Author's Comments: I wanted to write some stuff for Over the Hedge, so I did. There should be twenty of these altogether, all either 100, 200, or 300 words in length, so hurrah.
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It was the only option. RJ knew he couldn't get that food back on his own, but he still told Vincent he would.
If only that bag of chips had fallen sooner. He never would have destroyed Vincent's food and he never... would have joined this family. The reason he met them was because he was trying to outlive the first week of spring. Would he have befriended them otherwise?
Remembering how he was before, he didn't think so. He'd always been a family of one.
Now he didn't have to be.
And he wouldn't have it any other way.