Chapter 2! Yay! ENJOY OR...OFF WITH YOUR HEAD! Just kidding.
"Sparrow..where are we going? What does this have to do with me becoming nicer?" Duchess asked frantically. Sparrow had blindfolded her for their first lesson.
"Aren't we missing class?" Duchess asked. The area was quiet, besides the birds chirping.
"Duchess, stop complaining. We're here." Sparrow announced. He gently took the blindfold off his princess's eyes. Duchess began to hear noises, like screaming children and pop music.
Duchess' amber eyes adjusted to her surroundings. They were at an..amusement park?
Duchess turned to Sparrow, who was grinning like an idiot. "Sparrow," she said, annoyed, "What does this have to do with me becoming nice?"
Sparrow laughed. "C'mon, Odette. We got a lot of work to do and little time if we want to get you nice before the benefit." And with that, Sparrow dragged Duchess into the last place she wanted to be.
Duchess hated amusement parks. And no, she wasn't afraid of heights. It was because...of karaoke.
It was the summer before she transferred to Ever After High. It was Cedar's 14th "birthday" and she was nice enough to invite everyone. Duchess saw a karaoke booth and reluctantly went up there to sing because she told everyone that she could sing better than Apple. But after Apple's stunning performance, she was ready back out, but a bet was bet.
Duchess sang "You Belong With Me" by Tailor Quick. When she spun around for the grand finale, she tripped and fell into Daring's arms. It was kind of romantic, till everyone had a glimpse of her purple panties with rainbows all over them.
It was a good thing Sparrow was sick with the flu that day. Nobody had mentioned it again, and Duchess never went to a single amusement park again.
As Sparrow led her through the park, one of Duchess' least favorite bands, 5 Seconds of Slumber (5 Seconds of Summer) played their hit single. "Sparrow…what are we doing?" Sparrow didn't answer.
They finally got to their destination, a very long line to a dancing booth, where you followed the moves in the screen again.
"Oh, for Grimm's sake, I am not waiting in this line with kids. Let's just cut. We're older than them." Duchess said, impatiently. She stared at the long line of poor-looking children ahead of them.
"Duchess. We came here for a lesson. If you want to be kind, you need to learn patience."Sparrow said. Duchess just huffed and said nothing more.
Eventually they were finally there. A kid in rags just left, crying. Duchess rolled her eyes and laughed. Her opponent was a tan skinned girl with dark eyes with silky black hair.
The booth operator gave instructions and Duchess smiled and logged in her player name. "Best of luck." she said.
The girl just smirked. "I don't need luck, sweetheart." The Swan Princess just took a deep breath and counted to three.
Then the music came on, a song Duchess didn't recognize. The arrows began slow at first, then rapidly. The girl seemed as good as Duchess.
Sparrow began cheering Duchess on, and she pushed herself to go faster. The competition groaned, but kept up with Duchess. By now, the girls had an audience
Sparrow then took out his guitar and began rocking out, hard-core. The girl jumped at
the loud strum of the guitar, and missed a beat.
The scores were displayed on the screens.
SWANBABE1 PRINCESSMIA3
1867 1865
NEW HIGH SCORE! SWANBABE1 wins!
The girl who Duchess assumed was Princess Mia poured. "No fair! I got distracted!" The audience clapped and slowly crept away. "I won!" Duchess squealed. She gracefully jumped down to hug Sparrow, but Mia got there first.
And started to flirt with him.
At first, Sparrow was immediately mesmerized and started flirting with her back, and then remembered who had won. He turned to a red-faced Duchess, and apologized.
"Sorry. I'm taken." He gave a charming wave goodbye to the fuming princess, who threw Duchess a glare and said, "I'll get you SwanBabe1." Then she stormed off.
Duchess didn't care what Princess Mia attempted to do. She wouldn't get away with it.
"Congrats! You were hexcellent out there." Sparrow said. Duchess nodded. "Yeah, I know." the booth operator, who looked even more tired than before, handed Duchess the largest stuffed dragon she had ever seen in her life.
"This is going to be the best day ever!" Duchess exclaimed, squeezing the life out of the poor dragon.
They walked ahead, to a tent where movies were playing. They were playing the Snow White movie, of course. Duchess had no intent whatsoever to watch the stupid movie, but it would be good to relax a bit.
Before they could walk through the tent, the small boy who went before Duchess ran up to her.
"What!? You got that dragon! Mom, she got the dragon I wanted. I wanted the dragon, I wanted the dragon! Can I have it pleeease?" the boy begged, looking up at Duchess and Sparrow with big brown pleading eyes.
"Toby! Toby, you better come here, or you will not hear the end of it!" an angry voice yelled. The two high schoolers turned to see a gray haired woman, probably in her late forties in a sack of a dress.
'Yes, Mom." Toby murmured. He walked away as slowly as he could. Sparrow was waiting for Duchess to say something rude, but she did the exact opposite of that.
Instead, she ran to the boy and handed him the dragon. "Here you go, kid. Keep it. I'm Duchess Swan." Duchess said, kneeling next to the boy. His eyes went wide with happiness.
"Oh! Miss Swan! you don't have to do that…" Toby's mother said.
"I know. But I want to." Duchess replied nonchalantly. "Good luck, kid. Bye!"
"Bye, Duchess!"
Duchess breathlessly ran back to the astonished son of Robin Hood. She noticed hi staring at her.
"What?" she asked.
"You...you were just..you gave up the dragon...without a rude comment…" Sparrow managed to say.
"And?" Duchess asked. She shrugged and went ahead into the tent.
Sparrow finally got ahold of himself and smiled. She was doing it. She was becoming the Duchess everyone wanted her to be.
Hi, guys! How are ya? How was this chapter for you? Hope you loved it and review! Next chapter: We learn when Sparrow began to like Duchess! Yay Spuchess/Duchrow!