Imagine yourself as a basketball player, whether you're a male or female (even if you are), of your height around 5 feet - knowing you're short, dreaming of being 6 foot tall or taller someday, just to dominate the game of the sport you love the most. Imagine seeing somebody, male or female, who's 6 foot tall or taller, and to think that person plays basketball, but has never played nor picked up a basketball. Imagine yourself of the unexpected happening of a growth spurt occurring from your body, and you went from 5'7" to 6'5".

Think about that...


A young lady name Scarlett Bunnie Charleigh Warren is the name, who's better known as Scarlett Charleigh, Bunnie Charleigh at best, or Scarlett Bunnie Charleigh - though her parents would sometimes say Scarlett Warren or Bunnie Warren. Her family would always refer to call her Bunnie almost all the time instead of Scarlett, in which they will also call her as well. What's funny is that some people thought Bunnie was her nickname, but it's actually her given, middle name along with Charleigh.

Bunnie's upbringing all started at a small, family town of Manchester, Georgia. Manchester isn't like the city of Atlanta nor Columbus in the state of Georgia with metro tall buildings nor with a urban area of houses on every street per block with thirty thousand, fifty thousand, or heck one million people; Manchester is a city full of good ol' country folks who are hard workers and love to have a good time, with the population of the city around 3,000 people. And by country along with hard workers, that is who Bunnie is and she likes it no matter what. Almost every morning when she gets up, she helps her parents out by doing yard work of taking care of farm animals and planting food into the soil.

Besides the yard work, Bunnie loves to stay active including playing sports. Making her a tomboy. At 5 feet and 7 inches tall, Bunnie loves to play soccer (A.K.A. international football), volleyball, and a little bit of basketball. And by little bit of basketball, despite being 5'7", she doesn't play basketball that much, even though she likes it when watching basketball on TV.

After Bunnie finished middle school by graduating from Great Dessert Middle School, she and her parents moved to Duluth, Georgia of Gwinnett County, which is the developed suburb of Atlanta, Georgia close to Interstate 85.

But on one day, the unexpected happened...


Chapter 4

Monday, June 28, 2010 (9:00 AM)

In the summer season out in an open area of a nice three-story house in Duluth, Georgia (which is just outside of the city of Atlanta, Georgia), the ray beams from the rising sun glares at a young lady named Scarlett Bunnie Charleigh Warren, waking her up along with the pajamas she's wearing: blue/grey long-sleeved shirt and pants along with the kelly green pinstriped color.

Bunnie isn't like most people who lives in a big city including her family, she and her relatives live in an open area where she does a lot of yard work of taking care farm animals: cows, horses, hens, and pigs; and take care of open fields: planting corn, fruits and vegetables, growing ranches, and watering greens to keep the soil hydrated to produce. To her, it's nothing negative about it because she's a country cowgirl living in Georgia. And for her being country, she speaks in a heavy southern accent.

After Bunnie wakes up from the sun's ray beams, she gets up, wipes her eyes and stretches her arms and legs. Next she gets up out of her bed, but something went odd to her.

'Huh?' Bunnie thought. 'How did mah feet ...easily ...touch the floor?'

She later stood up off from her bed, and sees the end of her bed pants are four inches above her ankles. Bunnie later looked down at her arms and sees her arms have gotten longer as her blue/grey kelly green-pinstriped long-sleeved shirt stops 3 inches below her wrists. This shocks Bunnie again but she later shook it off and heads to her bathroom. She enters the bathroom and looks down at the sink, again surprising herself. She shook off the frighten moment again and, turns on the cold water faucet seeing the water running down the sink, and puts her hands on the running water and scoops the water at her face to get her face hydrated for the day. Bunnie later looks at the small rectangular-shaped mirror to look at herself: long yellow blond hair that stops at the middle of her back, peach Caucasian skin, and green emerald eyes; she's also in good shape, she has an average body with some muscles on her, average legs (between thick and thin), her waist is almost narrow, and with a B-cup breast size.

Then she finally realized something, but what really shocks her was not her face...

'Wait ah minute," Bunnie thought. "Did... Did Ah ...get ...TALLER?!" Then said.

