Chapter 8 ( A Starving Artist)
The Artistic Punk
It all happened way to fast for Eunhyuk’s eyes to even catch a glimpse of. Donghae was falling backwards, his hands flying to catch onto god-knows what ( Ending up catching the collar of Eunhyuk’s beloved t-shirt) and the paint catapulting into the air. Eunhyuk’s arms lunged forward, catching Donghae, who only managed to let out a small laugh before the only thing they could see was the color orange. Donghae squealed and jumped out of Eunhyuk’s arms as the cold paint covered his body. Eunhyuk froze, as he watched orange droplets fall from the tip of his hair.
Once Donghae had flung the paint off of his face, he busted out into laughter. In front of him, was a practically orange Eunhyuk who’s face could only hold a shocked expression. Slowly, Eunhyuk brought his hand up to his face in horror. His hand was shaking rapidly, as his eyes glared at the orange paint.
“ E-Eunhyuk?” Donghae asked, as he attempted to catch his breath. “ Yoo-hoo~” Donghae sung as he moved closer to the shaking figure.
“ Please. Please tell me, I fainted and this is only a nightmare.” Eunhyuk pleaded. Donghae giggled and shook his head.
“ Sorry, no can do. “ Donghae apologized, patting the boy on his shoulder. “ I have extra clothes again, a set for both of us, if you want to change”
Still shaking, Eunhyuk replies, “ Why two sets?”
“ I was supposedly going to be working with someone else in here and I was expecting they might also need a change of clothes so I brought two. But no one showed up.” Donghae pouted, brushing off some paint onto the ground.
“ DON’T GET THE GROUND MESSY TOO!” Eunhyuk exclaimed jumping back. Donghae laughed and shook his head.
“ Relax Eunhyuk, it’s not going to kill us.”
“ But it looks so-” Eunhyuk shivered.
Donghae rolled his eyes. “ Come on, let’s get changed, I’ll finish it tomorrow.”
Eunhyuk glanced back at the phoenix. “ Why is it a phoenix again.”
“ ‘cause since Phoenix’s can rise up out of it’s ashes, why can’t a picture of one do the same.” Donghae announced dragging Eunhyuk around to the back of the canvas. Eunhyuk’s eyes widened. On the back of the phoenix canvas, was a blur of warm, reds, oranges and blues, with brown ashes on the bottom. “ This was originally the picture you had accidentally helped me ruin.”
“ That’s actually a really good idea.” Eunhyuk announced. Donghae rolled his eyes and nudged the boy’s shoulder.
“ Really? I thought it was horrible, that’s why I did it.” Donghae mocked. Eunhyuk shrugged and walked back around, suddenly forgetting he was a piece of painted art himself.
“ So how long do you think this’ll take?” Eunhyuk asked, admiring the new phoenix.
“ It would take about two months-” Donghae started, but was quickly interrupted by Eunhyuk’s uncharacteristic squeak of astonishment.
“ Do you want any help?! I can help. I don’t know how since my hands are not exactly artsy at all but I can help, In any way-”
Donghae laughed. “ Calm down, Eunhyuk. I was just saying, it would have, if I had to take classes. I have asked my teachers to email me the chapters we’d be going over in all of the classes, so I don’t have to worry about it. I’ll be working on it everyday now until completion.”
Eunhyuk’s face slightly flushed and he looked away, towards the window. “ Well, fine then. What ever.”
“ Yes, What ever. Now let’s get changed. I’m surprised you haven’t exploded in that yet anyways.” Donghae cheered, as he dragged the now petrified boy towards his locker.
A couple minutes later, the two found themselves in the all-to-familiar bathroom. Donghae had graciously let Eunhyuk take the changing stall first. Eunhyuk didn’t even ask twice as he swiped his pair of clothes and locked himself in the stall.
Donghae giggled, and gazed at himself in the mirror. “ You know what?”
“ What?”
“ I think Orange looks pretty good on me.”
“ You’ve got to be kidding me.” Eunhyuk grumbled.
“ No I’m serious! Should I dye my hair-”
“ Never dye your hair, it looks fine the way it is.”
“ What ever. I heard orange is also a color that makes you seem more friendly.”
“ I hate orange.” Eunhyuk said waddling out of the stall. “ I think I got green in my underwear.”
Donghae giggled. “ You hate orange?! That is a symbol that you are a bad person.”
“ What the heck! Donghae! Where’d you come up with this?” Eunhyuk glared. Donghae shrugged.
“ My imagination. Oh Hyuk-” Donghae, wiped some orange off of his shirt and flicked it onto Eunhyuk’s nose. “ Now you look friendly!”
“ WHAT! Hae!” Eunhyuk exclaimed quickly washing it off of his face. Donghae’s eyes widened.
“ Did you just call me Hae?!” Donghae grinned.
“ I dunno, did I?” Eunhyuk mumbled as he wiped down his face.
“ YOU DID! OH! YAY! MY FIRST NICKNAME!” Donghae squealed hugging the boy.
Eunhyuk raised an eyebrow. “ First nickname?”
“ Well I had one but it was from a relationship, so it doesn’t count.” Donghae noted, as he stood up and away from Eunhyuk. The artist’s eyes widened. “ OH GOD HYUK! I’m so sorry!”
