Carmelita POV

Me and Flaky were on our way to Hope Town, walking on the lonesome road to a new town. From starting at the sign out of town to the town itself, it took all day to get there. I was surprised to see that Hope Town was much larger in size compared to Happy Tree Town. As we strolled through the outskirts of town, Flaky immediately fell asleep on a soft patch of grass when I told her that we're here.

I was glad that Flaky brought a blanket before we left; it was going to be helpful to rest after such a long journey. I placed it over me and Flaky, and I stared into the sky and stars above us. I always loved looking at the stars, all the way back when I was eight years old with Flippy. He would point out the constellations and would tell me about their origins; it was a fun time.

A tear was coming down my eye when I saw my made up constellation: it was a picture of me, Flippy and Flaky, altogether as a family. My eyes finally closed as another tear came down my face.

6:00 A.M.

With the sunlight beaming across the horizon, I opened my eyes slowly to see the surprising appearance of a female green squirrel looking at me. She had dark brown hair that fell down to her shoulders, and her eyes were a dark chocolate brown color. She wore a green bow on her head, similar to my sister Giggles' bow, though hers was bigger. She also had a bright yellow skirt, and a white collar that had a little black bow in the middle with a white cuff wrapped around both of her wrists.

She said happily while looking down at me, "Hey! She's awake!"
I rubbed my eyes as I slowly pushed myself up. Confused who this person was, I asked, "Who are you?"
The green squirrel pointed to herself. "Me? I'm Virgo!" She said this in a very loud voice, making me cringe a little.
I placed a smile on my face and nodded. "That's a nice name."
"Thanks!"
I shook my head and sighed. "Can you please stop yelling?"
Virgo shrugged her shoulders. "Sure."
"Thank you." As I rubbed my eyes once again, I looked around my current position and noticed I wasn't outside on the grass anymore, and instead, in a fancy looking room. I looked at Virgo and tilted my head in confusion. "Where are we?"
"You are in my mansion. This here is my room!" I looked around her room and noticed how huge it was. Her own bed looked like you could have 5 people lying under the covers at once.

I then suddenly remembered about Flaky, and I asked, "Where's Flaky?"
Virgo crossed her arms in confusion then smiled widely. "You mean the red porcupine? Yeah, she's perfectly okay."
I nodded my head and smiled. "That's good to know." I got up from the couch and walked towards the door when Virgo asked, "Are you going to stay for the party? I was hoping you can stay for it. I planned it."
I turned around and gave a warm smile to Virgo. "Of course we will stay for the party! But… tomorrow we have to leave." She smiled as I opened the door and left to find Flaky.

I walked down the stairs carefully when I suddenly heard someone shouting repeatedly, "Stop it! Stop it! Stop getting everything dirty!" It was definitely a female voice. Then a voice of an unknown male said, "I can't help it if I bring dirt in the house, Kayla!"
"Well we have to keep it clean for the guests, Milo!" I kept walking down the stairs until I saw a female black cat with a dark yellow headband and a golden rose attached to it. There was also a male light tan wolf with a white tip on his tail and on some spiky tuft of fur on his head. He wore a dark blue jacket with furry hood. They both had green-colored eyes, though the female had bright green eyes and the male green eyes were darker.

I walked towards them and asked politely, "Why are you two shouting at each other?" The female turned her head and faced me with a smile. She said, "We are trying to get everything ready for the party. Oh, and my name is Kayla, and this is Milo."
I nodded my head. "My name is Carmelita; nice to meet you both." I then tilted my head in confusion and looked at both of them seriously. "Do you know where my friend Flaky is? She's a red porcupine."
Kayla nodded her head and said, "She's sleeping on the couch in the other room." Milo was looking at me from head to toe with a flirty look, and said with a suggestive smile, "You look very pretty, Carmelita."

I just rolled my eyes and walked towards the other living room to see Flaky sleeping peacefully on the couch. I quietly closed the door and turned around to see Milo holding a rose in his hand. He said, "Please have this rose because you are so beautiful." I stared at Milo with an agitated face and said, "You know I'm 16 years old, right?"
His face turned to shock upon hearing the statement, dropping his jaw that silently said 'what?' I chuckled softly, with Kayla saying, "You should see the look on your face!" He stuttered, "B-B-But she looks like she was 23 years old!"

I saw Virgo walking down the stairs holding my locket, admiring it closely. "What a beautiful locket you have, Carmelita." I gasped; I remembered Flippy giving me that locket when I was only 6 years old. I had a worried expression on my face and I pleaded to Virgo. "That's my locket! Please don't break it!"
Virgo hanged the locket in front of me and said, "This is yours?" I nodded, and she gently placed it in my hands. I placed it around my neck, and said, "My father gave this to me when I was 6 years old."
Virgo nodded with a grin. "I guess it must be really important to you?"
"Yes, that's why we are leaving tomorrow. We are trying to find him."
Getting interested in her guest, Virgo smiled and started to politely ask questions. "What town are you from?"
"We are from Happy Tree town."
Virgo's smile widen from ear to ear. "Really?! You know, I really want to go there so much!"
I titled my head slightly to the left. "You do?"
Virgo nodded her head excitedly. "OH, yes, I would love to go there someday!" I smiled at how she really wants to go there.

