𝓢𝓾𝓷𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓜𝓲𝓭𝓷𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽 ~ 𝓑𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓬𝓱 𝔁 𝓯𝓮𝓶 𝓣𝓻𝓸𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓮𝓪𝓭𝓮𝓻 / 𝓑𝓸𝓸𝓴 1

8. 𝓛𝓪𝓭𝔂 𝓖𝓵𝓲𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓹𝓪𝓻𝓴𝓵𝓮𝓼

As we finished up, everything for our plan. We all jumped on top of Bridget's head, ready for Poppy's call. 🎵You gotta let it?🎵 She sang, us singing along. 🎵Show!🎵 We swung our hair in circles, hands on our hips as our hair got longer. The tips of our hair became all different colours, all of them mixing together, making a rainbow coloured wig for Bridget. Our hair, placed perfectly on top of her head, the curls flowing just beneath her shoulder blades.
🎵I'm coming- I'm, coming, out!🎵 We sang as we were now Bridget's new hair, hiding underneath. She changed her clothes into the jumpsuit, Satin and Chenille and I have made for her, as it was mostly their idea.
I stood swaying my hips to the song we were singing. My focus landed down on Branch, which insisted on, sitting down beside me. He sat, his knees bended and elbows resting on top of them. His eyes met mine, his eyebrows raising in a confused matter, before he looked forward again, his pout returning. As he was grey, his hair couldn't change its colour, which meant he couldn't use his hair as we did. I shook my head at him, he wouldn't admit, he was enjoying this.
Bridget approached the outdoors streets, in her amazingly, very colourful, outfit. Every Bergen walking past, turning her way, all those colours, she was wearing, was not a common sight in this town.
Bridget gazed nervously around, her confidence bailing on her, as she catches every glare she got send her way. She heard out small voices, still singing small melodies. She straightened her back, before singing too.🎵Yo! I'm coming like sun after rain. Ready to shine, no time to be playin'🎵 She grabbed the phone, from another Bergen, who was using it. She hung up the phone, the Bergen groaning in frustration by her actions. 🎵Feeling good, gonna get, get what I, what I want! Gonna show ev'ry everybody how I, how I flaunt.🎵 Bridget sang on, as she confidently danced though the town. 🎵Look at me now! My confidence is souring, dudes be impressed with the points I'm scoring like-🎵 She sang as she dumped a Basketball down in the net. 🎵That ain't boring!🎵
🎵And it just don't quit! Watch the King, drop his jaw, when I'm shaking my hips! I'm sayin'🎵
🎵She's coming out!🎵 We sang again, bopping our heads to the rhythm.
I noticed Branch, admiring me from his sitting position, looking up at me with big, blue eyes. He quickly looked away as our gazed met, he saw I noticed his staring. The corners of my lips lifting into a smile.
🎵It's time to take a stand, and show the world-🎵
🎵That I'm!🎵 Bridget interrupted as she jumped on top of a crocodile with a sandwich in hand, she has stolen from another Bergen.
🎵Coming out.🎵 Bridget and Poppy finished the song, both their voices working in perfect harmony. Poppy leaned out from the hair, and high fives Bridget's pointer finger.
The crocodile pet, sat in leash, as the leash was wrapped loosingly around a pole. It growled at Bridget, showing all its pointy teeth. She quickly reacted, looking at the sandwich in hand, and threw the sandwich to it. It seemed satisfied with the little snack.
Her focus landed on the King, through a shop window, yelling at the shop's owner. "No! No! No! I'm the King who is bringing back the Trollstice! I need a bib to match!" His voice was muffled, by the glass coming between Bridget and him.
"What about this?" The shop owner asked, holding a new bib up to the King, as the other one was thrown away.
"I look like a child in this one!" He complained again, as he tried it on. "I need something elegant, and sophisticated like, a Man's bib!"
Bridget walked over to the Window, placing her hands on it, admiring the King. "Oh, he's so beautiful" She swirled over him, her now sweaty and shaking hands, slowly lowering on the glass.
"So are you!" Poppy complimented, trying to soothe her. "He will know I'm just a Scullury maid!" Bridget panicked. "Ahh.. I gotta get out of here..."
"I'm gonna be right here for you! We all will!" Poppy reassured. "You will tell me what to say right?"
"Of course i will"
"Of course i will" Bridget repeated Poppy's words. "Just wait till we get inside" Poppy then said, disappearing behind the hair again, as Bridget found the courage, and walked into the store.
"Oh, Sire! I believe I have the perfect bib!" The store owner spoke up, walking over to a mannequin head, turning it around, smashing glass covering a box inside it. He brought out a box. "It better be! Tomorrow is Trollstice and I have to look good! I mean, I look good, but I have to look great! The King ranted as the store owner went back over to him.
The King turned around, and the owner opened the box. A bib was shown.
The King gasped. "It got a wing-dingle on it!" The King admired it, as it was placed around his neck, the owner helping him tie it on. "Oh your majesty! Look at you, such a big, big boy!"
