Chapter 5. That's when the plot going to start! Please enjoy! ;)
Cash, Bobby and Sandy were at the party in the willow trees with many other sabers their age. They were all either eating their food or dancing around while the music played. While Bobby was getting acquainted with the other sabers, Cash and Sandy were walking around the place.
"Cool party so far huh?" Sandy started up a conversation to break the awkward silence between her and her friend.
"Yep, it is." replied Cash. He bottled up his true feelings for the beautiful saber for too long. Tonight, he was going to use this time to confess them.
"Hey Sandy, can I tell you something?" he asked.
"Sure anything." smiled Sandy.
"Well we've been friends for a while now and you are such an awesome girl."
"Really?"
"Yeah. Listen Sandy I-"
"Hey Cash." a saber with the same color as Cash, only slightly darker.
"Hi Josh." Cash greeted his friend who he met a few days ago.
"So who's your friend?" Josh seemed to take an immediate interest in Sandy.
"Josh, this is Sandy. I've known her my whole life." Cash introduced Sandy to Josh.
"Hi." Sandy waved her paw at the saber.
"Hey." Josh greeted back. "So Sandy, have you ever been here before?"
"No. This is my first time." admitted Sandy.
"Well I come here a lot with my friends. What do you say I give you the grand tour?"
Sandy smiled. She only knew Josh for less than a minute (Eh, I'm to lazy to do the math) and she already liked him.
"Sure." Sandy gratefully accepted. "You don't mind, do you Cash?"
"Unless you two are an item because that would be so wrong of me." added in Josh quickly.
"No, no it's cool with me." said Cash nodding his head approvingly. "We're just friends."
"Alright Sandy, follow me." Josh lead the way. Sandy looked at Cash before walking off and said, "I'll catch ya later Cash."
"Alright." Cash looked cool with the fact that Sandy was spending her time with another guy, but on the inside, he was feeling melancholy.
Yep. We're just friends. Cash thought to himself miserably. Nothing more. He snapped out of his thoughts when a tickling sensation near his side made him jump.
"Sorry. I didn't mean to scare you." apologized a tawny-colored female saber(I am getting way too specific with the sabers' colors aren't I? :P) "You just seemed so lost in thought that this was the only way I can think of to get your attention."
"It's okay." Cash reassured the female. For some reason, she looked familiar.
"It's Cash right?" the female asked him.
"Yeah, how did you know?"
"You're friends with my brother Josh. My name is Kate by the way. You want to go check out the view from here?"
"S-sure." Cash hesitantly accepted. Since Sandy went to hang out with Josh, it wouldn't hurt him to mingle with his sister.
"Come on," Kate ran off motioning for Cash to follow. "It's so cool!"
Cash shrugged and followed her. At the same time, he ran into Bobby.
"Hey bro, great party huh?" his brother asked him.
"Yeah cool." replied Cash. Bobby knew what Cash seemed upset about.
"You still didn't get to tell Sandy huh?" he asked. He knew well about his brother's crush on the mesmerizing female saber.
"I was going to, but then Josh came in, he took a liking to her and he went to show her around and now, I'm hanging with his sister."
"Dude, you got to tell Sandy as soon as possible. If she sees you hanging out with this girl, she might get the wrong idea. Or she might-"
"Cash, come on!" Kate called out to Cash.
"Coming!" replied Cash running to her direction.
"Be sure to show that girl that you don't mean anything special! Remember, you just want to be her friend!" reminded Bobby.
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"That looks so cool doesn't it?" Kate asked Cash as she and him looked over the current with colors of pink, orange, and purple reflecting on the waters.
"It does." Cash replied in awe. He really was enjoying the scenery.
"Hey Cash, I know we just met and all but I've got something to admit. I kind of-"
"Hey guys!" a random saber just blurted out.
"Geez Gus have some respect next time and don't just barge in in the middle of conversations will ya?!" spat Kate. Cash was surprised at her bratty tone. She seemed so calm and level-handed when he met her.
"Geez sorry princess." Gus apologized sarcastically. "But the guys and I just found something so hilarious that I just had to come get you guys!"
"What's so hilarious?" asked Cash not really liking the tone that Gus used.
"Well we won't know until we check it out, come on!" Kate said running with Gus. Cash hesitantly followed.
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"So where exactly is this hilarious thing?" Sandy asked Josh as they walked together after someone informed them of something that hey thought was funny.
"There it is!" a bunch of the teenaged sabers pointed out. Sandy walked through the crowd of sabers and gasped at what. WHO they were laughing at.
Not Flora! She thought distressfully to herself. She decided to voice out her opinion calmly and civilized.
"Josh listen, this isn't-" Sandy started off only to be cut off by a female who yelled out to Flora, "Hey No-Fangs, in case you didn't notice, this is a place for young adults. No kids allowed!"
