|^|A Toon's Perspective|^|

The Drawing

  Bendy was laying on the couch, his back to the TV, while he was clutching his toy train. He will occasionally lift the toy into the air to play with it, but the nervous feeling he had all day would creep back, and it caused him to curl up again in his spot. Wrapping his arms around himself and his toy, his tail curling around his legs.

  It was the first day Audrey left Bendy for work, and it wasn't going the greatest for the little toon. He would try to distract himself, but there wasn't that many things to fulfill that job.

  He tried the TV, Audrey had taught him how to use the remote, so he could click through the channels that had some cartoons that he might enjoy. But none of the shows calmed down his nerves, he had to admit that the loud noises coming from some of the shows were making it worse.

  He tried to take a nap, but his body was to tense. He couldn't get himself to relax enough to actually fall asleep. So that was a no go.

  He couldn't bring himself to eat any of the snacks Audrey left out for him. He knew he should eat something, but the thought of food made his stomach twist.

  And Audrey had only been gone for  5 hours. Those 5 hours went agonizingly slow, and there was still many hours left.

  Bendy sat up. He pushed back some of the ink that was dripping down his face. He hadn't tried drawing yet. Audrey had left paper, pencils, and the color crayons on the kitchen table. But could that really distract him enough?

  Bendy sighed. He got up and went over to the kitchen. The nervous feeling started creeping back again, tempting him to go back to the couch and curl up. He pushed it down, as he sat down on one of the chairs and he grabbed a piece of paper. He took one of the pencils and began to doodle random things. He drew a small dog, then a bird, then a cat, but that was all Audrey had taught him to draw. She told him that she would try to get him a drawing guide book, for beginners, the next time she went to the store.

  Bendy tapped the end of the pencil to his chin as he thought of what else to draw. He didn't want to draw the same things and poses every time. "But I haven't learned anything else." He said to himself. "I wish Audrey was here to teach me more." He buried his face into his hands. "Wait..." he reached into the crayon box and pulled out black, different hues of blue, a brownish red, and a peachy color. He could do something for Audrey, like drawing her. But he never drew a human before.

  The toon pulled out a fresh piece of paper. He nervously gripped the pencil, before he began to draw again. Like he expected. It wasn't easy drawing a person. And there were some features on Audrey that he couldn't quite remember right. Like her hair. He couldn't get her eyes right. And the hands were probably the hardest part. (As usual)

  The coloring didn't go the greatest either. The colors would sometimes smudge together. The black for Audrey's hair would rub against and make the other colors look dull. And he couldn't erase the colors so he was stuck with them.

  Bendy stared at the drawing. It did not look good. He knew that he had just started drawing, and that he was going to need a lot more practice to get better. But that thought didn't help in that moment. He felt so frustrated! And that anxious feeling was coming back, which was making this worse.

  Bendy sighed, he doubted that he could do anything to the picture that could help. So he defeatedly put the crayons back in the box and stacked the papers, before he got off of the chair to go back to the couch and curl up again.

  The nervous feeling of being alone mixed with the frustration of getting the drawing wrong caused him to stay on the couch for the rest of the time, until he finally heard the front door being unlocked and Audrey walked in.