[-edit-: So yeah, this is virtually a headnote but I needed to write that this idea was brought to me and my poor sick head *sneeze* by a girl in my summer school. You can call her Jenny. She's a fellow leftie like me *high fives to Jenny* and she's threatening to steal my ice-cream so I need to give her some credits. Thanks Jenny, you creepy girl -like me eventually-.]
Tanith Low sat down on a wooden chair which really seemed it would crack when somebody sat on it. But eventually, Tanith wasn't someone so that was a problem, since to her horror, she was fatter than she looked. Luckily, it did not crack or fall apart. Another disaster saved. Good. She thought. She had redeemed herself to be, to put delicately, the main troublemaker of the gang for quite a long time. Nye gave her a cookie, Valyrie took the cookie and Skulduggery was busy silently amused by the scene in the "dentist".
Nye had fooled her, again. But it managed to give her a cookie. It's not that bad at all, is it?
But no, Tanith wasn't there to test the chairs and risk the health of her back, just after she had risked the number of her teeth. Not this time. She moved the chair to the wooden table, which didn't really look too bad. The room was very small and barely lightened by two candles. The only furniture was the one and only wooden chair but with it, there was a small table. A small table with something barricading her view to the other side of the wall. She couldn't see the face behind that barricade. She let herself slouch for a moment and looked at the barely visible face.
"I have sinned, you see." The owner was silent, but he gave a quick nod.
"I have done many things. Bad things. Even during my childhood. Those memories still haunt me. They pop up and I feel guilty and ashamed of my actions. Please forgive me."
Silence continued, so did Tanith.
"I..." she started but couldn't bring the rest. She took a big breath, exhaled and continued.
"I. I stole a cookie."
[a/n: -.-]
"I-I was a curious child after all and I didn't know the consequences. I was at my grandmother's house and she always lectured us to not to touch that can over there. I did touch it, but I seriously did not have the courage to look inside. She was my grandmother after all. After that, I couldn't hold myself. I..."
She pouted but continued, with a voice of a child, mostly.
"I reached to it and opened that blue mysterious can. I was actually not surprised to see zillions of cookies there. My grandmother was a crazy one and she liked to collect all sorts of candies and stuff. Including cookies. We took advantage of them, of course. But I was tempted, since nobosy was there to steal them. And... that is how I lost my tooth." she looked at the ceiling.
"But they were delicious."
The parrot croaked. Tanith sighed and took the cage in front of her and looked at the little white parrot inside.
"Poppy the Parrot... no telling, OK?"
"Poppy," waak. "No telling." waak.
Tanith nodded to it with seriousness. "Alright, good boy."
She actually was surprised to see a pair of dark eyesi looking at her evilly. Jerry looked disoriented. Maybe it was because he was a parrot, Tanith couldn't tell while she was running to grab the girl.
Alright, this chapter was pretty annoyingly long, I admit. But do you know how hard I tried and how many zillion times I needed to bug my head to get to the result "Poppy" as a name? That needs another story. Believe me.
So yeah, no headnotes, looks exciting. But I'm mildly sorry that I made you excited from the start. Peace.
And today, I'll post another chapter, just to torture you even more cause this time it will be for the Chinduggery or Portal 2. It's my call you see. [rubs hands evilly]
I'm kidding, I'm not one of those people who rubbs hands... I'm the one who wears worms as a wormstache.
Sorry, I cannot grand you the "wormstache" photos. NOT now, maybe when I think you deserved them.
So peace people around the world and other planets;
-The Zombie "Zommy" Queen [note from the Queen: Do not call me Zommy in my palace... Mom. I know you're reading this.]