"I love it!" The King informed, his guards and the owner, clapping their hands together, as the King admired his reflection in the mirror, in front of him.
"I think you look fat" A voice spoke from behind, The King turning around slowly, his eyebrows furrowed in anger. "What?!" His teeth was gritted, as he got eye contact with a scared Bridget.
"PH phat, then strike that pose!" Poppy whispered.
"P-H Phat." Bridget said, as Poppy told her to, then strikes the pose. Her right knee bended as she leaned to her left, her right arm bent up and behind her head, trying to look as sexy as she could. The King gotta like her now.
The King's expression, turned from mad or offended, to complete shock, and probably love. "Hot Lunch! Total honesty from a total Babe"
The King flirted, approaching Bridget. Bridget chuckled nervously, her lips quickly turning downwards again. "And who might you be?" He then asked, taking her hand in his, bending down to kiss it.
"I- Uh- uhm" Bridget stuttered, the thought of a name to her, was forgotten, and now remembered. And she couldn't keep her own, the King would remember his scullery maid goes by the same name.
"your name is- uhm?" Poppy stuttered as well, turning around, facing us.
All of us looked around at each other, quickly needing a solution. "Lady?" I suggested, unsure by my own suggestion.
"Glitter" Guy Diamond then suggested. "Sparkles!" Smidge finished, jumping up in front of Guy's face.
"Seriously?" Branch harshly whispered, eyes narrowing by our stupid name suggestion. Poppy shrugged, he didn't suggest anything better.
"Lady-Glitter-Sparkles Seriously" Bridget then said, repeating our little discussion.
"Well, my Lady Glittersparkles" The King started as he let go of her hand, and bowed for her. "Would you like to join me for an evening at Captain Starfunkle's Roller Rink and Arcade?" Gristle straightened his back again, rubbing the back of his neck as he asked.
"Would I!...." She excitedly spoke. "Would I?" She then seemed unsure, asking us, as if we decided for her.
"Yes! You'd be delighted!" Poppy quickly spoke. "Yes! You'd be delighted!" She repeated every word.
"Huh, indeed I would" The King agreed, holding out an arm for her to take, as they went off.
Poppy got a chance to get a break, she turned to me, who has approached her, and gave me a high five.
"I'm so relieved you guys came for us, I never stopped hoping" Poppy said, looking between me and Branch, before bringing me in for an embrace. "Of course Poppy-Flower, I know you would've done the same if it was me who got taken" I smiled into her shoulder, before pulling back, our eyes meeting, a loving gaze shining in each of our eyes.
"I'm sorry to ruin the moment, but when are you going to ask him about Creek, Poppy?" Branch then spoke interrupting our moment, both our gazes moving from each other to him. "We have to warm the King up first, don't you know anything about Romance?" Poppy grinned, letting go of me and placing her hands on her hips. Her grin turned towards me, as her head did. This girl knows something she either shouldn't or doesn't know what she's talking about...
"Of course! I'm passionate about it!" Branch crossed his arms, his eyes looking at me, before looking back at her.
"Really?" Me and Poppy spoke at the same time, both our gazes at him.
"Don't you two know anything about sarcasm?"
"I think I've had a sarcasm once?" Cooper interrupted, his eyes leaning out of focus as he spoke. He clearly did not understand the meaning of the word.
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Bridget (Lady Glittersparkles) and King Gristle arrived at the arcade, as the only two in the arcade. They have ordered a Pizza as it got thrown on the table. "Here's your Pizza, and here's your tips" the waiter grumly said, throwing the coins on the table as well, the coins rolling around. Bridget took one glimpse at the Pizza. "Ohh, it looks delicious! I'm glad I've brought my appetite!" She flirted trying to pep up the mood. The pizza was ginormous, or was it just my size?
both went on to take a slice, but accidentally has laid eyes on the same slice. Their hands reached out to grab it, their hands touching each other. They looked up from their intertwined hands on the pizza, to each other. Their gazes lost in the moment, but as the King started to  lean in, Bridget smacked his hand away from the slice of Pizza and quickly ate the slice.
Gristle held his hand close to him, his other hand on top, as her slap was pretty harsh. He gazed uneasy at Bridget.
His gaze turned from uneasy, to a loving gaze, leaning his hands against the edge of the table, admiring all her actions. "You are Fantastic!"
"Bridget, compliment him back!" Poppy whispered, as Bridget licked her fingers off.
"I like your back-" Bridget repeated, leaning her elbow on the table.
"No like- say something nice about him!" Poppy whispered again, discovering her mistake.
"But I do like his back." Bridget whispered back at her, which caught the King's attention. "Huh?" He hummed, a slice of Pizza dangling above his opened mouth.
"Uhm- uh" Bridget stuttered, not sure what to say as an excuse.
"Poppy, help her!" I whispered, our identity hanging in a thin rope.
"Your eyes.. they're- ugh..." Poppy gagged, before looking for a new feature to compliment on him.
