Chapter Six- Minutiae
"Let's begin the group project!" Thylane happily said to his groupmates beside Sweven whose listening at her. Some of the members are uncomfortable with the atmosphere while some wanted to know Sweven more but obviously Sweven blocked every question they made when it comes to his personal life.
"Sweven I heard you paint a lot when you we're young? Is it true?" Han Yoreum, a bubbly korean classmate asked. "I'm still young but does it even matter" He replied coldly as Yoreum awkwardly smiled,"Then...Sweven; is Jackson Frost McGregory your friend? the guy on the next department".
"We are on a group meeting now. We don't even have a plan yet. You should continue talking Thylane" Sweven look at Thylane who continued assigning the members on their different task. "Sweven Do you prefer the survey or the analysis?" Thylane holding the papers of a certain topic in engineering.
"Survey is a hassle and analysis is a stress" Sweven answered which basically meant he will do the second choice but Thylane didn't get it and no one really did so he later said the word "Analysis".
Later that morning then Sweven is busy serving sweet desserts to the costumers, a mobile phone call suddenly caught Jackson's attention which was place on a table in the locker room. He had to picked it up and glance at the screen to see who is calling Sweven who forgot his phone to put it in the locker.
Linsey---it is a girl's name! Sweven just got a girl's number on his contacts which means his finally becoming a man, He always just had the number of his relatives, my mom and me but now he evolved, Jackson spouting nonsense in his mind as he called out Sweven's name on the cafe, "You got a call!" getting everybodys attention.
Sweven was clueless why Jackson has a big smile on his face and kept teasing him when he entered the room but he then understand him when he answer Linsey's call and kept signing Jackson to leave so he eventually left in the end.
"I'll text you the address of my studio you should come over there okay?!" Linsey reassured to Sweven whom replied "I'll go there when I finish my work...does it have to be today?". "Of course!" Linsey simply said, hang up the phone. Sweven didn't want to think further that is why he just relax and finish his job.
After long hours of riding a taxi Sweven arrived into his destination. He rang the doorbell but the gate was immediately open by Linsey which startled him, "You came without getting lost!" Linsey with her beatific expression and pulled him over the studio.
As they went into the narrow white room and wide underground where all around are black tiles wall, roof and ground but theres still so many lights.
Do studios have to be underground, Sweven was thinking in his mind while Linsey seems to noticed him and uttered "Don't worry you're not gonna strip...excluding your shirt of course".
"Isn't it the same?" Sweven spouted and quickly strip down his shirt infront of Linsey whom had a slow motion in her mind with her eagle eyes. She came closer to him and reached for his abs, she was completely smitten by his muscles or rather his top body.
"I would like to touch it but that would be sexual harassment. You can go there so that I can clearly see every part of your body" She said seductively; glancing every inch of it and mind that---it is great that he is wearing a skinny pants right now. Sweven obeyed her without any reactions or response to Linsey's talking.
He was clueless on what is on Linsey's braincells and how his body is connected to her painting or is it maybe realism.
Sweven sat down on a table---didn't move one bit of his body and look infront straightly behind Linsey whose staring at him on a chair and not doing anything. There are paintings on the wall behind her, it seems like familiar.
Linsey uses oil painting which is the process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as a binder. She commonly used linseed oil, poppy seed oil, walnut oil, and safflower oil because the choices of oil imparts a range of properties to the oil paint, such as the amount of yellowing or drying time.
"What makes oil painting special?" Sweven asked to Linsey's opinion whom replied "It is unique among fluid painting medium and at the same time, it's satisfactory linear treatment and crisp effects are easily obtained".
It seems like she answered the advantage of it...I wanna know why she has chosen this field but from the looks of it, she won't even tell one bit. "Sweven, I'm not gonna paint you today...is that alright?" She asked to Sweven who couldn't careless so he just nodded in response.
Instead of painting Sweven, Linsey draw a sketch of Sweven in a pad paper immediately but precisely. Linsey stayed quite the whole her hands move while Sweven stayed silence in the corner of the room.
Her eyes are focus in every part; Sweven realized the trace she was leaving on the blank space above her knees. She never lose posture in every second she consume, there was a table but she didn't draw there.
Linsey was basically not an amateur through the years of seeing someone made art, Sweven knew the little details on how they create the magnificent beauty of craft. Variety was a capability that he understand and learn without doing or forcing his body to paint or any form of it.
Moves are rather not important in many ways but for Sweven: "If you include it on the categories---it is worth a pieces". But why does she only used MONOCHROMY; All of her paintings are tilted with black and white while Minimal lines are considered effortless one.
It feels empty inside here too, maybe that's why she was crying on my dreams because of this.
Sweven stop this assumption when Linsey finished the sketch.
"Sweven does your name mean anything?" She asked out of nowhere while handing the contract to Sweven: "My full name is Sweven Sucree which basically mean Dream Sweet". "How cute is that but it doesnt fit you well" She honestly spouted.
"So is this an agreement. I will work for you for one month" Sweven looking at the contract. "Yeah. You can take it home to read it carefully" Linsey replied as she led Sweven the sketch she made, "What do you think?".
"You're extremely fast and it's great" Sweven simply said as he went home and join his family for dinner.
"I heard you got a new job. What is it?" Sabrina, His mother asked because her friend whom is Madame Celine told her earlier about it and she couldn't really believed it.
"The assistance of a painter" Sweven slice the steak into half with his knife and pork gently while everybody was shocked causing them to react. "I didn't expect that but goodluck" Reverie uttered, removing all the words and sentences that will maybe hurt Sweven's feelings.
"Is he or a she?" Claire then asked as he replied "She and she's not famous or rather popular" Sweven answering in advance Claire's next question. "So she is a amateur" Claire said as her daughter Belle joine the adult's conversation: "Does it even matter? Atleast uncle got another job and can treat me more during his paycheck".
"Look at this kid. You sarcastically enherit your uncle's nature huh!" Claire said to her daughter whom quickly change the topic so that her mother won't get mad, "Do you guys know that Auntie Reverie has a new job too after getting fired on her previous company?".
"You guys always keep secrets to me...then how long have you been working there?" Their mother asked in disappointment because her children won't tell her what's happening even if they live in the same house.
"I'am a employee on a company branch and I been working there for one week now" Reverie as she swallowed the food on her mouth.
"You quickly found a job after arguing with your boss....that's great!" Claire complementing her sister while Belle noticed that there dinner is getting awkwardly comfortable so she did what she have to do which is turning on the television using the remote control besider her.
"Are you into showbiz now adays my child? And it's inappropriate to open the tv you know" Claire teasingly winked to approved Belle's intelligence as Reverie took the advantage and change the topic, "There so many rumors on the news today. I thought they only report the truth" afterwards thier mother join the conversation.
They then talk like hosting a show about gossiping in people's business which they and most people find quite entertaining in the showbiz spotlight. "You are girls are supposed to be like this...loud but peaceful" Sweven in his mind smile hearing the noise of his family as he chin up and look at them.
To be continued.