Eunhyuk glanced down at his-Donghae’s shirt and stiffened. It was once again an orange mess.
“ Um… you can have my shirt, I’m used to being covered in paint so, I‘ll use yours, which is less paint filled, and you can have mine. Here” Donghae suggested as he gave the over-dramatic boy the clean t-shirt. Eunhyuk sighed and began lifting up his ruined one when Donghae squealed. Quickly, the shirt-lifting was brought to a stop.
“What?” Eunhyuk groaned.
“ Change in the stall.” Donghae mumbled covering his eyes.
“ Then won’t you have to change out here with out a shirt?” Eunhyuk asked. Donghae jumped.
“ Then you- I… we- you know. I’ll change in the stall! You can strip or what ever out here and hand me that shirt when it’s off you and change to this one.” Donghae panicked.
“ W-wait. Strip? Can’t you use a word more…. I don’t know dignified?”
“ If it’s stripping it’s stripping. Now change.” Donghae squealed as he ran into the cubicle, locking the door in the process.
Eunhyuk could only chuckle at the act, even if he was sort of disturbed by the word choice. As ordered though, he changed into the clean shirt, sending the other one over the door to Donghae. After about a couple minutes Donghae came out, somewhat clean, with a childish grin planted on his face.
“ All squeaky clean.” Donghae grinned.
“ I would like to hear your definition of squeaky clean, but some other time, when I don’t have to get to class.”
“ I have a whole philosophy on being clean!” Donghae exclaimed. Eunhyuk shook his head.
“ Really now?!”
“ Nope. I lied.” Donghae announced as he skipped out of the bathroom.
The two separated shortly after. Donghae returning to his art room, while Eunhyuk gracefully walked to his lecture. As Donghae painted, a couple of janitors had peaked in, only to send glares to the artist. It was official: The Janitors were the only ones in the school who despised Donghae. Who could blame them though? Lately all of their messes have been art related, which happened to be Donghae related, and who was suppose to clean it up? The Janitors.
Three lectures had passed, and Eunhyuk had discovered life outside of the cafeteria during the lunch break. He wasn’t one to adventure out, during lunch. He was usually completing his assignments or lazily picking at his lunch. That day though, Eunhyuk wanted to visit on his completely, abnormal, new artist, in the arts wing. He gently knocked on the door, not wanting to risk any more paint mishaps.
“ EUNHYUK! HEY!” Donghae exclaimed as he jumped off his stool, and put down his paint brush. Yellow paint was smeared across his cheeks.
“ You look like abstract art right now.” Eunhyuk commented, taking a step back from the artist. Donghae pouted and crossed his arms.
“ At least I can pull it off.”
“ What ever you say.” Eunhyuk replied.
“ So what do you think?” Donghae asked, pointing at the painting. It wasn’t even close to done in Donghae’s eyes, but in Eunhyuk’s it already looked like perfection.
“ Perfect.” Eunhyuk responded.
“ Aaaw thank you Hyuk. It’s not even close though. Do you see the wings? They’re so… not dynamic. The yellow paint should also brighten up the atmosphere- He’s not dying again you know- and there is hardly any shadowing in the picture either. That’s only the beginning but thanks.” Donghae explained.
Eunhyuk bobbed his head sheepishly. “ I completely understand.”
“ Yeah right.” Donghae laughed. “ I’m almost done with today’s expected result, so, it’s all good.”
“ Yeah, so you going to take a break for lunch?” Eunhyuk asked, hoping to apologize during the artist‘s break. Donghae shook his head rapidly.
“ I’m sorry, but I can’t. I may be near the expected result, but what I mean is that, by the end of the day it’ll be finished. I even had to call off work again. Luckily Leeteuk understands.”
Eunhyuk’s shoulders fell. “ Yeah, of course, wait but you have to eat Donghae.”
The artist smiled sheepishly. “ I know, but I can’t. I need to finish the project , besides I don’t have the money, or the time to buy and make food for lunch right now so it doesn’t matter right? Oh! I better get back to work. I have so much to do.”
Eunhyuk nodded, and watched as the artist stumbled back to his canvas, slipping over some wet paint occasionally. The said boy gave Eunhyuk a guilty grin before going back to work. The whole time though, Eunhyuk could only think about how the skinny body of an artist he admired, was going to become too skinny for him to function. It gave a new meaning to Eunhyuk, about the quote " A starving artist.'
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( FILLER CHAPTER?! SORRY :( )
Hey! So This is technically part one of chapter 8 but I really wanted to update, seeing how I've been really bad at that lately, and if I waited till the chapter was complete, well it would be awhile. So I have decided to give you this as chapter eight.
I'M SO SORRY IT'S SUCH A HORRIBLE CHAPTER!
This chapter is actually going to affect alot of next chapter, just to let you know. (HINT HINT! )
This chapter also lets you see bonding between the two :P Did anyone else notice how Eunhyuk occasionally forgot he was not perfectly clean when he was with Donghae?
What do you think is going to happen next chapter?
What do you think is going to happen next chapter?
What was Hae's old nickname? Who called him that?
Does Hae look good in Orange?
What is Donghae's " Squeaky clean?"
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