Virgo and I both turned our heads when we heard a voice call behind us. "Lady Virgo, we must get everything ready right away." Kayla said. Virgo nodded her head quickly. "Oh...yeah that…" Virgo said sadly.
"I'll tell you more later," I said. Virgo smiled and we got to work for the party.

6:00 pm

Everything was now ready for the party. I wore a silver dress and a silver headband. Flaky was wearing a green dress with a green headband, which looked nicely placed on her. Virgo, Kayla, and Milo were wearing the same clothes on as before. I waited for the guests to come, and after 20 minutes of waiting the, guests started to arrive.

Virgo turned on some electro swing music on. I watched the guests happily mingle with everyone. I started to walk down the stairs that made everyone turn towards me. I smiled and waved to everyone. Seeing all of their eyes on me made me feel so embarrassed. Then everyone waved and went back to mingling with their friends.

I walked around the crowd of people until Virgo signaled me over. I ran over, and she said with a smile, "How are you enjoying the party, Carmelita?"
I nodded my head. "Great!"
"That's good; I would like for you to meet one of my friends; I think you might like her." She waved over a female brown skunk with black hair who wore a green cap/blue buckle, a green top, blue jacket and pants. The brown skunk walked over to us, and Virgo said, "Carmelita, I like for you to meet my friend, Mitzy."

Mitzy said, "It's nice to meet you, Carmelita." I nodded my head towards her. "You too, Mitzy." I was surprised to see how friendly Mitzy was. Mitzy asked, "What town are you from, Carmelita?"
"Happy Tree Town."
She immediately gasped and said, "Shifty! He lives in that town! Oh, how is he and his brother?"
"Well… they're now thieves."
"Wow that sounds cool!"
"Really?"
"Yeah, I knew them since we were babies."
"That's amazing."
"I know!" Me and Mitzy talked to each other briefly until Milo tried to hit on Mitzy. Mitzy angrily slapped him on the cheek! "That's what you get!" Mitzy said with a smile. I started to chuckle softly; I enjoyed these kind Tree Friends, Virgo, Kayla, Milo, and Mitzy. Then I sighed in sadness, realizing that we had to leave tomorrow.

I watched Flaky walking towards me and took a seat next to me. She asked, "Do we have to leave tomorrow?"
I nodded my head slowly in sadness. "Yes. I'm sorry, sis."
"Wait! You two are sisters!?"
We looked up to see Kayla looked shocked. I shook my head. "No, we just call each other sisters." I explained the reasoning why I call Flaky my sister. "Oh...so that's why you call Flaky your sister."
I nodded my head. "Yeah, it's been hard for me, but I'm going to follow the military trucks and help them as a secretary."
Kayla sighed. "Carmelita, I would love to help you, really I do, but I work for Virgo and I can't leave her side."
"It's okay, it was just going to be me and Flaky anyway." I opened my locket, and inside were two pictures. One was a picture me and everyone in high school and the other was a picture of me with Flippy and Flaky, together by a river.

Kayla looked over at the two pictures and asked while a tear was coming down her eye, "Is that you when you were little?"
"Yeah, I didn't have any friends when I was a kid except for my little brother and Cub, because the other kids… would make fun of me."
"Why?"
"I never went to school ever, my brother did but not me."
"That sounds unfair."
"It wasn't too bad; actually, my parents homeschool me and I learned everything from them, but I always got teased by the other kids, plus I have different things that my parents don't want other people to know."
"Like what?"
I shook my head. "Nothing you would understand."
"Please tell me, I won't tell anyone else."
I faced her and said angrily, "No, I can't tell you."
Kayla paused momentarily and said sadly, "Oh, okay…" I closed my locket and started to walk towards the stairs when a male yellow tiger stepped in my way. He said, "Well hello there, gorgeous."

I took a step back, a little scared from his sudden appearance. "Um...hi?"
"You know, you're very hot my dear."
"What?"
He pulled me closer to him and said, "Come on, let's kiss." Out of anger, I immediately punched him in the chest. He gasp in pain and I started run to Virgo. I could hear his footsteps behind me. When I saw Virgo, I ran as fast as I could, and when I finally got up to her, she asked, "What are you doing?"
"Someone's chasing me!"
Virgo went to an attentive stance. "Who?!"
The yellow tiger growled. "There you are."
"Dude, leave her alone! This is party for fun, and besides, she leaving tomorrow so back off!" He immediately ran off away from us. I turned to face Virgo. "Thank you so much, Virgo."
"No problem, but I want to ask you something."
"What?"
"Can I please go with you on the journey, please?" I gasped in shock and I nodded happily. She squealed in happiness. Out of curiosity, I asked, "What about Milo and Kayla?"
"They'll come with us." I smiled widely; three more people are joining us, it was great!

Then I heard the front door swing open and there stood a female light blue rabbit with dark red hair tuff w/ matching scarf. She growled, "Where's the Tiger General?!"

discamers: Flaky and Flippy belong to Mondomedia, Virgo, Kayla, Milo, Mitzy,and the light blue rabbit belong to ToonAngelStar17.