This chapter takes place after 6x18 and before 6x20.

Intro to Drawing

Learn the basics of drawing. Create dimensionality with light and shadow and draw with balanced compositions. All skill levels welcomed. All materials provided.

$360 / 10 weeks | April 4, 2017 - June 6, 2017 | Tuesday 8:00pm - 9:30pm

Age 15 - Adult | Townhall Meeting Room 2 | Instructor: Millie Karn | 12 spots

For more info or to reserve your space, visit the Rabbit Hole and find Millie

"How does this look?" I asked Tinkerbell to proofread my poster.

"Fine, I guess," She picked up my phone and took a quick look at the draft, "You might want to put down a phone number instead of telling people to come to the Rabbit Hole. It might discredit your art skill."

"I am not ashamed of being a bartender," I thought for a second, "But you do have a point. I certainly don't want 15-year-old coming in the bar." I replaced registration info with Tinkerbell's phone number.

"What are you doing?" Tinkerbell narrowed her eyes.

"You are HIRED," I smiled and quickly sent the email to the Mayor's office, "I need someone to run some errands during the day, like picking up art supplies."

"I never said yes," She protested.

"You never said no, either. Besides, you don't have a job. You just hang around the Rabbit Hole and the convent. It will take you less than five hours a week and I will pay you. Maybe you can get a decent phone with good data plan and Netflix."

"Tempting... Okay," She was easy to convince.

There was a knock on the door and the Mayor peeked into the meeting room as I was setting up, "How are things going?"

"Hi Madam Mayor, things are going great. I can't believe we pull this off in one week. We have a full class of twelve and all the supplies arrived on time. Tinkerbell did a great job organizing this. You should give her a raise," I placed a few pencils along with a sketchbook on one of the tables. The tables were arranged in a rectangular ring shape.

"You don't have to 'Madam Mayor' me every time. You can call me Regina," She smiled. She was so beautiful.

"Okay, Regina," I had to get used to saying that. My inner fan girl was still brewing.

"Regina! You are here," Tinkerbell came in and hugged Regina.

"Yes, I am here to check up on you, knowing that you always mess up... Just kidding." She added, after seeing a frown on Tinkerbell's face.

"Hi, is this the drawing class?" Two young women were at the door - one was blond and the other one, brunette.

"Yes, welcome!" I said, "I am Millie, the instructor."

"Hi, I am Ashley. This is my sister, Clorinda," The blond introduced.

"Great, grab a seat and we will get started in fifteen minutes," I pointed at the seats.

"Looks like your students are arriving, I better go," Regina detached from Tinkerbell.

"We actually have enough sketchbooks and pencils for fifteen people, so we can take in one extra student, so why don't you stay and audit the class? You will be the judge if you would like to expand our program later," I suggested and Tinkerbell, standing next to me, nodded her head.

"I'll stay for today's class, but this town is kind of crazy, so I don't guarantee that I will make it to the next one," Regina looked excited.

"No pressure," I smiled back.

She found herself a seat in the back right corner.

Maleficent came in, looked around and sat down next to Regina, "Great, you are here. I was starting to think that this class would be boring."

"Why did you sign up if you think this would be boring?" Regina asked.

"Lily told me to come support Millie while she is holding down the fort in the Rabbit Hole," She rolled her eyes, "At least, I can throw fireball at you when I am bored."

"Drawing is fun. Why don't you check out my sketchbook?" I offered my sketchbook to Maleficent, "Tinkerbell will be our model on the figure day. She probably won't be nude though, since we have teens in this class. You will be drawing things like this." I flip to the pages of figure drawing.

"Look, it's you," Maleficent flipped to the page with the ten and twenty minutes poses. It was obvious that this was Regina or the Queen.

"What?" Regina yelled.

"It is. I remember the birth mark," Maleficent pointed at the drawing.

Regina gave me death stare.

"It's kind of you, but not you. Remember I told you I hung out with the Queen for two nights. She was my model for one night," I felt like running away. I hope Regina wouldn't be angry and leave.

"Just model?" Maleficent smiled mischievously because she knew we definitely had done more. However, if she knew about the birthmark, she obviously had had slept with Regina before.

"Com'on, you made out with her too," I decided to sneak off before it got awkward.

"You made out with the Evil Queen?" Regina yelled at Maleficent, "You know she was up to no good, right?"

"She is no more evil than you were. Besides, no one could say no to those royal boobies," Maleficent shrugged. I nodded my head and agreed subtly

Two nuns walked in. "These are my two fairy sisters, Silvermist and Iridessa," Tinkerbell introduced, "They are my two dearest friends."

"It's nice to get out of the convent once in a while," Iridessa said, "That place is suffocating. Working with Blue is kind of, how should I phrase this politely, stressful. Now that Blue's been missing for a while, we are free to do whatever we want."

Silvermist nodded her head and indicated that she agreed.

Snowwhite came in, "Hey Regina." She looked a little uneasy as Maleficent were giving her death stare, but she sat down on the other side of Regina anyway.

"Why are you here? Don't you have a son to take care of and a wedding to plan?" Maleficent said in her cruel monotone.

"I told him I would be home late and he is watching Neal," Snowwhite explained, "Regina, are you here to spy on Henry too?"

