Chapter 8

I left Maya and Rob to sort out there problems I heard Rob tell Maya it's over and that he's sorry if he's hurt her feelings. Wednesday was better than Tuesday beside the fact that everyone knows about what went down at the cemetery and behind my back people are calling me a slut but beside that my day was great. Rob came to school I told him he needs to go home and rest and do whatever but he said he needed to come to school to protect me from Maya and her group of friends. I told him I would be fine but he wouldn't take it Thursday went by really fast and all I could think about was what Phoenix was doing right now properly lying around or something I've never meet his parents and he never talks about them, and I've never been to his house it annoys me because he's always over at my place but I've never set foot in his house. That's something we majorly need to talk about when he gets back.

On Friday when I was walking to my locker I thought I seen Phoenix standing behind me but when I went to turn around nobody was there I've only been a week away from him and I'm hallucinating that he's here what's wrong with me and at night time's i swear he's in my bedroom watching me but that'll be impossible seeing as he's all the way in Stallings. At lunch time I went to the library to look at Phoenix history and at least find out a little bit about him because he isn't going to tell me anything when I searched up his name I got nothing not even a suggestion which was really weird. It was annoying me that I couldn't find nothing about him not even the address to where he lived. I walked out of the library confused and late for class why can't I find anything about him it's like he doesn't exist. I had Art last the only subject that I'm good at. It was somewhere I could take my mine off things and relax. I walked into class and everyone just stared at me and stopped what they were doing; I was greeted by Mrs Vetera, if it was any other teacher and I walked in late I would have got a lateness detention but Mrs Vetera was very nice and now and again I would catch her just staring, it's like she awes me and when I talk to her she talks about Phoenix which is very weird. Today in Art Mrs Vetera was telling as what we were going to do today "Hi class today you have to paint anything that comes into your head it could be a bird, a forest a person and even yourself as long as it's not anything inappropriate you can paint it everything is set up all you have to do is paint." I grabbed my favourite paint brush out of the tins and went to my working space I was next to Acacia she is always quiet in class and just does her work but overall a very nice girl she has long light black hair wears no make-up and still is quiet pretty if I may say and she's fairly outgoing but only to people that are nice to her not like Maya and Stephanie they bully her and take her lunch I stood up to them one time when they tipped yogurt on Acacia but they just looked at me and walked away. I was about to say hi when Mrs Vetera said we had to start. When I started to paint I got that feeling again but only this time it was like running through me like a cheater and I forget where I was this feeling was going to my toes and make them tingle. I could feel my self-painting but it's like I wasn't there. I was in my little world till it started to shake and my name was being called then like a click I was back in class and Mrs Vetera had her hands on my shaking me and the whole class is looking at me and then at my painting, when I turned around and had a look at it I realised why everyone was just staring at it, it was beautiful it had this circle in the middle it was like some kind of symbol and around it was all these different colours twirling and connecting into the middle of the circle creating a pattern it looked like a rainbow but more amazing. I couldn't even remember painting it which was the weird part. After art class finished Mrs Vetera asked me to stay in class I was still shocked about my painting, was it my painting? "So what was it you were trying to paint" Mrs Vetera asked "I literally don't know" I replied " you asked me to paint whatever came to mind and I guess that was it" then Mrs Vetera came back with a weird reply " I've heard about this painting and to see it personally is magnificent no one remembers the painting so it hasn't been repainted in over a 600 hundred years and only the gifted could paint it but they are" Then Mrs Vetera stoped I had no idea what she was talking about but the word gifted was in my head like I've heard it before. Mrs Vetera said she had said too much and it was time for me to go home. I was so confused she's never acted like this before and the word gifted couldn't get out of my head.