I Know It's Today
A/N Here's another one. I thought it would be nice to do one about Shrek's cousin Snowgre and his trouble with fitting in at high school. The idea came because I feel like Snowgre at college because I find it hard to fit in. I hope you all enjoy!
Snowgre growled slamming the door of his bedroom shut in the swamp house.
He'd just gotten home from high school and was in a bad mood.
Fiona wondered what was wrong with him.
"Maybe it's just hormones or something.
Just let him cool off, okay?" Shrek told her.
But she couldn't leave Snowgre alone until she found out what was wrong.
Snowgre was listening to music on his lap top on his head phones while surfing the Net.
It'd been his first day at Duloc High and it was miserable.
Nobody wanted to know him, kids ran away from him and jocks picked on him.
He had an ice pack on his furry wrist.
The jousting team throwing him against the lockers had hurt it.
"I can't tell them.
They expect me to stay there for as long as I live at the swamp.
I…. Wish I could be different." He thought as a tear fell from his eyes.
He then saw Fiona enter.
"Snowgre you okay?
You weren't yourself coming into the house." she said to him.
She saw the ice pack on his wrist and was nervous.
"How did you hurt your wrist?
The swelling looks nasty!" she said to him.
"I hurt it in Gym, okay?" he answered.
Fiona had a feeling that he was lying but knew he would open up in time just like Shrek when he was in one of these moods.
"Is something bugging you Snowg?
Because you know you can tell us anything." she reassured him.
"T-Thanks Fiona.
But I'm okay, trust me." he lied seeing her leave.
He sighed at that.
"I should've told her about what was going on but Shrek would want me to fight.
That's not me.
I'm more the quiet, smart, shy loser type that the other kids make fun of." he thought lying on the bed after changing into pyjamas.
Shrek noticed Snowgre was quiet as they ate dinner despite the triplets being noisy.
"I'm good.
You don't have to worry about me, okay Shrek?" Snowgre said sadly looking away from him.
He then found Snowgre sitting outside late at night crying.
It bothered Shrek seeing him like this.
"Something's not right with him.
I have to get him to open up." he thought as he sat there beside him.
"You okay Snowg?
I just wanna talk." he said softly to him.
He saw a huge wound on Snowgre's arm.
He realised what was going on.
"You're having trouble fitting in, aren't you?" he asked.
Snowgre nodded sadly.
"You probably want me to fight the jocks, don't you?" Snowgre told him.
Shrek had a feeling he was saying something about him wanting Snowgre to be tough.
"Snowg... I don't want you to change.
I know how it feels to not fit in and have the jousting team beat you up.
That happened the first day I started high school." Shrek told him stroking his snow white fur.
"R-Really?" he asked him as they sat by a camp fire Shrek had made..
Shrek nodded as he began to remember...
He'd entered the gates of Duloc High a few five years ago.
He was shy with a love of cooking, dreaming of being a knight and wanting to make his parents proud.
He had gone to his locker but he saw kids back away from him and run off.
"What's going on?
I just wanna be friends." Shrek said to them.
He then went to the pep rally but was surrounded by jocks and the jousting team.
"Look an ogre loser.
Get him!" the captain said as the other armoured teenagers grabbed Shrek and attached him to the Axe Ball hoop in the gym hall.
He heard the entire student body laugh and jeer at him.
It made him feel awful.
He then ran off...
Snowgre was shocked to hear that.
"That sounded awful.
Those kids were jerks.
I know how that feels to be a loser but jocks and jousting teams won't grow out of being cruel and mean but people like you and me will do great things.
Just be yourself.
You're a great kid.
I know.
I've seen your grades. " Shrek reassured him.
Snowgre smiled hearing that.
"Thanks man.
I'm never gonna forget that." he replied yawning as they star gazed...
Alright another one out of the ball park! Shrek's a great mentor when people he cares about need advice.
I wonder if Artie heard that story Shrek told Snowgre about his first day at high school?
He probably did.
What do you think?
