Unknown Territory

Chapter One

Poppy blinked open her eyes. She woke up from a weird dream. She felt nervous after it, and there were Butterflies in her stomach. As she sat up, she looked across the room.

"Huh. I thought I gave that to Barb." She thought to herself. She pushed the blanket off of her legs, and walked over to her mirror. She then grabbed her brush, and started grooming her hair.

Poppy went to reach for her hair tie, but her hand hit the dresser. She looked over at it, searching for the scrunchie.

"Where did I put it..." She said, walking over to her bed, and pulling up her blankets.

"Hey Popcorn." Said a voice from the doorway. Poppy screamed. Her breaths were short, and panicked. Until she looked up.

"Oh... Barb, what are you doing here?" She stood back up.

"You left this in my kingdom last time you were there." Barb said, holding out a side purse.

Poppy walked up to her, and grabbed it. "That's where it went!" She reached forwarded, and hugged Barb. "Thank you." She said.

Barb looked down with her arms open. As she hugged back, she spoke. "Yeah, no problem."

As Poppy pulled out of the hug, she remembered. "Oh! I forgot to give this to you!" She squeaked, excitedly running over to her desk. She picked something up, and walked back over to Her.

Barb looked down at the object. "What is it?" As she said that, what Poppy was holding, opened up, and shot red glitter at Barb's face.

As the glitter landed on her, she looked at the object again. Poppy looked her excitedly. "I'm inviting you to the party in pop village tonight!" She held the invitation up a little higher. "What do you say?"

Barb struggled for a moment. "I mean..." Poppy's small cheery smile, slowly turned into a frown.

Barb gently took the card away from Poppy, and held it. "Poppy, I would love too, but I have too much stuff to do back at home."

Poppy's arms fell to her side. "Oh... I see..." She sighed. "Well, If your available any other time, we could do a sleepover." She offered, a small, hopeful smile on her face.

Barb laughed a bit. "I'll think about it." She said. "Anyway, I have to head out. Riff needs me to help restock Carol's Cheeze supply for her new shop."

Poppy looked up. "A Cheeze shop? Maybe I can come by later today and check it out. I do love Cheeze."

"Pshh. Sense when?" Barb joked. As she said that, They both began to laugh.

"Alrighty then." Barb stated. "I'll see if I can make time for that sleepover." She ruffled Poppy's hair and started to walk off. "Bye popsqueak!" Barb called from the distance.

Poppy waved awkwardly, and shut her door quickly. She quickly placed her hands on her cheeks, realizing how much she was blushing. Shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot! She thought.

That's why she woke up feeling like that... Her dream was about her crush... Her crush on Barb.