Chapter 1: You Disgust Me
3 years have passed since the end of the Everafter War. Sabrina Grimm sat on the edge of her bed and cradled her head in her hands. She sighed as she wrote into her journal.
Dear Journal,
Today was boring, as usual. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I miss the abnormal shenanigans our family used to meddle with. Well, we still do, but the town's been quiet for a while. Not that I blame them. The Everafter War probably has them scarred for life and most of the Everafters moved away anyways.
This journal was made to record every weird thing that happened in this town, but there's not much to write about. So I guess I can just use it as a diary. But don't expect me to be one of those prissy princesses, I'm the Queen of Sneaks, got it?
with that, she ended the day's entry.
"Hey Ugly, let's get some get some hamburgers. Meet me downstairs in 5 minutes." Puck told her as he stuck his face in her room. "Although you might need and extra 3 hours to clean up the mess you call a face" he added.
Sabrina growled and lunged at his throat, it wasn't her fault she got a cold in the middle of December. Puck easily broke out of her grip and flashed a haughty grin. "Too slow!"
Sabrina took a deep breath and tried to control her anger. She stomped back to her room, taking out her anger on the ground. She stepped into her bathroom and hesitated as she stepped her foot in the shower. Should she shower? "Nah, it's almost 9:00 pm," she thought as she exited the bathroom.
She put on some makeup to hide the dark circles under her eyes and got a tube of new lip gloss out. She put the lip gloss on and changed into a warm outfit that consisted of a pale blue sweater, a wool scarf, jeans and some boots.
She hurried downstairs and found everyone waiting for her. She flashed a smile of apology and went outside with everyone else. Little snowflakes were coming down from the sky.
"Yay! It's snowing!" Daphne shouted enthusiastically as she pointed her face towards the sky and opened her mouth to eat some snow. Sabrina instantly regretted not bringing her gloves and put her hands in her coat pocket and started to shiver.
Ferryport Landing was a small town that used to consist of mainly fairy tale chracters, also known as Everafters, but when the war ended and the portal was destroyed, most Everafters moved away. And humans decide to move in to this place and they developed the town to resemble a small city. Yet, it was still closer to a town than a city and there were no taxies, what-so-ever.
"Hold on tight," Puck said as a smile came on to his face. He grabbed Sabrina by the waist and held both of Red and Daphne's hands. He flew up into the air.
"Puck! Fly a little lower! I think my hands are getting frostbite!" Sabrina yelled gesturing to her bare hands.
"Nu-uh-uh! We can't let ourselves be seen by humans, can we now?" Puck taunted, aware of how much infuriating he was. Still, he was not heartless and he flew down a couple of feet.
"If you don't fly lower right now, you will regret it." Sabrina threatened. Her threat did not come out as the deadly tone she hoped for, instead words barely strung together with shivers.
"Yeah! I'm super cold!" Daphne hollered. Red glared at Puck and muttered something about stupid faeries.
Sabrina looked down and saw the yellow and red McDonalds's sign flashing in the dark night. Puck carelessly dropped the three and came down gracefully, by himself. The three girls landing in a soft pile of snow, but it was cold, nonetheless. Sabrina got to her feet and helped the young girls do the same. She brushed the snow off of herself and hit Puck in the head.
"Ouch! Don't!" Puck yelled childishly.
"Yeah, I don't think so!" Sabrina shouted back, hitting Puck repeatedly. They got into one of their petty fights once again and Red came between them.
"Stop it!" she screamed. Sabrina and Puck immediately obeyed. "Now let's go get some burgers like civilized people."
The four went inside and ordered. The girl at the cash register smiled flirtingly at Puck and gave them their burgers. She had scribbled her number on one of them. The burger with the scribbled number was Sabrina's and she scrunched the wrapper into a ball and threw it at the garbage can. She then took a bite out of her burger.
Meanwhile, Daphne was wolfing down her burger and Puck was doing the same, not wanting to lose to a girl. Red and Sabrina stared at the two, both thinking, "Pigs."
Puck had some sauce on his chin and he carelessly wiped it on his coat. When he caught Sabrina's disgusted gaze, he grinned. "Grimm, you don't have to stare to let everyone know you're in love with me."
"You disgust me." Sabrina replied with venom oozing from her voice. Red giggled while Daphne spewed cola on the table, unsuccessfully trying to hold in laughs while drinking soda.
Sabrina looked down at her half eaten burger on the table, soaked with unwanted spewed cola. "And that just ruined my appetite."
The four returned back to the house. No one welcomed them in, as Granny Relda would have done. Granny and Mr. Canis had gone to Germany a few days ago for a case and they had not told the four of when they would return.
"I want to pull an all-nighter!" Daphne grinned at the three. Sabrina vetoed that option and sent the girls upstairs.
"You guys just go up and wash up. Then sleep." Sabrina insisted. She was met with groan and pleas.
"Sleep, you lumps of potatoes." Puck said, taking Sabrina's side.
There were mutters of "no fair"s, but they went up anyways. Sabrina heard the door slams, followed by the sound of the water turned on. That sound was turned off a few minutes later and when Sabrina heard Daphne's snores, she could relax.
Sabrina plopped down on the couch next to Puck and stole a bite of the cookie he was eating.
"Hey! That was mine!" Puck whined.
"Don't care." Sabrina said as she turned her attention to the movie Puck was watching. It was a western. They were practically the only genres that Puck watched, along with horro movies. She would choose a western over a horror movie, any day. The two slowly fell asleep on the sofa.
Sabrina woke to a squeal of excitement. "Ugh," Sabrina thought. She opened her eyes and saw that she was on the floor, with Puck on the couch. It was pretty obvious that Puck had moved her to the ground to take the couch for himself. Sabrina kicked him in the rear, and he stirred. He had crusty eye-boogers and dried drool on his face.
"Gross." Sabrina said with disgust.
She took a quick shower and went into her room to pick out her outfit for the day. She chose a black button skirt with black leggings and a wine colored sweater. She usually wore jeans, but she wanted to wear a skirt today. She let her hair down and put on boots.
She went downstairs to the kitchen and found Puck sitting in front of the table,. Puck stared at Sabrina and she wondered why on earth he was staring at her. Perhaps she had something on her face.
"Do I have something on my face or something?" Sabrina asked.
"N-no." Puck stuttered with an almost-unnoticeable blush on his face.
Sabrina started making breakfast, pancakes with raspberries and maple syrup. Everyone else came down in the next 30 minutes and the four start eating breakfast when Sabrina declared the pancakes done. The pancakes were amazing, and they discussed their plans for today.
"Let's go to a laser tag place!" Puck said.
"I want to watch a movie!" Daphne squealed.
"Me, too!" Red said with a big smile plastered on her face.
"Well, it has been a long time since we've been to the movies. Maybe..." Sabrina said uncertainly.
"Please please please with a cherry on top?" Daphne and Red pleaded.
"Okay, fine. We're going to the movies." Sabrina concluded.
