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Chapter Eleven
When Max got home he went to his room and he got out his sketch book and he looked at the drawing he tried to do and he closed his eyes and he said "Maybe this young boy can help me finally achieve what I've tried to do so many times and couldn't."
The alarm went off and Joey got up and splashed some water in his face grabbed his keys locked the house and drove to the High School and picked up Rene. As they were driving home she asked Joey "How did Max take the news that you were buying the paintings for me?"
Joey laughed and he told her what happened and they both were still laughing as he pulled into the driveway. "We need to get dinner started because I have to be at the Gallery in about two hours to get it doors open at seven o'clock."
After dinner they both showered and changed and as they walked out of the house and he locked up Rene said "I hope that Seto and Mokie will be there tonight." Joey smiled and he hope so too. As they arrived and Joey opened the Gallery, Rene got the desk ready in case anyone wanted to buy any of the items, then the caterer came as did the florist and she showed them where they were to be and then she looked at the clock and it was one minute to seven and people were already coming in the door.
It was a grand night as everyone there got to see what their friends and neighbors had brought to be displayed and there was lots of praise and laughter and soon they were going to the desk asking to have one of the items ticketed because they wanted to buy it.
Everyone was talking about the paintings that Seto Kaiba did and soon there were too many who wanted to buy them that Joey had to have their names put in a dish to have a drawing to see who would buy the item suggested.
Seto and Mokie walked in and right behind them were Max and Croquet and as Max walked up to Kaiba he said "Your paintings are some of the best abstracts that I've ever seen." Seto didn't know what to say so he just said "Thanks."
As they all walked into the room where Seto's paintings were they found Joey drawing names out of the dish and soon the paintings were bought and the total of the paintings was over ten thousand dollars. Seto was quite surprised and he then said "I want to donate the money from the paintings to the Children's Hospital to build another wing for research for childhood diseases."
As the night went on, Max finally got to meet Mica and as he praised the young man for his drawings he said to Mica and his mother "I would love to commission you to come to my home and do a mural that I've tried to do for years and just couldn't get it right."
Mica looked at his mother and she smiled down at her son and she then looked at Max and she said "I will have to accompany him, but I think it would be a great chance for him to advance his drawings and in return he just might be able to get your mural done for you."
Then Mica noticed that there were tags on his drawings and it said "NOT FOR SALE" and he looked at Joey and he smiled at Mica and he said "Your drawings have already been sold and they brought a very good profit for you." Mica had tears in his eyes and he smiled at him mom and said "Mom, someone really liked my drawings." She hugged her son and she then said "Honey, I always told you that your drawings were good and now you know that they really are."
Mica then asked Joey "Who bought the drawings, or can't you tell me?"
Joey looked at Max who nodded yes and Joey said "Max here bought your drawings because he believed that you are one of the best artists that this town has and I have to agree." Mica turned red in the face and then he walked over to Max and he gave him a hug and said "Thank you for believing in me."
By the time the evening was half over, most of the drawings were sold and everyone was elated that their things were that good. Seto then walked over to Joey and he whispered "Will you have dinner with me sometime?"
Joey smiled up at him and he said "I'd love to, just call my secretary and let her know the time and place." They both started laughing and as Max, Rene, Mokie and Croquet walked into the room they noticed that Seto and Joey were holding each other and they were kissing and it almost looked like the room was being to steam up. They all quietly walked out of the room and Croquet made sure that no one bothered them as Max and the youngsters walked back to the front door and Rene asked him "If Joey and Seto do become a couple will it bother you?"
Max smiled at her as he touched the side of her face and he said "Honey, I've known since your brother was a young man that he was different and so did your parents and we all agreed that he had the right to find his own path in live and that we'd always be there for him if he should ever lose his way, so no I don't mind in fact I'm happy for both of them."
Mokuba smiled and he said "Thanks, my brother has been terrified what would happen if he should fall in love with another man and now that he has found someone to love and love him well then I say good for them both."
Mica and his mom were getting ready to leave when she asked Max "Would it be wrong if I ask what kind of mural you want my son to draw for you?"
Max smiled at her and he took a piece of paper from his pocket and as he opened it he said "I tried to draw what I really wanted and he showed Mica the piece of paper and he said "These two people are my wife and I, then the people surround us are Greg and Molly Wheeler and on the right side is Joey and on the left is Serenity and the picture on the bottom is my dear friend Croquet."
Mica smiled through his tears and he said "I hope that I can draw the mural the way you want it to be." Max then said "When you and your mom comes over lets say next week-end, we will see what you have in mind to make the mural stand out and be what I really want it to be."
Peggy then held out her hand and she said "Then until next week-end we have to go and thank you again for what you're doing for Mica."
After they left, both Seto and Joey came out to the front of the Gallery and Max, Croquet, Rene and Mokie all looked at them and then they began to giggle and Seto asked "What the hell is going on?"
Max turned to Croquet and they held each other and pretended to be kissing and they were making strange noises and both Mokie and Rene were nearly on their knees from laughing and then Joey said "Funny, funny." Then he and Seto looked at each other and then all of them were laughing and then Croquet gave Joey the box with the money in it and he said "The total is over one hundred thousand dollars."
Joey was overjoyed that this night was such a great success not only for the Gallery but for the people of Domino and he was going to have the Newspaper print what we did here tonight and how much money were raised. I also want to let everyone know that in two days I'll be having classes so that who ever wants to can come they can come learn to either paint or draw.
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Chapter Twelve Coming Up...