This shocks Bunnie. Just four months and forty-nine days ago, March 21, 2010 was Bunnie's 14th birthday (born on March 21, 1997). She just finished middle school and will now be heading to Knothole Village High School (A.K.A. Knothole High School) when the school does enrollment week around the first week of August. And then all of a sudden, a growth spurt took action; she went from 5'7" (the height she lastly remembers) to ...6'3". Meaning she grew nine inches tall (1 foot plus 8 inches equaling 9). And the part when Bunnie was shockingly looking at her pajamas, when she was 5'7" the end of her bed-pants would stop from the ankle area then downward to the lower Achilles area; and for her long-sleeved shirt Bunnie sleeps with also, the end of the sleeves would stop 2 centimeters above her wrists.

Now from Bunnie's height, for a male that's a size of a basketball player playing Point Guard and/or Shooting Guard; for a female however, that's a size of a basketball player playing Power Forward and/or Center.

After Bunnie was finished shockingly looking at herself in the mirror, she exited out of the bathroom and knocks on the door of her parents' bedroom.

KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK!

Her parents, named Mister and Missus Beauregard and Lulumae Warren with Beauregard as Bunnie's uncle and Lulumae as Bunnie's aunt, heard the knock from their bedroom door knowing it's their niece Bunnie, and it was a good thing the Warren spouses are up out of their beds, too. Beauregard's physical appearance is at 5 feet and 10 inches tall at 41 years old, has peach Caucasian skin, brown hair along with brown bushy eyebrows, and blue/grey eyes; he's currently wearing a tan-colored T-Shirt with the grey pajama pants. Lulumae's physical appearance is at 5 feet and 4 inches tall at 39 years old, has light Caucasian skin, long brown hair that stops below her shoulders, and dark brown eyes; she's currently wearing her grey long-sleeved T-Shirt and white pajama pants. (Those characters are Beauregard and Lulumae Rabbot; they are married.)

"Come in," said Beauregard.

Bunnie slightly opens the door and said, "Uncle Beau, Aunty Lulu..." Bunnie pronounced as their nicknames. "I have ...something to ...show y'all," she later finished with nervousness.

Bunnie fully opens the door and showed her new appearance of her new height at 6 feet and 3 inches tall. To Beauregard and Lulumae...

"HOLY COW! What in tarnation happened to ya, hun?!" Beauregard asked in shocked.

For Lulumae, she had her mouth dropped of seeing her niece, ...well, ...taller.

Bunnie answers, "Ah...Ah ...just got ...taller... That's it."

Lulumae speaks, "My, my. You're taller than us, Scarlett."

She's right because Beauregard is 5'10" and Lulumae is 5'4".

Two Months and Thirty Days Later...

Throughout the summer, Bunnie and her parents did some shopping around Station Square Mall of finding some new clothes (including new pants) for Bunnie after an early healthy growth spurt took action and school supplies so Bunnie can be ready before her first day of high school starts at Knothole High School.

Monday, August 2, 2010 (1:20 PM),

Bunnie and her relatives arrive at Knothole Village High School where she and her parents will fill out some information. Bunnie is dressed in her pink fitted T-Shirt, brown denim shorts that stops two inches above her knees, size 7 tan-colored Timberland boots showing all of her peach-skinned legs while wearing white ankle socks, and her long blond hair is tied downward into a French braid ponytail.

Bunnie went to the female principle of Knothole High, who's sitting at a table with four other staff members, to talk about who she is and other stuff.

"Excuse me," said Bunnie. "Are you Mrs. Lupe?"

"Yes ma'am," said Principle Mrs. Lupe Belafonte. Her physical appearance is in her early 40's at 6 feet and 2 inches tall (meaning she's tall), has long black hair tied into a French braid ponytail along with a white-colored streak on the left side, skin tone in light brown, and has blue eyes; she's wearing a navy blue dress shirt, navy blue khaki work pants, and black three-inch heels - adding three more inches to her height (6'2" to 6'5"). "How may I help you, young lady?" Then asked Bunnie. (A/N: C'mon who do you THOUGHT it was gonna be? ...)

