A\N : So I know I said I'm taking a break from troll ships which includes Esmean, but I'm trying to distract myself from my crush and writing stories helps so here goes nothing. Background info on this real quick : No humans exist in the troll world in this, it's only trolls. Everyone is in high school. Esmerald's adoptive parents Henry and Fiona (tinatinacrazyidea ocs) exist here too. This is set before her oc adventure. That's it. Enjoy. 💖💖💖💖

She ran home as fast as she could in tears. It was her third day of high school and it didn't go too well. She quickly opened the door to her house and ran passed her Mom and Dad, up to her room. She tossed her bookbag aside, jumped on her bed, buried herself in a pillow and started sobbing. She didn't like it when anyone heard or saw her crying so she did it lightly. As she did she started reflecting on the things that happened to her that day.

*Flashback*

She had gotten out of the family car. Her parents had dropped her off that day, so she wouldn't have to wait on the bus. Her high school days started in the cafeteria since she got dropped off by car. She opened the cafeteria doors and walked inside. One of her friends, String, got dropped off by car as well so she was sitting down at a cafeteria table. Esmerald waved and walked over.

The light green troll had seen someone she thought she knew from fifth grade yesterday - her crush. She wanted to get some answers from the friends that went to her school. She sat at her table and started talking to String, wondering if the Techno troll had an answer.

Unfortunately, String had no idea who the boy she had seen the day before was. So the dark green haired troll continued talking String and waited for her other friends to show up. When Jazzy walked in she started asking her questions. "Did you see the troll yesterday?"

Jazzy sat her bookbag down. "Describe him."

"He was wearing a yellow and orange hood and jeans. He's tall and has red hair that's kinda shaggy cut. He has grayish purple skin and pink eyes. Do you know him?"

Jazzy thought for a moment. "I think your describing one of my new friends. His name is Todd, but he sometimes goes by his middle name which is Flame."

"So it is him!" Esmerald's eyes went wide. "Who are you talking about?" One of her other friends Ocean sat at the table.

"Promise you won't blab anything?" The purple eyed troll asked. Ocean nodded. "Okay do you know a Todd?" The light blue troll shook his head. "No I don't know anyone with that name. I know someone named Flame. We don't talk much though. Do you know him?"

"Possibly..." Esmerald trailed off. Jos walked up and smirked at Esmerald's face. "I know that look. Who's the guy?"

Esmerald looked down bashfully. "Uhhhhhh......"  She started looking everywhere. "Ha! Your avoiding eye contact! Who is it??" Jazzy asked. "Fine. Tell no one!" Jazzy and String nodded. "It's Flame..."

Ocean suddenly became very quiet. "What's up with you?" String asked him. He grabbed his bookbag. "Nothing. Um I'll see y'all later. I forgot I promised my history teacher I'd go to him to finish a test."

"Okay. See ya." Jazzy said. "So anyway." She sat up higher on the table. "How long have you known him?"

"Since fifth grade. Why?"

"No reason just curious." She started hitting her head hard. "I can't help, but feel like there's something I should tell you about Flame. Meh I'm sure it's nothing."

Everyone else arrived and eventually it was time to transition to first block. Esmerald and her friends got up and started walking to their classes. While walking to her sociology class, Esmerald ran into Ocean. The confusing thing was he was no where near his history class. The light green troll decided to stop and ask him. "Hey why aren't you in your history class?"

The light blue troll seemed lost in thought. "Wait history? What about it?"

"You said you had to finish a test for your history teacher, but your not anywhere near his class. Are you feeling okay?" Esmerald's face expressed concern.

"Oh right my history test. Yeah. I finished it in another room." He said plainly and walked off. "See ya later."

Esmerald stared at him. "Okay. Bye." She started speed walking so she'd get to her class on time.

*At Lunch*

Esmerald made sure to take her time getting to the cafeteria. It didn't take too long to get to it from her Biology 1 class. She started looking for Ocean because he was the only friend she had that had the same lunch as her. She saw him, but he was looking sad as he walked to the lunch room. He didn't even look up when Esmerald called him. She started speed walking to catch up with him. He was already getting his lunch when she arrived. She grabbed her lunch and looked around for the table they ate lunch at.

She found it, but Ocean wasn't there. She looked around confused before she saw him eating alone outside. She walked outside to join him. "Okay." She said as she sat her tray down. "What is wrong with you?"

Ocean started playing around with his food and to Esmerald's surprise suddenly exploded. "I told you it's nothing! I'm fine! Why can't you just drop it?!"

"Gee I don't know. Maybe because we've been friends for over seven years and I care about your feelings as I do about everyone else's!"

Ocean rolled his eyes. "Yeah okay. But there's no need for you to care about me because I'm perfectly fine!" He got up and started to leave. "Wait did I do something wrong??" Esmerald asked him. He sighed heavily and turned around, his voice growing lower. "No. No one did anything okay?! I'm just having a bad day."

