This chapter would have come faster if I had internet :p
Saturday went by quickly for Anne, all she did was study the notes Diana gave her the day before, eat, and sleep. Diana could usually stayed for a few minutes then left, leaving Anne to wander in to a world she couldn't control, the land of her dreams. Anne was usually very keen on dreaming but today she didn't want to as she was worried she would dream about a certain hazel-eyed boy again. She soon fell fast into another one of her naps, and yes, she did dream about 'that boy'.
The next day while Anne was quietly reading the third installment of The Rich Soul when she heard a knock, "Come in, she's just upstairs in the last room to the left." Anne heard Marilla say sweetly, she assumed it was Diana coming to visit as she visited quite often and was surprised to see a short blonde girl peeking her head through her bedroom door before walking in with a basket of sugar cookies.
Anne was not the biggest fan of sugar cookies but nonetheless was touched by the sentiment.
"Hi Anne!" She said excitedly "I heard that you sprained your ankle and asked Mother if I could visit you, she thought I was being a bit over the top with bringing you these cookies that i made but i didn't care, do you think it's over the top, Anne?"
"Not at all! I adore cookies and think that it's a very sweet sentiment, Charlotte!" Anne said with a bright smile, she may have been lying about adoring cookies but it was a white lie, that was ok... Right?
"Izzy didn't want to come up, she's waiting at the dance studio. I don't know why she hates when I call her Izzy, I think it sounds more fun than Isabella, I don't have any nicknames other than Charlie and that sounds like a boys name."
"My name doesn't have a nickname either, it's too short, but I quite love Charlotte, it's very elegant and princess-like."
"Thank you!" Charlotte said with a big and bright smile.
They spoke for a long time until Charlotte had to leave.
Anne fell asleep almost immediately after Charlotte left the room, Charlotte saw this and tiptoed down the stairs in order to not disturb her sleeping friend.
She shut the door quietly and ran to the dance studio quickly.
"Why were you there for so long?" Isabella asked annoyingly,
"We were talking."
"Just get in the buggy, we've been waiting for quite a while."
"I'm sorry, Izzy."
"Stop calling me that! It's unsophisticated." She said as she stepped into the buggy.
Charlotte rolled her eyes in a very unsophisticated manner and sat down.
Once they got home they were greeted by their mother, "Hello Isabella and Charlotte, how did Anne like the cookies?"
Charlotte smiled proudly, "She said she adored them!"
"She said." Isabella shot back
Charlotte crossed her arms, "Anne looked like she actually liked them so I believe Anne!"
"We'll see of she really liked them when you pick up the basket."
Charlotte stuck her nose up in the air, she was losing confidence in her argument but would not give in to Izzy. "Fine then, I'll show you just how much Anne liked the cookies, I'll bet that all of them, each and every cookie, will be eaten when I pick up the basket."
"How much do you want to bet, Charlotte?" Isabella said with an evil grin,
"What?"
"What about that lovely golden necklace with the giant diamond?"
Charlotte held back a gasp, Izzy surely knew that that was her favourite necklace. "Grandmother would be upset if she found out I gave it away!"
"But since you're so certain that Anne will eat them all, that isnt a problem, is it?"
Charlotte clenched her fists, "What would I get?"
Isabella looked shocked for a mere second before she regained her composure, surely Anne couldn't eat all those cookies!
Charlotte took advantage of the silent Isabella and spoke, "What about that beautiful ruby ring that Father gave you?"
"Nathanial gave that to me!"
"I was there when Father gave you the ring, don't try and fool me."
Isabella then gave Charlotte an evil glare that Charlotte thought could turn people to stone- most people to stone.
Charlotte looked back up with a grin, "Are you afraid?"
Isabella gasped in horror, "No! Of course I'll give you the ruby ring if you win, Anne could never eat that many cookies!" She said coldly, on the inside she knew that she was really reassuring herself more than intimidating Charlotte.
"The bet is on."
They both walked up to their rooms and went to sleep thinking about winning the bet.
Meanwhile in Avonlea, Anne had just woken up to the sound of a knock on her door, maybe it was Diana this time?
Anne heard Marilla greet someone at the door, she heard someone walking up the stairs three steps at a time, not Diana then, And then taking a breath before slowly opening to door.
Anne's grey eyes turned green and opened wide with confusion as she realized who it was, the one and only Gilbert Blythe.
"I can walk perfectly fine" he quoted for the second time with a grin.
Anne let out a huff of defeat, "Will you ever let me live that down, Blythe?"
Gilbert chuckled, "Wouldn't be me without a little teasing."
Anne rolled her eyes, "Why are you here?"
"To check on you, you weren't at school."
"If you were so worried, why did you come now and not on Friday?" She mockingly said.
Gilbert knew the real reason, but Anne shouldn't know that he was scared of her acting- how she did or her thinking that he felt- how he felt.
He asked Diana as he knew that she would have visited Anne by now but Diana only gave him a sly smile and told him to go see for himself, this was the only thing he could do other than wait and see.
"I was busy until today."
Anne's face lightened up a bit, "Shouldn't you be busy now? It's supper time."
Gilbert blushed in embarrassment, "I must have forgotten"
Anne giggled, "Take as many cookies as you want, I'm not the biggest fan of sugar cookies."
They started discussing schoolwork and then just school in general and how Charlie had stuck a pencil up his nose.
Gilbert left a few minutes later with a smile on his face.
Anne looked at the basket next to her bed, Gilbert had eaten all but two of the sugar cookies, she could give Diana the remaining two if she ever came.
Anne then pulled out her book, she was almost done the third in the series.
Samuel looked up at his father with angry eyes, "you're a monster!" He yelled angrily, he used to think so much of his father but now he couldn't see him as anything but a thief.
Anne sighed, "if only Samuel could understand that his father changed once he met his mother and that he only stole to survive." She thought out loud.
Because of how obsessed she was with her book, she didn't hear Diana knocking, being greeted, walking up the stairs, and walking into her room.
"Hello, Anne." Diana said while giggling
Anne dropped her book, "I am so sorry, Diana, I didn't notice you!"
"I noticed."
"Would you like these cookies?" She said, motioning to the two sugar cookies still in the basket,
"Yes, I would love to eat them!" Diana said while enthusiastically grabbing the two sugar cookies.
"Charlotte dropped them off."
"Charlotte from your dance class?"
"Yes, she's a very sweet girl, though the same cannot be said for her sister, Isabella."
"You've gotten quite popular in my absence, any other visitors?" Diana teased,
"Actually, Gilbert Blythe came over."
Diana pretended to be shocked but in reality was the opposite, she knew that if Gilbert couldn't hear information about Anne from her, he wouldn't be able to resist coming to check on Anne.
"Well, I guess he cares." Diana said innocently while finishing her second sugar cookie.
"Cares?" Anne quietly shouted, "Thats preposterous!"
Diana giggled, "Is it really so impossible?"
"Yes."
"Ok then, if you're sure. I have to go now, have a nice afternoon!" Diana said as she got up, she didn't actually need to leave but she decided to let Anne talk to her own mind and go over her feelings all by herself, Diana only set it up.
Anne did in fact speak to her mind until she fell asleep, and her dreams had some interesting points to make as well.
Gilbert Blythe truly would never leave her alone, not even in her dreams.
How... Annoying?
