Red, orange, yellow, blue, green and black – those were the colors she picked.

A pencil on the left, a drawing paper in the middle, and pastels on the right.

It is ready.

“Am I?” a question popped out in her head.

She stared outside the window where her mind wandered. Then she picked up the blue pastel and started shading. She stopped, picked up the yellow pastel then shaded again. She gazed at the paper. She looks sad. No – she is discontented. But then she continued picking up the pastels alternately.

She took the pencil and let the lead slide around the paper. After a couple of minutes, she stopped and pondered.

Then she picked up the pencil again and wrote, “Day One..”