Okey Dokey... My last chapter caused quite a lot of confusion.
Basically what happens in the chapter, and what you're supposed to get from it is that a man and a woman (the man is a 'werewolf' (And not Mr Canis) and the women a human) go into the forest where there are no people for the husband to kill during the full moon (that night). They put the man in a cage, and he requests more chains. As the woman is retrieving the chains, she finds a stow-away: her 5 year old daughter. Distracted by her daughter's presence, the woman forgets that the cage needs more chains, and the man morphs into a wolf. He breaks out of the cage and bites the daughter. The woman hits him over the head twice with a crow bar and drives off, fearing that her daughter will now forever be a werewolf.
The chapter is set 11 years prior to the main story. Therefore, the child would be 16 now. Sabrina's age. *mystical spirit fingers* WHHHHOOOOOO!
Okay? You get? You don't get? PM me if you still don't get it.
Chapter 4, in which Sabrina struggles to locate her chair, someone is asked on a date, and a pair of wings are spread.
Puck and I entered the Math room. The rest of the kids were mostly all there, and were chatting away about whatever the heck happened in their non-outcast lunches. Yep, unless you'd forgotten, you'd know that me and Puck were the outcasts who everyone hated, because of my Grimm heritage, the filth depriving everyone from ever having a future outside the prison-bars of Ferryport Landing. Blah, blah, blah. I'd heard it a million times over.
The only other outcast at the school was this Gothic chick. And even she had more friends at this school than I did. She just wanted to be alone all the time.
Well, anyway, we walked into the Math room, and sat down in the far back corner of the room. I was relieved to see that no one had seen us enter the room, and breathed a sigh of relief through my nose. Unfortunately I'd seen wrong.
"Hey, Grimm," Jeb jeered. "How was your lunch?"
I scowled. I knew he was just waiting for me to say something that he could attack. "It was great." I didn't even bother to disguise the utter disdain I held for this boy in my tone.
"Ooh. Feisty! Finally hitched up with your boyfriend next to you? Where'd he bang you? In the library closet? Or was it behind the shed?" Jeb teased. Gosh. What was with these stupid people and their wrong obsessions? Was it physically possible for them to think up one good insult?
"Watch it, Jeb." Puck threatened. "Grimm is my best friend. We don't spend all day shagging our best friends, do we?"
Jeb just laughed, "Well, it's your business what you do with that little bi-"
Puck stood up from his chair, "Don't call Grimm that!" He yelled.
"And what if I do?" Jeb smirked.
"Would you like me to demonstrate?" Puck asked, visibly clenching his fist.
"Puck, sit down," I sighed.
"Yeah, Goodfellow. Listen to your girlfriend. Trust me, do that and they're more likely to scream." I'd never thought it possible, but this meat-head had rendered me even more disgusted than ever before.
I took a deep breath, readying myself for a long comeback, but before I could utter a word Puck had lunged forward and punched Jeb hard in the face.
Jeb rubbed his jaw, then snarled and leaped out of his chair, crashing across the desks and landing on top of Puck. He started mercilessly punching him, slamming Puck's head against the ground. "You like that, huh Goodfellow? You like that?" He sneered.
Puck struggled against Jeb, but his full weight was on top of him. Probation or not, I wasn't going to just stand there.
"Get off of him!" I spat, grabbing Jeb by his shirt and throwing him away from Puck. He tumbled across the floor and into a group of girls who had been watching the fight. He got up, and I stood myself between him and Puck. There was no way in hell that I was going to let Puck get hurt.
Puck shakily got up, wiping blood off of his face. I knew that he so badly wanted to morph into a lion or something, but we both knew that that was a big no-no. There were too many humans in here. This wasn't one of the all-everafter classes.
Jeb ran at Puck, shoving me out of his way a little. He was about to jump on Puck again, when I threw out my arms, grabbed him by the shirt and threw him against a wall. I punched him in his nose with my right hook which I so often boasted about. He let out a yell of pain and I kneed him in the groin.
Jeb's eyes widened and he threw his hands over his crotch. He slowly crumbled to the ground, moaning in pain. I gave him one last kick in the side, then turned away to go back to my seat.
I didn't see my seat, because somewhere in the fight it had flown across the room to goat knows where. But what I did see though, was a pair of glaring eyes peering over a set of small rectangular spectacles. My maths teacher had arrived in the classroom, and had apparently seen the whole fight. She had her hands on her hips and wore a very stern expression.
"Ms Grimm and Mr Goodfellow," she began. Puck turned his head as well, and saw the Math teacher standing in the doorway of the classroom.
"Hey, Mrs Carmike! How has your day been?" Puck asked sheepishly. I let out a snort and burst into laughter. Mrs Carmike just narrowed her eyes even more.
"DETENTION!"
So, we were sent to detention where Jeb told the Principal everything that had happened and a few things that hadn't. Our principal simply reminded me of my probation, and dismissed us all, warning me that he'd have to make a decision on what he was going to do with me now.
Once we were outside, Jeb shoved Puck against the lockers. "You're lucky you had your girlfriend to help you out, Goodfellow. Or else right now you'd be a dead fairy. And it's a good thing that I don't hit girls either, or there'd be one less Grimm for me to worry about. But I'll make her pay, one way or another," Jeb warned through a clenched jaw.
I rolled my eyes and yanked him off of Puck. Jeb just didn't want to admit that he'd been bested by a girl. "Get lost, Jeb."
We walked outside the school and Puck cleaned up the nose bleed on his face. I took out my phone to ring Daphne and tell her we were finally out of school. As I turned on the old and beaten-down 'dinosaur-age phone', I was greeted with a text. I opened the message. It was from Daphne.
