GRANDMA'S BIRTHDAY🎂 💗

Part 3 :- "Happy birthday grandma"

Poppy rushed about pop village,gathering all the ingredients for the special thing she was gonna make for branch for his grandma's birthday. The rain fell in sync along with her steps, and it had not stopped raining from yesterday. But poppy knew how important this was to branch today and went on with her shopping.

Smidge hopped along with her,taking a load of poppy's bags and holding a umbrella over them both(which did not seem to help much).Poppy, though, had not told her about branch's grandma's birthday, and kept the information within her gut.

Smidge:-"hey, poppy, why are you gathering these ingredients?They kinda look like the ingredients from the fluffleberry cake recipe we made for branch that one time"

Poppy bit her tongue out of surprise and thought to herself "yes, I did include her to help me that one time".She almost facepalmed but turned her head at smidge and trying to keep her stress under wraps, she smiled and said:-"No, smidge,these are the ingredients for a... Uhh.. New food recipe I'm gonna make, yes that's exactly why I'm gathering these all morning"

Smidge narrowed her eyes at her but seemed to believe her so she didn't say much.

Poppy, wet(with rain), as she was, finally gathered all the ingredients and ran back to her house, leaving smidge behind to talk with milton, who had found her on the way to his house.

She entered her house and was greeted by the swamping list of papers all over her pod,she grumbled to herself as she set down to clean up the mess, blaming herself for being so disorganised about her things. She thought of branch and how organised he was and blushed slightly. All right, she'd try to be a *little* organized for him. After an half hour's work, she finally cleaned up the mess of papers she had been left lying around searching for the recipe of the fluffleberry cake, and luckily she had found it beforehand and went shopping.

She set up the kitchen counter with the ingredients and sighed softly. "Let's do this", she mumbled a *for branch* too.

*At the bunker*

"I can do this, I can do this, it's no big deal, it's just your grandma's birthday who cared for you all your childhood and got eaten by a bergen because of you,and who's birthday you have never bothered to celebrate before,it's fine, I'm fine, everything's fine"- branch muttered to himself, as he paced up and down the elevator with a few decorations in hand.

He huffed slowly and exclaimed to nobody in particular:-"no I can't do this"

He sat down at the base of the elevator with his hands in his face, groaning slightly with frustration.
His mind went blank as those painful flashbacks came rushing back to him, emptying out his feelings bit by bit. But then, like a beam of light, a flashback of poppy comforting him came into his mind and he smiled a little. It was like she filled up the void to the emptiness in his life, he knew she'd be disappointed in him if he didn't do this, and he got up with a *for you poppy* and made his way towards a particular section of the village hidden by a forest where they both had agreed to meet.

*At poppy's pod*

Poppy had finally achieved her goal. The fluffleberry cake lay as an exact replica on the table of when she had made it for branch for the first time. She smiled and wrapped it in a jar and put a cloth over it and decorated it with a bow to hide from anybody seeing.

Looking down at her messy clothes :- "ugh, I look....disgusting, I should probably clean up"

A half hour later, she stepped out of her pod with a new blue satin dress and a scarf with the initial of 'B', this was branch's scarf made by his grandma for him by saying to him"for my special one"especially, but branch had given it to her one day saying that she was his "special one", so in a way she had made it for her.