Artist and Me

Like the colorful strokes of her brush, love changes the canvas of their lives.Lucas is just a small town writer starting a summer internship at the local paper when Julie blows into town like a cyclone.

Legs a mile long, ginger hair that curls delicately to the small of her back and a smile that could generate enough energy to power Carltonville for months on end, she is easily a knockout.

Unlike the other girls at the high school, though, she simply is what she is-beautiful, smart, confident and an artist to her core-all facts that cause the girls to hate her and the guys to want her.By some stroke of luck-or so he feels-she is choosing to give Lucas, the quiet writer guy, a chance.

It doesn't add up, but Lucas isn't going to dispute it.

He just prays to the great God in Heaven that he doesn't screw it up.

The writer and the artist-pen and paint. Is this story a masterpiece that will stand the test of time or will it fade with the summer sun?