"Okay!" Johnny said, a wide smile on his face. He was sitting at the foot of the bed again, cross-legged as usual, but looking more excited than Todd was used too. Johnny was practically jumping up and down. It scared Todd a bit. "I've got a really good story tonight, Squee! I can just feel it! It's happy, too! At least, I think it is. Either that or I don't know the difference between happiness and feeling particularly sadistic!" Johnny gave a small cackle at this. "Ah, who knows! It doesn't really matter, at least not right now! I know I promised I'd be calm while visiting you, but this is an exception! You just HAVE to hear this story I have in my head right now! It's hilarious!"

"Uh…Mr. Scary Neighbor Man? W-why are you so happy and bouncy?"

Johnny smiled widely. "That's just it! I don't even know why! I only had one slushie today, two pixie stix, and I also had a red bull or two for the first time ever and felt fine, so it's obviously nothing I ate or drank! I dunno! It's a mystery!"

Todd giggled. He couldn't help it. This full grown adult, who often suffered from wild bouts of depression and raged at the world on a daily basis, was acting at least half his age. No, wait, more like a third. Yeah, that was a closer estimate. Much closer. It both scared and amused little Todd Casil. The amusement side of him peaked even more when he saw Johnny get up (or more like spring) from the bed and start quickly pacing back and forth, still smiling.

"Once upon a time, there was a bunny! A happy little bunny, just frolicking along with all his bunny friends! Why? Because frolicking is just SO much fun for bunnies! That's what bunnies do! They frolic! When it comes to frolicking, they're simply the best there is!" Johnny began, gesturing wildly while talking. Todd giggled again. Johnny laughed as well.

"So, they're frolicking, right? Frolic, frolic, frolic! Then one of the bunnies, a blue one, decides to go for a swim! He just felt like it! So he jumped right into a deep river! His friends frolicked away from him, and Blue just kept hopping around underwater! But he wasn't frolicking anymore! Ah ha ha! No, no, see, he wasn't doing that at all! He was HOPPING! UNDERWATER! See what I did there? Hopping underwater is impossible! Bunnies can't do that! He was splashing so much, and he even cried out…in joy, of course! In joy! Always in joy! Then he stopped crying out, and that blue bunny hopped so high that he rocketed right up in the sky and never fell back down! He was gone! Poof! So there was only the green, the pink, and the yellow bunny left!"

Todd's smile slipped. Where was this story going? What happened to the cute little blue bunny?

"So, the yellow bunny, he's the cool one of the group, right? All mellow and wearing sunglasses and crap! All that stuff! I think he raps, too, but that doesn't matter right now! The point is, he's trying to act all cool when he falls flat on his face from tripping! He just tripped! And it wasn't on a twig or a rock or his own feet! Nope! It was on a…heh heh…it was on a BEAR TRAP! Don't look so scared, Squee! He didn't get hurt! No, he ducked just in time that he completely missed it! It made him look like Neo or something to his friends, though, so Pink and Green applauded him! They APPLAUDED the little motherfu…OH! Sorry! No swearing, I forgot! Eh heh heh! Whoops! Got a little excited there and I forgot! Where was I? Oh, yes, the applause! They were APPLAUDING the little mother HUGGER even though he didn't do sh…he didn't do CRAP to deserve any of it! But that's okay! Know why? KNOW WHY? When he was bowing like a stuck up pri…like a stuck up SLICK, he stepped on another one! Another one, right next to him! Just stepped right on it! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Isn't that just FANTASTIC? His friends didn't notice because by the time that happened, since they were busy with frolicking through the LAND of FRIENDSHIP and HIDDEN MEANINGS to notice the bloody, gory demise! So they were down to two! Pink and Green! The best of friends! Just like friends should be, eh Squee?" Johnny suddenly approached Squee with a smile that, to Squee, looked positively demented. "We're the best of friends, right? RIGHT?"

