Chronicles #004: Michelle the Florida Art Student (Part 1)

Michelle is struggling with too many school assignments. Her friend offers to help her, and she skillfully takes advantage. While her friend does her homework, she gets up to other things…

Michelle is a black girl from Florida who studies art in college. She paints and is not terribly bad at it from the work she showed me. She has one of those pairs of eyes that seem to always be doubting you in some way or other if she sets them on you. She has frizzy hair, caramel skin, prominent lips, and well-endowed breasts, all features she takes from her Caribbean ancestry. As an art student, her fashion is always on point.

I met Michelle online when she was 21, at a time of her life when she was struggling with school. Personal circumstances had driven her to take a few semesters off, circumstances she preferred to keep private. She also complained of being inundated with homework at school, which brought her a load of unnecessary stress. When she told me this, I said I could help her with school work if she ever needed it. She declined the request at the time, but it was only because she was out of school. Something attracted me to the idea of doing Michelle’s homework for her, which would free up time for her to do things that were more enjoyable than the drudgery of school assignments, but I didn’t think about it much at the time.