Bunnie speaks, "Mah name is Bunnie Charleigh and Ah'm supposed to enrolled to ya school?" As previously mentioned, Bunnie is heading to Knothole High School. She said that because after she and her parents moved, Bunnie had received an letter from Knothole High of the area she's living in, despite living in Duluth. So she is asking to make sure.

"Okay. Let me check and see..." Mrs. Lupe said, now going through her manila folder. "UUUUUh... Can you...repeat your last name again?"

"...Does 'Warren' sounded good?" Bunnie said, this time saying her official last name.

Mrs. Lupe goes through her manila folder again. "... Oh, there it is. 'Scarlett...Bunnie...Charleigh...Warren'. Is that right?"

"Yes ma'am," Bunnie said. "Ah usually go by 'Bunnie Charleigh' or 'Scarlett Charleigh'."

Mrs. Lupe nods with a smirk then speaks, "Okay. Yes you are enrolled to Knothole... Here are the files for you to fill out." Mrs. Lupe hands the paperwork to Bunnie which she respectively received. "After you are done, receive them back to me and I'll hand you your class schedule."

"Yes ma'am," Bunnie said. She later departed from Principle Mrs. Lupe and sat on a circular table with her Uncle Beauregard and Aunt Lulumae to fill some info of her name and personal stuff. While Bunnie is filling out her info, she felt a tap from her left shoulder and turns her head, happily to see the person she knows...

"Vanilla?" Bunnie said.

"Hi there. Long time no see," Vanilla said with a smile. "And hi Mr. and Mrs. Warren." Vanilla always says that to be polite.

Beauregard and Lulumae, as country folks, happily waved to Vanilla. Her alias is Daleen Honbria and sometimes called 'Vanilla' of her loving vanilla flavored deserts. She is a staff member of Knothole Village High School. Her physical appearance is at 5 feet and 8 inches tall in her mid-40's, has light Caucasian skin, light brown hair that stops underneath her shoulders, and brown eyes; wearing a white polo shirt that has the school logo on the right chest area, navy blue track pants, and white low-top Shell-Toe Adidas sneakers. Both Vanilla and Bunnie are related with Bunnie as Vanilla's niece, making Vanilla as Bunnie's aunt. (A/N: Again who you THOUGHT it was gonna be? ...)

Bunnie stood up out of her seat and hugs Vanilla. Vanilla, after seeing Bunnie stood up while returning the favor, was shockingly surprise of seeing Bunnie ...well...

"Hey Ms. Bunnie. Did you get taller?" Vanilla asked, with her at 5'8" and Bunnie at, of course, 6'3".

"Yeah. Ah hit a ...'growth spurt', some people said," said Bunnie.

Vanilla smirked and said, "Say... Have people ever told you 'You play basketball?'"

"A little ...when Ah was short. But not with a team." Bunnie said

Vanilla smirked and said, "Well if you haven't known, I'm the varsity basketball coach here in Knothole. Since you had a basketball background in you, wanna give it a try for my basketball camp?"

Bunnie smirked and answered, "Ah... Ah guess. When do Ah start?" She later asked Vanilla, or perhaps 'Coach Vanilla' since she's a basketball coach.

"Well, ...since you just moved to ...Duluth right?" She asked and Bunnie nodded. Coach Vanilla continues, "Huh? that's weird. But anyway, since you just moved here and since school's gonna start next week on Monday, you will start next week on Monday, which is the day school's gonna start. Does that sound good?"

"Okay," Bunnie said happily with a smirk on her face. "Do Ah need to bring anything?" She later asked.

"Just active shorts and tennis shoes," Coach Vanilla said. "If you don't have anyone of 'em, I got some practice clothes and basketball shoes you can wear."

Bunnie agrees as her and Vanilla respectively parted ways. Bunnie later sat back down to finish filling out her personal school-related information. Beauregard and Lulumae, after hearing the conversation their niece and their cousin Vanilla were having while signing their signatures of Bunnie's personal school-related info, speaks to Bunnie.

Beauregard speaks, "So Bunnie. Ya gonna tryout for the school's basketball team for real?"

