“I made a new colour!” she announced out loud.
“Very good dear!” Pam praised.
Rachel giggled to herself and placed her hands back on the canvas, smearing them about. Her skin seemed super-sensitive now, nerves lighting up with pleasure as she dipped her hands back in more paint and smeared it more. Feeling mischievous at getting so messy she leant over and rubbed brown paint all over the back of another child’s smock. Then she felt foreign hands on her bare arm. She turned to find Meggy smiling wickedly as she coated the arm in pink paint. Rachel had to get her back! So she wiped her now purple hand on Meggy’s cheek. A finger-paint war had begun.