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Lock turned around, looking at Barrel and Shock."What just happened?..." He said, blinking and twitching his tail.
Bow glared at him.
"Lock, you idiot! She's devistated and you can't let her cry on your shoulder?! Her house has been RUINED!!" She hissed. "If it wasn't for your own stupid manly ego..."
Meanwhile, Belle had drifted around, checking out who was dead and injured. One of her best friends had drown, along with the old baker everybody loved. There was also the mayor's wife, the old widow(along with her twelve cats, all sleeping in the basement when it happened) And, Belle's dog Beau. All dead. She wept. Sat and held her dead dog and friends hand and wept until she didn't even have any tears anymore.
"...Belle?" It was Barrel.
Belle sniffed miserably and looked up at Barrel. "Beau would've turned sixteen next week. He could'nt swim. He had bad joints..."
Barrel wiped his watery eyes and sat down next to Belle. "You know...me and Shock cried for you guys too, when you were on the door. We thought you were dead. And then you showed up about a day later. Time can change anything, Belle. Sometimes it can't fix really deep cuts on the outside, but on the inside it can. Time will fix this."
Belle smiled. "Thanks, Barrel. You're a good friend." She patted his shoulder and got up, Carrying Beau. She laid him softly under a tree, then looked back distantly at her friend. Most of the townspeople had already arranged the dead to look peaceful.
Belle and Bow sat together atop thier old treehouse. Where they had spent countless sleepovers and played millions of pretend games. They were surprised that it had held up through the flood. They sat cross-legged, leaning on eachother's backs, like when they were little girls. Belle was exhausted. She'd spent all day treating the injured with the big first-aid kit from the SALLY ship, and had been running around to greet and check up on old friends.
They sat with thier eyes closed, knowing that they didn't even have to talk anymore, and just feeling the other one's presence was good enough. Suddenly Belle had to talk. "I miss Beau. And I miss Shiela. "
"I know you do. I do to. You think it was better being there when it actually happened? "
"...I'm sorry you had to."
"It's fine. I'm sorry about Beau. He was a cute little thing."
"Grumpy, though. Remember that time we were playing 'save princess from the dragon'? "
"And he was the dragon? Yep."
They giggled and closed thier eyes again, remembering together.
Belle snapped awake. She was on her bed in the treehouse, wearing her black nightgown and she had a novel by Edgar Allen Poe squished to her face. "What the.." She mumbled, then glanced at her clock. 9:00 p.m. "That whole thing was..." She threw her book across the room and dashed out to the stairs she stopped dead in the trick-or-treaters living room, where Lock was watching T.V. He glanced at her, then looked back at the T.V.
"Lock, what day is it?" Asked Belle, feeling her head.
"Thursday, why?"
"...nothing." Then she lumbered sleepily over next to Lock and sat down. "Mind if I join you?"
"Sure. But don't hog the couch." He grinned, nudging her sideways. She laughed, and moved over.
"I had the wierdest nightmare..."
Then the doorbelle rang.
"I'll get, I'll tell you later," said Belle, getting up. "Who rings the doorbell at nine o clock?" She mumbled.
Lock heard a scream, and, jumping up, he saw Belle hugging someone with black pigtails in her hair and a black dress.
"BELLE!! Oh my God, you're like a foot taller!!"
"You're like a foot SHORTER!"
"What's this? Belle, who is that" Said Lock, looking cunfused.
"Lock, this is Bow, She's my best freind from the Hinterlands!!"
"Hi!" said Bow.
"..Hey."replied Lock, scratching his neck and staring at her.
"HORSES!"squealed Belle, and she and Bow both started giggling. "Heh..Inside joke, Lock, I'll explain later. Come in, Bee, come in!!"
Gasping, Bow smiled appreciatiely. "You called me Bee! You haven't called me Bee since we were five!"
"So. I'm supposed to come get you. The War is over!! You can come home!!" Exclaimed Bow.
Belle squealed and clapped her hands over her mouth. "Is Beau still..."
"Alive? Yes. Friendly? No."
"Just like always."whispered Belle.
"Just like always."repeated Bow. After a pause, she added," We're leaving for home in three days."
"I'll go tell Shock and Barrel." Said Lock, getting up from the couch. "You two talk. Catch up on you're guys's girly stuff or whatever."
*Three Days Later*
"G'bye, Lock." Whispered Belle. "I'll miss you."
"I'll miss you too." replied Lock. "But...You'll visit, right?"
"Of course I will. I wouldn't just ditch you guys, and forget about you forever."
"....good."
They were standing together on the spiral hill, watching the sunset.
"Belle!! Come on! The train's waiting!" Yelled Bow from far away. She sounded impatient.
"...I should go." said Belle, looking behind her.
"Just...take this." said Lock, pressing a flower into her hands. She smiled, tears rollong down her cheeks.
And, atop the Spiral Hill, they embraced.
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The End. For real this time. YAY! I'm so corny at endings, you'd think I know not to be.....Anyways, I hope everyone liked my now-finished corny-ending-story. o.o;;
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