The geeky goth went inside of the gas station in hopes of finding some more gas for his car. The geeky goth hears the song 'Everybody Wants to Rule the World' by Tears of Fears playing on the radio inside this building as he entered. The goth decided to look around the shelves, trying to find a can of gas for his car to have. He found one, and headed over to the counter.
While looking through some of the things in his pockets, something fell out of his jacket pocket. It was a photo of himself, Goth Boy, and Yuki all together in the Junkyards break trailer. Standing back up from the ground, the clerk took notice of the photo in the geeky goths hands.
"Family of yours?" The clerk asked. "Brother and a sister?" James points at the photo, shaking his head to that question.
"Who these guys? No...uh..." The geeky goth looks down at the photo in his hands again, feeling a bit discouraged that somebody saw it in his hands. "Those two are friends of mine...eh, use to be friends of mine..."
"What happened?"
"Oh...you'd be...kind of finding this to be a funny story but, eh..." James hands the guy some money, before continuing to talk. "I'm not...completely a goth person, I'm a...geeky person, you know? I didn't belong in that group, like my girlfriend told me in the past, and...looking back at my Senior Year in high school, I probably should've listened to her. But I was still friends with Ray regardless of being out of that group." James chuckles, before the cashier hands him the gas he needed. "Sadly, the whole group I was with just...went out of control, and...after things gotten to be too much for me to handle, I decided to tell my girlfriend that she was right back in 2017, and I decided to tell Goth Boy I didn't want to hang out with them anymore."
"Really?"
"Yeah. I did tell him I wanted to still be friends with him, especially with what happened between him and..." James frowned remembering the day he heard about Goth Boy's exgirlfriend, Yuki. He gulps, before looking up at the guy in front of him. "Yuki...she...she committed suicide after her breakup with Goth Boy. But...hey, at least I know if I'm going to hang out with people, I should just...make sure that things won't go insane in the next few days. Thankfully, I'm still friends with Ray and Raven, even after everything that has happened. Ghostly and Violet too, who actually didn't blame me for siding with Goth Boy in that whole situation..." James sighed, before picking up the gas can in front of him. "...Well, me and my girlfriend are off on our own now. We're going off to a ski resort that my aunt, Professor Nova, works at."
"Eh, seems like things are going to go well for you up there." James scoffs, rolling his eyes hearing that.
"Just as long as...I don't end up stumbling upon Preston Winthrop...a total prick who tried to take over the ski resort and almost had a yeti under arrest..." The man raises an eyebrow hearing James say that. "It's a long story, sir...but if you need me, I got to go to the motel where my girlfriend is waiting for me at."
"Have fun going to that place, sir."
"Alright."
James exits the gas station and heads back over to the motel where Jenny was waiting for her boyfriend at. The geeky girl was leaning on the wall near one of the motel rooms, reading a comic book to herself, waiting for her boyfriend to arrive. She looks up from her comic book, noticing her boyfriend coming over to the motel building, carrying the can of gas.
The geeky boy places the gas into the car, and then throws the empty can into the garbage can nearby. Jenny places her comic book back into her jacket, walking over to the car her boyfriend drives. She stops aside her boyfriend, as he stood up.
"Well, looks like we're ready to go for tomorrow when we're on the road again, Jenny." James said, nodding his head at his car. "I believe in a few more days or so, I think we'll be able to make it to my aunt's job place before the end of August." James looks over to the girl he was dating, smiling at her. "You think so?" Jenny nods her head.
"Hopefully." Jenny said. "How much farther is this place anyway?"
"Until it starts snowing is when we're close. Keep in mind, Aunt Nova works at a ski-resort out in these mountains." James looks up at the sky, sighing at the fact that the sun was setting now. "Damn it, I forgot that night was coming soon. Guess we should stay here for the night, and continue driving tomorrow morning." Jenny nods her head.
"Couldn't agree more. Come on, I already got us rooms to sleep in. Both next to each other." James nods his head.
"Alright. Thanks for...doing that...I would've helped you out when I..."
"It's okay sweetie. I get enough money at the SPA Agency sitting behind the desk anyway. Don't worry about it." Jenny looks over to the sky again. "You know, since there's enough time, I guess you can make it up to me by getting us some dinner." James nods his head.
"Alright." The two smiled at each other, before heading off to the nearest restaurant to eat at.
Back at the Forest of the Elves...
Once all of the fruit was gathered, Leaf was just about ready to place his basket of fruit into the store that needed the fruit. He hands the fruit basket to the clerk at the counter, and then headed out of that store. Truthfully, with the fact that Pine-Cone had to bother him today, he really wanted this day to be over.
Along the way to his house, Leaf stops near a spot where he can see Petal talking with some of her friends. The crush of Leaf's was standing by one of the unicorns. The male elf waves at Petal, faking a smile at her. When Petal saw him waving for her attention, the other elves she was with took notice of him too.
