Within You
Ch 9
Charming watched as Tiffany joined him. She had jealousy in her eyes.
"Why're you jealous?" he asked her. "I'm jealous of Fiona. She married Shrek when he should've been mine! Also his female friends are in Love." She told him.
He looked shocked.
"So you're smitten by my foe? I might be able to help you." Charming replied as he gave her a vial of potion.
"Drink it. It'll… makw tou into an attractive ogress. He won't resist you then. You can also take care of Leah by hurting Carley emotionally." Charming told her.
"You mean that little rock chick who's in love with Leah and is half blind?" Tiffany asked him.
"Yes. She's not very confident and hurts easily." Gw answered her as she became an ogress with long black hair, slender frame, blue eyes.
She was wearing a dark blue dress.
He watched as she went off.
"Perfect! I can use her to get rid of Shrej and nobody will know I'm behind it." He thought as he watched the sun set.
Leah and the others were sitting around a camp fire. Snowgre seemed sad as they ate smores and Oreos along with fruit.
"What's up? You haven't eaten anything." Fiona asked him softly.
"Sorry. I…. Don't feel like eating.
I'm…. a loser." Snowgre answered them.
"No way! You're awesome! Besides we all feel that way sometimes. Iy just tales good friends to see you're wrong." Leah told him. She was eating her fifth Oreo.
Snowgre then sighed as he remembered what had happened the day before.
In his mind's eye…
Snowgre was just sitting outside Duloc Burger strumming his guitar when his older brothers showed up.
Snowgre gulped as he saw them corner him. They were nearly twenty while he was sixteen. They were like their parents but hated Snowgre.
"What're you doing here?" Snowgre asked scared.
"We're going to buy beer. What's it to you loser? You're just a mistake.
Mom and Dad never wanted you. You were an accident. No wonder you're not a proper ogre." They jeered as they hit him in the face, giving him a black eye.
Snowgre felt tears in his green eyes as what his brothers had told him echoed through his head.
"M-Maybe they're right. That's why my parents sent me here.
They, mustn't want me after all." He thought as he walked off…
Back to present day…
Leah saw him walk off with hurt in his eyes.
She followed him.
"You okay? You don't seen happy as you normally are." She said to him.
"Do you and the others want me around? Or love me?" he asked her after an awkard silence.
She was stunned to hear him ask that.
"We do want you. Why did you ask that Snowg? We love you." She answered him.
There was a look in his eyes, the look of being sad.
"It's just…. My brothers showed up in the village. They told me… me that I was an accident, that my parents dudn't want me or love me.
That's why I'm here." He explained through tears.
"They're wrong. You're awesome, a good friend and a kick ass guitarist. It's their loss.
They lost a cool member of the family." She reassured him.
"R-Really?" he asked.
"Really, Really. We're a family, an ohana. We care about each other despite their appearance or if they want to follow their dreams." She abswered him.
There was a smile across his face at that.
They then walked back to where the others were. His heart hurt but not as bad as before.
Tiffany was running after Carley. Leah growled at that. She hated it when others upset her friends.
"What did you say to her, you wretch?" she yelled as she punched her in the face.
Shrek and Fiona approached her.
"She was making fun of Carley and the fact that she's disabled and your relationship." Shrek told her.
Leah's blood boiled in anger at that.
Tiffany then watched as Carley was hanging from a tree about to fall when Shrek and Leah caught her.
"T-Thanks guys. U'm sorry about being a freak of nature." She told them.
"You're not. You're so cool, loyal, kind hearted and understanding. Tiffany's a jerk. She's just jealous that she can't have what she wants." Shrek explained to her.
Leah nodded.
"He's right. I see you as a normal kid even though you can't see well. It's what's inside that counts." She said.
"Yeah you're right. Thanks guys." Carley told them.
Tiffany growled at that as she cast a spell but Carley pushed her and Leah out of the way.
They watched as the blast hit Shrek.
She cackled as she ran off. "Aee you okay?" Leah asked him as he got to his feet.
"No I'm not. She cast a spell which makes me blind. I can't see anything, just darkness." he answered.
Fear was in Carley's eyes along with anger.
"Maybw uf we kick Tiffany's butt, the spell will break." Leah suggested as they helped him back to the fire where the others were.
"Don't tell the others, okay? It'll only worry them." Shrek said.
Carley nodded. She understood how he was feeling.
She'd get the spell to break. She couldn't leave him like this...
Charming smiled at what Tiffany had done.
"It'll be much easier to destroy him now." he thought.
