So many nice reviews already! Everyone seemed to like the Hazel Poppy ship I started up so I decided to build up on that a little :D

Poppyfrost's POV

I sink down on my bed, reaching out and pawing at the air for my phone, perched on my nightstand. Finally grasping it, I pull it towards me and open it. My heart leaps into my throat with a surprised jump. A text.

No, not just any text. From Hazeltail. My crush since forever.

I check to see if it's on the group chat, and if I shouldn't get my hopes up. Nope. One on one. Hopes definitely rising.

Hey! I've been thinking about doing a fundraiser to earn money for the basketball team, and Thunderstar says we can sell some stuff at the Halloween dance. Do you think you could run the booth with me if you don't have any plans? And any ideas on what the heck I should sell? :D

I nearly fall off my bed. Oh god. I want to say yes but what if I embarrass myself? If anyone else asked me, this would be an easy yes. But no, of corse Hazeltail did. Why me?

But I have to say yes if I don't want to ruin my chances with her forever.

With shaking hands, I reply.

Of course! I'm not busy. Maybe a photo booth for people to show off their costumes? What would a bunch of teenagers want at a dance, besides alcohol? I joke.

Please find that funny. Please please please.

Three dots pop up in the corner of the screen.

Strangely accurate- wow. A photo booth sounds awesome not gonna lie. I can ask Icecloud if she could lend us her camera

A few seconds later, before I can reply, Hazeltail adds-

Why didn't I think of that? My brain must not be working today

I sit up so abruptly I think I throw out my back. Letting out a whoop, I pump my first and do a little happy dance. Of course the moment I'm standing on my bed doing the cabbage patch my roommate would walk in.

Honeyfern turns over her shoulder to say bye to someone I can't see, and then whips around with a smile still plastered on her features. She stops dead in her tracks and then chokes on a laugh, almost kneeling over.

"Do that again so I can get it one video please?" My sister says, taking out her phone and waving it around.

I blush in embarrassment and fall back onto my pillow. I grab my phone again and hug my knees to my chest.

"So what has you in the best mood I've seen you in since highschool started?" Honeyfern asks, dropping her sleek purse on her nightstand and crossing the room to sit next to me.

I take a minute to look at my sister. Long, curled, coffee blond hair that falls all the way to her curvy hips. Powder blue eyes. Honeyfern is really pretty. And popular. And smart. Straight A's and everyone in Thunder quarter loves her.

No- I mean everyone in the school. Honeyfern is the only person who put up with, and even enjoyed, endless study dates with Hollyleaf when no one else volunteered. Everyday after school in year two, Honeyfern walked to our teacher Sorreltail's house and kept her company when Sorreltail broke her hip and couldn't walk. My sister even went as Lionblaze's date to the end of the year dance as freshmen when his friends made fun of him for not having a date in the first place. (Cinderheart nearly killed her for that one.)

I, however, have straight hair with not a hint of any curls or waves, and at the age of 12 I chopped it to my shoulders and won't grow it any longer because I love it that way. Dyed it white with ginger brown tips and cut bangs streaked in dark gray-black. I have the same blue eyes as Honeyfern and Cinderheart, and we all have the same round face. But I'm just average. Not ugly, but not beautiful.

And I'm pretty sure Honeyfern has never wanted to chuck basketball's at people's faces and punch them in the gut over and over until you don't ever remember why you're mad.

"Hazeltail asked if I wanted to help her out with a photo booth at the Halloween dance to raise money for the basketball team. And she laughed at one of my jokes and thought my idea for a photo booth was really good," I say, my eyes gleaming.

Honeyfern's entire face lights up. She throws her arms around me and burries me in a hug. "Oh I'm so happy for you! Hazeltail could have asked anyone else, but she asked you!"

A smile splits my face. That's what I love about Honeyfern. If I had told Cinderheart, or Hollyleaf, they would have looked confused and congratulated me, their logical minds just thinking Hazeltail picked any random girl on the basketball team and messaged her.

But Honeyfern has a need to feel people's emotions with them. It's what makes her so likable. If you were waiting for a book to come out, and it finally did, Honeyfern would bounce up and down with you and probably offer to buy it, even without having any interest in the series at all.

You could simply get a new lipgloss, and if you were excited, Honeyfern would be too.

"You have to let me pick out your costume then," Honeyfern continues, and seeing me open my mouth to protest, she adds, "And you don't have a choice. You can't just spring this news on me and expect me to sit around and let you go as a basketball player for the fourth time in a row."

My face flushes again. "Just because I wore the same costume twice doesn't mean-"

Honeyfern cuts me off with a laugh. She gets up and twirls around the room. "I got good news too, Poppy! Berrynose asked me to be his date for the Halloween dance!"

I pretend to act surprised and say the norm when your sister tells you her crush asked her out. But anybody could see Berrynose was just waiting for the right moment to ask Honeyfern out. He's always liked her. She's always liked him.

I used to have a small crush on Berrynose as well, but that was BH- Before Hazeltail.

I grab my phone again, and tell Hazeltail I can grab little photo booth props at the dollar store if needed. She agrees, and then says she has to go. I add in a Bye! before I shut my phone off and continue chatting with Honeyfern.

She gets a text, the screen on her phone lighting up suddenly. "It's Rosepetal. What's to know if you and I wanna meet Blossomfall, Briarlight, Dovewing, Icecloud, Hazeltail, and her at the movies right now. Hollyleaf and Cinderheart can't go for some reason."

That must be where Hazeltail had to go. "Sure," I say, getting up and slinging a dark blue mini backpack over my shoulder.

"Rosepetal says yay," Honeyfern laughs, before joining me at the door.

I chuckle, my thoughts drifting back to the photo booth. Hazeltail thought of me out of everyone to work with her. She laughed at my jokes and liked my idea. Honeyfern has a date with a guy she was crazy about. And now I got to go to the movies with all my friends.

Life's pretty good.