Brenda's Boy Trouble/Part 3

The Smurfs were doing their usual things when they saw Brenda return from her flight over the forest, landing in the center of the village.

Smurfette greeted Brenda as she arrived. "So how did it go, Brenda?"

"Oh, he said that he would take me to the ball," Brenda answered, sounding ecstatic. "I couldn't believe that he would be that willing to go with me."

"Quelle chance, mademoiselle," Painter said. "You were very fortunate that such a young man that you smurfed after would be so willing."

"Well, I knew that he couldn't resist such a beautiful face like yours, Brenda," Vanity said. "You could almost make me jealous if it weren't for the fact that I'm already that beautiful."

"I hate being that beautiful," Grouchy said.

"This smurf is pleased to know of your good fortune, Brenda," Empath said. "You deserve to have someone recognize you for the young woman that you are and not what that young man wishes you to be."

"Oh, but I still feel so plain and ordinary," Brenda said. "I'm going to need some help being the best that I can be so I wouldn't feel so out of place with my date."

"I'm sure that we can help you there, Brenda," Smurfette said. "Come smurf some time with us so we can make you smurf your best when you meet him at the ball tonight."

"Oh, I would like to very much, Smurfette," Brenda said.

Empath stood with Polaris, Tapper, and Duncan McSmurf as Smurfette took Brenda to give her some beauty tips. "I'm so proud of what the little lassie has smurfed with the lad that she smurfed after in the forest," Duncan said.

"At the very least it's a start, Duncan," Tapper said. "I will pray for her, that her night with this young man will be a pleasant one without anything that will ruin it."

"This one would be interested to know more about this Brenda and how she got involved with the Smurfs," Polaris requested.

"Brenda was a much younger witch when we first smurfed into year a few years before Empath came home, Polaris," Tapper said. "From Narrator's recollections, she was smurfed up by a very mean schoolmistress named Miss Snarly who berated her for not smurfing up to being an evil witch like her classmates. She gave Brenda an ultimatum to turn a songbird into a bat by sundown or else she would be expelled from Witch's School."

"And even from the standards of the Smurfs when they saw her trying to accomplish her class assignment, she was not doing pretty well in that," Empath said.

"Absosmurfly not, laddie," Duncan said. "Papa Smurf took the little witch into our village to teach her about how to do good with her abilities, but Miss Snarly came along and decided to smurfnap Papa Smurf and take him away to smurf some experiments on him. Brenda came to his rescue and smurfed Miss Snarly into the river by turning her broomstick into an anvil, causing that evil witch to lose her powers for a year."

"Every Smurf was pleased with how Brenda turned out, Duncan," Tapper said. "Everyone, that is, except for Brainy, who was smurfed into a pig by Brenda and then later smurfed into a chicken by Miss Snarly. The only thing he was glad about when it came to the little witch was when she was gone."

"And now the little lassie is growing up and finding laddies to be her heart's fancy now," Duncan said. "I could only wish to be smurfing in the world of giants to know what that part is like."

"This smurf is still a little apprehensive about this young man whom she is going to the Broomstick Ball with, Duncan," Empath said. "This is where this smurf could wish to have Papa Smurf's wisdom on hand to be able to advise her what she should do as a young woman."

"We'll just have to let the Almighty guide her to knowing what she ought to do in that smurfumstance, my fellow Empath," Tapper said.

To be expanded on.