"Yeah," Bunnie answered. "To see how it goes for me."

Lulumae speaks, "Hope you do good, sugah?"

"Thanks, Aunty Lulu," Bunnie said.

The Following Week...

Bunnie's first day of school went good to start off. She got to know everyone of her teachers and know some classmates of the classes she is assigned with. But the hardest part for Bunnie and every other student's first day at a new school, is to find where 'this' building is at or where 'that' building is at. Luckily she asked some students and staff members, including her aunt Coach Vanilla, for some directions.

Much to Bunnie's perspective, Knothole High School looks good in terms of the view from the outside of the building, and the view from the inside of the building. But Bunnie is not really into the school's fancy, first-class view, she's into starting off her high school career as a soon-to-be student-athlete.

-Monday, August 8, 2010 (3:40 PM)

Bunnie, after getting directions once again, arrives inside the girls' locker room to suit-up for her first day of her aunt's basketball camp. When she arrives inside the locker room, she sees fourteen student-athletes (as females of course), to her perspective, getting dressed. Bunnie did brought her own basketball-related attire: a white T-Shirt, Starter sports bra, and 8-inch basketball shorts. What's missing is a pair of basketball sneakers, but luckily...

"Aye Aunty Vanilla," Bunnie said when she arrived at her aunt's office.

"Yeah Ms. Bunnie." Coach Vanilla responded.

"Do ya have a size 7 shoe?" Bunnie asked.

"...Yeah. Come with me." Coach Vanilla answered, and later walked out of her office, with her niece Bunnie following, to head to the storage room down the hall.

Coach Vanilla and Bunnie reaches to the storage room where it keeps the team sports equipment and game-day uniforms. Coach Vanilla pulls out the key to the storage room, unlocks the door and opens it. They walk inside were Coach Vanilla reaches the area of where the basketball shoes are at, of the male or female isle.

Coach Vanilla asks, "You said size 7 right?"

"Yeah," Bunnie answered.

Coach Vanilla starts to search for that size-7 shoe. "Size sevennnnnn... Size sevennnnnn... Mmmmmmm... Bingo there it is." She grabs the size-7 2010 Nike Hyperdunk shoe and hands it to Bunnie.

"Thank you, Aunty Vanilla." Bunnie said.

"You're welcome," Coach Vanilla replied. "Now come on, you got some training to do."

Bunnie agrees what her aunt/coach said as they exited the storage room, with Bunnie going back into the locker room to put her basketball sneakers on and her stuff inside her locker with a combination lock, and later enters inside the gymnasium.

Bunnie and the rest of the student-athletes all started to do ten laps around the main court. While they were jogging, there were some girls looking at Bunnie not only of her being new, it's because of her height, as already mentioned, at 6'3".

Moments Later...

After the girls finished their stretches and Coach Vanilla giving instructions, Coach Vanilla and Bunnie went to one side of the basketball court where the fourteen student-athletes are doing their scrimmage with Coach Vanilla's assistant, Coach Rosemary Prower, instructing the players and drills.

Coach Vanilla first decides to let Bunnie shoot a basketball, just to see how Bunnie shoots. Bunnie, after agreeing what her aunt instructed, starts to shoot the basketball as a left-handed shooter. To Coach Vanilla's perspective, she sees her niece (using two hands) bring the ball above her forehead and releases high with a textbook-shooting form: seeing her (right) off-hand and her (left) dominant hand separated three-to-four feet away.

Next, Coach Vanilla teaches Bunnie some rebound, box-out drills of how to box-out and grab a rebound when the ball comes off the rim. Coach Vanilla first teaches Bunnie how to grab rebounds when the ball comes off the rim, then how to use her strength to box-out a player to also get some rebounds; and with multiple box-outs and rebounds attempted and grabbed later, ...she was good again.

Then Coach Vanilla teach Bunnie how to handle the ball. Bunnie, after learning some dribble moves from Coach Vanilla, was doing basic crossover dribbles and even did some jump shots pulling up off the dribble; kind of like what Hakeem Olajuwon did in his playing days.

