As soon as Luzandra and her army had left both David and Peter quickly got into telling their parts of the story with such excitement that they kept cutting each other's line and speaking at the same time making no sense what so ever.
David observed from the corner of his eye that Belladonna listening carefully to their conversation and seemed rather uneasy. Peter seemed to have sensed it too and said making this line more prominent over the other things he said "you dont wanna know how Belladonna found me, right BB"
They both looked at her and could see her nose and the area around her nose getting slightly pink as she timidly said "uh yeah!" and an awkward silence followed as Belladonna looked down at the floor but that silence brought with itself a message which all three of them silently acknowledged with smiles on their faces, a message which said 'we welcome you to share our friendship'
Not bearing the heavy-sweet silence anymore Belladonna literally spoke out her thoughts saying " Well now I know how you felt David when you saw Cherry and me together... I have to say you both are a lot matur-" realising suddenly what she had spoken Belladonna went further red in color, putting a hand over her mouth; but Peter smiled (confused smile though) and David said, laughing, " I guess reading minds is on your disadvantage from now on."
Peter made a face of 'realization' and muttered to himself "So that's how she recognized me." Belladonna at first frowned but then breaking into a smile getting the joke said " By the way I sense thoughts, I don't read minds."
"Thank God" David sense in the most irritating tone possible but it actually made Belladonna laugh and Peter say " I guess you two are spending alot of time with Charlotte. That silly, stupid, good-for-not-"
"What" came Belladonna with mischief sparkling in her eyes and looking at David who had the exact same look on his face and after a few seconds silence Peter realized... his secret insult was out and all of a sudden the three of them ran but with two of them racing to tell it to Charlotte first and the third one preventing it to ever happen as all three of them knew an angry Charlotte was a dangerous Charlotte.Reaching the larger-then-usual tents which were now two and exactly alike but with the new one being much nearer to the cliff on the other side then the original one.
The excited squeals though were not met by Charlotte who was nowhere to be found. After looking in the tents and calling out her name Belladonna suddenly squeaked and ran in panick towards the forest while speaking to herself "how could I forget our plan!"
Alone, the boys sat down together on the sand and chilled. They ate, relaxed, joked and as winters seemed to be near their end the ice-cold were now getting tolerable as the boys not resisting their temptation went and played with the now warmer waves coming joyfully at the shore.
By sunset the boys had finished all food supplies, made up a story to get away with finishing all the food supply and welcomed Peter's new eyes which were now from brown to hazel going perfectly with his now brown hairs(they were black before)."Davy, now that we are full and we have made failed attempts at making paper boats and paper planes-"
"But we can't let the girls know if they ask we tell them we are mind-bobbling at making these-"
"That is not the point" Peter came interrupting David "The thing is we need to make more trouble for the girls you know, they should know we dominate this place."
Sitting up on the wooden table where David lay, he said " Peter honestly we would have been dead if it weren't for the girls and we know nothing of this place."
"This is exactly what we should not make obvious you dumbo otherwise they'll make us their servants!" Peter said sitting up from the sandy ground beneath and facing David with an 'obvious' expression on his face.
David opened his mouth to say something wiser but he realised having a stomach full made it difficult to think and settled on saying " yeah whatever, let's go check out our tent a-"
"AND MESS THE WHOLE PLACE UP!" Peter said standing up in extreme excitement.
David making a 'hopeless' expression sighed and coming down from the bench pushed Peter to move towards their tent while saying "Come-on Peter they'll make us clean it too then our plans for dominance would very well go in the bin, wouldn't it."
Nodding disappointedly Peter moved with his head down towards the tent.Thinking random thoughts while approaching their tent they suddenly heard some weird grunts.
"Whats that?" David said looking around him when Peter said "uh we're in a forest must be some anim-."
Peter's sentence got drowned in the same noise but this time it was louder. It also seemed to be coming from their
... tent!Creeping slowly towards the tent both Peter and David peeked to find a young
LION sitting on the bed eating meat, peacefully when they both( without words) backed up and felt a hand on their shoulders and as they turned back......"AHHH!!!"
"what!" Came the girls as BB put her hand on her heart and Charlotte, surprised, said" what... what! You are not afraid of the lion and you scream seeing us ".
Yet nothing come out of their mouths but not because they had just seen a Lion eating meat in their tent. The girls understood their dumbfounded expressions as Belladonna said,
" what, Dont we look beautiful in our new makeover?"
But by now the boys were back in their senses so they definitely did something unsensible that is acted like vomiting.
Ignoring them the girls made their way into the boys tent with Belladonna walking much more gracefully than Charlotte. Charlotte sat besides the lion patting him like he was a nothing more than a bulldog while Belladonna stood infronte of the pier glass.
After letting the scene sink in, Peter said, " Why is it that BB's definition of a makeover is a perfectly normal yellow dress with orange sparkles all over it which makes her look nothing less than magnificent ( BB blushed and David frowned at this) while you come up wearing a ghastly witch-like purple tattered cape which you happen to be wearing on a straight black maxy type thing."
Belladonna's face couldn't get more red as she shyly said "Well thanks for the praise, I did ask her to wear something more... uh!.. acceptable but..." A vicious look from Charlotte made her quite-down. Surprisingly though Charlotte seemed hurt at the comment which she tried her best to hide. In an awkward silence that followed she went and sat on the edge of the bed with her back facing the boys. She apparently was stroking the lion but her bent head and silence said otherwise.
Yielding a rather unexpected result (Peter never expected Charlotte to mind anything said about her appearance), Peter looked with slight guilt in his eyes at David with a look on his face which showed he was pleading him to end the silence.
David, getting the signal, said " who are you 2 planning to scare exactly?"
Belladonna accompanied the line with a fake laugh at which Peter said, "Yeah well Charlotte I think ... if you want to scare Luzandra than meet her as you truly are because that would be far more scarier."
"Who knows she might get a heart attack!" David came
And
silence fell for a second in which Charlotte looked back with such a look on her face that they all broke into intense laughter which was broken a minute later by the lion's roar.
HERE YOU GO FOLKS! THIS WEEK'S UPDATE... ALTHOUGH IT'S PAST MIDNIGHT SO TECHNICALLY A DAY LATE BUT STILL ...
ENJOY!REGARDS,
MS.PURPLEHEARTS
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FantasyAn adopted boy living in unlikely surroundings of an old-house finds himself in the mist of spy mystery and enthralling magic? Would he be able to succeed in his mission?