No Longer Alone
By: Rocket Racer

(Could Fifi accept Furrball, even though the stripe comes off right in front of her face? I hope you will enjoy this story.)

It was a partly cloudy day in ACME Acres. The air was cold and there would be a slight chance of rain. Right in the middle is ACME Looniversity, a school where young toons will get their Toon Degree and become big time toons like the teachers, the Looney Tunes themselves.
One of the students was a little blue cat in whom everyone calls Furrball. He lives in a dark alley in a cardboard box and he wishes to have a home. But no matter what he did, there was already bad luck, ready to prevent him from accomplishing this. Schooldays to him were no different,
whenever he walks to class, barely anyone notices him. Whenever he's at lunch, he's always by himself. There was no one who bothered wanting to talk with him, so in other words, Furrball is a lonely kid. It was probably the reason why he never talked in his life.
Soon, the school bell rang for the students to leave the school and everyone rushed inside their homes to not get caught in the rain. Furrball, however, just walked to his box with heaviness not only in his bag, but his heart as well.

He looked at the sky, carrying his book bag and thought to himself, "Yup. There's going to be rain today. Hmph, what are the odds?" He then decided to take a shortcut, he ran across the street, took a sharp turn, and went under the white bench. What's unknown to Furrball is the fact that the white bench paint was still wet, and (you guessed it) Furrball got a white stripe on his back. And I suppose you know what happens when a beautiful young girl skunk named Fifi La Fume passes by, carrying HER books back to her Cadillac in the ACME Junkyard. Just as soon as they walked past each other, Furrball tried to keep a low profile in not smelling her odor. Fifi, however, took one good look at the stripe and she gets all wild and crazy that it makes her scream, "OOH LA LA! Mon amor has returned to me!"
As soon as he heard those words, he thought, "Oh crud, here we go again." He sprinted off to find a place to wash off the stripe. "Why does this always have to happen to me? First, I want to get back home, then I get a stripe from my head to tail, and I get chased by Fifi.
Why can't things just be different?" As soon as he got the stripe off, Furrball successfully led the love-strickened skunk away from him. The little blue cat felt relieved.

Furrball made it inside his cardboard box and started doing his homework without hesitation. He was half-finished when something caught his eye: there were a few flaps sticking out from his dark blue book bag. He took them out and examined them. One photo he looked at was the class picture, he was standing at the top row of the auditorium seats. Furrball smiled though he still hid his pain of loneliness even in his own picture. His eyes shifted to another person, the skunk, Fifi La Fume, was standing at the bottom.
He smiled at her saying without anyone (except the audience) looking, "Gee, that girl still looks pretty, even after all the times she has chased so many boys." Furrball giggled at his own comment. "I always wondered how a real beauty like her can stay in good shape, get good grades, and..." He suddenly stopped, flipping the picture over. He started to have a weird feeling inside him and his eyes were wide opened at what he just said. "Did I just comment on Fifi, the source of my nightmares? Am I really..." He stopped to think, but then shook his head,
trying to get his mind off of the subject. "No. No! I am not, I'm totally not. Why would a scrawny blue alleycat like me fall for her? I mean, that is just ridiculous." Chuckling to himself, Furrball started working again. But then, he got his class picture and started smiling at Fifi.
But then, he flipped the picture back down saying, "No man, no. You're not. You are not." Even as the rain started to fall on his cardboard home, Furrball still wonders why he has this strange feeling about Fifi. Is he really...
"NO! I'm not!"
Relax, man. I didn't say anything yet.