Coach Vanilla had a smile on her face of seeing her niece ...learning so quickly. She didn't think Bunnie would learn the game of basketball that quick, she herself figured it would take her a month or two to get the basic skills down pack. But boy she was wrong, but at the same time proud. And what really shocked Coach Vanilla is her dunking ability. Yes, Bunnie was dunking, but not flashy, fancy dunks. Just basic, strong dunks with one hand from both her left and right, and two hands.

"Hey Ms. Bunnie," Coach Vanilla shouted, which Bunnie looks at her. "You sure you played a little bit of basketball when you was short?"

Bunnie nods with a 'yes'.

Coach smirks and shakes her head. "Wow."

"What?" Bunnie worried. "Is it something Ah'm doin' wrong?"

"No," Coach Vanilla answered with a smile. "You're just ...learning so ...quickly. What sports you were also playing?"

"Some soccer and volleyball." Bunnie answered.

"No wonder," Coach Vanilla said. "Your footwork moves just like a guard."

Bunnie smiles accepting the complement from her aunt.

After days and weeks with Bunnie doing some drills of playing as a big/tall girl (in basketball term), Bunnie starts to like this sport. She even told her parents, Beauregard and Lulumae, and her aunt Coach Vanilla she likes it and loves it.

And it all started with that early healthy growth spurt and those two sports, soccer and volleyball, when she was a 5'7" short girl.

End of Chapter 4


And there it is folks. Chapter 4 of Bunnie's basketball upbringing.

For those readers out there who might criticize me of why I made Bunnie tall, don't even try. Seriously, a growth spurt doesn't always happen to males, it occurs to females as well. For example, Sylvia Fowles is 6'6" (6 feet and 6 inches tall) and plays in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) for the Chicago Sky. May I mentioned Britney Griner, the 6 foot, 8 inch tall woman who plays for the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA? Or Lisa Leslie, the 6 foot, 5 inch WNBA legend and sure first-ballot hall of famer of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame?

I can go on and on about this. So like I said and I'm not trying to be mean, don't even try to criticize me of making Bunnie or other female characters on Teammates Forever tall. However, for some who know basketball on the female side, you should understand where I'm coming from.

Now for the name meaning of Warren of Beauregard and Lulumae Warren (Beauregard and Lulumae Rabbot) and Scarlette Bunnie Charleigh Warren (Bunnie D'Coolette the Rabbot). But Bunnie's name meaning won't be mentioned because it was already explained from Teammates Forever. Be my guest to look it up if you want.

In German, the name Warren means- Protector; loyal; Beauregard is a caring, decisive leader as the Grandmaster of the Great Desert chapter of the Dark Egg Legion. Same thing for Bunnie as a freedom fighter.

From the previous chapter when I mentioned I didn't thought about making Sleet and Dingo brothers, this time I WAS thinking about making Bunnie and Vanilla (as "Coach" Vanilla) related with Vanilla as Bunnie's aunt and Bunnie as Vanilla's niece. And also, in the Sonic Archie Comics, Bunnie is related to Vanilla as her aunt and Cream, Vanilla's daughter, as her cousin ONLY in the reset world of the Genesis arc. Not when the Super Genesis Wave took action.

For my closing, leave a review or Private Message (PM) of how this chapter went, as well as stating a mistake(s) I published. The next chapter will be ...Scourge Nevil (Scourge the Hedgehog).

Yes Scourge from chapter 17 of Teammates Forever. And to spoil the moment, I (and you should yourself) know he's evil and crazy, but it will be totally different. I repeat: TO-TA-LLY DIFFERENT. If you don't like my idea that's not gonna be related to Scourge's personality, I'm sorry. It's my decision and I'm stickin' to it. However, if you like my idea and is interested in reading it, when it's updated of course, be my guest.

Like I already said, the next chapter will be ...Scourge Nevil (Scourge the Hedgehog).

-SelfMadeHooper

PS: If you leave a negative PM and/or private message of me making Scourge different, I will just go on ahead and delete your negative remark. No argument needed, just me simply deleting the negative remark.

And Chapters 19 and 20 of Teammates Forever are currently in progress.