Once Upon A Time: Goldilocks comes to Storybrooke

Chapter 35

"Don't forget to call me to let me know your safe," Dr Hopper shouted from the other room.

Goldilocks finished zipping up her jacket. "I will," she replied, pulling out her brand new cell phone from her pocket. "But I still for understand how this talking box works."

"It's called a cell phone honey. I'm sure Henry will help you," Dr Hopper poked his head around the door. "Don't come home too late."

"I won't. Bye!" Goldilocks slipped the phone back into her pocket. "And bye you two," Goldilocks looked over to Pongo and Perdita, who had found a way to turn on the TV, and had been watching a TV show called 'Hannah Montana' for over an hour. They both barked a goodbye before continuing to watch.

Goldilocks rolled her eyes and left their little flat. She hurriedly walked to Granny's Diner, which was where she was meeting Henry.

It was the day they were going into Mr Golds shop to look for the key. And the ring, though Goldilocks hadn't told anyone about that part. Not even Henry.

"Hi Ashley, hi Aurora," Goldilocks said.

"Hi Goldilocks," Ashley and Aroura said as they walked passed. Ashley was holding the hand of her daughter Alexandra, and Aroura was carrying her son, Philip.

Goldilocks got to the diner and entered. Ruby came up to her.

"Hi Ruby," Goldilocks brought her phone out of her pocket. "Will you show me what to do in case I need to call my Dad? I don't know how to operate this call phone."

"Err, cell phone," Ruby corrected, and then she laughed and took the phone.

"That's what I meant to say," Goldilocks tried to cover up her mistake.

"Of course it was," Ruby laughed and began to show Goldilocks what to do, and even added her own number to the contacts list.

"Emma, Regina, Mary Margaret, David, Belle - you have a lot of contacts!" Ruby commented.

"Because I'm so popular!" Goldilocks joked, as she flipped her hair.

Ruby laughed.

"Your hair wasn't straight last time I saw you was it?" Goldilocks nodded towards Ruby's hair.

"Oh, no it wasn't. I straightened my hair this morning." Ruby's hand automatically ran through her hair. "Do you want me to straighten your hair? I bet it would look pretty."

Goldilocks looked down at her own hair. No matter how hard she tried, Goldilocks's hair always bounced back into ringlets. She usually didn't mind about them. Maybe it was time for a change?

"Sure! Why not?"

Ruby grinned and lead Goldilocks to the back room.

"Hold these while I go find a hairbrush," Ruby handed the straighteners to Goldilocks and then began to rummage through the drawers.

"What's this? Like, some sort of magic wand?" Goldilocks asked as she stared at the straighteners in her hand.

Ruby smiled. "Yeah, I suppose you could call them tha- DON'T TOUCH THE MIDDLE PART!!!!" She screamed as Goldilocks's hand were only centimetres away from the piping hot element.

Goldilocks froze, and her eyes flickered upwards. "Why not?"

"Because you'll burn yourself," Ruby found the hair brush.

"Nothing a bit of magic won't be able to solve," Goldilocks commented, but shrugged and didn't mess with the straighteners anymore.

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Ten minutes later Goldilocks's hair was straight. She loved it so much. She took Ruby's hair brush and was forever brushing her hair, because it felt so soft. Finally Henry entered the diner.

"...whoa," he said when he saw Goldilocks. Goldilocks turned to face him and smiled.

"Hi Henry!" She jumped off her seat and ran up to him, but then realised she still had Ruby's hairbrush in her hand, so ran back to Ruby to give it back.

"What should I call you now? Goldi-no-locks?" Henry laughed.

Goldilocks laughed. "Goldilocks...or Georgia will do."

"So is Georgia your real name?" Henry asked as he slipped his hand into hers and they walked down the main street of Storybrooke.

"Yeah, but I don't like it. My mother gave me the nickname 'Goldilocks' when I was four, and I made everyone call me that, because I used to hate the name Georgia."

"But Georgia's a lovely name. It's pretty, like you."

Goldilocks shook her head. "Not many people actually know my real name. Every time I met someone in The Enchanted Forest I would always tell them my name was Goldilocks. Sometimes I even forgot my real name!!"

They entered Mr Golds shop, where Belle was at the counter.

"Hi Henry! Hi Goldi-" Belles eyes grew wide. "Your hair!! It's so pretty!!"

Goldilocks smiled. "Thank you!"

"Belle," Henry walked up to the counter, and Goldilocks let go off his hand. "We're looking for a key. It should be metal, and has a bear engraved at the top. Have you seen it?"

"I don't think so, but let me check." Belle had a few papers on the desk, and she shuffled through them.

While Belle and Henry were talking Goldilocks and began to look in jewellery boxes on the glass shelves for the ring. She rummaged around a bit in the first box, but the rings were either gold or had diamonds in.

Goldilocks glanced over to her boyfriend and Belle before looking in the second box. But that box was only filled with necklaces.

However in the third box Goldilocks found what she was looking for. It was a silver ring, with a huge light blue gem in the middle. Goldilocks had a quick look, and found there were no other rings with a blue jewel.

Her heart racing, Goldilocks put her hand in the box and pretended that she was rummaging through the rings. She glanced at Henry out of the corner of her eye as she managed to slip the ring on her middle finger using her thumb. Then she clenched her fist, and quickly brought her hand out of the box and into her pocket.

"Ahh, here," Belle found the right slip of paper and pushed it across the desk to Henry. The paper had a key taped to it. Henry picked up the paper.

"This must be it." He ripped the key off the paper. "Thank you grandma!"

"Henry, please Belle will do fine," Belle said.

"Do you have it?" Goldilocks managed to slip the ring off her finger and it fell into her pocket as she walked up to the counter.

Henry showed her the key. It was metal, and a bears face was engraved in the circle at the top.

"That must be it! We found it!"

"Why were you looking for it?" Belle asked.

"It's going to help us find someo- something," Henry said. "Thanks grandma."

"I really don't mind being called Belle - " Belle began, but Henry and Goldilocks had already left the shop.