Flora shot up her head trying to keep herself from bursting into tears in front of all the others. "I have fangs." she muttered in a way that was barely audible. "They're just not completely grown in yet."
"Who invited the freak in?!" taunted Kate in such a prissy voice after she ran up to the crowd. Her comment resulted in bursts of laughter coming out from all the sabers. Except from three certain ones.
"Excuse me, but what did you just say?" Bobby questioned hotly when he ran into Kate.
"What's it to you?" scoffed Kate.
"Hey! My brother just asked you a question," hissed Cash. "The polite thing would be to answer!"
"Chill Cash, all I did is just call some random girl a freak." Kate rolled her eyes as if nothing happened. "Why do you care?"
"Why do they care?" asked Sandy with attitude building up in her. "Oh I don't know, maybe because that 'random girl' is THEIR SISTER!"
"Oh that's their sister?" asked Josh innocently. "Cash, Bobby I had no idea. I'm so sorry. Sorry you're related to such a loser!"
Flora hung her head in shame and ran off crying.
"YOU WANT TO LEARN HOW TO WALK ON ONLY ONE PAW YOU JERK BECAUSE I CAN ARRANGE THAT IN JUST THREE SECONDS IF YOU EVER DISS HER AGAIN?!" Cash and Bobby stared in shock. Sandy had usually been so long-fused. They never expected her to sound so hot-headed and threatening.
"Whoa babe, calm down." Josh attempted to make peace with Sandy dodging her slap in the process.
"Don't call me babe because nothing is ever happening between us!" Sandy spat in Josh's face as she stalked off with Bobby.
"Yeah, same goes for you diva!" Cash growled to Kate as he followed his brother and friend.
"Fine!" spat Kate. "It's your loss! You have no idea what you're missing out on! You didn't even have the nerve to tell me I'm pretty!"
"Jerks." scoffed Bobby in between mumbling some not-so-nice words about those things that they thought were their friends.
"I never want to see any of them again." growled Sandy. "Not after what they did to Flora."
"Come on, we know what to do." said Cash as he, Bobby and Sandy went to find Flora.
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(Okay so this part is going to be a little different than the sneak peek to it that you saw)
Flora has never been so embarrassed in her entire life. Never before she had been mocked so much by her birth defect. Cash would every once in a while tease her with it, but he outgrown it. Flora was so distressed by the bullying she had just experienced that all the slurs replayed in her head.
Freak. Loser. Weirdo. No-Fangs. And worst of all, outcast.
Whenever Flora wanted to be alone and didn't want anyone to find her, she would just roll herself in something to disguise her scent. Flora knew that her family respected her privacy, but that way, she felt completely alone. It wouldn't be just any old thing she found laying around. She was very picky about it. It especially had to be something that smelled nice like wild flowers, spices, or if she was lucky, piles of loose pine needles. Flora picked the scent of the day. Ginger. Fresh ginger.
After disguising her scent, Flora kept walking with her head dropped in dread.
This was the exact reason why she would always isolate herself from the other teenaged sabers. They always laughed at her just because her new fangs were just halfway growing. The only one who didn't laugh at her besides her brothers was Sandy, but maybe she was just acting so she won't look bad in front of Cash. Either way, Flora appreciated it.
Flora stopped near the stream. Feeling thirsty, she crouched down and started drinking the fresh water from it. As soon as she stopped, she took a look at her reflection. She recalled what her father told her.
Never worry about what other people think of you or call you Flora. You're beautiful and smart and it's important that you know that.
Despite her father's words that said otherwise, Flora still couldn't help but feel like an outcast because of her birth defect.
Snap! The sound of a twig being stepped on snapped her out of her thoughts. Flora merely shrugged. Must be my imagination she thought to herself.
Another snap was heard. And another. And a small sound of rustling was heard.
"Hello?" Flora asked calmly.
No answer.
"Who's there?" she asked more cautiously. She felt as if she was being watched.
Deciding to take no risk to sit around, Flora took off back home. She was not in the mood to meet any new people after what had just happened.
Just as she was practically running, a blur of brown jumped out in front of her, making her trip.
"I'm sorry!" the figure cried after Flora tripped on him. "I'm so sorry!"
As soon as Flora picked herself up, she discovered the owner of the voice. A male saber, about her age, with a honey brown colored pelt. He had dark, amber eyes and such shiny fur. Flora felt as if she had became attracted to those features. The boy seemed almost... well, handsome.
Those teens are so mean aren't they? Poor Flora. At least her brothers and Sandy care about her. She looks like she's going through a depression now. Who is this mysterious stranger that she meets? Will she befriend him? Or maybe develop some stronger feelings for him? Find out next week!
