A Little Peak in my characters Lives Pt.1 - SFS

Author’s note: This is a side story from my book series called, SOME FOX SERIES (you might hear me call it SFS) that I’m hoping to publish one day. In book three, it's about a girl fox named Apricot who wants to unite foxes with the half human wolves. She used her friends, Goldie, Rudy, and her new wolf friend, Luna, to change everyone’s perspective and to unite them. So this is also not in the book but just a mini short story with them. I didn’t know what to make them do that wasn’t in the book so it’s just them at school. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It’s just a get to know the character's story.

Apricot stood in front of the make-shift school. It was nothing compared to the real world schools where humans had all kinds of cool stuff. But it was enough. Enough to teach them how to be the best half human, half fox people they could be. The school was made out of elegant wood and stone and had tall glass windows that were donated by some rich Scarlet Veilkins (fox-humans who live with humans and act more like humans than the Scarlet Kin.) Both kins were humans who had fox parts (Tail, ears, whiskers, and a black mark on their human nose.), but only The Scarlet Kin could transform into full foxes. Scarlet was their ancestor. She was an orphan human girl who got fox parts by her friend’s scientific accident. Scarlet wasn’t fully fox but half fox and human. So her kids were too. Until a few of her great great grandkids were tired of hiding their foxness from humans so they ran out of the city, wanting to be more fox than human and fled from the human world and escaped to a magical forest they called Wispertail Woods. There they figured out a way to connect with their inner fox and transform into a full fox (some were gray foxes and some were red foxes). They called themselves The Scarlet Kin and the more human than foxes were the Scarlet Veilkins. Their enemies were the wolves that could do the same thing. Though no one had a reason why they were their enemies.

“Apricot! Over here!” called Apricot’s best friend, Goldie, waving furiously.

“Coming!” Apricot replies, running towards her bestie who was standing next to a tall thick oak tree.

Goldie wore a cute red shirt with pink flowers all over it and a matching headband and her golden curly hair that was in two fox-tails.

"Hey bestie!" Goldie said cheerfully.

"Hey."

“So, how’s your research on the Gray Rose going? Did you find anything?” Goldie asked in a hushed tone.

“Not yet.” admitted Apricot curling a lock of her light red-orange hair on her pointy finger.

“Stop doing that! You’re messing up your bangs.” Goldie said, pulling Apricot’s hand down.

The Gray Rose was made through the bond the foxes had with the wolves. Instead of being a red rose, it's gray because of the wolves, and the word rose represents the foxes.

“Oops. Well anyway, I couldn’t find anything so I think we just have to blindly look.” Apricot whispered back.

Goldie sighed. “Great. We’re looking for something that might not exist and we have no head start. And we could get in lots of trouble looking for it.”

“Keep your voice down! But yes, I guess we are.”

“We are what?” a voice above them said.

“Oh no.” Goldie mumbled.

“Wait. It’s just Rudy.” Apricot said, squinting at the leaves in the tree.

“Hey girls.” Rudy said before dangling on his legs and hanging on a branch above the girls. His spikey red hair matched his plain red shirt and tan shorts.

Goldie smirked, recovering quickly, “Hi Rudy. You know, one day you'll fall.”

Rudy laughed and his right ear twitched. “Been there, done that.”

Apricot frowned, adding, “And one day you’ll get in trouble for climbing trees. The adults here don’t like that.”

“Oh Apri, always the rule follower. Well you were. I heard you’re breaking some rules soon.” Rudy replied with a raised eyebrow.

“Stay out of our business Rudy. Maybe one day we’ll tell you. For now let’s have a normal school day.” Apricot sighed. She really trusted Rudy, but right now she wanted the secret to be kept between her and Goldie.

Rudy rolled his mischievous eyes, swung on the branch and jumped off.

“Fineeee. But I can’t promise you that I’ll stop asking. Or that this day’s gonna be normal.” Rudy smiled sheepishly, and picked up his bag that was at the base of the tree.

“Our lives have never been normal since we’ve been friends.” Goldie laughed, playfully shoving him.

Rudy opened his mouth to reply but a voice cut him off.

“Ew, look at the three amigos. Cheesy as ever.”

“At least one of them dresses nicely.” another voice added.

Apricot groaned. Her sister, Cherry, always came to ruin her and her friends' day.

“Hey little sis, missed me?” Cherry smirked, smoothing her already smoothed and flattened, dark cherry-red hair. Cherry’s dark red orange ears stuck out of her hair so effortlessly and smooth it looked like she never needed to brush her ears. She had the same freckles as Apricot, in neat patterns.

