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Coco looked around her dorm room, at the plushies on her bed and the picture of Calypso by her bedside. Coco was heading off to the art room to work on a new art piece she needed to finish so she could graduate junior year. She had a couple different projects she needed to do to fulfill the requirements. It made Coco so nervous, thinking if she made a mistake maybe the teachers would refuse to let her into Grendel and her whole life would be ruined. It made Coco want to cry thinking about it, she had always been a shy little squishy.

Coco arrived in the art room, she looked around nervously. She was still very shy and soft spoken with new people. She had finally gained a little confidence in her interactions with Calypso but even then Calie was the strong force in their relationship while Coco was a soft gentle cuddlier. Coco picked up her canvas and put it on the easel, then she gathered the paint she needed to work with, which was pretty much every color. She looked at the blank canvas biting her lip thinking what was she going to do. Coco hummed softly while she was thinking. Then she started to sketch out the scene she wanted to paint with trees, small Bellow flowers. A female that looked a lot like her sweetie Calie. Coco smiled softly as the piece she wanted to create started to come to life on the canvas.

Coco preferred to work in softer gentle realism in her art, looking at the piece she was working on you could tell what she was making, even though it was not what you would see looking at a photograph. Coco enjoyed pouring out her soft heart onto the canvas to create something that was all her. Coco had wanted to be an artist since she was a little freshling, the dream in her heart had not changed as she grew older. She had never really thought about asking Calie to look over her work, really she would rather no one tell her what they thought. Last time someone had commented Coco had gotten so upset, but to be a real artist Coco had to learn to listen and learn from others.

Coco hadn't noticed Flax as she continued to work on her park with her sweetheart hidden in the picture. Coco jumped making a streak of pastel green across an area that she meant to make a park bench. Her eyes went wide as she turned and looked at Flax "Oh I'm so sorry I didn't notice you there." Coco said softly looking at her feet, not making eye contacts with the nixie who had the sketchbook in his lap. She brushed her hand against her cheek covering cheeks with pastel paint once again, which was a normal thing for Coco anyway. She normally wore paint more than she wore dresses. "Umm.. umm yes, uh I'm Coco.." She said softly Coco blushed feeling silly, then she looked back at her canvas trying to figure out how to fix her mistake.. Coco asked softly "What are you working on??"

Coco wasn't very good at making friends, she wasn't very good at meeting others if Calie hadn't made the first move Coco wasn't sure how long it would have taken for her to find someone to go out with. Even thought Flax said it was ok, Coco still worried she had hurt their feelings by not noticing them sooner. She blamed herself for the mistake she made. Coco was always more likely to blame herself than she was to blame someone else. She was sure she had seen Flax in class but she was always too shy to start a conversation with anyone. "Umm no it was my fault.." She said softly "I should have looked to see if anyone else was here." She said shuffling her feet.

Coco looked at Flax's work, she could see some good points to it and some bad one, but she would have trouble telling Flax what she didn't like, since she hated hurting others feelings. Coco blushed "Umm thank you.." She said softly Coco nodded "I was thinking of doing a mural with a friend a long time ago, but they moved away before we got a chance. So I was thinking of doing it by myself for my final project before graduation from junior. She said softly, she bit her lip and started to turn the green smear into a willow tree that brought something special to the painting. Coco smiled softly "Some mistakes make things better. Maybe you can try to turn that into something else, incorporating the structure of that drawing into something else.." Coco said almost a whisper she didn't want to upset Flax.

Coco smiled a little and then said "Umm that's ok, I can do it myself.. I'm kinda used to that sort of thing anyway.." Coco didn't have a family, she lived at the orphanage before she had been accepted into the academy and started living in the dorm with the caretakers looking after her. Coco wasn't good at a lot of things, she couldn't sing or dance. Math was no fun. Here though when she was with a canvas and a palette of paint Coco felt at home.

Coco laughed a little and blush and then said "Umm umm, I'm so sorry I didn't mean to laugh at you, it's good.." though her tone revealed that she really thought the drawing needed work. Coco's painting was coming along but she still had a long way to go before she was ready to call it done to dry. "Oh, I'm not really familiar with that sort of art." Coco said softly "I like doing soft impressions, so our art styles are really different." Coco wasn't very comfortable with chatting normally, but Flax didn't make her as nervous as some others did.

Coco blushed and said softly "I kinda meant for it to be a secret feature.. something you have to look for in the art.." Coco got nervous talking over the critique.. "But I guess if that's a bad idea I can change it.." Her lack of confidence showing.

Coco nodded a little, still a bit uncertain.. Perhaps someday she would find the courage to be bold but today wasn't that day. Coco blushed a little and then mumbled. "Umm thank you.." It was easier for Coco to open up to someone kind, with someone cruel Coco might curl up into a sad little ball growing mushrooms in the corner of the room. Coco grew more quiet unsure what to say to Flax's comments. She finished her painting and started to clean up her things. Coco blushed again and then nodded softly she said "Yes." It was hard sometimes to make others understand personal art. Coco shook her head and said "I never thought of it before.. umm I don't have many friends." Coco said softly.

Coco blushed again, she wasn't sure what to say. She really wasn't used to someone complimenting her work. Coco bit her lip thinking. "I guess I could try to do portraits.." She said softly. It would mean talking to a lot more others and getting her name out there. Coco kept her head down during most of her classes, so she wasn't surprised that Flax and she hadn't really talked much before now. She wasn't upset that others didn't normally jump forward to embrace her. If that happened Coco would likely have freaked out and withdrawn completely. Coco needed things to go slowly normally. Except with Calypso, things had gone fast with that, but Coco's heart fluttering because Calie noticed her was ok. Coco smiled a little more and then said "Thank you, Flax that's sweet of you to offer, I would like to be your friend too. I like talking to you too." She said softly, as she finished up cleaning her art mess. "If you need more help with your critique for class let me know." She said writing down her cell number and email address handing it to Flax.