Bunny and Skunk.

This is an improvised story that I came up with yesterday, for my four year old cousin Eva. No she is not the one to have just got married, that one was a boy and in his early twenties.

Once upon a time there was a rabbit named Bunny. He had a good friend named Skunk. They would play in the meadow, smell the flowers, chase each other, blow on dandelions. One day Skunk was bored.

"What should we do today Bunny?" he asked. "What we do every day silly head, play in the meadow." replied Bunny. "But that's not cool." said Skunk. Bunny gave him a questioning look. "What do you mean? We have fun doing it every day." said Bunny. "Yeah, and that's why we aren't popular. We need to do what the cool animals do." said Skunk. Bunny was a little bit disappointed. He liked playing in the meadow, it was fun. He enjoyed himself, and so did Skunk, so why did it matter what others thought. "We should just stay here. We don't need to be any more than this. Were happy doing what we do, so why waste our time with them." said Bunny. Skunk scowled at Bunny. "Fine but if you don't come I won't be your friend anymore." he said. Bunny didn't want to loose Skunk. "Fine, I'll come." said Bunny defeated.

Skunk and Bunny went to the river. There they saw Buffalo Jimmy, who was a mouse, no the cool mouse. Him and all his mouse buddies were hanging out by the river. Skunk and Bunny went over to him.

"Hey Buffalo Jimmy." said Skunk. "Watcha doin'?" he asked. "Eh not a lot. We were just about to jump into the river." he said. Bunny laughed thinking it was a joke. "What you laughing about Bunny?" asked Buffalo Jimmy. Bunny found that he wasn't joking and stopped laughing. "So can we join your river jumping?" asked Skunk. "Eh, why not." replied Buffalo Jimmy. Bunny grabbed Skunk. "Okay man. When you said hanging out, I thought you meant having a riveting discussion of a serious book while listening to jazz music." said Bunny to Skunk. "Do you want to be popular or not?" asked Skunk. "No you want to." said Bunny. "Still were going to do this." said Skunk. "No it's to dangerous. I'm leaving." said Bunny. "Fine then, I'm not your friend anymore." said Skunk. Bunny just kept walking.

Buffalo Jimmy, his mouse buddies, and Skunk jumped in the river for the entire afternoon. They jumped, and jumped. The next morning their bodies were found down stream. Bunny often thought that the same thing would have happened to him if he had jumped. He found a new friend called Squirrel. He had a family and a great life. He lived to be the nice age of ten (Not in bunny time. Correct me if I'm wrong for a good age.)

In the end Bunny was right, and Skunk was dead. And we all learn a valuable lesson. Just because cool people do it, doesn't mean it's good. Or Sal Esteem, beat Pierre Pressure.

Yell at me all you like, I still told it to a four year old girl.

She was all ears to

Nathaniel