Complicated Love

Chapter 13

A few days later Demo is driving the Critter Van happily. Barb got them a great one to rent for the trip. It has everything they could ever want and has enough room for all six of them. It's luxurious but, not as luxurious as possible since Hard Rockers will definitely cause damage to the Critter Van.

Val walks into the kitchen and opens the big black fridge. The fridge door just had drinks while in the rest of the fridge was filled with whatever food they might want. Val looks at every item uninterested til she spots Ice Cream and Spray cheese! She immediately grabs both items out of the fridge happily then dumps them on the counter.

Barb and Branch are having a guitar off in the middle of the spacious living room trying to see who is the best Rocker. Riff plays the drum set that came with van too going wild. Poppy is watching Barb and Branch battle it out like siblings. She was supporting and rooting for them both also was acting as a netrual judge.

Barb 'accidentally' pushes Branch to the side making him almost fall and stopped playing. Poppy wasn't happy about that. She just lost her show of Branch being hot while rocking his guitar. Branch glares at the Queen as she sticks her tongue out at Branch to annoy him.

" Minus ten points to Barb. ", Poppy says blankly.

Barb immediately stops playing when she heard that she lost points. Branch burst into laughter as Barb couldn't believe that she just lost points! Poppy just folds her arms and leans back into her seat not caring if the push was part of the performance. Take away Poppy's view of hot Branch be prepared to lose a few points.

" You can't take away points like that just cause I pushed your Boy Toy out of your view!", Barb protests.

" I just did. Should had played nice,Bestie. ", Poppy smirks playfully.

In the driver seat Demo smiles as he sees Pop Village coming into his view. His smile becomes bigger. They are here. It's been a year since Demo had been in Pop Village and he is happy to be back. The Pop Village had many colourful pods in the trees, some mushroom houses, active market and more. It is the brightest,lively and most positive tribe out of all the Troll tribes!

" Hey Guys! We're here!", Demo calls out loudly.

Soon the Critter Van parks stops in the village. There is a big welcoming crowd watching in awe and excitement to see who came to their village. The other Royals from other the tribes, Branch and Poppy's parents and some of Val and Demo's Pop troll friends are in the crowd. Queen Barb was the first to come out with Riff behind her.

" Hello Pop Village!", Barb says loudly.

After a while the crowd was gone,except for the certain parents who have been waiting for their adult children to finally visit them. Demo and Val had went with their friends while Barb and Riff went to the important meeting. Poppy's father, Peppy, opens his arms wanting a hug from his daughter. The Pop culture got into hugs more than he ever was before.

" Poppy, give your old man an hug.",Peppy says happily.

Peppy has orange skin, yellow nose,orange eyes, pointy ears, messy wild pink hair with grey. He is round in size like Demo. The father had an mustache too. He is wearing green comfortable short pants, a green Pop troll vest with aome Hard Rock culture details added and walking cane. Poppy for a second didn't recognise her father but, she happily hugs him.

" Dad!", Poppy greets happily.

Branch's mother,Olivia, has deep sky blue skin,light green eyes, purple nose,round ears and light green turquoise hair. Her hair is curly at the ends and is little longer than the last time Branch saw her. She wears a simple light green floral dress with white flowers and no sleeves.

Olivia missed her baby more than most mothers since she had to leave him with his father for than she would like to due the former laws of Volcano City. Barb's father changed the out of date laws by the time near the end of his rule. Branch's mother immediately hugs her son happily.

" Oh Sweetheart. I missed you. ", Olivia greets happily.

" Hello to you too,Mom... Your squeezing me little tight. ", Branch replies happily and calmly.

Branch's father,Noah, laughs at his son's reaction to his mother's hug. Noah has greyish skin,blue nose, pointy ears, blue eyes and Royal Sapphire blue hair. He wears old jeans,a white T- shirt and black vest. Olivia refuses to continue to hug her uncomfortable son some more while Noah did nothing to help him.

" Nice to see you again, Sport. ", Noah greets relaxed and amused

" Hey Dad. Mom, you can let go now. ", Branch says calmly.

Olivia finally let's go of Branch who needed to breathe in some more air. Branch inhales some fresh Pop Village air while his mother smiles at him. She tries fix his messy hair a little. Noah laughs amused again as Branch tried to make his mother stop grooming him.

" Olivia, leave his hair alone. It's probably meant to be that messy. ", Noah jokes.

" Mom, just stop. ", Branch complains.

A few moments later, Poppy walks into her father's mushroom house. It is bigger than she thought it would be. The retirement mushroom looks nice and simply decorated. Peppy sits down the comfort light brown couch.

" Why don't you sit down and tell me all about happening back in Volcano City? ", Peppy says kindly.

" Wow,dad. You hadn't sweared once since I got here. ", Poppy jokes.

She sits down as her father laughs at her joke. Back when Poppy was growing up her father use to swear every once in a while due to how crazy it got back home. Being in Pop Village did change him in a good way. Surprisingly Poppy didn't become as big as a pottymouth as he was.

" Oh you haven't changed a bit. Still living with Branch?", Peppy says happily and softly.

" Pretty much. We actually got closer and also remember when I told you about Johnny? We brokeup by the way so... you know. ", Poppy says calmly.

" Oh I see. What happened?", Peppy asks caringly.

" He cheated on me but, I'm over it. Branch had helped me with that along with Barb, Riff, Val and Demo. ", Poppy explains.

Peppy smiles glad to know that she was dealing with it well. Back when Peppy was younger he would had killed Johnny but, now he trusts his daughter to deal with her ex - boyfriends. Peppy did wonder something though about Poppy and Branch's relationship. They have always been friends since High School but, ever since he walked on them almost kiss he has wondered if they had growing feelings for each other.

" So you and Branch are still just friends?",Peppy asks curiously.

" Yes, Dad. We are still friends. Why?", Poppy says honestly.

" Oh nothing. Just sometimes you two seem to be more than friends, like when I caught you trying to kiss him.", Peppy says honestly.

" DAD! You should know by now that's not what happened!", Poppy says unhappily.

" Sure... You both weren't trying to be each other's first kiss. ", Peppy says not believing his daughter with a calm and happy tone.