Chapter 53
[A/N: I assure you guys that TATM has not been forgotten. But seriously, I have a whole shitload of work to be done in this week. Please pray that I get out of it all alive.]
He stretched his limbs... He had been painting non-stop for almost 5 hours now, and his stomach grumbled.
He had skipped breakfast because of that dreaded dessert, and was now dying for lunch. His painting halfway completed, he rushed downstairs to eat, draping a shawl over himself, and not minding the weird stares he got from the house-helps.
After gobbling down the food non-stop, and guzzling down as much water as he could, he rushed back upstairs. This was why he loved painting. An inspiration, a muse would strike him unaware and he would take a go at it until he was satisfied with the outcome.
The immense fulfilling feeling that arose as one of his works would get completed really paralleled nothing else.
It was after almost 7 more hours that he straightened his back, the sun finally setting somewhere, that he was completed with it.
A delicate flower, which had a myriad of colors on its petals ranging from pretty princess pink to ruby red to ochre yellow, was staring back at him in half bloom. The inside of the flower contained a similarly dainty girl, who was looking half asleep, in the process of waking up. Her wings were curled to the inside, and were a strike contrast to the warm hues of the flower petals. They were blue... The aquamarine blue that made him want to pat his back at thinking about such an unbelievable color combination.
He smiled and stared at it some more, till he heard that alluring voice come from behind in his room.
"Thumbelina?" She asked.