~ The Other Side of the Storm ~

Chapter 11

Again, if sensitive to blood, skip this chapter. Or maybe stop reading the book altogether.

So this was supposed to be a cute- lighthearted chapter- but my dark brain-

"Why have I never had one of these until now?" Rose burped and fell of a log, wiping some gooey marshtato off her lip. "These s'more things are delicious."

Mandy's eyes were sparkling from the delicious flavors. "It's like heaven is on my tongue."

"I want them all." Acorn pleaded, pulling more marshtatoes out of Biggie's hands.

Verdana hugged Biggie, "Thank you for blessing our taste buds."

Biggie grinned while eating his own, he had saved all the ingredients to make s'mores from the previous night. "Don't eat too many, I'm running low on chocolate and you're going to get-"

Verdana screamed and fell over, "MY STOMACH HURTS!"

"-a stomachache." Biggie sighed and led her into her bed.

It only took a few minutes for the rest of them to feel the same pain, one by one, they dropped to the ground and clenched their stomachs.

Biggie shook his head, "Are your stomachs not adjusted to digesting all that sugar?"

"No-" Acorn crawled into bed with his wife and groaned.

"We've been living off of berries and critter for years, we don't have a ton of sugar in our diet." Rose dragged Mandy into a bed and then hopped into her own.

"I'm Troll Village all we eat is sugar, basically." Biggie ate one last s'more, before getting read to fall asleep. "Branch, do you want one? There's only one left."

Branch looked up and hesitantly shook his head, "I'll just end up burning it. It'll be a waste of marshtato."

Biggie took Branch's free hand and pulled him over towards the fire. "Just try! Take your time!" He handed him a stick with the final marshtato on it.

Branch stared at it deeply, still considering whether he should risk the waste or not.

Again, he refused and turned to walk back to the bed he claimed. "You can have it, Biggie."

Biggie put it back in the bag thing he had and stored all his ingredients in his hair. "You'll learn, someday."

"Good night, bOyS." Verdana weakly waved at them, before she passed out.

"Good night!" Biggie waved and hopped into the one available leaf bed, taking up most of the space. "Are you coming, Branch?"

Branch glanced back at him then stared into the fire. "Uh, I'll be there in a few minutes."

"Okay, then! Night, Branch!" Biggie rolled over and fell asleep immediately.

"Night..." Branch looked around, checking to see if everyone had fallen asleep. They did, of course.

He went through his hair for paper and a pencil and sloppily wrote a note with his left arm. He was leaving the group to search for Troll Village himself. He wrote a badly written letter explaining it all.

'I know it's dangerous out here, but I really want to find a way home. I know it hasn't even been a day since the storm, but being away is unbearable. I need to know if Poppy and everyone is okay. I'll be back if I find it and I'll bring you home, Biggie.

See you soon, sincerely Branch.'

He set the letter on the end of where Biggie slept then carefully pulled the bag of Graham crackers from the big Troll's hair.