... Hey. So yeah, I'm alive. And since I have vowed that I will finish all one hundred of these oneshots (eventually...), here's the second.
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Makeup - 2 of 100
Sabrina twirled the small eyeliner pencil in her hand in a satisfied manner as she looked at her reflection in the mirror before her. She had actually done it! Finally, she had managed to apply her makeup in a way that made her look more attractive!
Sabrina couldn't help flashing herself a quick smile in the bathroom mirror. It had taken thirteen years, but, with the help of some useful cosmetic tips she had found on the internet, she was finally able to use makeup properly. Using her newfound knowledge of cosmetics, Sabrina had chosen to use a shimmering bronze shade of eyeshadow, a dark brown eyeliner with matching mascara, rose pink lip gloss, and on top of it all, a layer of bronzer, which seemed to give her a natural glow. The fact that her silky blonde hair was let down to frame her face and she was wearing a pair of small gold hoops in her ears also helped her appearance.
Today was no special occasion or anything. In fact, Sabrina had no plans of even getting out of the house, but she figured a girl didn't need an excuse to look pretty. With that thought in mind, the blonde put her cosmetics back in their usual hidden place in the bathroom and proceeded to open the door and walk down the hall with her head held high.
Sabrina was planning on just going down to the kitchen for breakfast as usual, but as she made her way down the hallway towards the stairs, she suddenly frowned and cursed under her breath when a door opened into the hallway ahead of her. Considering the fact that the rest of the Grimm's were ordinarily downstairs by that time, Sabrina could only assume the worst: Puck was the one walking into the hallway.
Desperately hoping that Puck hadn't seen her yet, Sabrina turned briskly to hide out in her room until the coast was clear. If Puck would be the first to see her with makeup, she might as well kiss her newfound confidence goodbye. She had no idea why Puck's opinion suddenly meant so much to her... It just did.
Sabrina figured that she must have done something pretty bad over the past week, because it seemed as if karma was biting her in the butt when she heard an obnoxiously familiar voice from behind her say,"Hey Grimm! I know you're a bit slow-witted, but I figured you would know by now that the kitchen is downstairs."
She decided not to dignify that statement with a response. Instead, Sabrina chose to do the safer thing and ignore Puck while practically jogging back to her room. Unfortunately, that worked about as well as her suggestion that Granny Relda should try to cook something normal.
Puck didn't hesitate to quickly fly over to Sabrina, landing directly in front of her and blocking the path to her room. Slightly surprised, Sabrina stopped abruptly in her tracks and quickly looked down at her feet, hoping that the fairy had not yet noticed her makeup. But Puck wouldn't have that. He reached out his arm behind Sabrina's head and sharply pulled down on one of her golden locks so that her head snapped up.
Puck's eyebrows shot up so that they were hidden beneath his unruly bangs as he finally was able to take in Sabrina's improved features. The lip gloss, the mascara, the bronzer...
After a moment, Sabrina could feel herself blush as she realized that his hand was still tangled in her hair, his body mere inches from hers. Coming back to her senses, she put her hands up to his chest and shoved. Hard.
Due to his lack of attentiveness, Puck was easily pushed to floor, landing right on his butt rather forcefully. However, he didn't really care about the well being of his buttocks at the moment. Sabrina was wearing makeup.
Which he had specifically told her she didn't need to do. Ever.
Puck wasn't sure what came over him then, but before Sabrina knew what was happening, he had sprung up, grabbed her wrist with unnecessary force, and had begun to drag her back down the hall in the direction of the bathroom.
Sabrina, stumbling after him, tried to wrench her wrist back, but to no avail. "Hey, fairy boy, what's the bid idea?"
It was Puck's turn to ignore her protests as he threw open the bathroom door, pulled Sabrina inside, and roughly shoved her down to sit on the toilet lid. Sabrina glared at him as he began rummaging through the cabinet, searching for something. "What was that all about? Hey, blockhead, I'm talking to you! Hey!"
While Sabrina tried desperately to get Puck to respond to her, he had found a cloth, wet it with warm water from the sink, and turned to her with a serious look on his face. He held the cloth out to her and bluntly ordered,"Wash it off."
Not quite understanding his command, Sabrina cocked an eyebrow at him. "Excuse me?"
Puck only got more annoyed and pushed the cloth into her hands. "The makeup. Wash it off."
Sabrina pushed the cloth back into Puck's hands. "And why would I do that?"
The fairy sighed, exasperated, and moved even closer with the damp cloth still in hand. "Do I need to do it for you?"
The other blonde glowered at him fiercely and snatched the cloth away, saying,"No."
"Then wash it off."
"What are you, my father?"
"Now, Sabrina."
Sabrina was about to make a comeback when she realized something unusual. "You... You actually used my name."
Puck just ignored this last comment and impatiently stated,"Wash it off, or you will be locked in this bathroom for the next twenty-four hours."
Sabrina glared and fumbled for words for a few moments, opening and closing her mouth, but not forming any words. Puck raised an eyebrow at her.
That was it. She gave up and gingerly started to blot her face with the cloth. Satisfied, Puck started to leave the room.
"Hey, snotface."
Puck whirled around, completely agitated. "What?"
Sabrina furrowed her brow. "Why?"
"Because you don't need it. Now wash it off." And with that, Puck left the room.
Sabrina sat on the toilet lid for another minute, confused, before going over to the mirror to gaze again at her now makeup-less self. Her eyes were no longer defined by eyeliner, her face no longer glowing with bronzer. It was just the natural Sabrina.
She glowered at herself in that mirror for the longest time before finally cracking a smile when her mind drifted to the annoying fairy boy who had made her take it off in the first place.
Oh well, she thought. Who needs makeup anyway?
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