A Fighting Chance: A Trolls Fanfiction

Chapter 3

*Branch's POV*

Branch hadn't stopped thinking about poppy since her visit the previous week. She was always on his mind. Even before then. Since they were young, she had always tried to be kind to him, and include him in things around troll village. He could just never bring himself to go to any of her invites. Thinking about her warm hug and sweet smell made his heart pump and face crack a smile. He had known for a good long while, but never truly admitted it. He was in love with poppy. A deeper love than he could ever hope for. But there was never a need to tell her. How could he? She would never want a troll like him. At least, that's the way he felt about it. As long as he saw that she was happy, that was enough for him. 

Suddenly, his thoughts were interrupted by the sound of pounding on his front door. He shot up out of his seat, listened, and pinpointed the location. Running up to his trap door, he slid open the eye slot in his "GO AWAY" door mat. "WHO IS IT?!" He growled with an annoyed yet lightly angry voice. Biggie appeared, Holding his precious worm pet, Mr. Dinkles. "Biggie?? What are you doing here? How did you know where I lived??" Branch snorted. " I-I'm sorry branch, but poppy sent me to find you, she needs your help, she needs you".

Fear gripped branch. His heart almost stopped of the thought that she could be in danger. "What happened to her? Was she hurt?" Branch thought to himself. Slamming the eye slot shut, branch emerged almost instantly. "Where is she? Is she alright? Show me where she is, big". He says to the large troll with a hard expression. Biggie was almost frightened by it. But quickly agreed to take him to her.

Treading through the bramble, branch was beginning to wonder how far poppy had gone. Did she get bitten by something? Was she attacked? He was starting to really worry. It was starting to get dark, the sunlight was quickly waning. He needed to find poppy and he needed to do it fast. "Through here branch, poppy is through here"! Without missing a beat, he ran past biggie and straight into the clearing. "Poppy?! Are you hurt!? What happ-"! In mid sentence, he saw poppy and her friends holding dark green sequin banners with " Happy Birthday Branch " in silver lettering. All the trolls, including poppy and biggie, cheered for him.

"Happy birthday braaanch"!!! The group cheered while clearing from in front of a table to reveal a large birthday cake with his name on it. He stood there mouth agape, at first confused, then understood he had forgotten his own birthday. He stopped celebrating it because he had no one to celebrate it with. "Poppy, what is this"? She hurried over to him, And grabbed hold of his arm. Gently gripping it, and pulled him over to the table with the cake. "It's your birthday party branch". Biggie said happily. "Poppy planned it for you, we all helped out."

Branch looks around to the group of trolls all smiling at him, Why would they do this for him? Why would poppy of all people do this for him? "Poppy"? Branch called to her in a hushed but distinctive voice. She slowly walked up to him holding his cake. "Branch, when I remembered it was your birthday I wanted to make sure that you knew that some trolls care about you. I just want to show you that even though you may feel like it, you're not alone". Her words gripped his very heart. Poppy walked closer to him, presenting him with his birthday cake and flickering candles. "Make a wish branch". She said softly. Looking around to the other trolls, they all were smiling and urging him to make a wish. Looking intently at poppy, admiring her sweet smile, he continued. Closing his eyes in inhaling deeply, he blew his candles after a few moments. Through the smoke of the extinguished candles, branch and poppy's eyes met. He made his wish. Without taking their eyes off of one another, they smiled. The group of trolls noticed this, smiling and snickering, they all exchange suggestive glances to one another. Moments later, DJ popped up with her headphones.

"Party tiiiiiime"!!!! DJ Hollered. Soon afterwards, lights and music began to play. The group of trolls cheered happily and begin to dance and sing 'Celebrate Good Times', pulling branch and poppy in the middle of them all. But naturally, branch refused, much to poppy's disappointment. She wanted branch to dance and sing with her, but she wouldn't force him. He did however, enjoy watching poppy dance. Watching her smile, twist and swirl with her friends made branch feel good inside. Listening to her beautiful voice and innocent laughter somehow made branch comfortable. Allowing a light smile to creep across his lips. He always loved listening to poppy sing. But he would never tell her to her face. He would be too embarrassed. Biggie twirled her in the air like a top, cooper caught her and vogue danced with her. Guy diamond used his hair to suspend himself from the lowest tree branch to act as a disco ball. The twins dancing in tandem while also making shapes with their hair. Quite some time passed as the happy trolls enjoyed dancing and music. Smidge and guy diamond rushed behind branch to wrap a cloth around his eyes, handing him a fake hair puff to pin on the troll. "GAME TIME"! They yelled in unison. Branch was a little skeptical about playing games and such, but they made allot of effort trying to do this for him. So he would try to experience being around more trolls for once. He started with a simple game of 'Pin the hair on the troll'. After a few failed attempts, he finally managed to get it pinned on the paper troll. Everyone cheered for him as he successfully pinned the fake hair finally. Which actually made him feel legitimately amused. Several games were played that night. Biggie was so good at the ring toss game, that everyone assumed it was because of his size that he was easily able to win. Bobbing for sugar berries was actually rather fun for branch, he got to eat the ones he fished out. When poppy had her turn, she leaned too far into the barrel and almost toppled inside.