Inktober 2022

Day 13: False

(So I haven't seen all of once upon a time yet bc I didn't watch it when it came out and haven't finished it yet on Disney+ so this is kinda based on the cartoon Cinderella. Idk if they bring in Drizella and Anastasia but I assume they do in one of the other seasons since they had Cinderella)

Poppy walked to the river where she collected things she could sell. She had a really incredible talent for taking things she finds and making it into something new or cleaning and making it look new. She had a really good talent for the stuff which is why every day she walked to the river with a bucket and searched for stuff to sell. She knelt down by the river and place her bucket down as she began looking. She also liked how the river was warm and cool at the same time. The river just seemed to always be the right temperature every time unless it was winter. She stuck her hand into the river in the shallows and dug a little through the dirt to see if she could find something.

It was also really nice to look for stuff in the river because if she found something dirty she could just clean it right there in the river. She ran her hand through the dirt searching for anything she could sell. Any kind of trinkets that got lost or anything she could make something new out of. Anything at all. As she was looking, she began to hear giggling and before she could even look in the direction where the giggling was coming from a stone flew over her head and splashed in the water in front of her getting her kind of wet. She stood up more out of surprise rather than because she was wet. The stone hadn't been big enough to get her soaking wet or anything it just surprised her because some of the water splashed up into her face.

She looked behind herself to see who was laughing and saw the three little girls who always had to pester her. They were laughing because obviously they had been the people who thrown the stone. Poppy was 16, two of the other three were related and they were 17 and the third girl was 16 like Poppy. "Look who was searching in the first." The other 16 year old, Alana, said as she kicked the bucket into the river. Poppy ran over And picked up her bucket, getting her legs a little wet having to step into the river. Alana wasn't good at kicking at all. She then felt someone push her into the river and the three laughed as she resurfaced and walked back up with her bucket. She began shaking her hair and ears out as the three girls kept giggling.

"Look it's a red haired dog." Drizella laughed. Poppy kind of glared at her as she ripped one of the bows off of the end of her dress and tied her hair up with it before going back towards the river and reaching out for her bucket. "You girls are so frustrating. Don't you have someone else to bother?" Poppy asked as she picked her bucket up and dumped the water out of it. "So anyways, like I was saying earlier, I'm in love with a Prince." Drizella said, ignoring Poppy. "Wow a Prince? Who?" Alana asked. "Mhm. He said he lives at the castle. His name's Malachi." Drizella said. Poppy laughed hearing this. "That is false." Poppy said. She could tell the three girls were glaring while she knelt down.

"And how would you know?" Anastasia asked. "Because Prince Charming doesn't have a brother named Malachi. You are so gullible. I've never heard of a Prince named Malachi Charming." Poppy said. "Maybe you should keep your nose out of other people's business." Alana said as she kicked dirt at Poppy before the three girls ran. Poppy rolled her eyes and flipped her hair over into the river and cleaned the dirt out. She then knelt back down and began looking for things again as she relaxed at the quiet. She found a couple of items in the river before going back home after washing them off in the river.