You Needed Me
Artie wondered what was going on as he sat in the living room of the swamp house drinking tea.
"It's Snowgre, my cousin.
He moved in yesterday." Shrek said to him.
"Why is he upset and locked in his room?
I don't understand.
Can I try talking to him?" the young king told his friend.
"Sure I bet you'd get through to him. His father dumped him here because he thinks he can't be a good father." Shrek replied.
Fiona watched as Artie knocked on Snowgre's bedroom door.
"G-Go away!" he heard somebody yell from behind the door.
"It's okay.
It's not your cousin." Artie told him.
Fiona watched as the door opened.
"Good luck." Shrek said to him.
Artie nodded as he walked into the bedroom. Snowgre was sitting on the bed in a furry ball.
"Umm…. Hey I'm Artie.
Snowg I know how badly it hurts to be abandoned by your Dad." He told him.
Snowgre looked up to Artie's face beside him.
"Y-You do?
How?" Snowgre asked him softly.
"My own father dumped me at Worchester Academy when I was thirteen and never came back.
He never wrote, never visited.
At first I thought he would but he never did.
So I stopped hoping he'd never come but I didn't feel alone after your cousin Shrek showed and told me I was going to be King.
After leaving Worchester, a lot of crazy things happened but everything turned around.
So I know it'll be the same for you.
I could be your friend seeing as you don't have anybody yet." Artie explained.
"T-Thanks Artie.
I'd like that." Snowgre replied yawning.
Artie smiled leaving the room.
"So how did it go?" Puss asked him curiously.
"He was okay.
Sad but okay. Snowgre and I are the same, right? We're both royal, our Dads both ignored us. That's how I can tell.
He needs a friend, somebody to talk to.
Because nobody in high school will or look at him.
I know." Artie replied.
That made Shrek think. Snowgre's parents were royal but nobody had ever called Snowgre a prince or treated him like one.
"Maybe that's why Rai's abandoned him.
Snowg never wanted to be royal but he and Porti did so now she's dead, Rai can do whatever he wants concerning Snowgre.
So he disowned him as his son, that's not right." HE THOUGHT HEARING SOFT GUITAR STRUMMING COME FROM sNOWGRE'S ROOM.
"S-Sorry if I'm bugging you.
I'll stop, okay?" the ogre teen said sadly putting the guitar away.
It looked like he'd been crying. Shrek then noticed scars on his wrist and was worried.
"How did they get there? It looks nasty!" he asked his cousin.
But Snowgre didn't reply.
The next day Snowgre remained in his room just coming out to eat or use the bathroom. Right now he felt alone, like nobody cared about him at all.
"I should just run away, to somewhere where nobody cares about me and see that I'm a loser.
Besides Shrek wouldn't care that I'm gone.
He and the others would be happy." he told himself softly as he packed things into his back pack and climbed out the window.
Fiona was scared not finding Snowgre in his room.
"I had a feeling he'd try this." Shrek said to her as they went to look for him.
Puss was watching the triplets but Artie had gone to look for Snowgre himself.
Snowgre had hidden in a cave in the mountains of Duloc. There was a warm fire there and he sat down to rest.
"Hello?
Is anybody there?" he heard a voice call out in the cave as somebody came from the shadows.
Snowgre saw it was a were wolf kid about his age with silver fur and wore punk rock stuff. He had blood red eye slits that seemed to have pain and sadness in them.
"W-Who're you?
Why are you here?
Don't you have any family?" Snowgre asked him scared.
"Relax I'm not going to hurt you.
I sense sadness and sorrow in you ogre.
You know how I feel." he wolf kid replied seeing Snowgre lie down.
He then heard somebody yelling and saw a human boy enter the cave.
"Snowgre you're okay!
We were seriously worried about you." Artie told him as they walked out of there.
Later that night Snowgre was asleep in his room while Shrek and Fiona talked about what happened.
But he was thinking about that wolf kid he'd met.....