"Y-y-yes!" Todd managed to squeak out. But Johnny had already turned away, apparently never expecting an answer to his question in the first place. Or he was just wrapped up in the story again. Who could tell at this stage in Johnny's intense sugar rush? Todd briefly wondered if the maniac would crash before or after finishing the story. If it was before, the maniac would get angry at not remembering how the story ended when he woke up. If it was after, Nny would still be greatly annoyed at having slept at all, but would probably calm down quickly after seeing a frightened Todd Casil fearfully staring at him. Todd wanted neither the former nor the latter. If the crash were to happen, it had to happen after Johnny went home. Todd vowed to keep the story going at all costs, not making a single sound to distract the storyteller.

"Green was the kind one, you know!" Johnny continued. "He was always helping others out! Even if he were in a bad situation, he would spin it around and feel bad for the evil people! No one understood why! So on this day, a gray porcupine, feeling ticked off for whatever reason, decided to pump the cute green bunny full of needles! Oh, how the green bunny SCREAMED! Then he reverted back to his nature and started comforting the porcupine, even while he was dying! That good for nothing IDIOT! He had no sense of self-preservation at all! And he had terrible friends, too! Pink didn't even stick around to hear his kind friend's last words! NOPE! You know why, Squee? Because bunnies are STUPID, SELFISH, IRRITATING CREATURES WHENEVER THEY AREN'T A HEAD VOICE OR DEAD AND NAILED TO A WALL!" Johnny panted for breath after that shout, beginning to lose his energy spike as well as his good mood. But he had to finish the story! He had to! It was such a good one!

"Then a crazy human runs in and captures Pink! He cackles madly, dragging the screaming pink bunny into a mad scientist's laboratory for EVIL tests! HORRIBLE, AWFUL tests! The worst you could imagine! They were meant to keep him alive forever, all so he could perform stunts to be put in a comic for brain stunted psychos! Oh, sure, he tried to escape! He tried to escape more often that anyone could possible imagine! But his keepers harshly punished him for every single act of rebellion! Pink performed for the audience constantly, even at the expense of grueling pain, and was called Happy Bunny even though he was far from it! He still performs to this day! In fact, that was another reason I came over, Squeegee! Aside from that awesome story, I got you a present!"

Johnny reached outside the window and pulled in what looked to be a small box wrapped in bloody newspaper. He practically shoved it into Squee's arms and stood back, tapping his foot impatiently while the small boy carefully unwrapped it. Todd opened the box, looked inside, and gasped. Inside sat a poorly stitched, hand-made, plush replica of an almost dismembered pink bunny. Literally, it was constructed purposefully so that limbs and such could be stretched out away from the body through the use of rubber bands, then snap back into place as soon as you let go. The fabric wasn't that soft, and he was very suspicious of what was used to stuff the product, but Todd was speechless with gratitude. Why? Because no one had ever given Todd a handmade gift like that. Not ever. Even Shmee, his beloved bear, had been a generic store-bought bear at one time. Johnny had actually gone to the trouble to get Shmee an incredibly unique gift by making it himself, and even providing a backstory for it. And for all of that, it was one of the best gifts he had ever received. Even if it was incredibly creepy looking.

"Thank…" Todd began, looking up from his gift. It was then that his eyes met the sight of a passed out Nny, laying in a surprisingly comfortable position sitting up with his head and shoulders resting against the side of the boy's bed. Johnny must have felt it coming, and instead of escaping to his home and skipping the gift for the next day, he sacrificed his own hatred for sleep just to give Squee a gift he had made himself. Todd was still terrified of how Nny would awaken, don't get him wrong. But right now, with the sound of the soft, gentle breathing of the only adult who cared for him, a brand new stuffed animal to hug tightly, and fortunate temporary memory loss of just how traumatizing the bunny story was, Todd was perfectly content. More than that, he was, for once, feeling safe and relaxed in his own home. It was no trouble, then, to drift off to sleep that night without a care in the world.