What Do You See?

The Sun ☀️

Soleil

"Honey, are you sure you're not upset?"

"Yes Mommy, I promise. There will be more openings. You can make it up to me by baking me some peach cobbler when you come visit." My mother chuckled at my response, I always loved her peach cobbler.

"Of course, Baby. I should be able to come down next month. I'll see if Glam wants to come too." The thought of my Glamma, AKA grandma coming made my smile grow. My mom and grandma are my best friends.

"That would be fun, I know Bobbi wants to see her. He is always asking about her."

"Awww, I miss my son." I rolled my eyes while laughing. Bobbi is my best friend, but my mom seems to love him more than me. "Don't get jealous, you know you're my sun." I smiled at the thought, my mom always refers to me as her sun, she says I can always brighten her day. I looked over seeing the group of students walk in.

"Mom, my new interns just walked in, I'll talk to you later. Tell Glam I'll FaceTime her sometime this week. I love you both."

"Alright Baby, bye." My mom stated before making kissing noises. I chuckled and hang up the phone placing it in my back pocket. I counted the students as they got closer. A slight frown crept on my face when I noticed there were three out of four students here. Of course. I wonder who's gonna be the slacker this time. I thought to myself. I went towards the entrance and shared a hug with Aunt Des.

"Monroe!" She stated calling me by my middle name.

"Aunt Des!" I yelled matching her tone, and swinging left to right. Not only is she my mother's best friend and the one who introduced me to art; she was once my professor.

"Okay, this is your group. They will be here three days out of the week and will help you with whatever you need. I picked the best of the best so I know you'll be pleased." She informed as she headed out. I nodded and proceeded to introduced myself.

"My name is Soleil, and I will teach you about art in the real world. Ms. Destiny might have taught you everything you thought you needed to know about art and how to appreciate it. I will teach you how to make a living out of art without losing the passion. Introduce yourselves to me and tell me why you chose Fine Arts and Studios as your major. Everyone told me about themselves and why they love art. This is something I've always heard. They always say it's in their blood, or they're born to be artists. Everyone says they are passionate until they work with me. "Okay, I will see you guys Saturday at seven."

"In the morning?" One student questioned. I rolled my eyes and continued to walk back into my office. I was about to sit down and complete inventory when I realized I left the paperwork outside, that's when I looked up and saw someone coming in. "My apologies sir, we are currently closed."

"I'm sorry." His deep, raspy voice stated. "I'm here from Professor Destiny's class." I am so sorry for my tardiness. I wa—"

"No need to finish, you are no longer a part of this program, best of luck to you." I responded as I headed back to my office, with my paperwork this time. This guy wants to be an hour late and come in here like nothing happened. I heard footsteps behind me which resulted in me turning around and bumping right into him and dropping everything. "Are you serious? What is wrong with you?" I started to yell when I looked at him I noticed his eyes were blood shot red, at first I thought he was high, but then I noticed his eyes began to water. My face immediately softened.

"Look, I am so sorry. I had a family emergency, I will make it up to you, just please let me stay." He begged. Normally I would decline the offer, however I accepted.

"Okay, you can start by organizing these papers and completing inventory for me to enter into the computer. When you're finished find me in the front and I'll tell you what to do next." He nodded and got to work. That gave me time to look over my emails and reply to some messages. In the middle of replying, Bobbi's face took over my screen indicating a call from him. "Hey boo! I miss you!" I sang into the phone.

"Girl, I think I found my husband!" Bobby yelled into the phone causing me to move the phone away from my ear and roll my eyes.

"You always finding a new man, tell me about it in 90 days and then I'll believe it."

"See this is why you not my sister. You always judging me."

"Baby, I don't judge, if you wanna be a hoe then be one! Just don't hide from the title. Either way I will love you, STD and all." I quickly moved the phone from my ear because I knew he would start yelling, which he did. I laughed and put the phone back to my ear. "Bobbi I'm joking, you know I love you." Looking up I noticed the guy from earlier walking up to me. "I gotta go, text me the date and time I'm supposed to pick you up from the airport this week. Love you, bye!" He came up to me and gave me everything, looking over it I noticed he did pretty well for himself. "Name?"

"Masai. I really am sor-"

"Be here at seven on Saturday. You're dismissed."

"Look I get you are angry, but you don't need to be rude. Yes, I was late and yes, it's my fault. But don't think I don't care about this, at least I bothered to show up." My eyebrows raised as my hand found its way to my chest.

"Excuse me? Do you know who you're t-"

"Yes, I know you're the talented Soleil. I really do appreciate this but please treat me like a human being. I deserve to be here just as the other students. I know Professor Destiny picked the best.

"Is that so?" He nodded. "Okay then." Walking over to the receptionist's desk I grabbed a blank piece of paper from the printer. Handing it to him I stared at his facial expression, "What do you see?"

"The hell?" He muttered under his breath. A smirk formed on my lips. Gotcha!

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