Chapter 4: Nightmares and Bullies
It was a hot day in Oklahoma, and Gracie was on her way home from school. When she got home,
she saw her BFF sitting there, talking to her father.
"Willy", Gracie cried as she gave him a big hug.
"Hey squirt, how was school", Willy asked.
"It was better than ususal", she said back.
"Great", Willy said with his signature grin.
The duo chatted a little in the living room. Gracie showed Willy some of the Pokemon characters she drew. They were pretty accurate to the cartoon. Then all of a sudden, a fire started. It burned everyone to death, all except Gracie. She was alone, nowhere to go. What was she gonna do?
She started crying. She was an orphan, no family whatsoever. Then everything went black.
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Gracie woke up pretty quickly, it was about 2:30 in the morning. She brought her knees to her chest and started balling her eyes out. Willy was in the living room, watching the movie, Who Framed Roger Rabit?, and heard crying coming from Gracie's room. Willy couldn't sleep,
in case if you were wondering. He went to check on her. He knocked slowly on the door.
"Gracie, you okay?"
"Ye..yes", she said between sobs.
"Can I come in?"
"...yes."
Willy walked in, finding Gracie crying so so much, her throat hurts. Willy ran up to her, sat by her, and started to rub her back so that way, she'll calm down a little. He said in a semi-sweet voice, "What happened, sweetie?" Gracie didn't reply for a minute. Then she finally said, "I h-had..a..a nightma-mare!"
"About what", Willy asked.
"About..the day..w-when mom and..a-and dad p-passed..away..except y-you were there t-too",
Gracie said choking on her words. Then she burst into tears. Willy then knew exactly what happened to him in her dream. He wrapped both arms around her, and laid his cheek on her nogin.
"Shhh, it's okay," Willy started, "it's just a dream. It isn't real."
"Most of it is, though", Gracie said.
"I know.." It was silent, then Willy started again.
"Hey, remember the story I told ya about neverland?" Gracie nodded. "They'll be there, if you believe they are. They're in you heart, too, ya know."
"I (yawn) know.."
There was some awkward silence, and Willy just realized that Gracie fell asleep. Willy tried to pull away so that way he could get to his own bed, but Gracie wouldn't let go. Finally,
the chocolatier gave up and fell asleep.
The next day, the duo woke up, cuddled next to eachother. They were so freaking confused,
unsure what to think of what in their right minds they were doing.
"Uh, did something happen last night", Willy asked.
"I don't know, but I gotta get ready for school, my bus will be here in ten minutes tops",
Gracie said.
"Well then you better get dressed, kiddo!" Willy left the room to go to his study. Gracie threw on an AC/DC tee, a pair of light blue boyfriend jeans, and her boots, and threw on her coat. She grabbed her school stuff and left in a hurry.
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On the bus, Gracie was listening to the song, Bohemian Rhapsody by the band named Queen. She was looking out the window when the song started.
'Is this the real life?'
'Is this just fantasy?'
'Caught in a landslide'
'No escape from reality'
Gracie started to mouth the words but didn't sing out loud. But she was a good singer.
'Open your eyes'
'Look up to the skies and see'
Gracie closed her eyes, and took a long silent breath. She suddenly remembered why she woke up cuddling Willy. It's because she didn't want him to leave.
'I'm just a poor boy'
'I need no sympathy'
'Because I'm easy come'
'Easy go'
'Little high'
'Little low'
Gracie felt something hit her head. She felt it, and found a spit ball in her hair. She stopped playing her music, and turned around. She caught Jeff, red handed with a straw.
"Quit it, Jeff", Gracie simply said.
"You're not the boss of me, orphan", Jeff yelled back. Then everyone started to chant 'orphan',
except Charlie, Candy, Denzel, and Ellie, Gracie's friends. Gracie started crying, because they brought up that painful and dreadful memory of her parents dying. Then they started calling her a big fat baby, even though she wasn't anywhere near fat, in fact, the kid's like 74 pounds.
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In Phys. Ed, they were playing basketball, and everytime Gracie tries to make a hoop, she misses cause people are jinxing her by calling her names. In science, Gracie got her test results back and got a C. She did study, though. Very hard. And a girl named McKynna that sits next to her, called her a stupid, lonely, ugly, orphan. That's when Gracie had her last straw. She was about ready to crawl in a hole, and die for all she cared. When she got home, she threw her bookbag against the wall, almost hitting Willy. Willy ran, and took cover under the kitchen table. Willy was freaking out while Gracie was thowing her shoes in Willy's direction. She ran to her room and started to cry.
"Guess she had a really bad day", Willy said to himself. "Oooh, what if she had a diary to write in? It might help a little!" And with that, Willy went to go buy Gracie a diary to write in. After all, it just might help.
A/N: I got the idea of Who Framed Roger Rabit when Willy was watching TV because one, i think it wouldve been one of his childhood movies, and two, i was in a pile of stuff animals while typing this and saw my dad's roger rabbit plushie from when he was a kid, lol. Anyway i was also listening to bohemian rhapsody when i added that to the chapter...till then, Abigwafflefan13...