"Wait what? No." Regina exclaimed, "Henry is coming? Is this the after school activity he asked me to pay for? He didn't even tell me he is taking this class."

"You didn't know? You didn't know!" Snowwhite squealed and seemed to be way too excited to spill a secret, "So, our school art program sucks because our art teacher is actually our P.E. teacher. He only teaches art because our old art teacher quit after the first curse was broken. Violet wanted to learn how to draw, but she was a bit shy, so Henry proposed to take class with her."

"So, you are here to spy on Henry?" Regina raised her eyebrow.

"Yes. Also, I am wondering if I can recruit your art teacher to join the school," Snowwhite still seemed overly eager.

I interrupted, "Been there, done that. I was that teacher who quit." I quit because I couldn't go out during daytime anymore. I did enjoy teaching at the school, but I doubted parents would want a vampire teaching their children.

"Please consider coming back to the school," Snowwhite grabbed my hand.

I looked at Regina and Maleficent, hoping that they would make up an excuse for me, but they didn't. In fact, Maleficent smiled maliciously. "I can set up special evening workshop for your school's teachers to learn how to teach art, but I don't particularly enjoy waking up at seven a.m. to go to work."

"I will take whatever you can offer!" She cheerfully agreed.

Four more familiar faces came in. They were Leroy, Dopey, Archie and Victor.

Archie pulled me aside and said, "I am so glad you are expressing your negative emotion in a healthy way. Looks like your life is back on track."

As much as I hated to agree, he was right. I nodded my head and said, "We are about to get started, why don't you grab a seat?"

"Looks like it's eight, let's get started with introduction," I turned to the class, "Hi, I am Millie. I am your instructor for this drawing class. Thank you for signing up. I would like you to state your name and what you want to get out of this class."

I passed onto Tinkerbell, "Hi, I am Tinkerbell! I am your teaching assistant. I don't know anything about drawing, but I am eager to learn."

I didn't know when Victor started wearing eye makeup, but I thought he should go easier on it. But then, again, it could be just dark circles under his eyes due to his after-work science experiments and the lack of sleep. He began, "Hey, I am Victor Frankenstein, or as some of you know, my cursed name is Whale. I am taking this class because Tinkerbell bribed me with cookies and Millie is a dear dear friend. I don't know what I want to get out of this class, maybe better anatomy drawing in my notebook."

Leroy followed, "I am Leroy. I am taking this class because Archie says art is a good way to express my emotion. And this is Dopey. He doesn't talk."

We skipped Dopey and moved onto Archie. "You all know me, I am Archie. I am here to learn how to draw. By the end of the program, I hope to draw beyond stick figures."

"I am Ashley. I run a daycare and I would like to integrate some fun drawing in the session," Ashley said.

Her sister continued, "Hi, I am Clorinda. I work with Ashley at the daycare. I am here because Ashley convinced me that drawing class is fun."

"Hi, I am Snow..." Her introduction was cut short when a teenage boy walked in with a teenage girl.

"Sorry, we are late," I recognized his face. He was Regina's son. "Mom, Grandma, what the hell are you here?"

"Language," Regina commented.

"Henry, we didn't know you were in this class," Snowwhite lied.

"Grandma," Henry rolled his eyes. Typical teen.

"Henry, I didn't know you signed up this class, so I am not here to spy on you. I promise." Regina started a mother-to-son talk, and Tinkerbell and I nodded our heads quickly to agree with her.

"It's true. I never shared the sign-up list with Regina!" Tinkerbell said in her strongest tone.

"Okay," Henry said.

"Why don't you two take the seats in front? We are doing introduction for now. Snow, why don't you continue?" I interrupted the impending fight.

"Hi again, I am Snow. I am here to either convince Millie to be a teacher at the school, or learn enough drawing techniques to teach art," She did have valid reasons to be here.

"If you don't know who I am, you are living in a hole," Regina said, "These two convinced me to join in the class fifteen minutes ago. I am here to audit Millie's skills as a teacher and I might not be here next week, so I don't expect to learn anything."

"Pass," Maleficent said.

"Maleficent, don't you have anything to say?" I tried to prompt her to say more, "Do you want to learn anything particular?"

"Okay, fine. I guess I will learn how to draw a naked Regi-" I saw Regina kicked Maleficent under the desk to stop her from finishing the sentence. She fake-coughed and continued, "a dragon."

"I am Silvermist," The nun spoke, "I really like watercolor and fish, so I would like to take home a watercolor painting of a fish when we finish this program."

"Hi, I am Iridessa," The other nun spoke, "I want to experiment art with light."

"I am Violet. I didn't grow up with camera and photos, so I have always had to sketch things I want to remember. I never had a proper art teacher and I do always love to draw. When I saw the poster outside Granny's, I decided to sign up," The teenage girl said, "I am going to try my best to learn everything." I loved her attitude.

"Hi, I am Henry, I want to learn how to draw," It was obvious that he was here for the girl. He wouldn't be the first boy who took a class for a girl and he wouldn't be the last.

"Great. Thanks for introducing yourselves to the room. Let's get started! Tonight, we will learn about thumb-nailing," I could already envision tonight being a long night.

= End of Chapter 14 =

Sorry, I got carried away writing interaction of characters. I hope you enjoy reading it though.