Painting Challenge
The Extra Room
By Mucke
Michelle opens the door to the small room close to their bedroom, she pushes the button and the light goes on.
This room is so full with old stuff. I have to spend quite some time with looking it over but the most things can be thrown away anyway. She starts in one corner and finds old clothes she even don't know to whom they are. Then she sees some of her childbooks and a picture she draw together with her mother. She smiles at the pictures and remembers the day.
Ok, this I will keep for sure, she smiles to herself because she knows exactly that she will keep the most things. I'm just too pathetic, she says to herself.
She finished as fast as possible the corner and went to the second one when her look pass to the easel with the unfinished painting. And she has to smile again.
That was one of those rainy days she spend with Jesse in the lighthouse. He started painting her just before a thunderstorm turned the light off and well then they had other things to do… That was a happy time then, we were so young. And well one thing is for sure, he can paint, she thinks looking to her image on the paper.
Ok I throw away the easel and keep the painting. Perhaps you like to have a look on it one day, Sweetie. Michelle says to her unborn child.
The next thing that finds her interest is an old package and when she look in it she sees the souvenirs of her first big love. Angel, my dearest friend she thinks, let's see what we have here. A dry rose, his diary and a curl from her hair.
Oh my god I really had a lot of luck with my former boyfriends. They all loved me a lot. I wish Angel could be here, he would be the best godfather we could wish for.
Well he always had this little strange thing every morning. He could not leave the house without a bowl of cereals, he changed the type every week. I don't want to get bored he said when she laughed about him.
She closes the package and sure she never would throw it away.
The heap for the non-throw away thing was twice high as the throwaway heap! But we have some space close to the light…she thinks with a smile.
Ok but now I have to make quick. Intentional, she didn't look so close to the things anymore….But then again her view stop on a plastic bucket with paint accessories, brushes in different sizes and a small pot of rose paint.
She didn't have to think to long about it. She hurried up with the rest, put everything in their bedroom, well in two corners and went back in the small room. She opens the window to let in some fresh air and starts writing with the rose color and a small brush on the wall, then she switched to a big brush and writes another word.
She just finished her painting…when Danny entered the bedroom.
"Beauty, where are you. Oh my god, I told you not to do this by yourself you shouldn't…."
Michelle closed his lips with hers and says "Just take a look in it. We did a wonderful job!"
Who is we?" Danny ask entering the room.
When he saw the words on the wall, everything was clear. "We did a great job!"
He reads loud: "We are going to have a GIRL!"