(I've rewritten this five times and it still sucks send help 😄 Also, not describing the other trolls because you all definitely know who they are and what they look like. And this chapter is kind of a filler, it'll make sense on why it's kind of important next chapter?

Also, thank you for the support on the book so far! I'm really happy that people are enjoying it!

And, I'm proud to say that I'm finally getting the help I need for my anxiety and depression!)

"NO! YOU CAN'T MAKE ME LEAVE!" Poppy held on to blades grass, fighting back against the several trolls pulling her away from the hospital pod.

"Branch will be fine without us standing outside the pod for hours! He'll be asleep the entire time, anyways." Essence wasn't pulling at all, she stood beside Poppy, hoping to persuade her to stop pulling.

"We can buy him a gift for when he's in recovery, I'm sure there's something cool in the village he'd want." Trollex suggested, helping Barb, Holly, and Dickory drag Poppy away.

"Flowers!" Dante flew above Poppy's ahead and attempted to pull her upwards, not succeeding at all.

"What if we made him one of those do it y'urself flowers? Take a branch and stick some poppy petals on the limbs? Puns intended." Hickory suggested, picking up various twigs off the ground.

Poppy let go of the grass and jumped up, cause the Trolls tugging on leg to lose balance, "Ooh! I have an idea! We could make a DIY flower with branches and poppy petals!"

"Wow." Hickory face palmed, "wonder where you came up with that idea."

"I know right? I'm a genius!" She skipped away, "I know there's a lot of poppies at Misty Meadows! I hope they're still there though after the tornadoes and the temperature change."

"Misty Meadows?" Guy and Ash stared at Poppy, both the same concerned look on their faces.

"Tornado season is over, guys, nothing to worry about!" Poppy assured them, grabbing both of their wrists and pulling them towards the forest to lead them to the field.

"But those tornadoes happened when it wasn't tornado season!" Guy dug his feet in the ground, hoping to stop her.

"It was summer, though, it's autumn now! The only thing we very unlikely have to worry about is snow! And it's too warm for snow!" Poppy giggled.

"Si, she's right." Tresillo elbowed Ash, "it's fine! It'll only take us few minutes."

Ash sighed, "fine, but we better be back at the village within five minutes."

"I promise!" Poppy spotted a poppy flower growing beside a tree. It was slightly shriveled, but staying strong. "We just need one, right?" She looked at Hickory for him to answer.

"Don't ask me, it was your idea." He rolled his eyes at her, "but yes."

"See? We didn't even have to go into Misty Meadows." Poppy patted Guy and Ash on the head, "Stop worrying about tornadoes!"

"Says the troll that fled to Branch's bunker in the middle of the night after having a nightmare about the storms." D fake coughed and raised his an eyebrow at her.

"Yeah, we all heard it." Baby Bun giggled.

"You both are terrified of another tornado killing either one of you, and he was terrified, because of the surgery." Holly recapped was she picked at her tooth like it was no big deal.

"How do you guys know all this?" Poppy's face turned red, slightly embarrassed. How much did they all hear?

"We heard you scream in the middle of the night and then saw you run to his bunker and we all listened in on the conversation." Dante innocently smiled.

"I thought his bunker was soundproof." Poppy covered her face, "I wanted to seem like I wasn't scared at all so you guys wouldn't be scared at all."

"Aww.." They all gave her a huge group hug, Barb and Poppy squished in the middle.

"Let me out!" Barb wriggled out of the hug and crawled back to the open grass, "ugh."

Poppy grinned and jumped up excitedly, "let's go do stuff— after we finish the Broppy flower."

"Broppy, that's clever." Dante chuckled to himself.

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Hours passed, the group finished the flower and had done even more things afterwards with tons of time to spare.

Poppy and Hickory played a game of checkers, Poppy won. Barb and Dickory had a fist fight over the best flavor of strudel, Dickory won. D and Cooper baked a cake with mud somehow, it tasted great.

They were so distracted and happy, they had completely forgotten about Branch and staying outside the hospital for him. Well, up until—

Trollex sat up, "what about Branch?"

Their eyes all widened, realizing.

They quickly all rushed back to the hospital pod.

"I hope he doesn't realize we weren't there the entire time! I promised him!" Poppy remained ahead of the group, of course caring about Branch the most.

When they got there, they swung the doors open and ran through towards that room where most of the patients would be laying.

Branch was in one of the beds, asleep with a dorky smile on his face. His arm was in a cast and at the normal 90 degree position. Everything seemed to had gone well.

Dr. Moonbloom rolled her eyes at the group barging in, "don't worry, he doesn't know you guys left to have fun all day."

Poppy scoffed and lied, "we didn't have fun."

"Yeah.." Cooper licked the mud off his fur, as if the doctor wasn't watching him do it.

"When he wakes up he's either going to be acting weird or just complaining from the pain." Dr. Moonbloom explained, "He'll probably wake up any second.."

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Finished 8/4/20