Do You Love Me, Charlie Brown?
A Peanuts Charlie Brown x Marcie OTP Challenge
By LivingOnLaughs
Shoutout to: Orange-Ratchet
Prompt: Day One, Meeting: The first time your OTP met. Introduced through a mutual friend? An accident?
"Chuck! We're here! I told you we'd come, and we did!" Peppermint Patty called out happily, walking up to good old Charlie Brown. Next to her was a bespectacled girl in a red t-shirt with owl-like, opaque glasses.
"We got lonely so we scampered around the pond on our little Ruby Keller legs, and here we are! I bet you're glad to see me, huh, Chuck?" the freckled tomboy asked.
"Who's that?" thought the round headed kid, looking over at the black haired girl.
"Where's Snoopy?" Peppermint Patty questioned as they walked inside the boys tent. "Now that's a fine thing…I was gonna fix him up with my dorky little friend here and now he's run off…" she sighed. To Charlie Brown, her dorky little friend seemed kind of timid.
"How about THIS kid, Chuck? Is he a friend of yours? Introduce us, huh, Chuck?" the tomboy continued as a few crickets chirped to signify the silence.
"Hey kid, wanna go and talk?" Charlie Brown asked, breaking the silence.
"Sure" the girl with the glasses replied. She seemed fairly younger than him…maybe four or five years old while he was turning seven in October.
"So…I'm Charlie Brown; Peppermint Patty just likes calling me 'Chuck'…it's her pet name for me" the round headed kid explained.
"Peppermint Patty?" the younger girl asked.
"That's the name of the girl you came here with" Charlie added.
"Oh…" the girl replied.
"And what's your name?" he asked.
"M-my name is…M-m-Ma-" she began before being cut off.
"Hey, kid, it looks like no one's gonna introduce us so I…" Peppermint Patty began.
"Shut up and leave me alone!" the kid replied.
"WHAT KINDA FRIENDS YOU GOT HERE, CHUCK?" the tomboy shouted bitterly, alarming both her dorky friend and the lovable loser. "WE DIDN'T COME CLEAR AROUND THE LAKE TO BE INSULTED! I'M DISAPPOINTED IN YOU, CHUCK!" she added, grabbing the black haired girl by the arm.
"Are we going back to the girls' camp, Sir?" said bespectacled girl asked in confusion.
"Stop calling me 'Sir'!" grumbled the freckled girl.
"'Sir'?" questioned Charlie Brown as the two girls began walking off. "Hey kid! You didn't tell me your name!" he called out.
"Well, Chuck, it's Ma-" she began before Patty groaned and covered her mouth.
"He doesn't need to know that! Even I don't need to know your dorky name" the angry girl explained to the younger one.
That was the first time he met her. The second time he saw her was interesting to say the least.
It was early October and he and Snoopy were invited to play Ha Ha, Herman with Peppermint Patty and her weird little friend from camp. After hearing the former backtalk him, Charlie Brown walked home and isolated himself in bed.
The logical thing to do was go see if he needed a friend to talk to by following hos footprints to his house. Knocking on the door, a blonde girl in a light blue dress (pressumably his sister) answered. "Hello there" the girl in the dress greeted. "I'm Sally Brown"
"Hi, is Chuck home?" the black haired girl asked.
"Who are you?" Sally then proceeded to question.
"My name is Marcie…" the bespectacled girl explained to the blonde girl. "I'm a friend of his from camp" she added.
"Sorry, Matilda but my brother doesn't have any friends" the blonde replied.
"How can you say that? You don't even know me..." the bespectacled girl asked.
"No, but I know my brother!" responded Sally. "Listen, Mary, if you want, I'll show you to my brother's room" she reasoned.
"Deal" Marcie replied, following a girl younger than her to a door in a hallway.
"Here you go, Darcie" Sally announced, not walking off but standing beside her.
"Thanks, Sally. Psst…hey Chuck…are you in there?" the bespectacled girl asked.
"Who is it?" Charlie asked, hiding in his bedsheets.
"It's me…Marcie…" she began.
"Who?" questioned Charlie Brown.
"…you know, from camp…we were playing Ha Ha Herman together…" Marcie continued.
"I'm sorry…I don't want to see anyone" Charlie Brown politely declined, thinking about the raven haired girl with the glasses he met a few months ago.
"If my brother doesn't want to see you, I think you should leave" suggested Sally.
For Charlie Brown, it was the best and worst days of his life: he met a cute girl AND got to know her name in only a four month difference.
Now his dreams were full of the two of them talking together. Maybe she liked animals too and owned a pet of her own. Maybe she played sports as well. Maybe she disliked coconut candies like everyone else. Maybe she believed in the Great Pumpkin. Maybe the two of them would become really great friends.
"Marcie…" he told himself, nuzzling into his pillow as sleep overcame him. His mom didn't question what he meant by 'Marcie'…she did know she too was once a kid madly in love though.