Kiddy Pool Style

"Today we're free drawing, draw whatever you'd like, but keep it on the paper, not the floor." The art teacher sighed sitting back in her chair and watching the high school students get to work.

Cynthia's mind was completely blank, she didn't know what to draw, art wasn't particularly her best subject, she preferred sports and strangely enough English. Art just wasn't her specialty, She looked at the many colored paints scattered all around her desk, thinking about what to draw. Carefully she drew a round circle and drew in a few black lines for the mouth and eyes. Flicking the paint off her fingers she froze looking at the paint splatters all over the canvas. With a mischevious grin, she scooped up a handful of her paint and threw it at the canvas, splattering bright sky blue paint all over it… and Hannah who was sitting in front of her. Hannah let out a yelp and jumped out of her seat to glare at the black haired girl. She couldn't say anything though because of Skylar -her best friend's mom- who was the art teacher and would believe Cynthia easier than Hannah herself. Cynthia waggled her fingers at her, blue paint coating them, revealing she was definitely the culprit.

Hannah glowered at her and hissed, "What was that for?!"

Cynthia leaned forward slightly, blue eyes still mischevious, "That was for betraying my friend, It's just taken me this long to do it without him noticing." She leaned sideways dodging the attempt to cover her with paint. Leon yelped and fell out of his chair as he got a faceful of neon green paint. Cynthia quickly helped him up, the paint on her fingers smearing on his wrist.

"Why am I covered in paint?" Leon asked a little annoyedly looking at the two possible culprits.

"She started it," Hannah explained quickly while Cynthia didn't say anything about it, instead, she tilted her head and smeared the paint on his face into his blonde hair.

"I think green's an ok look on you, Leo." She smirked before pushing him back with a complaint as he dipped his fingers into silver paint and smeared markings with his thumb under each of her eyes.

"There," he commented smugly, "We're even." Cynthia turned to Holly and worriedly poked her shoulder,

"What did he do to my face?" She asked her, blue eyes narrowed.

Holly briefly looked up before she chortled with amusement and went back to her painting, "Looks good on you Cindy." Cynthia went cross-eyed trying to see to the marks,

"What did you do? I can't see it!"

"Just a set of-"

"You three, please stop disrupting the class… Oh, my." Skylar paused midsentence as she took in the sight of the three paint covered teens. Leon's entire face was bright bright green, the front of his hair was also green and standing on end in ridges from where Cynthia had smudged it with her fingers. Hannah's back and sides were covered in sky blue paint, and her hair was dripping with it. Cynthia has blue paint on her fingers, with silver markings the shape of football markings just underneath her eyes. "Alright, sit back down and get back to work. Leonardo you'll need to visit a sink after class. Mrs. Henderson, I'll write you a late pass to your next class for cleaning the paint off. Mrs. Larson, you'll be aiding Hannah and giving her anything she needs."

"I didn't mean to hit her with the paint Mrs. Bramble, I was covering my canvas with splatters and it got on Hannah," Cynthia replied innocently, blue calm and innocent.

"Then where did you get the silver paint on your face from?"

"Hannah tried throwing the green paint at me but she missed and it hit Leon. I smeared the paint on his face as an attempt to clean it but smeared it into his hair…"

"So I put the marks on her face," Leon finished, "I wanted to get even and put silver on her face."

Skylar sighed, "Alright you three, get back to work. Cynthia, I expect you to help get the paint off Leonardo alright?"

"Okay." Cynthia waited till Skylar went back to her art before sticking her tongue out at Hannah, acting immature but perfectly fine with it. She went back to splattering paint on her canvas and Leon returned to continue his attempts to draw a decent basketball. Hannah muttered under her breath but did as Skylar asked and returned to her work.

Skylar sighed watching the whole thing unfold, she didn't know why she didn't transfer Leon and Cynthia out of her class but she never did. Even though they stressed her out to no end. Giggling caught her attention, looking up at her art, she noticed her son Jay and his friend Bree were painting on an easel, Bree was keeping him from drawing off the canvas while drawing thin swirls and squiggly lines with her fingers, Jay was using a paintbrush. More laughter and Skylar settled back in her chair. This is why she didn't transfer her kids out, they were the heart of the class and her form of entertainment for the day.

Holly finished her painting a few minutes before the bell rang and looked over at her friends, noticing the bright colored splatters all over Cynthia's canvas that was actually dripping from the amount of pain on it, "Jeez Cynthia, overboard much?"

Cynthia looked up from where she was trying to help Leon; neither of them was having much luck. She turned and faced her best friend, "Nope, splatters are the best."

"So deep." Holly laughed, faking wiping a tear from her eyes.

Cynthia grinned widely, "As deep as a kiddy pool."

"What's as deep as a kiddy pool?" Bree asked from her table in front of Holly, turning her chair to be looking at them all.

"My amazing piece of art," Cynthia grinned, "My splatters." She turned the easel with a flourish.

Bree burst into laughter and the comment and the canvas, she stifled her laughter and spoke, "Jay, the canvas is covered with dripping paint splattered all over it…" She giggled some more, "It's definitely no deeper than a kiddy pool."

"The swirls? Now that's deeper than a swimming pool." Cynthia smiled, looking at the sunset style swirls and squiggles. Bree grins at her while making sure jay wasn't screwing up the drawing, which was really good for two people one of them blind.

"Mine wins the contest, though," Holly smiled revealing her picture. It was a realistic picture of her, her siblings, Bree and Cynthia, all lounging around in the living room of her house, Cynthia and Leon were arm wrestling with Cynthia winning, paper were spread out on the ground around them; Bree was chatting to Jay with their homework spread out around on the coffee table, and Holly herself was studiously working on her homework.

"Definitely." Bree smiled, Cynthia agreed with her.

"I finished!" Leon shouted grinning from ear to ear, he revealed the drawing of a basketball and soccer ball, looking as good at Cynthia's paint splatters.

"Kiddy pool style, welcome to the club Leo." Cynthia grinned high-fiving him as the bell rang for next class.

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Leon – athleticgoldenboy

Bree – cheerfulcuriosity

Jay – perfectgrumpytone

Holly – emeraldintelligencequeen

Fini – gingerandwhiteteenager

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