GRANDMA'S BIRTHDAY🎂 💗

Part 1-Depression

*after Trolls world tour*(no brozone brothers)

*A Day before grandma Rosiepuff's birthday*

*cough cough*

Branch coughed violently at the dust accumulated in the attic. His throat was sore and his nose was scrunched up due to the dust.

"Why don't I ever clean this" He sighed at himself.

He found an old brozone record lying in a corner and picked it up;he smiled(at a reason which is not included in this story) but his mind clouded with a certain grandma of his who had saved all the records which were now laying in obscure places on the attic floor.

*Flashback*:-

Grandma Rosiepuff had taken care of him and his brothers after their parents suddenly vanished, and even when brozone broke up and all his brothers left, she tried not to let him be sad about it much and did little things to cheer him up all the time. Until that day-due to his singing-she had been caught by a bergen trying to save him.

*End of flashback*:-

All these hurtful flashbacks came flooding back to him,and his grip on the record faltered a bit and it fell. It rolled over to a corner where a frame was peeking out. He,came up to it and pulled it out.

His grandma's face looked at him with a smile. It was a picture of his grandma, who stood smiling as if she was still alive and standing looking at her grandson. His hand shook and he let it slide to the floor. One or two tears streamed from his face splashing to the floor, his hands in fists on the floor, as he sat down, hugging his knees. All those memories came flooding back to him, making it hard to breathe. He needed.. Air. He clutched his chest,face crumpling away into immense sadness when:-
"Branch!"

He looked up to see poppy looking down at him with an anxious look in her eyes. She had reason to be frightened, she had never seen him cry so badly. She got down on her knees and took his hands in her own and said:-"Branch wha-what happened?Why are you crying?I was knocking on your door and...and you didn't answer so i let myself in and f-found you..like-like this..."

Her voice was trembling while branch on the other hand,had tears still streaming down his face which had her worried sick.

"Poppy, I need....."

Poppy thought he needed a hug and consolation for whatever he was crying for and hugged him but... surprisingly, branch pushed her away.
Poppy startled said:-"branch wh-what..."

Branch gulped and said :-"poppy I need a moment to myself..."
Poppy stared sternly at him, her lip wobbling and said:-"no branch I'm not leaving you,whatever you are crying for,it's..gonna be okay...you just have to..."

"No poppy I said I needed a moment, now please leave me alone"-branch snapped at her.

Poppy was startled again at branch snapping at her(because he never did) but she got the idea that branch needed to be alone and said:-"yeah,branch I'll give you a moment,I'm sorry"

She went out,own tears streaming down her face at branch's state. Before she went out of the room, she spied on a frame of branch's grandma and a lightbulb struck her-so this was why branch was crying, he was missing his grandma! Then she also remembered branch telling her that 15th of July was his grandma's birthday and that was ---- tomorrow?!!!!

Poppy sniffled and started crying too, because she felt so helpless of not being able to help branch.
Branch, through his own sadness, though heard poppy's cries and kicked himself for snapping at her. He thought she was crying because of that, and said:-"why do i always ruin people's lives;guess that's why they called me the village grump"

He got up and went to poppy who was standing, back facing the wall,her hands in her face,wet with tears.
Branch let out a slow curse and put his hands over poppy's arm saying:-"hey, princess, please don't cry, I should be the one crying,not you"
Poppy hearing those words, looked up at his face, her ears perking up at the nickname he used to her sometimes-"princess".

She hesitated to say anything and just stared at him with her tear-streaked pink eyes.
Branch sighed and said:-"princess, I'm sorry for snapping at you, actually it's...its my grandma's birthday tomorrow and i found a...a picture of her and just got sad because its my fault she was eaten by a bergen and started blaming myself again"

Poppy finally said:-"branch I'm not sad about you snapping at me, I'm just sad because I feel so helpless sometimes because you refuse to let me help you, when you help me for everything"

That struck branch's heart like a realization. Poppy was right. He helped her for everything but he also refused to let her help him, which was his instinct after living alone for so many years.

"Oh princess, I'm so sorry, I should never have made you feel like this, from now on I promise to let you help me, it's just my own stupid fault for delaying you the right to know everything in my heart,and I'm also very very sorry for snapping at you" He kissed her forehead lightly and hugged her. Poppy smiled and wiped her tears,rubbing her face into branch's arms.

"Branch?"

"Yes, princess?"

"I still have to attend my conference with the leaders of the troll tribes"
Branch laughed and said:-"There's my girl"and kissed her cheek before accompanying her to her pod to get ready and waved a goodbye. When he reached his own bunker,he rummaged around the attic again and held up the picture frame again and looked around the room.

With a thoughtful look, he smiled and said:-"i think I know how to make it feel like home again,grandma"
He took out his toolbox and said:-"let's get to work"

*To be continued*......

*Branch and poppy are such sweethearts aren't they?😭
Anyways stay tuned for part 2😘*