Phils POV

I like to see beauty in everything. I acknowledge this as I draw a random leaf I can see on the ground next to the old tree in my garden. I'm sitting comfortably in my bedroom, resting against the large window sill which has pillows for me to lean against as I draw. I like it in my room, it's quiet. I'm used to being alone a lot. I don't have many friends (or at least none that want to spend time with me outside of school) and my foster parents are either working or watching TV without me. They leave me alone and I leave them be, it's how we work as the dysfunctional family we are.

I drop my pencil as the amber leaf I was drawing is blown into the air. It looks even more beautiful as it nears my window but then it's lost from view. It takes a few moments before I can see it again.
That's the thing about beauty, it never really goes.

I dropped down from the window sill and looked over at my calendar. I hadn't changed it over yet and it still showed September. The day I went back to school is blotted in red ink so I would remember and not accidently sleep in. Not that my foster parents would notice if I skipped one day but I couldn't risk it. I like school... well I like learning, I'm not so sure about school.
I just find everything so interesting: numbers, letters, facts, figures. Arts my favourite subject, though, because I get to draw what I see as beautiful and I couldn't ask for anything more. My sketchbook is a mess of nature and people but it's not a mess to me; it's a document of every time my breath was taken away by something.

I flipped the calendar over to show October. This months picture was of a dog dressed up in one of those dog Halloween pumpkin costumes which reminded me that Halloween was soon! Halloween was the day where almost everyone dressed up as monsters.
I like to draw people when they're in costume because even though they look scary, there's beauty there too.
There's no such thing as a monster. Society makes monsters up to make people who don't think they're beautiful feel better but everyone is beautiful.
That's what I like to believe.

AN: I found this chapter on my laptop and tweaked it a little but it's still v short.  Currently planning this story out properly so I'll have new chaps up soon but updates will be slow in June because exams
- Rach x