Starting in 1998:when the Arthur gang were in third grade at age 8 spanning through the years into young adulthood. Read as the core four Arthur Characters discuss life, love, family and fun with some sadness mixed in. Tragedy, teenage troubles and comfort from those you never realized you needed as much as you did.
Religion/beliefs and legalism is left out of the story.
The story will most likely be five chapters or less. Its just a short yet old school Arthur story for the fans of the old seasons of Arthur before Ladonna and talking puppies and babies
Rated T. Low level offensive language, self harm and sexual references.
Spring rain 1998
Okay so the kids were born in 1990 in this fic. That's just how it is.
Chapter one:
It was raining buckets as four friends sat in the treehouse and impatiently waited for the storm to pass.
Buster clung to Muffy who screwed her face up in disgust.
"Get your hands off me" she flinched.
Buster frowned then looked at Arthur covering himself with a blanket. Francine sat beside him and shared it with her friend.
"I just get scared that's all" The bunny sadly replied.
"Well" said Francine. There's no blanket left"
Muffy rolled her eyes. Buster snarled at the brown haired girl in red sweater and jeans.
"As if I'd share with you" he spat. "After you handcuffed me, stood on me, pranked me.."
"That's enough" Arthur interceded. "We need to ride this out together okay?"
Muffy sighed. "Always the voice of reason aren't you?"
Arthur shook his head and grunted something.
Francine let out a heavy sigh and bit her tongue... "Sorry okay?"
Buster gasped
"What was that?" He grinned.
Francine clenched her fists. "Don't make me say it again."
Muffy then decided to add her two cents.
"Why are you apologizing?" "Buster is vomitrocious, everyone knows that."
Arthur was getting mad but he refrained from saying anything in retaliatation.
"You're a spoiled brat" Buster replied.
Muffy held both hands on her ears. "LA LA LA I'm not listening"
Arthur and Francine both looked at each other and sighed.
Arthur then said something that would undoubtedly change Francine forever...
"Its good you said sorry" he smiled. "You're so much easier to like when you're being nice"
Francine laughed and brushed it off.
"Yeah yeah I know" she proudly replied.
As the rain started to ease, the monkey with the golden clips in her hair started to think...
"Could he be right?" "A boy?" She bit her lip and pondered.
Year 2000
Four yen year olds sat together in the treehouse. The sun was shining. It was a very hot day..
Muffy looked at the nine carat gold ring on her finger with pride.
"Daddy's birthday present to me" she said boastfully.
"Yeah its nice" Francine replied. She was sat between both Arthur and Muffy in their usual meeting spot, Arthur's tree house.
Buster was on the other side of Arthur rolling his eyes at Muffy.
"I'd rather have an alien invasion come and take me to their home planet" he smiled. "I really thought we would be living on the moon by now"
Arthur glanced over at his best friend.
"Okay then"..."but we're not"
Francine had her hair tied back and it was longer. Her ears were peirced like Muffys and she was somewhat subdued.
"I don't think the new millennium lived up to our expectations."
Arthur agreed.
Buster took out a bag of donuts. "Well maybe but I'm still counting on the moon to become a viable living space one day".
" Since when did you learn such a big word? " Muffy scoffed.
Buster purposely chewed on his chocolate filled donut with his mouth open in retaliation.
Francine and Arthur both sighed. Muffy screeched "Ewww, you're do disgusting Buster Baxter"
"Why are we friends again?" She snarled.
Buster took of his sneakers and let his stinky socks touch the red heads nose with his feet.
"Argh get them away from me" she bellowed.
"Francine do something" she growled.
"What am I supposed to do?" She asked.
"Can't we all just get along?" Arthur sighed.
"Hmph" Muffy folded her arms crossly.
"Well I'm only here because of Arthur" Buster said.
"Gee thanks" Francine glared at him. "I thought we'd put all that third grade stuff behind us?"
Arthur decided to add his piece. He placed a hand on Francine's shoulder and reassured her they have reconciled.
"Buster jokes around you know that." He said with a warm smile.
Francine blushed. "Yeah I know".
Muffy could see already at the age of ten what was going on...
"Quite the cute little couple aren't you?" She winked.
Buster laughed. "Wait, what?"
Arthur and Francine bit their lips and Arthur removed his hand from Francine's shoulder.
"We are friends Muffy" Francine replied uneasily.
Buster pondered on this.
"Are you sure, like do you like like each other or just like?" He asked.
Francine looked at Arthur, waiting for him to answer.
"We're ten years old" he blatantly stated.
Francine nodded. "Exactly"
Buster glanced at Muffy and started to sing...
"I can see what's happening, and they don't have a clue"...
"STOP" Arthur held his hand out.
Muffy giggled. "For the first time I agree with you Buster Baxter"
Francine gasped. "What?" "You two agree on something?"
Arthur then opened a can of soda and passed the around...
"You never know what the future holds" He said taking a sip of the fizzy beverage.
On that all four nodded in agreement...
Just what would the future hold for the four friends thrown together through circumstances...
Chapter two is about middle school and a tragedy takes place.
Let me know what you think.
