"It was my dad" Arthur finally said.
"You're dad burned the house?" Merida asked.
"No" he looked out the window he was sure the sun would come out any minute now "I had a dream about my dad"
Merida paused for a moment before replying "What did you see?"
He took another sip of his tea "Vlad Chernabog dissecting my father like a grade school boy in Biology class"
"I thought he was burned to death . . . that's why they didn't recognize him at once" the Scot got off her bed she had the sudden urge for tea.
"It was never really confirmed how he died but that was most likely what he did" he finished up his tea "His sword had his blood all over it and his stomach was ripped open"
Merida walked around the silent house she knew her triplet brothers would wake-up any minute now "Must have been a rough childhood for you"
"Oh if you only knew . . ." the blond chuckled "You see in my dad's property there was this burrow I made when I was younger, it's were I hid Anna and Elsa. After the funeral I ran away from Sir Ector for a while and stayed in that whole for a week"
"What happened next?" she was looking at the cabinets.
"You know I actually felt better after that, sure I could get uncomfortable dreams every once in a while . . ."
"You just had one" Merida reminded.
Arthur opened the door heading towards the balcony "Indeed I did, but I don't know"
"Maybe you left your boyhood there or something" Merida boiled a kettle "You know I really can't get this feeling that I've met you way before Disney"
"Last time I was in Scotland I was around three" he found a deck chair and sat there.
"Have you ever been in Bath?" Merida snapped her fingers "Like for a school trip or something"
"Well . . ." Arthur then recalled that time Hans pushed him into the heated pool "Yeah . . . didn't really have a great time then, went home soaking . . ."
"THAT'S IT!" Merida threw her teacup at the wall without realizing but she didn't care at the moment.
Arthur blinked "I heard something break . . . did you throw something again without thinking?"
"You and some other kid got pushed into the heating pool right?" Merida snapped her fingers.
"Yeah . . . the other kid was Hans . . ." he wondered why he even forgot about that one he had almost died there.
/
He had left Hans to mope for whatever he had done, for some reason Arthur couldn't find a reason to get mad at the boy. "He almost killed me" he mused as he shivered he better think of some excuse he was sure his mother would come by the school tomorrow asking the headmaster to expel the young Chernabog.
The boy then notice a big red bush dashing towards him, he didn't have time to react as the said bush already hit him.
It was uncomfortable to be only wearing you're wet, only wearing your underwear under a towel. So it became even more uncomfortable when the towel flew away and now his partially naked bottom had meet with the dusty ground.
The red bush shook its head before realizing where it was "Would ya watch wer ya goin?!"
In here Arthur concluded that the red bush was not only human but it was also a girl, who happened to have a red bush for hair.
The girl quickly got off him and realized she was wet "Why ya soakin, did ya take a bath in da giant tubs or somthin?"
The blond just blinked before awkwardly standing up "I . . . well in a way . . ."
"Ow!" the girl, who he noted had a very freckly face, punched her palm "Yer those boardin school boys who suddenly jumped into da pool"
" . . . I . . . was . . . uh . . . pushed" he was starting to get real cold and wrapped his hands around himself while looking for where his towel flew out.
The young girl noticed what he was doing and she saw the white towel stuck on a bush "Here" she ran after it ripped it from the bush's thorns and gave it to the boy "Now ye cud dry yerself a bit"
He looked at the towel which was now not only dirty but had thorns on them, with sand currently in his knickers he wasn't too sure if he could endure anymore . . . irritation. But since the girl put on an effort he took the towel from her "Um . . . thanks . . ."
"Miss McCullough!" an old man who was quite thin who had basically no hairline approached the young girl "Where have you . . . dear gah!" he turned to Arthur "What on earth has happened?!"
"I was on me way to da bus wen I bumped inta him" the girl explained.
The teacher then turned to him "And what school are you from young boy?"
"Dothelby's sir" Arthur said meekly.
