This is the first chapter of Dodging Bullets. I'm pretty sure I know who I want the love interest to be but eh, ya never know, I might just change my mind. I also might change POV's later on but I might not. Let me hear your opinions okay? Oh and this is also my first fanfic so don't pull any punches but let's not make it full on only negative responses. ANYWHO. Let's move on shall we?
Molly was having another relaxing day at the bar with her friends. She had her first alcoholic drink of the night, a coconut cocktail. Yep, a perfect way to end a busy, Fall day.
"Molly." Finn chirped.
*Twitch*
"Molly!"
*Twitch twitch*
"Molly Molly Molly Molly MOOOOOOOOOLLYYYYYYYY!"
"FOR GODDESS'S SAKE FINN! SHUT THE FRICK' UP!" Finn's incessant buzzing in her ear made Molly yell at him in front of everybody in the bar.
"Crap…" She muttered under her breath.
Before she could give them some lame explanation, someone patted her on the shoulder laughing.
"One drink and you're already getting a little LOO-PAY! And you say I drink too much than I can hold." Molly immediately recognized the voice of her best friend, Kathy. Obviously all ready drunk, Kathy plopped down in the nearest seat next to Molly...which happened to already be occupied by Calvin.
"What the- Kathy get off." Calvin said sighing.
"Shhhhhhhhh. Shh. When I count to three you will be gone!"
"Here we go." Luke muttered as he brought Molly and Kathy more drinks.
"1….2…..3!"
"…"
"Still here Kat." Calvin relayed to her.
"No you're not. You're just a pink elephant." Kathy poked Calvin's nose and laughed her head off.
"Riiiiiight…So you sure you're okay Molly? Or are you going to make me disappear too?" Calvin asked while raising his eyebrow, clearly studying Molly for any signs of drunken characteristics.
"Huh?...OH! Yeah yeah! I probably just had a little drunken...side effect?" Molly finished her statement off as a question and winced as she did so. It was a habit she had every time she was trying to cover the fact about the bells and Finn and her quest to save the island and etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. She then gave an awkward giggle and took a big swig of her cocktail in an attempt to seem normal.
"Drunken side effect...?"
"Hey! I'll buy it." Luke said taking a chug of his drink.
Calvin shrugged it off as well and Molly breathed easily.
"Just know that if you get drunk that I'M not taking you home. I don't need people thinking I'm taking two drunken girls home with me. Thankfully nothing too absurd has been spread around the island yet."
"Don't want Miss Phoebe jumping to conclusions?" Luke said with an evil smirk.
Calvin's face flushed pink and quickly back to its natural color.
"More like I don't want Owen making any assumptions." Calvin said, shuddering at the thought of the guy's bulging muscles (or more accurately what he could do with them).
"Yeah, too bad Kathy is too caught up in riding horses to notice that Owen likes her." Molly pointed out.
A snicker came out of Luke causing Calvin to punch him in the shoulder. Sometimes he really wondered how he came to be friends with such an immature guy.
Molly laughed until a very upset Finn came beside her and screeched in her ear like a mini fog horn, startling her into knocking her drink onto the floor.
Almost reaching out to throttle the little pest she heard an exasperated sigh come from behind her. She froze at its sound for she knew it all too well. Stiffly, she turned to see the figure belonging to the almighty apprentice of Yolanda, glowering at her with fierce globes of violet.
"H-hi Ch-Chase." She said with nervousness about her.
"Molly, what the hell!" He yelled straight at her and she cowered slightly.
"It's 11:25 and you're still making messes! Are you drunk or is this just you!"
"Give me a break, please! I didn't mean to do it...!" Molly shot back unintentionally which she immediately regretted. The often timid girl tried hard not to get on anyone's bad side, and she never yelled except for the occasional outbreaks she had towards Finn. She also knew Chase to be the type of person that if one were to yell at them, it would just crescendo the anger they already had towards you. She wasn't fond of those types of people...bad past experiences.
Luckily for her, Kathy subconsciously came to her rescue.
"It's another pink elephant!" Kathy gasped in a type of sorrow that only a drunken Kathy could.
She then flailed her left foot at him aimlessly.
"Be gone pink elephant! BE GONE!"
Chase took a step backwards so he was out of reach of Kathy's failed attempt of a kick. He stared at her, blank faced.