"Oh I can help you -" she stopped when Ocean held up his hand. "No. I don't need any help feeling happy okay? I just need to be alone for a bit. It's nothing personal or serious." And with that he walked off.

Esmerald sat down and started eating her nachos, not knowing that Ocean was watching her. He sighed. "If only you knew Es..."

*At The Of The Day*

Esmerald was walking to the cafeteria to get on the bus when Jazzy ran up to her. "I need to tell you something...about Flame..."

Ocean was doing some homework when he saw Esmerald and Jazzy taking. He decided to listen in.

"Okay well the thing I should tell you about Flame is...he's gay and he has a boyfriend."

Esmerald felt her heart sink to her stomach and tears welled up in her eyes, but she acted okay. "Oh."

"Are you okay?" Jazzy asked. Esmerald managed to fake a smile. "Yeah I'm fine." She looked up and saw her bus pull into the school parking lot. "Gotta go see ya later." She immediately ran outside and got on. Once she did she couldn't hold back her tears.

Back inside Ocean noticed his best friend had left and he ran over to Jazzy. "What's wrong with Es? I saw you talking to her. What about?"

"Sheesh someone loves to spy on his crush. Y'know there's a such thing as privacy. Might be a good idea to look it up in a dictionary." Jazzy said with attitude. Ocean looked confused. "What do you mean crush?"

"C'mon don't play that game with me. I'm not dumb. I've seen how you look at her." Jazzy crossed her arms. Ocean immediately turned red. "Okay next subject please!"

Jazzy smirked. "Umhum. Well you might be able to have a chance with her now. Turns out Flame is gay and has a boyfriend." She sighed. "I don't think Esmerald's taking it too well." She saw her bus and ran out to get on it. "See ya later." She called to Ocean. "Bye." Ocean called back. He went to go sit at his table and started thinking. He really hoped Esmerald was okay.

*Present Time*

Esmerald continued crying harder and slightly louder as she thought about what had happened. High school is so tough! She got rejected by her crush of four years and she still felt like she had done something wrong to Ocean, but she didn't know what.

After a while her crying slowed down a bit, but she was still really sad. She grabbed a pillow and started hugging it. She wonder why she never knew Flame was gay. He never told her in fifth or sixth grade. Even so, she still wanted him to be happy, even if it means she's gonna have to let go of her crush on him. She sighed heavily. This is gonna be hard, but she needs to do it.

"Esmerald?" She heard her Mom's voice. She quickly dried her tears and tried to look happy. Fiona walked in her room. "You okay?"

"Yeah. Yeah I'll be fine."

"Be fine? What happened?"

"Nothing. I promise."

"Okay. I'm here for you to talk if you need me."

"Okay thanks." Esmerald pulled out her phone. In order to take her mind off Flame, it might be a good idea to figure out what she did to Ocean. When she dialed his number, no one answered. She didn't have any homework, so she decided to go to his house.

She got and ran down stairs. "Bye!" She called to her parents as she rushed out the door. "Bye?" Both were obviously confused.

*At Ocean's House*

"C'mon River! Give me my markers back!" Ocean tried pouncing one River. "You know I need those to work on a science poster!"

"I'll give them back after you admit you like her!" River ducked behind a chair, causing Ocean to crash into it. The light blue troll got up. "There's nothing to admit! Now give them to me!"

"Nu uh! Don't lie!" River climbed on the top of their bunk beds.

"Ocean! Stop fighting with your brother! Besides there's someone who wants to see you." Their Mom called from down stairs. Ocean sighed. "Fine, but this isn't over!" He turned to River. The light peach troll smirked. "Haha. Your absolutely right! Because I get to watch a fun show!" He started following Ocean down stairs.

"Who is it?" Ocean asked his Mom. She came out from the kitchen. "I think it's one of your best friends. She said she wants to talk to you."

Ocean immediately ran to the door and opened it with River at his heels. Esmerald waved when the door was opened. "Hi! I just came by to ask you what I did wrong, so I can make it right."

River pushed passed Ocean and allowed Esmerald inside. Ocean glared at his little brother. The light peach troll acted innocent. "Why are you glaring? What did I do wrong?" He asked. Ocean continued glaring at his brother. Esmerald decided to stop the stare down. "Okay I didn't come over here to watch you two have a stare off. I came over here to ask Ocean what I did wrong."

Ocean stopped staring his little brother down and turned to his friend. "I told you, no one did anything. This is getting annoying." He rolled his eyes. "Well you know what else is getting annoying? Knowing your upset and not knowing why!"

River randomly pulled out a bucket of popcorn and started eating. "This is getting good! Keep going, but this time really show your anger!"

Both trolls stared at him.

