Branch's Perspective

Chapter Four

Branch's Perspective

Description: The Original Trolls Story from Branch's Perspective as he battles with his feelings for Poppy and struggles with his lifelong depression over losing everyone he loved and held dear. A few extra scenes have been thrown in to help better understand everyone's favorite grumpy grey toll. A Broppy FanFic.

Disclaimer: I do not own Trolls or the plot, it belongs to Dreamworks Productions, I also do not own the song in this chapter 'Sound of Silence' it belongs to Paul Simon.

Chapter Four

It didn't take long before Branch started to become slightly irritated with his noisy travel companion. Don't get him wrong; he was very glad that Poppy was one hundred percent back to her normal self after that terrifying incident with the spiders, but he was used to silence and solitude. Princess Poppy was the opposite of that... After failing to hold a conversation with the grey troll, she settled for singing and sometimes even dancing as they made their way through a dangerous forest to get to the outskirts of Bergen Town. Sure, he loved hearing her voice and he knew, had they not been in constant danger, that he could probably listen to her sing all day, but it was making it very difficult for him to concentrate and be aware of anything they may try to attack them from behind. Besides doesn't she ever get tired?

"Do you have to sing?" Branch groaned, finally deciding he had, had enough and made his displeasure known.

"I always sing when I'm in a good mood." Poppy responded to him cheerfully.

"Do you have to be in a good mood?" Was this princess ever in a bad mood? He didn't think so, not from what he saw from her anyway. This was Princess Poppy, she was always positive, always looked on the bright side of things, and never gave up on a single task she was ever given; everyone in troll village looked up to her and admired her. These were just some of the traits about her that attracted him to her the most.

"Why wouldn't I be? By this time tomorrow, I'll be with all my friends!" The troll princess responded excitedly behind him as she flipped and bounced around on the log they had currently been walking on. He tried not to show that he was nervous about what she was doing back there, her recklessness could cause her to slip on a patch of wet moss and fall off. So he made sure not to travel too far ahead in case this did happen and he needed to be quick to catch her.

"Ooh! I wonder what they're doing right now." Seriously? If they were alive they were probably terrified as they were being held captive somewhere, they also could've already been eaten. Both possible situations were terrifying, was that really something to be happy about? Did she think they were enjoying cake together alongside the Bergen's? The terrifying creatures that chased them out of their former home?

"Probably being digested." He said sarcastically, although he halfway believed this statement to be true.

"They're alive Branch, I know it!" This comment rubbed him the wrong way, and he felt something within him snap, he turned toward the pink troll and glared at her while responding a bit more harshly then he should have.

"You don't know anything Poppy. And I can't wait to see the look on your face when you realize the world isn't all cupcakes and rainbows. 'Cause it isn't! Bad things happen and there is nothing you can do about it." Although it was harsh, and more than likely hard to hear for the princess, he spoke from truth, from experience and a difficult past. He could feel that he desperately wanted her to understand him, to listen to his reasoning and believe him. But... she most likely never would... nothing really bad has ever happened to her, she was too young when they evacuated the Troll Tree to remember her time there, heck she hadn't even been born yet when King Peppy lost his wife, her mother...