Just one...

Look in the sky! Wow! It's another miracle!

To be truthfully, wonderfully, (ready) perfectly honest with ya'll... I didn't think I can pull this off again.

Legit, I just wanted to have a break. After the schoolwork dying down little by little.

Though, I feel like they're just building up silently...

I just wanted to be lazy and do nothing...

But like, I already missed the previous one, I didn't want to miss this one too. Even though it seemed impossible to do in just one day.

But, hey! We never know unless we try, right?

So here it is, in all its glory!

It somehow got sidetracked, segwayed or whatever from the actual theme...

So I'm so sorry if that were the case! My head is still so crowded! Hopefully you guys enjoyed it, nonetheless~

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Trigger warning:

Mention of blood

Word count:

911

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Just one...

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The stars above a brightly lit sky.

The faded moon of an early morning.

And the glimmering dust of a normal day.

All these slight details. It makes the world all the more beautiful.

Every speck, every shade, every glow. I love all of it.

After all. It's very important in drawing...

Yes. Drawing. My hobby, my ion, my life.

Drawing, creativity, imagination. It's the only way I can truly be myself.

All my friends call me boring, a nerd of sorts. Even my family thinks I should be more 'normal.'

After all, my brain goes autopilot each day. My aunt calls it... "OCD."

But that doesn't matter. They don't matter. It never had. All that does... is my drawings. Just one piece every day.

Just one...

"Hey pal! I need help with the math homework! Since you're just drawing, help a friend out."

Just one...

"Sebastian! Can you help us out with the decorations? We can't reach that high up."

Just one...

"Sebby, dear! Can you help me with your sibling? I need to buy something real quick, just look after her for me, okay?

Why...

Why...

Why...

Why... can't... anyone... let... me... work... at...

"PEACE!"

I slammed my pencil on the table. The lead broke.

I heard my sister cry in the living room. She must've been startled.

But that doesn't matter... All that does... is my drawing.

I stood up to sharpen my pencil. I also took my phone and earphones. Setting the volume to max.

I need to finish it. I have to finish it.

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I just need to add a few details to the eyes... And I should be done.

^~v~>^<

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^>^<~~^^

Someone forcefully took off my right earphone.

"What--"

"Sebastian Dahlia!"

It was my mother.

"I told you to look after your sister! But did you do? Put on your wretched earphones and draw!"

I ignored her, "Are you done? I'm busy right now, if you hadn't noticed."

She looked even more furious than she was. "That's enough, young man!"

She snatched my drawing while I was just about to add the final touch. My eyes widened in shock. Quickly turning to her, I shouted.

"Don't you dare!"

She glared at me, "My house. My rules." And with that, she ripped my drawing in half.

I stood there, motionless. Empty.

"If you don't stop this pointless habit of yours. We'll be forced to punish you until you do. Understood?"

I heard her heels clack away.

I felt something in me rip apart just the same. Something important in me broke, shattered, burned...

Something... I don't know what thing... But whatever it was, only my mother is to blame.

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I locked my room. Stayed up all night drawing.

One piece, two piece, three piece... No matter how many I draw... I just wasn't satisfied, there was something missing. Something... missing...

I heard loud knocking from my door again.

That doesn't matter...

There's something missing. And I need to find it. I... need... to... find it...

No matter what it takes...

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Four, five, six, seven...

Ten, eleven, fourteen, twenty...

No matter how many...

"Why can't I still find it?! What is it? What is missing?"

I violently grabbed at my hair. Then I heard my little sister cry again.

Crying... she was crying that day too... And I screamed before she cried too... I was also drawing...

The missing piece...

I...

Only needed to add the finishing details...

But where...? Finishing details... where...?

I stood up, quickly walked to my sister, who is in her crib, in my parent's room.

Luckily, they aren't there.

I walked over to her. She suddenly stopped crying when she saw me. In fact... she smiled, laughed.

She's so delighted to see me.

And I... am equally delighted too.

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I smirked.

Finally... finally I'm done.

So that was the missing piece... So that was all that I had to do...

I wiped the blood off my hands and forehead, chuckling. It was easy, really. All I needed was a knife. And a canvas.

"That was just all that I needed!" I laughed like a man.

Then my parents came bursting through my door, it seems that I forgot to lock it.

At first, they looked mad, but quickly, that look shifted to worry. All the color drained from their faces.

"Sebastian... what did you just do..." My father uttered.

I clicked my tongue, "Blame mother for it. She's all to blame to whatever happened!" I huffed.

My father tried to speak but was stuttering. So my mother took over.

"Young man..." She is clearly annoyed, "What is wrong with you?!" She turned to her butler, "GET THE CAR READY!"

"If... IF YOU'RE JUST GOING TO BE RIPPING MY DRAWINGS APART, I MIGHT AS WELL MAKE A SCULPTURE!"

My father facepalmed.

Mother quickly turned to my sleeping sister in my bed, wearing my ear muffs.

"Yeah but you didn't have to hurt yourself in the process!" My father whisper-shouted.

"I don't care! I found the missing piece, I'm taking the missing piece!" I whisper shouted too.

"Miss, the car is ready now." Teth bowed.

"There's no stopping you dear boy now, is there?" Aunt poked her head in.

"Shut up sister." "Hi, Aunt." My mother and I chorus.

Ah...

Now that I think about it...

And now that everything finally sink in..

I'm... feeling... really... dizzy...

I felt a soft thud and heard frantic voices around me.

Well whatever...

Just five more minutes then...

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