After all his classes that day, Jory collapsed early on his bed that night. He was tired but he’d really come up to get some quiet so he could work on his Transfiguration homework. He didn’t do as well as he hoped to in class with the picture frame.

He jumped up from the bed & picked up the framed photo of his parents, sister & himself he had brought from home from the table beside his bed. He decide he would use the photo for the homework & then when he completed it, he would give it to Ari.

“First step,’’ the Huffie thought “Draw the photo frame.’’ He got a book with plain paper and some wooden crayons. “Thank goodness I carry these almost everywhere.’’ He liked to draw even though he was not quite good at it.

Jory flopped back onto the bed, on his stomach with his feet in the air & began to draw. First, he began with little drawings of fishes, starfishes, coral reefs & persons surfing on big Hawaiian waves. He drew these on the four sides of the pages.

Next, Jory began colouring the drawings, starting with the fishes. He made some multi-coloured while others were just two coloured and one coloured. Next, the starfishes were done. All were done in various shades of pink. The third year had fun with the coral reefs. He was quite obsessed with them. Each reef drawing were coloured in various colours, making it look as if the fishes & starfishes were looking at the reefs in admiration. To complete the colouring of the drawings, he coloured the surfers riding the huge waves on various colours of surf boards. The water on which they were surfing on was dark blue.

“Perfect!’’ Jory said aloud looking at his paper with a critical eye. “Now, to take care of all these white spaces between the drawings.’’ The boy thought and thought about what to occupy those spaces with. Finally, he decided on colouring he white with light blue. “To represent the Hawaiian sun,’’ he thought.

He did this, careful to colour around the the drawings and not to make them overlap. It took Jory a while but he was done in almost half an hour. He looked at his work. “It looks good enough to pass as a nice frame,’’ he said to himself.