“So who are you?” both boys asked
“Thank you for saving me!” the girl looked adorable with her cheeks turning red from the running “my name is Layla … oh how cute!” She spotted the fur-ball Fibby, who quickly jumped itself into Layla’s hands. She patted the fur-ball and kissed the furry thing, who turned red at the affection
“Must be a boy,” Calvin whispered as they observed the scene
Noah laughed as he put his sword back in sheath, and gave out his hand “Hey, Calvin, thank. Your plan was pretty good.” Noah said with a sincere appreciation. “I almost thought we couldn’t make it”
Calvin tried hard to hide away his embarrassment, in fact his run-away plan mostly served to protect himself. He had no intention of returning even if no goblins followed him back during the fighting. Still, he managed to gave out his hand and the two slapped. Looking at Noah’s smile, a sense of guilt crept behind Calvin’s mind, yet he dismissed the notion quietly “after all, I saved our lives.”
And they focused back to Layla and Fibby, who quickly became the best friends. “What was going on? Why did the goblins want you?” Calvin asked
“Well, you will never believe this!” Layla chuckled lightly, and gentlely put Fibby on her shoulder “the ugly fuzzy head wants to marry me!”
“What!” both boys’ jaw dropped in surprise
Layla smiled at the attention, and continued “Me and dad lived 20 miles outside of Woodbec town, and we farm, until one day, the fuzzy head and his goblin band came along.”
“So they found you,” Calvin added
“Yep!” Layla said, a thin cloud of anxiousness crossed her face at the mentioning of her dad, she continued “anyways, they caught dad, and used him to force me to marry.”
“I pretended to go along, so that they’d let dad go”
“Then you ran off on the wedding day!” Calvin clapped “Brilliant! Except you wouldn’t get away just in time…”
With a light sigh, she said, “Yeah, of course, I was so stupid to think the Fuzzy head would trust me… he came earlier than we agreed. I had his guards drunk that he set around my house to watch me, and I was just about to run off when he came in with his stupid goblins.”
“I see” Noah said “what are you going to do now?”
“I am going back to Woodbec to find my dad, as I told him to wait for me there.”
“Hey, we are going there too!” Calvin said excitedly as he put his hand around Noah’s shoulder
“Wh…” before Noah can interrupt, Calvin squeezed his shoulder HARD.
“Really?” a hopeful look showed on Layla’s face.
“Of course yes!” Calvin said, “We are going there… mmm, to get *cough* hair cut, yes, get hair cut!”
“Queak,” Fibby almost laughed at the lame excuse.
“Great then!” Layla said happily, and gave a thankful look to Calvin, who fainted…
So the four friends headed towards Woodbec.
[ 04-30-2002, 07:40 AM: Message edited by: TheThing ]
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