"oh, your ears?" She stuttered, she couldn't say anything nice about him. I didn't blame her, he ate Creek and he has the features of a Bergen, they're not pretty creatures...
"Your eyes- uh ears." Bridget started stuttering, her gaze anywhere but at him, not wanting to face his unsure eyes staring at her.
"Nose!"
"Skin!"
"Neck!" Everyone came with suggestions, trying to safe our little situation.
"Your skin, neck, ears, nose, face, back of your head?" Bridget spoke, one feature after the other.
"Are you okay?" The King asked, looking really confused by her sudden behaviour.
"Your Teeth!" Guy Diamond said in a singer voice, laying extra vocals on the H.
"Teeeeth" Bridget sang after, her teeth clenching against each other.
I covered my face with my hands, this can't get any worse now, can it. We're done, and soon exposed and eaten!
"What's going on! Are you making fun of me?" Gristle, with furrowed eyebrows, a confused gaze and straightened back, stood up from his seat, ready to leave the Arcade. He was flustered and taken aback by her sudden rudeness, pointing out all his features, like she couldn't say anything positive about him. If it was the real Bridget speaking, she wouldn't even stutter, when she would tell him how beautiful he is.

"Your eyes! They're like two pools, so deep that, I fear if I dive in-" Bridget suddenly spoke, not a single stutter, did she actually do it?
I slowly removed my hands from in front of my eyes, to see what was going on. I saw a glimpse of Gristle's face, his eyes turning soft and Poppy standing by, staring in amusement. If it wasn't Poppy, then who.
"I might never come up for air" Branch finished, my head turning to him. He was the one who has told her what to say.
"I might never come up for air" Bridget then repeated after his words.
"And your smile..." Branch's gaze wondered, it was like, he was imagining someone, he could tell all these beautiful things about.
"the sun itself turns jealous and refuses to come out from behind the clouds. Knowing it cannot shine half as bright"
"I kinda do have a nice smile, don't I?" The King sat back down, smiling sweetly at Bridget as he asked.
"Yes, you do.." Branch answered, Bridget following shortly after. Branch turned his head to look at me. I've sat myself down beside him, my elbows resting on my knees, as I sat on top of my legs. My head was resting in my palms, listening intensely to his sweet words. Our faces have inched closer than we realised. Before we did, he cleared his throat, his gaze leaving mine, looking back down at the two lovebirds.
"I can't believe I'm about to say this.. but-" Bridget started.
"Guys, she's going rogue!" Biggie whispered, everyone's attention was back at the moment. "Being here with you today, makes me realise that true happiness is possible." She smiled, her fingers nuzzling the duvet, covering their table, before gazing back up at the King.
Poppy looked in awe down at Bridget by her improvised words. "Wow"
"It is! True happiness is a lot closer than you think." The King answered inching closer to Bridget, now sitting right beside her. "It's right here." The King said holding both his hands against his heart, as we all thought. He then showed Bridget a Diamond he had on his cloak, lifting it from his clothed chest. "Mmm, that's pretty I guess." She shrugged in response, looking away from him.
"What do you think now?" He then spoke, making Bridget gaze back. He then opened it, revealing Creek hidden inside. He gasped for air, as the jewel was opened.
"Creek?" Branch spoke in surprise, squeezing his eyes tighter, trying to see if it really was Creek.
"I knew he was alive!" Poppy spoke, her voice trembling. She must have had a rough time knowing, the guy she liked might have been eaten and never to see again... I wouldn't bear it, if it was Branch. My thoughts ran from me, as I realised. I looked over at Branch again, what is this feeling, is it the same feeling Poppy has about Creek?
My thoughts got interrupted by the King speaking up again. "I've been savouring this little guy" King Gristle mentioned to Creek.
"Help." He whispered, his gaze looking directly up at us, he knew we were underneath her rainbow hair. It was a bit obvious, wasn't it.
The King quickly shoved him back into his little Diamond prison as he yelled "Mercy" before it went silent, only the sound of the diamond closing was heard.
"Tell me my Lady, will I be seeing you at the Trollstice feast?" Gristle asked Bridget. "Well duh, I'll be working-" she spoke as her Scullury maid personality. Poppy quickly realised, "It!"
"It! Working it, you know- Working it~" Bridget quickly made up for her mistake, by standing up, moving her body and pointing her fingers in different directions, as a dance move.
"Yeah! You're not kidding you will!" He answered, not laying focus on her little mistake. "Because you're gonna be there as my plus one."
"Really?" Her eyes widened.
"Assuming you'll say yes?"
"Yes!" Bridget answered. "Yes!" The King celebrated. "Yes!" We did too, the plan was going smoothly.
"Meantimes, maybe we should find some other way to, work up an appetite?" The King suggested, wiggling his shoulders and gazing intensely into her eyes.
"Oh yeah, What did you have in mind?" She swirled back, leaning closer to him herself. Gross.