"OMG," I read out loud so that Puck could hear, "You won't believe what has happened. Hayden broke up with Tiffany today because she was being really mean, and then Hayden (tOtAl HotTiE!) asked me if I wanted to go to the Blue Fairy Diner after school! So don't go there, and I'll walk home by myself. Goodbyes, wish me luck on my date!"
Puck smirked, "So I guess I'll only have to lug one hippo home."
I snickered and punched his arm, "Quit complaining. Let's go."
We walked behind the school building where there were no people, and Puck let out his pink insect-like wings. I stood in front of him and he put his arms around my waist. Yes. How romantic. Get over it. Once he had a proper grip on me, his wings began to flap up and down, and we took off into the air, zooming over the town below.
Some people caught the bus home. I caught the fairy home.
"So Jeb's a total moron", I stated. "'I'll make her pay, one way or another!' Pssh, what was that about?"
I felt him shrug, "I d'know. But he can't do anything worse than the pain we experience by meeting people like him every day."
I laughed. "I don't know, man. He sounded pretty mean; like he actually would do something."
"I doubt it. I think he actually likes you." Puck chuckled.
Oh dear goat. "Are you kidding me? You think he likes me? You must be out of your mind, pig-breath."
"Why else would he spend so much time tormenting you?" Puck asked. Yep. He'd had one too many hits to the head, alright.
"Because he's an arrogant retard who thinks he can get a few cheap laughs by making fun of the kid who no one's going to stand up for," I said darkly. This wasn't a comfortable subject for me. I just didn't seem to correspond with guys. Especially when it came to crushes.
"I stood up for you," Puck said blankly. I wasn't sure what to say. What he said was true, and I wasn't going to shoot him down with another snarky comment because of it. Puck was a cool guy. Not like those jerks at school.
The wind whistled softly in the silence. It was kind of awkward, but I liked it. It was… comfortable. Comfortable and awkward.
"So, who's this Hayden guy?" Puck asked me.
I shrugged, "I have no idea. But apparently Daphne's interested in him."
Puck laughed, "And he's interested in her. Daphne's first date, huh? I'll have to threaten his life on the condition that he never hurts her, won't I?" He joked.
Yesterday, 6:54am"She'd go berserk. Never let you forget the day," I said with mock concern.
He laughed, "Probably not." We started laughing together. I pictured it in my head, Puck waking up with Daphne staring him angrily between the eyes every day for the rest of his life. Our laughing slowed to a stop, and we were once again left in the silence of the wind blowing around us. We were just flying over a lush green meadow side by side with a thick forest. The only virtue of living in the middle of nowhere.
"Hey Sabrina…" Puck said to get my attention.
"Yeah?"
He paused and I heard him gulp. Like, literally heard him. Weird…
"Do you…"
"Yeah…?"
"Wanna go out?" He finished, all of a sudden.
My heart stopped. Well, at least it felt like it. Heck, it was like the whole world had stopped. Like I couldn't hear anything but the slow, even beat of my heart. So many emotions were running through my mind: Shock, Horror, Excitement, Confusion, Anger…
I was most of all shocked. This was… new to me. It was weird and foreign.
This couldn't be happening to me. This was all wrong.
"Take me down," I ordered.
"Why?" He asked, sounding both nervous and a little ticked off.
"Just stop."
Puck stopped beating his wings and angled us down to the ground. He landed with a running stop, now carrying me bridal style. He put me down as soon as he could and I turned around to face him. He avoided my gaze, regret on his face.
"Where is this coming from?" I asked, worry in my tone.
He gulped again, and answered hesitantly, "We were talking about if Daphne got a boyfriend… I just thought that maybe…" He trailed off.
This wasn't how my life was supposed to happen. Why was Puck doing this to me? He wasn't supposed to like me! We were best friends! He was ruining everything. I was finally happy with my life, even throughout all the torment, and now Puck was just turning on me like this? How could he?
"I was just wondering if you wanted to go out… you know. We're good friends, and I mean, I'm not ugly… am I?"
I was breathing raggedly. No. No,no,no. Not Puck. Please not Puck.
I couldn't bare the silence, so I did the first thing that came to mind. I turned, and ran into the forest. I ran and ran as far and as quickly as my legs could carry me.
Everything I had was ruined. I couldn't go out with him! He was my best friend! Nothing more.
And all of those times when he'd stood up for me. All those times that we'd hugged and laughed and beat each other up… The whole time, he'd liked me?
I was dreading the moment when I had to go home and live and eat beside him again. This was just too awkward. I couldn't handle this. I felt like at any moment I'd just fall down to lie by myself in the mud.
Or have a seizure.
Or a heart-attack.
Or I'd die.
What the hell was wrong with me?
Okay, so I'm sure you'll be annoyed with me right now, for one of two reasons. Perhaps both.
The first reason, you might be annoyed that Sabrina said no.
The second, that Puck asked her out which is incredibly cliche and mainstream.
First of all, Sabrina said no because, the way I see it, she isn't interested in having a relationship. Last time she was confronted with these feelings, she responded with anger and confusion.
And second of all, Puck asked Sabrina out because he's, forgive me for being stereotypical, he's a guy. Its science. When guys hit their youth's peek they become extremely... well, very very interested in girls. Its all about testosterone and pheromones and and all that hormonal stuff. Puck's never felt love before, so when he comes face to face with being best friends with a girl, and for so long, he starts to notice her more.
I d'know. I gave this all a lot of thought, and it just made sense to me that this would happen.
Thanks for reading :) And if you don't agree with my theory, or have any questions or corrections I'd be really glad to hear them. :)
Thanks
-Elli
xoxo
