How to Make an Apple Stew
The day after Apple confronted Rotbart, she found a small basket of bright, red apples in front of her door when she returned from class. She automatically assumed that they must have come from one of her many admirers.
"How sweet!" She said as she picked up the basket and brought it inside her room. She forgot all about her "solemn oath" to Rotbart and ate all of the apples over the course of three hours.
But when Apple finished the last apple, she noticed that there was a note at the bottom the basket. It said:
Never EVER, huh?
- Rotbart
Apple felt sick the minute she read his note. What if that creep poisoned me?! She thought. And she immediately rushed to the nurse's office.
It took a long time for the head nurse to convince Apple that she hadn't been poisoned and was making a huge fuss over nothing. Apple stormed out of the nurse's office, convinced that that nurse didn't know what she was talking about!
But after a day of worrying, Apple had to admit that the nurse was right. Rotbart had just been messing with her, and nothing more. The jerk. She thought.
The following day, Apple received another basket of apples. She hesitated this time, but concluded that since they were granny smith apples, she would probably be alright. After all, she reasoned, everybody knows that red apples are more likely to be poisoned!
But when Apple got through the second basket, she found another note at the bottom:
An apple is an apple, princess.
- Rotbart
Apple couldn't believe the nerve of that guy!
A couple days after that, somebody left Apple a small, steaming, apple pie topped with loads of whipped cream and cinnamon-sugar. Apple tried her hardest to resist it, but it was no use: she ate within two hours of receiving it. And it was quite easily the best apple pie she had ever tasted.
Still, she got a bitter taste in her mouth when she read the message that was etched onto the bottom of the pie dish:
Did you enjoy your humble pie?
- Rotbart
Apple felt a sudden, unprincessly urge to punch Rotbart in the face.
The day after she received the "humble-apple-pie," Apple found a bunch of bananas outside her door. She thought was unusual, but it sure beat more of her namesake!
Until she read the tag on the bananas:
By the way, apples are soo overdone, don't you think?
- Rotbart
Apple tossed the bananas to the ground.
"THAT IS IT!" She yelled. And she marched off to find that red-headed cretin.