The finishing half! Enjoy!

Chapter 10. Basketball

Sabrina lay on her bed, her head hanging off the edge, after her birthday party. She bit her lip as she thought about poor Snow White. It wasn't Granny's fault! If anything, Snow White should be angry at her…

Sabrina tossed the basketball she had been given into the air absently, and caught it. The glue she had hidden, hoping that Puck wouldn't go looking for it anytime soon. If he did he might get an eyeful of something she didn't really want him to see. After all, the glue was in her underwear drawer.

She twisted the ball in her hands, glaring at it. This was also a source of deep thought for her. She hated basketball. She knew that, Daphne knew it, her parents had known it. She had actually played on a team in third grade, but had quit soon after because she was too short to get the ball into the basket. From then on, she had hated the game with all her heart. Dodgeball she could deal with, even with Puck's stupid Everafter powers. But she hated basketball.

However, even though she hated the game, she really liked this present. In a way, it was the best gift she'd gotten out of all the gifts. But now she had to figure out why.

It wasn't because it was from Puck, that much was easy to understand. She was glad he'd gotten her a gift, but she wasn't too happy about the implications of it. She didn't particularly want a basketball glued to her head…

It wasn't because she liked the game, since she didn't even like basketball. It wasn't because she had gotten really awful gifts otherwise. They were actually pretty good, even though the carousel from Snow White was more Daphne's thing. Sabrina winced as she realized that the carousel might be the only thing she'd ever get from Snow ever again. She liked the woman, so she didn't really want to lose her friendship.

Sabrina tossed the ball again, and then blinked when it didn't come back down. She cocked her head backwards to see Puck floating, holding the ball smugly.

"So, Grimm, you like my gift?" The boy smirked as he landed easily on the wooden footer of her bed. Sabrina sat up and glared at him.

"What of it?"

Puck grinned. "Just wondering. You've been staring at it long enough."

Sabrina lunged forward and grabbed the ball, startling the fairy. He leapt into the air and hovered over her bed as Sabrina settled herself cross-legged, holding the ball.

She said, "Just wondering when you're going to try to glue it to my head. If you can find the glue, that is."

Puck stuck out his tongue. "Did you throw it out? That's rude to do to a gift."

Sabrina shrugged. "Nope. But I'm not telling."

Puck landed on the bed in front of her. "Come on, Grimm! How am I supposed to do it if you don't tell me?"

The girl grinned at him. "That's the idea, Stinky."

Puck crossed his arms. "That's not fair!"

Sabrina shrugged. "Shouldn't you just be happy that I actually like the gift?"

The boy blinked. "You do?" She nodded. "Oh. Well. I'll just be going then." Blushing, the boy jumped off the bed and headed for the door. Turning back, he hissed, "It'll be coming when you least expect it, Ugly." And then he slipped out of the room.

Sabrina found herself grinning. And then she realized why she liked his gift so much.

If it was coming when she least expected it, then that gave him an unlimited amount of time to try to do so. That meant that Puck was planning on sticking around.

Puck was promising her, in his own way, that he wasn't going to leave her any time soon. And that was more than anyone else had ever bothered to promise.

tada! The end of the twoshot using Present and Basketball. I hope you liked it, please R&R!

Tam