At the studio

An excerpt of my 17th book to be published soon.

At the studio

Some facts of life

An expert

But about one month after the closure of his exhibition, Eti called him again and at that same evening she came to his studio. It took him some five long minutes to overcome his excitement before he dared to ask her what is her name, which he suddenly remembered that he does not know it yet. He showed her around, during the first moments after her arrival, and managed in that short time to calm down, and was able to conduct a normal conversation with her without stammering. He showed her his last art creations, his easel, his brushes and his various additional tools and the paints, and explained to her what he expects her to do and how it would be done.

The next stage was to make her sit in the right position opposite his easel, and draw her lovely features with charcoal on paper.

Her beautiful face radiated sadness, which did increase his inspiration, and after a short while when he realized how well and accurate he has drawn her features, he dared to ask what was bothering her.

'You were so full of life so sure of yourself Eti, what's wrong, what troubles you if I may ask?'

Eti turned to him haltingly as if she woke up from a bad dream, and watched his face a few seconds before she answered him.

'Many things have taken place since our last meeting at your exhibition.' She muttered in a low voice.

'In a rather short period of time I've parted with my husband formally, it isn't an easy event that one can forget in a couple of weeks...'

'You mean your brother in law? That's how he introduced himself to me at the second time you've visited my exhibition.' He explained to her with a smile, doing his best to revive her spirits.

'My brother in law that's what he told you? He must have known then already, while I thought that I managed to hide it from him. What else did he tell you at that encounter?'

'He claimed that the collector that bought my painting that courts you is a criminal, and he and all your family members are trying to persuade you to leave him… Is that presumably collector the reason to your parting with your husband?'

Eti nodded her head in approval. 'Not the parting from my husband saddens me, we'd to part because we couldn't live on together; but what really hurts me is the treachery behavior of my lover, as long as I was a married woman that belonged to another he referred to me as to a challenge, but after my husband divorced me my enthusiastic lover cut his ties with me and vanished without leaving traces.' Eti added clearing her throat several times nervously.

Yehiel stopped drawing her features and watched her amazed, and hesitated whether to try on to encourage her to talk, or wait till she will pour out all her misery on her own. But as she kept her silence and looked at the direction in which he asked her to look, he dared to ask again and make her talk, and thus he learned a few more personal details of this beautiful woman, which was already bewitching him.

'You're still young and pretty,' he added that last word of compliment stammering, so excited he became.

'Thanks Hilik but I haven't got over it yet, and I've two small kids to support; I need a job I don't have my ex husband's salary to sustain me.' She left her seat and approached Yehiel and his easel, to have a better look at the drawing.

'Well it's lovely Hilik I like it.' Eti declared smiling, as she saw how well and accurate Yehiel managed to portray her lovely face features. She sent her hand to his neck, pulled him gently towards herself, and kissed slightly the astounded Yehiel's cheek.

'I've to go Hilik it was quite a pleasure to model for you,'

© Haim Kadman 2015 �" all rights reserved.

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