Sketches Third quarter

Now i'm three quarters done with the book and it is amazing. With the recent activity of using chalk to recreate a fine piece of work called starry night by Vincent Van Gogh it gave Dana a good idea of how to make money without panhandling or squeegeeing. Dana demonstrates her thought by borrowing some materials from SKETCHES and bringing her two friends along to try it out. She picks a good spot for using the chalk and does the same thing she did in the group earlier(recreate Vincent Van Gogh work). Dana and her friends figured that this was the way to go because they soon found out that they made about 74 dollars(more than what they would make from panhandling or squeegeeing) and the day hasn't even finished. This made Dana feel ambitious as she says that if they keep this up they could not only buy food or cigarettes, but even an apartment and live peacefully together. Brent disregards this idea as many people said this in the two years he has been on the streets and none of them actually made it UNTIL a business man comes up and tells them that they did a good job and drops a fifty dollar bill in their hat. Brent then says,"but if the two of you want to try...then...what the hell..let's give it a shot."(page 122) which makes them a bit more hopeful. The story cuts into Brent running towards Dana holding a newspaper yelling MCKINNON which is Dana's last name and proceeds to tell Dana that her mother is looking for her( took her couple months to look for her kid....) and wants to bring her back which frightened Dana since she wants to stay with Ashley and Brent. They try to shrug it off and Brent says that Ashley and Dana should go to SKETCHES and have some fun to which they both agree. On their way they get sidetracked as Dana goes to feed a cat that she grew fond of and says her name is Pumpkin since the kitty cat is orange. Ashley opens a bit during this and talks about her past and family(she cried a bit too). THey talk about Brent and how good of a guy he is since he is very thoughtful and kind. They speculate that Brent is gay since it might have been the reason he is out in the streets.( what a surprise :o). After wards Dana is shown to cut herself(a bit weird but everyone has their own reasons) and tries to cover it when Ashley confronts her to talk to her. Ashley notices the cut and asks Dana what was going on and tries to stop the bleeding and go through some deep talking stuff. After this Brent tells the two that they were going to stay at Tent Town since it is safe and no one really messes with your stuff since almost everyone there just want to have a peaceful time (there are a couple weirdos there). nearing the end of the third quarter everyone from the group go to SKETCHES(lets hope they don't get jumped this time D:) since Dana wanted Bret to see her artwork and also since they were serving pancakes. One of the person in SKETCHES found Dana's artwork amazing and asks her if she could present it on her next show. Dana says yeah and then she goes off to look for Brent who is in the design and technology studio talking with a guy named gizmo. he then says if they could use about 300 dollars from their saving to work on making a scooter like gizmo did and hopefully sell it for a hefty profit. Ashley was against it as she wanted to but the apartment since they were close(they saved 800 out of the 1,000 they had in mind) but Dana says why not both. Dana says if they could save a thousand then why not twelve hundred and they agreed since they could probably crash at Tent Town for a couple more weeks. Brent will learn from gizmo how to make these cool powered scooters and try ot make one himself.That was all that happened so far.