"Okaaaaaaay. I think it's time for me to take you home Kathy." Calvin said in sympathetically, his brotherly personality exuding from him.
"Awwwwwwww but I don't wanna goooooo*hic*oooooo*hic* heeheeheehahaha." Kathy busted out into weird laughter.
Molly, Luke, and Calvin stared blankly at their friend as well.
"…"
"Uhh…" Hayden suddenly started as he heard his daughter's outburst.
"Already on it Hayden." Calvin stated.
"Yeah I think it's about time to get you home Kat." Luke said, blatantly astounded at her behavior. Molly could only nod her head in agreement. She was mostly just looking for a reason to escape Chase's wrath.
"Fine!" Kathy whined looking up at Calvin.
"Carry me…" She puppy dog-eyed him. Calvin couldn't resist the eyes; she was like a little girl.
"Up ya go." He hoisted Kathy onto his back easily and put money on the table.
"It's on me tonight. Let's get going guys." Calvin (calling over his shoulder and giving a nod to Hayden) started for the door.
"Hey! I'm moving without even touching the ground!" Kathy said in shock.
"Amazing!" Calvin amused her.
"You bet your ass it's amazing!" Kathy shouted and Molly giggled.
"Who's cleaning this mess up!" Chase yelled after the four.
"You clean it up you Pillsbury Doughboy!" Luke shouted being the last of them out of the bar.
"What'd you say!" They could hear Chase's angry scream on the other side of the door.
"Well I've gotta head this way to get her home guys. See ya tomorrow." Calvin said before taking Kathy to her house above the Ocarina Inn.
"See ya." Luke called after them before turning to his friend with a look of concern.
"You alright Molls? You need me to walk you home or anything?" Luke asked her.
"What?" Molly looked confused.
"Well you did take in quite a few cocktails and you were already acting a little nuts so-"
"Oh no! I'm fine! I must've drank myself sober. Hahaha." Molly said nervously.
"I'll be fine on my way home tonight so you go ahead and take the mine cart back to your place, Luke."
"Okay. Just be careful, it's pretty dark out tonight." And with that Luke was up the path towards the Church Grounds leaving Molly to herself. Well…almost to herself if you didn't include the increasingly mad harvest sprite right next to her screaming her name again. Molly didn't want to take any chances by answering him in town so she decided to wait until she reached the security of her house.
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"MOLLY IT'S URGENT!" Finn screamed for about the fiftieth time since they got on the path to Molly's house.
When Molly got to the door she finally answered the eager little sprite.
"Okay okay okay! What is it Finn?" Molly said entering the dark house, a grimace on her face. She loved the little sprite, but his actions tonight left her in yet another spat with the intimidating chef, and that was sure to bother her later in the week.
"It's about what I went to go see the Harvest Goddess about before you went to the bar!"
"Uh-huh. And?" Molly urged him to continue as she brushed her teeth and put on her night clothes.
"She told me that someone brought a Rogue Sprite to the island a few days ago!"
This got Molly's attention.
"What?" she asked, dumb-founded, never once hearing of the word.
"A Rogue Sprite! Molly! This is bad!" Finn said pulling down on his little hat.
"How bad?"
"Bad bad! A Rogue Sprite, small like me and Allen and everyone else, but doesn't want to help the land like us! If anything, it wants to get rid of any person trying to help the Goddess! It knows you're here! It knows you can see us!"
Molly gasped, her concern garnered more toward her sister who had talked about coming down in the future to start a farm.
"What do we do?" She asked.
Finn shook his head in dismay.
"The Goddess said that there was nothing that we could do until we actually encounter the Rogue Sprite. It might take months until it finally decides to start wreaking havoc. She just senses that it's here...that's all we know."
Molly bit her lip as she usually did when she was scared or contemplating something. In this case both.
"I didn't mean to shake you up because you still need to focus on the bells, and in order to do that you need to be focused and well rested. So try to get some sleep." Finn said quietly.
Molly nodded as she switched off the lights and crawled into bed. But she certainly didn't get much sleep that night.
How was it? Bad? Not that bad? Pretty good? Amazing maybe? Don't keep it to yourselves you lovely readers you. Let me know! R&R pretty please! Or a drunken Kathy will show up at your door step XD.