"Okay. Lets go talk somewhere that's a little less him."

River glared at him. "You'll regret saying that one day. We share a room and I've got access to all your secret belongings." He smirked and started walking away, but not before pulling a book out of his hair. "Like this!" Ocean's eyes went wide. "No! No no no no no no no no! No! I don't know how you found that, but I want it back and I'm hiding it, so no one including you, finds it!" He tried grabbing it. River held it higher. Ocean laughed. "Your kidding right? I'm like nine inches taller than you are." He grabbed the book and put in his hair. River crossed his arms and pouted. He stuck his tongue out at Ocean and ran upstairs.

Ocean and Esmerald walked to the living room and sat on the couch. "So now that that's over, what the troll did I do to you?" The light green troll asked her best friend. Ocean face palmed. "Why is it that when I'm upset you always assume it's your fault??"

"I don't always assume that!" Esmerald said in defense.

"Yeah. Yeah you do."

"Okay fine so I've assumed that a few times."

"Try a lot."

Esmerald sighed. "Okay fine. A lot. But it's only because I hate thinking I did something wrong to any of my friends and I love helping them."

"You know sometimes I feel like you worry about me and your other friends more than you worry about yourself." Ocean told her. She scoffed in response. "No I don't! I care about myself. I made an A on my Algebra 2 Honors test!"

"Yeah, but in order to even have a chance at finishing it you had to stay during lunch."

"Well that was only because I had to -"

"Help one of us? You don't give yourself a lot of credit or time to be alone when your upset because then you immediately put your own feelings aside and rush to help your other friends."

"Okay I don't do that -" Ocean held up his hand before Esmerald could continue. "You want an example?" Esmerald nodded. "I would love one because none of what your saying is true!"

"Alright fine. Take what happened today. You got your heart broken by that Flame dude and instead of giving yourself time to process that, you come rushing over here because you think you did something wrong to me."

"Wait how did you know about Flame?"

"Jazzy told me after you got on the bus, but that's not important. What's important is that you need to give yourself time to grieve. Even though you can't change who Flame loves, I still think he was crazy for not liking you." He turned to look his friend in the eyes. "Because you are amazing, talented, and beautiful just the way you are and if he can't see that, it's his loss."

Esmerald was completely shocked. At first she started looking around for cameras, thinking that this was some type of prank. When she didn't see any she started hitting her head, thinking that her hearing was playing games with her. She had been comforted by her friend before, but this felt entirely different in some way. She looked into Ocean's eyes to see if he was being honest. His eyes were filled with honesty, loyalty, and another emotion she had never seen before.

She was feeling a new emotion herself, but she didn't know what it was. What she did know was how to respond the kind words of her friend - a hug. "You have no idea how much I needed to hear that." Ocean hugged his cr - uh friend back. "Your welcome."

River was spying through the staircase with a camera. "This is gold! I'll show him this the next time he wants me to help clean our room." He sighed happily and continued watching. "I love being evil."

After the two of them finished hugging, Esmerald wanted to make sure of one thing. "And one hundred percent sure I didn't do nothing wrong right?" Ocean nodded. "One thousand percent."

"Okay." She gave him one last hug before she ran to the door and walked out. As she was about to leave she heard a knock on the door and then she saw a piece of paper being slid from under it. She picked it up and started reading it.

Well hello again thought book. You know what's coming now don't you? Another list of reasons why I like Esmerald more than a friend.

Esmerald wiped her eyes to make sure she was reading the letter right. Sometimes her name gets auto correct to Emerald, but she saw it plain as day. Esmerald. She looked back inside Ocean's house and saw him working on some homework. Then she thought back to what he had told her earlier. She finally understood this strange emotion.

Love.

~The End~

A\N : Word count 2790 words. Took me a solid three days to write! So I'm feeling slightly better after the whole crush thing. It's gonna take time for me to get over it completely, but outside of that I do feel better after writing this. I think it turned out really well.💖💖💖 Also one more announcement on Ocean. He's my new crush!🥺🥺💖 Mine, mine, mine! I have a hunch he's gonna be playing a huge role in allowing me to move on, fictional character or not. 💖💖 No judging.💖💖

Also sorry about that fact that I didn't mention all the oc owners in here. The whole point was to help myself over come rejection. If anyone suggests doing a part two, i can make more parts for other ocs. Is the Fluff alright? Also here are the ocs and their owners that ARE mentioned!

tinatinacrazyidea  (Fiona and Henry)

OWArtsSquadPJ  (String)

JZDelirious  (Jazzy)

Josjos4everBroppy  (Jos)

Please don't be mad if I didn't mention you🥺🥺 it wasn't on purpose!

So big question : sequel to this short story or not?

Have a great rest of your day or night💖💖 it's night over here so good night!💖😇🥺

EsmeraldLovesBroppy 💖😇🥺