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“Hufh.. Finally I finish it and this should be enough for my deadline this week” Jack said to himself as he stretched his arms up into the air. He looked back into the painting that he just made for the whole 2 days. It was a painting of a beautiful woman with a long brown hair. The woman was sitting on a chair with such an elegant pose.
“Hopefully Leo teacher will accept this one” Jack said to himself. Jack is one of the talented artists in his university where he enrolled. His painting already got recognized by soo many people around him including his art teacher, Leo. But even though Jack’s painting was already perfect, Leo still wanted Jack to keep on improving himself to be a better artist in the future.
Jack put down his brush and he stood up when a sound of grumbling came from his stomach and he just remembered that he forgot to eat breakfast today. Jack was too focusing on making his painting until he forgot to eat something to fill his stomach. “I have to take care of myself these days…” Jack sighed as he went to the kitchen to make something.
But when he opened the fridge, he couldn’t find any food in it. He mentally slapped himself. He forgot that he hadn’t gone out to finish his painting. Jack let out another sigh as he stood up and changed his clothes into something else for going out to the minimarket.
He put on his slipper, locked the door, and walked outside. As he got out of his apartment, he shield his eyes from the brightness. “My God… How long have I been in the room until the sunlight feels like burning my eyes… Ugh I really need to get out and take a refreshing walk sometime” Jack said to himself before proceed to go to the minimarket while doing some humming as what he always did to enjoy himself.
After a few minutes of walking, Jack finally arrived at the minimarket. He walked inside the minimarket and went straight to the food aisle. He grabbed a few cans of food and cup noodles. When he thought that he already had enough food to store up at home, he immediately went to the cashier. Jack wasn’t paying attention when he was walking because he was checking on his groceries to check twice that he didn't miss anything so that he won’t get out twice and because of that he bumped into someone behind him.
“A-ah I-Im sorry I didn’t look at where I was walking” Jack said, looking up to see the person he was bumping before. The man was shorter than him. He has brown hair and his hair length was up to his shoulder. The man looked back at Jack before saying “Watch where you’re going next time child”
‘Child? hah who?’ Jack said to himself. “Uh… excuse me…” Jack said as he excused himself from the man but as he tried to walked pass him, a hand suddenly grab Jack’s arm. It was a pretty strong grip.
“You…. only eat this?” The man said. Jack looked at the man before answering him. “Yes…?”. The man sighed “No wonder you looked like a walking skeleton if you only eat that. Come here” The man dragged Jack by his arm while ignoring Jack's protest and led him to another food aisle but this time it was the aisle that was full of meat.
“You can cook?” The man said. “Uh… No and I’m fine with my food. Now please if you don’t mind could you please release my arms? You… are kinda hurting me with your grip” Jack said. “Oh.. I’m sorry I didn’t realize it. Sorry” The man said as he released his grip on Jack’s arms. “Sorry again I always didn’t realize about my strength but here you have to eat meat. At least if you can’t cook, you can just warm up some beacon or something. It should be pretty easy for you, no?” The man said.
Jack slowly nodded and took a few beacons and a few eggs too. He wanted to try bacon with some scrambled eggs too. “Good kid” The man said as he tried to reach his arms up and give some pat on the head. “Take care of yourself and don’t forget to eat healthy, okay?” Said the man before he left Jack alone staring at the back of the man. “What just happened….” Jack said as he was still trying to process what was happening but that man did have a point there. Jack looked at his thin right arm. ‘Yeah maybe I do need to eat more meat’ he said to himself and went back to the cashier to pay all of his groceries.
After that Jack immediately went back to his apartment. He needed to do some final touching to perfect his painting too but brunch came first. While Jack was on his back, he kept on wondering about the guy he just met. Sure he had a nice board body and that shar---
Jack mentally slapped himself. ‘What am I thinking now. Well but… he is indeed..’ Jack shook his head and proceeded to walk faster. The hungrier he was, the more weird his thoughts will be.
As soon as Jack arrived at his apartment, he quickly set up all of his groceries. Cans food into his fridge, cup noodles on top of the fridge, and the left one was just bacon and eggs. “Hemm…. I guess it's a beacon and scramble eggs then” Jack said to himself. He prepared the beacon on a plate and 3 eggs beside it while heating up the frying pan with some butter on top of it.
When he was done heating the frying pan, he put all the bacon and cooked it. Jack only cooked a few times before he can only hope that he wouldn’t burn his kitchen or this will be a big problem. At least an easy fried will be simple, right?
“Alright so far so good… I didn’t burn anything…” Jack then put the cooked bacon on the plate and grabbed the 3 eggs. He knew how to cook scrambled eggs before so he should be fine with the cooking.
After he was done with all the cooking, Jack put all the bacon and scramble eggs on the plate and he brought it all to the dining table. Just by looking at the scramble eggs and beacons, it already made his stomach grumble even louder than before. He didn’t know when was the last time he ate before he was too focused on his painting but he was hungry for sure if his stomach rumbles so loud like that.
He immediately dug in and ate it all to please his stomach. It was indeed a good brunch. Jack cooked the beacon perfectly and the scrambled eggs too. It has a good taste for his mouth. Well, good taste or not he would still eat it otherwise. He won’t waste all the food he just bought.
When he finished all of his meal, he put all the dishes in the dishwasher and went back to his room to do another sketch. For some reason, that guy face that Jack just met couldn't get out of his mind.
He then went to his room, grabbing his sketchbook and pencil, and just doing some sketches for this guy. The long hair, the sharp eyes, and that nice body. He couldn’t get that man images off from his brain. Jack kept on remembering the man’s face while he was doing the sketch. His face was still clear as day. He could remember it all.
When he was finished, he put his pencil down and just stared at the work he just did. It was indeed a nice sketch. A handsome young man with a slight smile on his face and that nice brown hair that fits perfectly on his face.
Jack then stood up and put his sketchbook beside his bed while having the thought of meeting that mysterious man again. He was indeed kinda rude at first but then he seemed pretty nice considering he was a little bit concerned with Jack’s conditions.
“I… want to draw him more…” Jack said as he went back to do more sketches. He was sketching a lot until he didn’t realize it that it was already evening. Damn it he was in too his drawing again to the point he forgot about everything. That man was right. He should have taken care of himself from now on while still focusing on his painting.
He put aside his sketchbook on a table and got ready to prepare for dinner and by dinner there was another instant noodle that he bought today at the convenience store. While Jack was preparing his instant noodle, he was thinking about that man again and wishing to meet with him again in the future even though it was nearly impossible but he couldn’t help but only to hope.