mismatched (Bridget x Hook)

III- friendship

Hooks POV
Finally it was morning, hook had stayed up all night trying to bake one simple cupcake. It's incredible how hard some easy task is only being able to use one hand. "I swear, she better accept this offering with the amount of time I've had to spend on this!" Hook had 6 failed cupcakes and although his success may not look appetising it was still edible, hopefully.

Hook started making his way to the lockers, a place he knew Ella and Bridget always stopped. Not because he was interested in seeing her or anything, he just always happened to see her there every morning. And sure enough, when he arrived she was there right on schedule. He understood he should probably change his own vibe before approaching her so he put on a softer face and walked with a slight charm.

He slowly hovered towards Bridget, leaning behind her on a locker. She wasn't aware of his presence until Ella rolled her eyes and said "oh look, a creep." Hook just let out a fake laugh. Bridget turned around, still persistent with her friendly attitude as she welcomed him. Before hook said anything to Bridget he looked over at Ella saying "sorry dear, if you wouldn't mind I'd like to.. privately speak with pinkie here." He gave a slight head tilt at the end.

"I don't trust you alone with her." Ella crossed her arms. Bridget just let out a soft sigh looking at Ella, "I'm not hopeless Ella. I'm sure I can last 2 minutes talking to hook." She seemed kind of fed up with how people viewed her as incompetent. Ella didn't respond with anything she just silently drifted away.

"What is it you want to talk to me about?" Bridget smiled up at him. Hook gave her a soft smile back, which confused her. He never showed her any nice looks, or just any emotion at all when he's on his own. He only interacts with her when he's with Uliana and when he's with uliana it's typically to insult her.

"Well that's the thing! I'd like to talk more. I've taken a.. interest in you." Hook said with a slight grin. "Interest..?" Bridget slowly stuttered. "Don't look so scared princess! It's nothing bad." He said trying to sound sincere. "Well normally when you talk to me it's to say something mean or evil with the other VK's."

Hook realised that was true and didn't really know how to recover from it. "Well.. uh- from.. yesterday! With the... incident, we'll say. I realised how cruel everybody is to you. I don't.. think it's right. I think you're a really nice person Bridget. You don't deserve half the trouble you get. And if you don't believe all those words I managed to just put together then I come with a peace offering." He said revealing the cupcake.

Bridget didn't say anything, she wasn't the type of person to judge but the honestly the cupcake looked.. well she couldn't really find the words. She just looked up at him with confusion. He was running out of patience, those words alone took life out of him. "Sorry I just.. wasn't really expecting this?" Bridget questioned. Hook just nodded, "I understand, I wouldn't trust a VK either if I was you." He acted sad, he was getting desperate at this point who knows what uliana would do if he failed this.

"No! No! I didn't mean it like that-" bridget felt guilt, she didn't mean to offend him. "I'll take it! I'm sorry!" She was pleading as she took the cupcake. This made Ella run back, "Bridget are you crazy? Don't eat that! He works for uliana who knows what he's done to it. I mean.. just look at it." Ella was more brutally honest. Bridget gave her "shut up." Type of look, but being bridget it was a more friendly version.

"It's not easy to bake with one hand." Hook gave a more saddened look as he held up his hook. "No it's okay! I trust you." Bridget smiled as she took a bite from the cupcake, luckily for her he hadn't done anything to it. "Huh guess it was just deformed looking." Bridget gave Ella a soft hit in the side. Hook ignored Ella's remark and just smiled at Bridget, "so friends now? No hard feelings or anything?" He asked. Bridget just nodded, "Yes hard feelings you've bullied us for-!" Bridget quickly covered Ella's mouth "ignore her, no hard feelings!" Hook gave a slight bow before walking away. This is going to be a long and painful process he thought to himself letting all emotion drain from his face.

Bridget's POV:
"What the hell are you doing?! I just made my second friend you almost ruined it for me." Bridget said in still a soft spoken tone. "B I'm just looking out for you! He's a villain, you shouldn't hang around with them." Ella was trying to be sincere but Bridget wasn't really listening. "Everybody has a soft side to them and hook just showed me his! I've never seen it before. He was being honest and kind." Bridget smiled to herself, starting to play with her hair, it was her response to nerves. "What he was was lying! He's sketchy. I'm just saying, watch out. Who knows what he's up to." Ella responded slightly grabbing Bridget's arm to snap her back to reality. "I have my own mind Ella, don't worry about me I'll be fine." She gave her friend an honest smile, "but... thank you for caring." Bridget gave ella a hug before they wondered away to class.

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