Next to her stood Rudy’s sister, Ruby, looking stunning as ever. She was a drama queen and if no one told you, you wouldn’t think her and Rudy were twins! Her hair was curly ruby-red and hung to her shoulders. A curl on each side of her eyebrows made her look preppy and stylish.

How were Cherry and Ruby good friends if one was super neat, and the other one was preppy?

Apricot crossed her arms. It’s because they’re both snobby and mean to their siblings. And they are both top of their classes. As my parents and Rudy’s parents like to say, “perfect” role models.

Ruby walked next to Rudy and pulled out her small carry-on straightener from her purse. “Your whiskers are not straight.”

Rudy rolled his eyes and ducked. “Yeah I know.”

“Then let me fix it little bro!”

“Sheesh. You're older by six minutes and eight seconds. And mom said I can leave them like this.”

Ruby sighed, waving the straightener around animatedly, “You didn’t hear the weariness in her voice when she said that? And you think I’m gonna let you go around walking with un-tamed whiskers, saying you’re in the Crimson family?”

Cherry snickered then tugged on Apricot’s left orange ears. “Goldie’s outfit looks better than yours, Apri.”

Goldie beamed at that. She loved getting compliments from fashion experts. But then she realized Apricot’s annoyance and Rudy trying to dodge the straightener.

Goldie frowned, she hated when her best friends were being treated this way, swallowing her pride she replied, “Oh come on, Apricot’s pink and orange tie-dye swirl shirt looks good on her! And her white skirt and shoes adds cuteness.”

“Yeah, both of you look cute.” added Rudy swatting at Ruby’s tool.

He froze and blushed.

“Uhh, I mean…” he stammered, his bushy tail falling and his ears twitching nervously.

Ruby took that as her opportunity to straighten his whiskers. She lifted his head by his chin, and started straightening them.

“Ow ow ow.” he moaned, embarrassment forgotten, “You’re pulling!”

Cherry grinned and let go of Apricot’s ear. “Beauty hurts, darlings.”

“Ta-Da! See? Look how good that looks!” Ruby exclaimed, pulling back to reveal his straight whiskers.

“I like them crooked and bent.” he mumbled, “And why did you use a straightener when I could just do this?”

Poof!

Where Rudy was standing there was a red furred fox with spiky red hair and golden mischievous eyes in his place.

Rudy lifted his paw, licked it, then rubbed it against his whiskers.

“Ew!!!” Ruby yelped, grabbing his paw to stop him from doing it again.

Rudy laughed, He knew how to get on his sister’s nerves fast.

“I don’t see what’s wrong with this, Sis. This is how normal foxes clean theirs.” Rudy smirked.

“Yeah but we are half human remember? And humans don’t do that.” Ruby said, dropping his wet paw and standing next to Cherry.

“Come on, let's leave the amigos to their gross first grade mind set.” Cherry said snickering.

“Yeah, let's go before we catch something. You know, the Stupid Disease.” Ruby added, tossing her hair.

They both snickered and walked away.

“I’ll pick yall up from the kindergarten class later.” Cherry called over her shoulder.

A few other students snickered nearby.

“We should probably get to class so we are not late.” Apricot said, sighing.

They walked the rest of the way to the school in silence.

Finally Apricot spoke up, “Who cares what our siblings say. We are top of our class!”

“You are.” Rudy said, kicking a rock.

“Yeah but you’re very smart. You just don’t wanna be top of the class.” Goldie adds.

“Cause I don’t wanna be like my twin.” he replies, scratching his fluffy ear.

“Trust me, you won’t.” Apricot assured fidgeting with her necklace that matched Goldie’s. A small red stone on a sliver string.

Goldie smiled and linked arms with her two best friends. They’ve all known each other for a very long time!

Apricot and Goldie’s moms were friends before they were born and the Crimson’s met them a few years after.

“Cmon guys, let’s have fun.” Goldie said, pulling them towards the double glass doors.

“Okay okay!” Rudy laughed.

Apricot smiled, Goldie always knew how to lighten the mood when Rudy couldn’t. He was naturally a joker and she was the bouncy silly one. They needed Apricot to stop them from doing anything crazy and she needed them to keep her smiling.

Right when they entered, a girl with long blond hair smiled and said from her wooded locker, “Watch out cause the Three have just entered the building!”