"Oh no...not Leaf of all elves..." One of the two elf girls muttered. Petal steps ahead, holding up her hands in defense.
"Don't be bothered, my friends. I will talk to him." Petal said.
The female elf walks up to Leaf, slowly frowning as she approached him. She stood there, in front of him, crossing her arms with a look of sheer disappointment. No anger, since Petal is usually never furious, just disappointed. She took a deep sigh, before she finally said something to Leaf.
"One of the other elves said you almost got into a fight around the fruit trees." Petal said. Leaf frowned hearing that being said. "Leaf, tell me this isn't true."
"I wasn't the one who started it, just to let you know. Pine-Cone, then Acorn, sat there taunting me to no end." Leaf said. "I never used my magic on them whatsoever." Petal stood there silently, looking at him. She didn't say a word. "Petal...you know I would nothing to hurt you, nor the other elves. I just want to try to make these other elves happy somehow. But they are just not letting me." Petal finally spoke up, lowering her arms.
"Then just stay to what the king wants you to do. Then the other elves won't treat you so harshly." Leaf points out to the ocean.
"How can I just ignore the fact that there's more of the world out there than just this forest? Every item that washed up on our shore is awesome, and me and you, and every other elf, are missing the fun."
"Leaf...we talked about this..."
"Petal, I-I know. But I'm telling you the truth that I'm not crazy at all, and all I need is you to trust me, and try to give this idea the benefit of the doubt." Leaf homds Petal by the shoulders, staring at her eyes. "Please, Petal...I need you to trust me, because this is worth it."
The female elf just looks at the ocean, before looking at the elf who was needing her trust on what Leaf was saying. She then looks behind herself at the disapproving looks on her friends faces. She gulps, before looking at Leaf again.
"Leaf...I know that you're wanting me to give this the benefit of the doubt, and I'm happy that you have dreams of your own. It really makes you stand out from the rest of the elves here..." Petal said. "But...I can't be on your side on this one." Leaf lowers his hands, looking at Petal with a disappointed look in his eyes.
"But Petal..." Leaf softly said.
The female elf steps back from him, before turning her back on him, heading off to her other friends. Leaf felt disheartened, watching his own crush walk away from him as he stood there looking at her leave. She didn't even look behind herself at him.
This genuinely hurt Leafs feelings. He probably should've expected Petal to still not be on his side, considering that she wasn't into what he's into either. The elf places his hands into his pockets again, as he walked away from the girl he had a crush on. Petal looks behind herself, watching Leaf walk away.
"You did the right thing back there, Petal." One of the two female elves she was with said. "Somebody has to tell him that he should just give his hopes up on trying to get to those humans." Petal sighed, before looking at her friends.
"Friends, I really..." She closes her eyes, before opening them up, speaking again. "...I completely agree, but...Leaf's still a nice person regardless of his faults..."
"Oh Petal, you cant be saying you actually feel sympathy for him..."
"I can't help it, girls. But just know, there's a couple things that he does that I can't agree with him on, and I don't want to die on any sort of hill he places me on." Petal watches from her spot, seeing Leaf walking away from them still. Leaf stopped between two buildings, before walking into one of them. "I just hope he knows that this dream is something that isn't worth trying to do." The two other girls Petal was with nodded in agreement.
"Agreed." The two said.
Back with a Leaf, the elf boy walked into what appears to be a library. The elf didn't really have any interests in anything studious, but he needed some help to try to get to the human's area somehow. He needed some extra help.
Looking through the many books on the bookshelves, the male elf looks through the bunch, before stopping at one that might be able to help him out. It was a book of magic, which isn't really much of a surprise, but it was a book on using magic to get off of the island. This could be Leaf's way off of the Forest of the Elves. Considering that this book is in the far back of the store, the clerk here probably knew Leaf would've found it here.
Seeing he had no other choice, Leaf hides himself inside one of the nearest barrels, reading the book to himself. He opens it up, looking at how he could use magic to get off of the island. With the little light that was in this barrel, he read what the page said.
"So all I have to do to get off of this island...is to create a vortex that would be able to send me to the human's island area." Leaf said, reading silently to himself. "Seems easy enough. I already know enough of using magic to know how to make something like that."
Leaf then looks out of the barrel for a couple seconds, before pulling himself out of it. He places the book back onto the shelf, and than heads out of the store. Along the way to his house, he had a smile on his face as he was heading to his home.
"This is as simple as simple could get. The only problem with that vortex thing is that it can be unpredictable where it will transport me to." Leaf shrugs this off, thinking it's really not going to be any big deal whatsoever. "...Eh, it's not like I've failed a couple times trying to do a certain thing with magic. That reminds me, I got to apologize to that one elf for having that tree appear in front of his house." Leaf shook his head. "But not tonight. Right now, I need to get home so that I can finally do this. Oh, this is going to be good." Leaf walked off into the town, getting himself prepared to go into the humans area of the world.