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17. Write a scene where a character rants about people never having seeing the Black Cauldron.

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“Oh, I wish I’d stayed a toad.”

-Princess Eilonwy, The Black Cauldron.

It wasn’t necessarily that Ellie believed –and secretly hoped- she was getting whatever sickness Lionel had been carrying around since Monday because today was Thursday and she didn’t like her class schedule.

She could very well tolerate two hours of Algebra, two of English Lit, one of Biology, one of French and one of Physics if she damn well wanted to.

Ugh.

Okay, she honestly just really felt the need to stay home and do absolutely nothing productive today.

If she was correct, her mom would come into her room in about five more minutes to see why Ellie wasn’t already up and taking her shower.

But when she’d see Ellie still curled up in bed and ask her what was wrong, Ellie –being the amazing actress she is- would complain and moan that cramps were killing her. (Even though she’d just had her period three days ago.)

And because Ellie was such a great actress, her mom would buy it and let her stay home to watch movies and eat ice cream and pizza and vegetate on the couch.

Even though her dad was at work, Ellie knew he called about three times a day to talk to her mom.

If Ellie decided to stay home, her mom would tell her dad and her dad would tell Ellie to stop faking it and go to school.

Sure, Ellie’s mom bought it, but her dad never really did.

Still, him being at work, there was nothing he could do.

And really, it wasn’t as if this affected Ellie that much.

She had pretty good grades, mostly straight A’s (Except for Algebra).

Ellie’s alarm clock blared ‘If It Means A Lot To You' by A Day To Remember, indicating that it was six AM and that she had better get up already, which in the end, she did.

Which was actually okay because she remembered that she and Celia always drove down to the mall to get subways on Thursdays – because Ellie was basically obsessed over meatball subs.

And it was Celia’s turn to pay this time, so..

Honestly, Ellie usually had no problem with two people who were clearly head over heels in love with each other… yet didn’t admit it.

But seeing Celia and Milo walking through the school hallways when she got there at 7:15, she could feel her face burning up.

Milo had literally stolen Ellie’s best friend from her, and she hadn’t lost Celia for nothing.

On the day of Ed’s Halloween party, they had gone good on their promise and had both dressed up as the couple from Atlantis, and Ellie could have sworn that at one point, she almost saw the two kiss.

She wasn’t sure what had distracted her that made her turn away, and when she had asked Celia the next day about what had happened, she’d denied absolutely everything.

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