Disclaimer: I don't own the Lorax. Dr. Suess does.
I was bored at work and decided to write a couple of drabbles based on the Lorax movie. They're not great, but here you go.
Enjoy.
Not About Audrey (Ted)
Ted wasn't sure when it stopped being about Audrey.
He wasn't sure if it was when the last Truffula seed fell into his hands. Or maybe it was when the Once-ler admitted to being the cause of nature's destruction. Perhaps it was the second day he visited the old Once-ler, or the first day when the old man booted him away after telling his tale. It could have been when the Once-ler first spoke, or when his Grammy first mentioned him.
It might have been when Ted first laid eyes on the wasteland outside his cities walls.
Whatever the reason, getting a tree from the Once-ler had become the most important thing Ted could ever do. It had stopped being about Audrey. He needed that tree, needed the townspeople to know what they were missing. Sure it may have started as a way to impress the girl of his dreams, but now – now it was so much more.
The Once-ler had waited for years in his Lerkim for someone to care enough to venture outside Thneedville's walls, or at least someone curious enough. Ted will admit that he had always been curious of what lay outside in the world. The sight of the decimated forest and the nasty odor permeating the air had been a massive shock to his system.
And someone actually lived in this wasteland?
Knowing that the Once-ler had been living there for years had been unbelievable, but he trusted his Grammy and so Ted had ventured out into the great beyond.
It was some time after that when it all stopped being about Audrey.
This belief was solidified when O'Hare tried to intimidate him from ever leaving Thneedville again. So of course Ted didn't listen and went to visit the Once-ler anyway. He was determined to get that tree; it was so much bigger than him now, bigger than Audrey. And when the last Truffula seed fell into his hands, he knew – that because someone like him did care an awful lot, things would get better.
It had all stopped being about Audrey.
At least until she kissed him on the cheek…
This went in a different direction than I wanted it to, but that's ok, because it's cute.
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