Not Ready To Leave
A/N Here's chapter four. It's Snowg's first day of high school.
Snowgre was nervous as he walked to Duloc High.
He was using his symbol cane to help him see.
"What id they don't like me?
Life will be miserable here." He thought as he walked into the grounds of the high school.
Cheerleaders were going through their routines while jocks watched.
Other kids were mixing with each other but stared as he passed.
He felt afraid and wanted to run away.
He went to his locker but jocks blocked his way.
"Look boys.
A blind ogre!
This is a rare sight.
Why're you here freak?" the captain of the jousting team jeered as he tripped Snowgre up.
His friends held Snowgre in front of him.
"What's a freak like you doing at my school?" the captain said to him.
"I-I came to learn like everybody else." He answered with tears in his green eyes.
"Yeah right!
You're not like everybody else.
You're a disabled beast.
Nobody cares about you!" he jeered throwing him in the locker and locking the door.
"Hey!" a voice yelled angrily.
It was Artie.
"Oh great the king of losers is here!" they jeered.
"Shut up Marco!
You ever pick on Snowgre again and you'll regret it!" he yelled as he punched the jousting captain in the face.
Artie watched as they went off.
The young king then heard Snowgre crying.
"It'll be okay.
I'm getting you out of there!" he told him opening the locker door.
He saw Snowgre in there beaten up and shaken badly.
"P-Please take me home!
I don't belong here.
You heard what those other kids said.
I don't belong here." He told him running off.
"Poor Snowg.
Marco and his jousting creeps are so evil to do that to him!
Wait!
Maybe I can get the triplets to help." he thought heading for the library.
It was where Spam always hung out and expressed his love of reading.
He found him reading manga.
"Hey Artie.
You look stressed.
What's going on?" Spam said.
"I need you to come with me." Artie replied.
Spam nodded as he put the Naruto book back in his bag.
They were in the canteen.
"What's up?" he asked Artie.
"It's Snowgre, the new member of our family, the one who loves Naruto like you.
It's his first day here and..." Artie answered.
"And what?" Spam asked him.
"Marco and his buddies came and hurt him, teasing him.
He was upset after getting him out of his locker, he ran off.
I can't find him.
I need you and your siblings to help.." Artie finished.
"I'll try.
Felicia will help but I'm not sure about Meatballs." Spam told him going out of the building.
Snowgre was wandering through the forest in Duloc near the swamp but stopped when he saw something in a tree.
It was the tree house he and Shrek had played in as kids.
"I-It's still here after all this time!" he said climbing up the ladder into it.
As a kid, it'd been a safe place where nothing could hurt him.
Drawings hung on the walls from long ago that he'd drawn.
Artie was worried as the triplets returned home from school.
"No sign of him?" he said.
"Nope.
We looked everywhere but we couldn't find him." Felicia told him.
But Shrek was walking through the forest and saw the light on in the tree house and shadows.
"Who could be up there?
The only ones who know it's there are me and Snowg...
That's where he is!" he thought as he went to find Artie.
"He's okay Artie but let me try to talk.
Last night I nearly got to him.
I think I can break through hi shell to his heart." he said to the young king.
Artie watched him go into the forest and climbed up the ladder and into the tree house.
Snowgre was shocked to see his cousin there.
"W-What're you doing here?" he asked scared.
"It's okay Snowg.
I'm not mad.
I just wanna... talk." he told him seeing a drawing Snowgre had finished of ninjas holding hands.
One was an ogre and the other was a human.
"Why did you run?
Everybody was worried about you, even Artie.
We thought you were hurt or in danger." Shrek told him.
There were tears in Snowgre's eyes.
"I ran because I was afraid, okay?
I don't belong in high school.
Like I don't belong anywhere, like in this family!" Snowgre yelled as Shrek stared at the many wounds and bruises from eariler over his body.
It shocked him that other kids could be so cruel.
"I'll be back in a while, okay?
Just stay here." Shrek told him leaving.
Fiona understood what he was doing as he opened a portal to Earth.
"I'll be back in a while.
I'm just getting some friends of ours to help." he said vanishing.
Charming smiled following him.
Arduro cackled as he climbed into the tree house.
Snowgre was asleep but woke up seeing the blond haired boy there.
"W-Who're you?
You wanna hurt me, don't you?" he said sadly.
"I don't.
I know how you feel.
Alone, scared.
You feel like a freak especially at Duloc High.
The kids make fun of me because I wear a leotard and love Drama.
Is that fair?" he asked Snowgre.
"No it's not." Snowgre told him.
"Come with me." he told the ogre teen.
"I-I can't!
Shrek said to stay here.
Besides I don't know you." Snowgre replied.
Arduro growled but calmed down.
"Why don't you think about it?
Then when you're ready, come find me." Arduro told him leaving.
Shrek smiled as he arrived in Earth in the middle of the night in Calvert County.
He was outside the Robert's house where his two human friends lived.
He hoped they could help.
He knew they would...