Where's My Dolly?
Finally! I finished the third chapter. I apologise to anyone who has been waiting. Sorry.
But before you read, I would lie to point out that the second chapter has been changed because I don't what I did to the first copy that I had originally posted and I could not remember what happened in it so I had to redo it. I would read it again just in case.
Disclaimer: I only own the plot.
Chapter 2: Remember?
Leaf did as she was told and met up with Gary during lunch. He did not tell her where they were going, all he did was grab her wrist (but not tightly) and started to walk out of the building before he released her wrist, using his hands to cover her eyes instead. They started to walk a little bit further.
"Where are you taking me and more importantly what did you do to my cookies!" Leaf demanded to know. She didn't get any verbal answers but she did continue to walk and turn whenever she felt Gary make her.
Gary laughed at his friend's impatientness, "You can't wait for like what? Another two seconds?" He asked her as he took the final turn and stopped walking. "When I count to three I'm going to remove my hands. One." He started slowly, "Two. Three."
Leaf practically yanked Gary's hands from her face and looked at what was infront of her. "My cookies!" She yelled as she took a few steps forward and lifted the bag off the surface of a car and opened it up, counting how many of them were left. Nine. They were all still there.
Gary shook his head, "What's under the bag."
Leaf raised the bag and looked under it. "My hand." She answered flatly, causing Gary to shake his head again. "Air?" she guessed.
"Wrong. I meant before you picked the bag up." He tried to make things easier for his friend despite her being one of the smartest students in school, she did lack common sense. He took his gaze of her and back to the red convertible that was right in front of them.
"A car, quite a nice one too." Leaf answered as she looked at Gary, wondering if the car was suppose to mean something to her.
"Leaf?" Gary said, "Doesn't this car look familiar to you."
*FLASHBACK*
Leaf made herself comfortable on Gary's double bed like she did everytime she came to his. She had already kicked her flats off, moved his pillows so ythat they were sitting upwards and leaning her back on them while her legs were underneath the white duvet.
Gary was sitting on his black chair and was on the internet, looking for a nice car that he would get, courtesy of his grampa. He spun round on the chair and looked at Leaf, while moving the chair out of the way ever-so-slightly so that she could see the image on the monitor.
Leaf looked at it. "That's pretty." She said to Gary.
The image was of a red convertible.
*END FLASHBACK*
Leaf suddenly realised where she had seen it. "It's the car you showed me a picture of last night!"
Gary nodded. "Finally. Slowpoke's finally got it." He said, earning him a glare from Leaf but the look disappeared quite quickly when he offered to drive her home after school.
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The door to the Green residence swung open. Leaf happily skipped in with Gary following, closing the door gently behind him. Meanwhile Leaf had already made it to the top of the stairs and was approaching her room when she halted at the realisation of something.
Gary had made it up the stairs too, and looked at his friend, who was just standing there staring at her room door. "Something wrong?" He asked her. He had walked up to her and stopped when he was a mere few centimeters away.
"I was so sure that I had shut my room door this morning." Leaf replied as she slowly crept foreward and pushed her door further open, allowing her and Gary to enter and she gasped when she saw her room.
Gary looked at what caused her to gasp. Leaf's room was a complete mess- not that it was ever tidy. Her perfume bottles were all smashed and lying on her floor, the drawers had been yanked right out of their rightful slots and her matress was practically on the floor rather than the bed frame, which was now made up of several pieces.
"What happened?" Gary asked as he looked around, "I know you're messy but this is not like you."
Leaf inspected her bed frame. She moved closer so that her leg was right next to one of the snapped bits of the wooden frame. "I am not messy!" Leaf protested as she looked at her wodrobe door which was hanging of its hinge. Her clothers were all over the floor too.
"Just keep believing that." Gary said to her as he looked at her vanity, which was suspiciously, the only bit of furniture that was still intact. But his attention was removed from the vanity when he heard a crash from the room beneath them, the kitchen.
"What was that?" Leaf asked as she tried to get out from the spot she was standing in. "Oww." She cried as she looked down to see that part of her skin had caught onto the broken wood.
Gary looked over and offered her a hand. "Come on, if you leave it too long you're gonna lose a lot of blood or get it infected."
Leaf took his hand and leaped out of the small, cluttered spot that she was standing on. "It's at time like these when you really sound like your gramps."
Gary pulled a face at her. "I do not." He protested and led Leaf out of the room and into the bathroom. Gary helped Leaf sit on the edge of the bathtub before he pulled out the first aid box.