"Oh, Dothelby the teacher adjusted his monocle "The one with the two boy who got into the pool" he shook his head "Poor behavior I say"
The girl suddenly spoke up "But he said he was pushed"
"Now young lady we're already running late so why don't you come along now" he turned to Arthur "I believe you come along with us or you're mommy or daddy starts to sue me"
Arthur just nodded and they followed the man.
"Lord Cucuface is always like dat" the girl whispered.
"You get into a lot of trouble huh?" he asked.
The girl just shrugged "Well, life could be boring with a whole girl school" she groaned "Ya have ta have table manners"
"They teach that at my school as well you know" he then sneezed.
"Then we're both hopeless" she shook her head "I wonder wat me mum was thinkin wen she put me der"
Arthur shrugged before sneezing again.
"Here" the girl offered her sleeve.
The young boy's eyes widened "What?"
"Blow on it" she said.
"But what if . . ." he pointed at the teacher who was not too far.
"Just do it or you'll get a really really bad cold" she practically shoved her sleeve to his nose.
The boy had nothing else to do but to comply and blew his mucus into the white sleeve of her uniform.
Though the girl didn't expect it to be that much when she took it back "Dats a lot"
"Sorry you must think I'm gross now" he sniffled.
"Nah, it's actually cool" she played with the green liquid "Kinda like those slime thingys you see in horror movies, its soo green"
"You're a strange girl Miss McCullough" he said in wonder.
They finally reached the parking lot were all the buses where parked "Miss McCullough . . . what happened to your sleeve?"
"I sneezed on it sir" she said.
"You did that in front of him!" he sighed heavily "Do you know what kind of image you're showing?"
That was when Arthur's adviser came "Oh Arthur where were you? You were supposed to come here after head . . . what happened to you!?"
/
"Now I remember" Arthur said.
Merida was sipping her tea "Knew I knew you"
"Yeah, the girl who I blew snot at" he chuckled.
Merida raised her brows "Wat?"
"Remember I had a cold afterwards and you let me blow on your sleeve" up until now he thought that was quite odd.
"Yeah you were walking around practically naked" she snorted "No wonder I keep seeing you naked in my head"
The blond almost fell out of his chair "Pardon?"
Merida realized what she just said "Yeah did I just say . . ."
"Yes you did" he paused "I don't know if I should be disturbed or delighted"
"I rather you forget I saw that" she was circling around the kitchen, you numpty she thought to herself.
"Then again you always liked to look at . . ."
"Oh look at the time, time to open presents!" she sounded Southern for some reason.
But for some reason this was humorous to pass up for Arthur "Now I begin to wonder what you do to my clothes"
Merida's jaw dropped "Why . . ." fine wanna play it that way she thought "Are ye sure it was Yzma who gave me a bath or wasn't you?"
"I rather have my women awake thank you, nothing beats the sound of a pleasured woman" he smiled.
"You pervert" she groaned "And I thought you were better than them"
"You started this"
"You're an engaged man to be married to a very nice lady in the name of Elsa Vinterdotter" Merida spoke seriously. "She's quite a looker she could practically win Miss Ukraine or something"
Arthur leaned back against his seat "You know I kinda like curves more"
"So you were checking me out?" Merida shook her head, don't get flattered there he's probably still joking "Seriously the only thing missing is the ring"
"Now about that ring . . ." Arthur scratched his head "Umm . . . you didn't notice?"
"Notice what?" Merida was confused.
"Did you wash my clothes?" he asked.
"What do you mean did I . . ."
All of a sudden Elinor came running to the kitchen "MERIDA WHAT IS THISS!?" she was holding out a little box.
"Wait I gotta go bye" she hung up and went to her mother "Mum wat's all da racket?"
"This!" she slammed the tiny box on the counter "I found it in the pants you 'borrowed' from you 'friend'"
"Now why were you . . ." Merida opened the box and gasped "Oh no wonder . . ."
It was the damn engagement ring.
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A/N: I have resonated from the ashes whoo!
Now this thing would have been uploaded earlier during Christmas Day and the next chapter was on New Years, but boom VIRUS ATE MY FILES! So I had to type them all from scratch again.
Forgive me those who wanted a Coincidence chapter, I promise to deliver soon.