Finally, it's Friday. I woke up in excitement. I heard a bit of Blade's singing, he's really good. Blade's popular, so he would have a lot of fans. Well... I would also count as a fan. "Let's go!" Said Blade, opening the door. A gust of wind blew in from the outside. "Ok." I smiled and took a step outside. "You finally come out huh?" Said Emma, standing next to the door. Was she there the whole time? "Blade's presenting, right? I'll walk with you guys." Said Emma, grabbing our hands. I shook her hand off while looking at Blade. "Hm? Is there something on my face?" Asked Blade. oops, I must have stared for too long. "N-no!" I said, flustered. "Did you memorize your lines?" I asked, almost tripping on a rock. "Yeah, I'm still practicing though, do you want to hear me sing? I'll just tell the teachers that you just want to see the props."
"I can? Then I will!" I smiled. At school, Blade pulled me aside and told the teacher I wanted to see the props, then we went to the music room. "And this is for my friend!" Said Blade, holding the mic, but the mic is not turned on. That would be too loud. Blade's singing was beautiful. I started to tear up. "Huh? Why are you crying? What's wrong?" Asked Blade when he was done. "Nothing!" I sniffled, wiping tears away from my eyes. "Uh, here." Said Blade, handing me a tissue. "Y-you sounded so good!" I said. Throwing away the used tissue. "I hope to see you upstage! I bet you would sound even better!" I shouted. "Are you boys done?" Shouted a teacher from behind the door. Oops. We might have been too loud. The whole morning I was itching to see him sing again. We all took our seats in the gym, and the racers were getting ready. "Next up, Blade!" Clapping came and went, I see Blade walking to the stage, picking up the mic. "This is for my friend!" Wait... He actually said that? Blade looked over my way, then made eye contact. He started singing. I was in the front seats, I got to see him close up again. I closed my eyes to enjoy the words and the tune of his voice. As the song ended, I realized the tune and the words changed. This was a different song than the one he sang to me. I opened my eyes and looked up. Blade was staring down at me. The song turned into a soft heartwarming tune. I realized the words he sang. It was words from the book I read, about the dragon. When the song was coming to an end, I started to get up. "Hey, I thought I would find you here." Said Blade, sitting beside me in the washroom "Why are you here?" Asked Blade, passing me a drink from the vending machine. "Thanks. I was just thinking about the first song, and how you changed the lyrics." I said, opening my soda. "Was the second version that bad? I had 2 versions, so I sang you one, and sang the other on stage." Said Blade, taking a sip of his drink. "I thought Both versions were great," I said."I've been writing songs since last year." Sighed Blade
"Wow. That's a lot of genres then." I said, assuming that he switched genres each song. "Yep, it's just that these days, I was having trouble thinking of ideas, but you came then I had more and more topics." Sighed Blade, Taking another sip. "Do you want to be a singer?" "No. That was my old dream." He said, he sounded more, relaxed. "What do you want to be?" He asked, throwing away his empty drink. I walked out of the washroom. "An artist maybe? Or an animator." I said. "Can I see you draw?" Asked Blade. "Later, I don't have my notebook with me," I said, the day was over, so I went to go get my things. "Are you not going to get your things?" I asked, "Oh, I didn't bring anything today since I knew I would be practicing the whole day." Said Blade, walking to my class with me. "Do you want to see my drawings now?" I asked, unlocking the door. "Sure!" Said Blade, crashing down on the sofa.
"Here." I threw my notebook at him, I painted over the cover with the paint in art class, so the cover would say 'Sketches' and the bottom would say 'Noah.' "I'll get you a sketchbook later ok?" Asked Blade, examining the cover. "Thanks, that would be great," I said, sitting down beside him.
"Wow! These look like they came straight came out of a manga! This is awesome!" Said Blade flipping page by page. "W-w-wait! not that page!" I tried to grab my notebook but he dogged out of the way. Fast reflexes. "Huh? This is me." Said Blade, Looking at the last few pages. "I wanted to start to draw my friends, but I can't just take out my sketchbook and sketch in front of them, it would be weird," I said, grabbing my sketchbook back and putting it away. "Well, let's go," Said Blade, pointing at the door. "Where?" "Were going to get you a new sketchbook! You can't just keep on using the notebook." Said Blade handing me my jacket. We walked into the aisle that had the art supplies. "Get what you need." Said Blade, scrolling through his phone. I was amazed by how many art supplies there were, so many different colours, so many different supplies. In the end, I grabbed about 10 different sketchbooks, and different colouring pencils and shading pencils. "Woah! What's with all this paint?" Asked Blade, looking at the mountain of different paint bottles I choose. "You even threw a painting stand in the cart. How are we supposed to carry all of these out?" "Don't worry, I'll carry all of these," I said, at the cash register. We've been here at least an hour. "Oh, no, I'm helping you carry all of these, Look at your fragile arms, I bet you can't even lift a quarter of this." "Ok then, just watch me." That was a mistake. "Why did you pick so many items again?" Asked Blade, slopping down on the couch, exhausted from carrying all those bags into my room. "Thanks, I just thought it was interesting," I said, looking at my new paintbrushes. "Welp, I'll order some pizza, you can just go on painting." "Ok, thanks again." I closed the door to my room. I took out the blank canvas Blade bought for me and took off the plastic cover. I'll paint Blade a present. A few hours later, I was waiting for my painting to dry. It's getting late, I should sleep. The pizza was good, I messed up here and there but I think the final result was awesome, I just have to wait for Blade's reaction.