High School Isn't Easy
Artie saw his ogre friend life his head.
There were red rims around his hazel eyes.
"A-Artie does Snowgre hate me?" he asked softly.
Artie was shocked.
"I don't think so.
He's just mad about what happened at the jousting field.
He gave his all but Naki rigged the match." He replied.
"I-I guess but I have this feeling our relationship as cousins will change because of today.
I know why.
It's because I'm a loser of an ogre.
I try so hard but I can never be confident.
Maybe I should just stay in the dark and be all alone.
It's what normal ogres do." He told him sobbing.
"Poor kid.
He's so sad, alone like I was at Worchester.
Snowgre shouldn't have been so harsh to him.
Maybe I can help him." He thought looking around the tree house.
There were drawings, toys, books and other things there.
Artie held up a shield with a dragon on it.
"All this stuff is amazing.
Snowgre and you are close, are you not?
Being cousins and all that jazz." He said to the ogre teen.
"Y-Yeah we were as kids.
We used to play at being knights.
Nothing ever brought us out of here…. Except for our parents.
But Snowgre's changed since then." Shrek replied seeing the shield and smiling sadly.
"What do you mean?" Artie asked him.
"He never smiles or talks to me a lot.
He also hides things from me and he used to tell me everything.
I think we're not the same anymore.
It hurts." Shrek explained sadly looking away.
He was looking a ta framed picture of him and Snowgre as kids.
Tears came to his hazel eyes.
He then felt Artie's arms around him in a hug.
"It's okay.
Go ahead and let it out." he whispered to him stroking his trumpet shaped ear.
"I-I wish I could change, that I could come out of my shell but I can't.
No matter how hard I try.
Snowgre will never want me around him again!" he vented through tears.
"It'll be okay Shrek.
Snowgre may be a jerk but maybe he's hiding too in his heart.
Afraid to show who he is, how he feels.
I bet he doesn't hate you if you were close as kids.
Nobody could change like that, could they?" Artie thought sadly.
Snowgre felt angry and depressed.
It was to do with the jousting match and Naki.
But it was something more.
Shrek's face entered the teen's mind.
Snowgre's heart twisted in agony at that.
He remembered how he'd been towards his cousin eariler.
"I shouldn't have done that to him.
He was just trying to help.
But I'm alwats like that.
I've always been angry at him since I became a teenager.
I don't know why.
Maybe I should....
No, No way!" he thought walking back to his apartment in Far, Far Away.
A hour later he had his homework done.
He still felt low, depressed as the events from eariler kept replaying in his mind.
But then he saw something in his bag.
It was a letter.
"I.... wonder who it's from?" he asked himself opening it.
Dear Snowgre
I know you're angry after what Naki did on the jousting field.
I know you feel bitter towards me but why? What did I do to you?
You've changed.
You're not the same Snowgre I know, the Snowgre who loved playing knights with me, stealing berries and having fun when we were six.
I wish things were like that, like in those days.
I understand if you don't want to talk to me or when we're in school.
I'm sorry I'm not like the other cousins in our family.
Shrek
Snowgre felt strange feelings stir in his heart re reading it.
Tears fell from his emerald eyes at the words his cousin had written.
Artie sighed in his room in the castle.
He was thinking about today.
He couldn't get what Shrek had said out of his head.
"I hope Snowg comes around and talks to him.
He was so upset eariler in the tree house.
Maybe tomorrow he'll feel better.
Maybe things will be better, I hope." he thought as his eyes closed.
Snowgre couldn't sleep that night.
He kept having flash backs.
Shrek was outside his cave home star gazing and lying by a fire he'd made outside.
It was something that made him feel better when he was sad or felt like it.
"I wish Snowgre would be like he used to.
We always had fun but now he's changed into.... somebody I don't know." he said to the night sky sadly as his eyes grew heavy and fell asleep.....