Ello! here I am with chapter 4. are you happy to see me?
Lyndsi- perfectly put. and Good Neighbor Smurf is one of my favorites!
Raven- It really means alot coming from you, I love your work.
Bandgeek- some time ago you asked me if I could write a Handy\Hefty friendship fluff, but I just couldn't find anything to write since I relate to them alot less. but I'm adding Hefty to this one for good taste. hope you approve :)
The sun was slowly setting, and tired smurfs were making their way back to the village, holding large baskets full of smurfberries.
Somewhere at the back the group, Smurfette was following Brainy and listening to his words with great interest, eager to know everything about this mysterious meeting at the end of October.
"The princess is looking for a prince, how romantic!" Smurfette beamed, "It's just like the ball in the story of Cinderella, only the other way around!"
"I guess so. But the only pumpkins in this story are going to be Jack-o-Lanterns." This earned Brainy a few laughs. But Smufette's smile soon faded.
"I wish I could go…me and the princess could try on dresses together, and stay up all night braiding each others hair…it's so unfair that I have no female friends."
"But what about Sassete?" Brainy asked
"Oh, she's so much younger then I am…she'd rather just play with the smurflings. And besides, she's more into frogs then anything else."
Brainy felt bad for Smurfette, because he knew how it feels to have no one to relate to.
"I'm sure Papa Smurf wouldn't mind you smurfing along," he suggested. "Try asking him."
"Do you really think so, Brainy?" she asked.
"Well, it's not like it's up to me, but, I don't know, why not, right?" Brainy drabbled. He couldn't see a reason why Papa Smurf would decline, but he was a little worried Smurfette just might get her hopes up for nothing.
Later at the village, when everyone was done bringing the smurfberries to the storage house, Smurfette hurried over to Papa Smurf's house to ask him if she could come. She was so certain he would let her join him that she was caught completely off-guard when Papa said he'd rather not bring anyone else.
"Then why are you taking Brainy and Clumsy with you?" Smurfette asked, offended. She sat on Papa's bed and sobbed. "It isn't fair!"
"My dear Smurfette, please don't take this personally. I'd go alone if I could." Papa said as he sat beside her.
"Brainy is coming with me because I know all too well what'll happen if he stays here, and Clumsy is joining us because as much as I love Brainy, I can't have him around me all the time." Papa Smurf explained, and stroked Smurfette's head comfortingly.
"I'm always so busy taking care of you all, and once in a while I need to get away. I haven't seen my friend in so many years, and I won't have any time to spend with him if I bring everysmurf with me. Do you understand?" He asked softly, and handed Smurfette a handkerchief.
"But I won't be any trouble, I promise! I just want to meet the princess…other then me and Sassete there aren't any girls in the village, and I just want somesmurf to talk to! Somesmurf who likes the same things as I do, please let me come with you!" Smurfette pleaded.
"Well, alright. I suppose it wouldn't hurt. I bet Lilith would love to have somesmurf her age around." Papa Smurf gave in, he hated seeing Smurfette cry like that. This was obviously very important to her.
It appeared that Hefty heard the conversation from outside, because the moment Papa agreed, the door burst open.
"If she's going, can I come too?" Hefty asked.
Papa Smurf was in no mood to argue, and he was tired.
"Sure, why not…" he sighed, exasperated.
"But please, that's it. No one else is coming. Now off to bed you two, it's late."
Oh well, he thought. Maybe they'd all keep each other busy. And who knows, maybe Lilith really would like someone to talk to.
I know that was a really cheap way to rope Hefty in, but I wanted him in this and had no ideas on how to add him. so there.