrosity?!" yelled Principal Peele.

"White walls were boring, so we spiced up the room," said Mya.

"This is horri-" The superintendent was interrupted.

"-Amazing!" the art director shouted. "Such detail, beautiful brush strokes!"

It shocked the superintendent and the principal.

"You call this art?" asked Principal Peele in disbelief. "They vandalized school property!"

"It's a masterpiece!" the art director replied. "I need to get this wall to the museum ASAP!" He snapped his fingers and the wall was ripped away from the building with a forklift.

"My mural!" Aaron screamed out.

"Don't worry, you can visit it at the museum." The art director said. "Now I must be on my way, but first what are your names?"

They all gave him their names and he wrote them down. All twenty of the students.

"You guys might win the Art of the Year award!" the art director explained excitedly. "It's not until six months from now, so see you then!"

The art director hopped onto the forklift with the forklift driver. Everyone watched as they carried their masterpiece away into the sunset.

"Arggg!" Ms. Bootcamp struggled from underneath the pile of supplies. Everyone forgot she was there.

"What in tarnation?!" yelled Principal Peele. "Where have you been?!"

"These brats attacked me!" Ms. Bootcamp screamed. "I did not encourage this mess!"

"How could you let this happen?! WE ARE NOW MISSING A WHOLE WALL!" Principal Peele was infuriated and embarrassed seeing that the superintendent was witnessing all of this.

"I expected more from both of you." the superintendent spoke up. "You're fired."

"WHAT?!" They both shouted in unison.

"The school district now has to spend money to replace a wall and fix the pipes and wiring. Those things cost thousands of dollars!"

"But sir, if I knew this would happen, I would have stopped it." Principal Peele said.

"Well, you obviously don't know what's going on in your own school and this sorry excuse for a teacher can't control these students, so you are both out of here." The superintendent then turned to the students who were watching the scene while eating popcorn.

"Don't think I forgot about your punishment." the superintendent said, looking at the Khaotic kids fiercely. "I'm advising your parents to send you all to a boarding school for the rest of the school year."

"NOO!!!"

to be continued. . .

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