Leaf sat down and waited like a good girl for once while Gary carefully wrapped the bandage round her calf. He was kneeling while he tended her wound and he did not stand up until he was done. He returned the bottle of disinfectant and bandages back into the first aid box and closed it.
Leaf stood up. "I wonder what that noise downstairs was."
Gary turned to face her. "Let's go find out." He started to head down the stairs with Leaf following closely behind, she had her hands on Gary's shoulder while.
Once they were in the kitchen, they realised that someone must have been here and those people were not Leaf's parents. The kitchen was like Leaf's bedroom: a mess. Everything was broken, things were out of their rightful places and the window was open with her doll lying on the window sill.
"Oh. My. God." Leaf said in shock. "What hapened in here." She limped forward, picked up her doll and.
Gary walked over to Leaf. "Who did you offend?" He asked as he helped her out of the kitchen, into the sitting room and onto the couch.
"No one!" Leaf exclaimed, "I'm not you. I don't go about hitting on other guy's girlfriends!"
Gary gave her another look. "I don't do that!" He defended, "And I'm hurt that you would accuse me of doing something like that."
Leaf looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "It wouldn't be accusing if it's the truth."
Gary stood up in a fake upset manner. "Well I'm just going to leave you here." He looked at Leaf's reaction before he started to walk away from the sofa ever-so-slightly.
Leaf gave him a blank stare...
Gary knew Leaf's loo all too well. It was one that Leaf had developed and used against him since she was little. Gary's attention was soon drawn from her face to her grumbling stomach which caused him to laugh at her. He offered her his hand. "Come on, you can come to mine for dinner again."
Leaf flashed Gary her 'victory grin' and leaned forward to take Gary's hand, but missed.
He had withdrawn his hand. Sometimes, he loves to watch Leaf fall flat on her face.
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"I'm home." Gary shouted as he entered his house with Leaf limping behind him.
"Where have you been?" Called out a feminine voice from the sitting room.
Gary and Leaf headed into the sitting room to find Gary's older sister May sitting on the biggest, leather sofa in the room with her head reasting on her latest boyfriend's chest. On his usual brown armchair in front of the filled bookcase sat Gary's grandpa. He had a tattered looking book on his lap but his reading glasses were absent from his face.
"At Leaf's. Her house looks like it has been trashed by May when she gets rejected." Gary said as he sat on the on the cream coloured sofa that was infront of another white bookcase that was built into the wall.
Leaf sat next to him and smiled at May and Professor Oak, who both returned the look.
May sat up and flicked her long, silky brown locks over her shoulder. "That has never happened before!" She said defensively.
"Keep telling yourself that." Gary replied, not paying attention to her but to the fruit bowl instead. He picked up a red apple and started to eat it. "By the way, I invited Leaf over for dinner."
May let out a sly smirk, "So my lil' bro has finally pluced up the courage to ask lil' Leafy out." May absolutely loved to tease Gary about his relationship with Leaf. The truth is, May really wants her brother and Leaf to get together already. She had watched both of them grow up and it was evident to her that Gary and Leaf may actually like each other.
"She wishes." Gary replied as his attention was still focused on his apple.
Leaf shot Gary a glare but he missed it.
"She's here because her bedroom has been completely obliterated," He took another bite out of the apple, "The kitchen is too."
"Oh my," The professor gasped, "How did that happen?"
"I don't know." Leaf answered, "But I left a note for my parents."
Professor Oak perked up at the mention of Leaf's parents. "Where are they? I haven't seen them since the morning after the lab was robbed."
Leaf's expression suddenly changed to a look of suspicion and so did Gary's. They looked at each other.
"If my parents aren't at the lab, then where are they?" Leaf wondered as her eyes widened with worry.
Gary was about to offer Leaf a hug but was beaten to it when May practically smuggled her into one of her deep, comfort hugs. "Don't worry Leaf." May hates Leaf's worried look. She has always treated Leaf like her own little sister. "You can stay here until your parents return."
Leaf accepted the older girl's offer.
Gary shook his head. 'She just loves being around other people.'
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Leaf rummaged around in her bag for her hairbrush. She found it after awhile and pulled it out along with her doll, which for once, she knew where it was. She had shoved it in her bag before she left her house with Gary earlier.
"l wonder where mum and dad are." Leaf asked her doll before placing it on the bedside table in the guest room that she was staying in for the night.
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I hope you all like this chapter. I promise more exciting stuff in the next chapter when Leaf… And when she finds…
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