It was her first opportunity to meet a famous artist and it she was afraid that the butterflies in her stomach would become too much for her to handle. All she could do was ignore them and pray that her nerves would settle down in time for the show Getting ready had been no small ordeal. It took several applications of shampoo to get the linseed oil smell out of her hair from an accident she had in her makeshift studio that morning. She was feeling overly inspired from looking at all of Leon's work in preparation for tonight and tried to create a few works of her own. While the painting looked fine—at first—her accidentally spilling clear oil while trying to dilute the opacity of her paint made a mess of everything. The picturesque cottage gained a decidedly ghostly quality, while her desk and floor became impossible to clean. She fell right on her behind as she tried to get a rag, which is why she wound up in the shower for hours on end. As it turned out, oil made up of molecules that small is nearly impossible to get rid of.
