Hiya, and all I have to say about this one is that it's got some fun stuff in it, but that's what I think, you go on ahead a see for yourself…oh and apologized about the Flippy/Flaky attack in the last chapter, but don't worry about it.

Disclaimer: I will never, ever, ever, ever own HTF and blah, blah, blah.

12 Realization

For the rest of the afternoon, Cuddles and Flaky watched cartoons and sitcoms, and for some reason, to Flaky, whenever the audience would laugh, it seemed like they were really laughing at her, saying "Ha ha! You're such a LOSER!" so, she shut them out and focused on the cold sweetness that ran down her throat.

"Flaky, I gotta go soon; do you think you'll be alright alone?" Cuddles said suddenly while cleaning up a deck of cards that had flown everywhere.

"I don't know, I guess so…but do you think you could call me if you ever get to your house? I understand if you don't," Flaky said.

"Yeah, I'll call you, and if I run into the girls, I'll tell them whats up," Cuddles said and waved before he left.

Flaky sighed; she was sure he would not make it and thought it would be a perfect time to go to bed.

So she did.

When she 'woke' up, she noticed she was standing up…outside…in the zoo…?

Then suddenly her eyes went big as she heard a chirp chirp!

She looked slowly down and saw one of the things she feared the most…baby chicks!

"OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OHMYGOD! OHMYGOD!!!" She screamed stepping back, but squashed one, causing her to squeal in horror.

"SCARLEEEET!" She then screamed and put her hands on her head, shutting her eyes tight.

"Thought you could scare me off somehow? Thinking of a way to GET RID OF ME? How funny of you to think you do something like that Flaky, I'm stronger, better, and smarter than you in every way, that's how you wanted me, didn't you? Oh, and perhaps maybe with a side of fries too? Hee, hee, have fun with the birdies!" Scarlet said in a happy mood, Flaky growled, why was she so happy? Oh yeah, because Flaky was in a bad one!

Flaky opened her eyes, and jumped; more yellow, tiny, birds!

"Eeeek! Shoo, shoo! Gooo awaaayyyy!" she said in her scared high voice and tip toeing in place, motioning the birds away, but they only blinked cutely and chirped.

'I'm gonna go hysterical if I don't get away from here soon!' Flaky's thoughts screamed only to get a mean little giggle from Scarlet.

Flaky would have to result to pure screaming then, so, she took a deep breath and let out a screeching, high pitch scream. This causing several of the other tree friend's ears to begin to hurt until they bled and as well making glass everywhere to crack and break…letting lose the snakes, spiders, frogs and lizards and soon pure chaos and violence began to break out all through the zoo.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a blue flying squirrel came flying down, wincing; he patted her shoulder to make her stop.

Flaky was breathing hard, but relaxed once she saw him, "I'mafraidofchicks! GET ME OUT OF HERE!" she said in one big breath.

Splendid didn't question why she was there in the first place; he only picked her up and flew high above the zoo.

"Eeeek! Not so high please!" Flaky said closing her eyes, Splendid only rolled his eyes and took her in front of the zoo, "What were you doing there in the first place young miss?" he asked putting a hand on his 'chin' in curiosity.

"I- uh…um…I dunno…I…slept walk there, I guess," Flaky stammered.

"That's very unfortunate, well, you should try to fix your chick phobia before it becomes serious- and I already think it has," he replied and looked up at the air with a brave look on his face, "Well- duties are calling; now I must fly!" he said dramatically and flew off to help calm the chaos in the zoo.

"He's such a nice person," Flaky said with a small smile.

"He's such a show off," Scarlet 'said' with a scoff.

Flaky ignored her other half, but realized she couldn't do that yet.

"Did you drive here? Or did you walk? I don't want to leave my car behind," Flaky thought to Scarlet, "I am not telling you anything, fluffy" she replied.

Flaky growled and began looking for her car, and it took awhile since she had no memory of where she might have parked.

After 30 minutes, Scarlet finally spoke up "Oh, that's right…I walked, tee- hee,"

Flaky let out a frustrated but very small screech and began on her way home, already hot from staying in the sun so long.

As she passed some of her friends, they gave her an odd look, and she knew why too.

She had been acting really strange lately, and just yesterday, they found her lying limp on a hard chair like corpse outside, she had been making googily eyes with the second biggest fool in town. Now she was walking down the side walk looking stressed and wearing an annoyed face while small drips of sweat dripped from her face, and it was too easy to tell she was angry.

Suddenly she felt an arm hook around her and she saw Disco Bear holding out an ice cream to her, she sighed sadly but smiled and took it.

"Thanks," she said and licked the ice cream, Disco Bear gave a smug smile and raised his eyebrows when he saw Petunia and Giggles glaring at them, Flaky noticed this and looked too, "Uh oh," she whispered.

And for the first time, Disco Bear didn't flirt with them; he frowned and pulled Flaky close.

"You two leave her alone, she's been having it hard lately and she doesn't need any more…," he then took a second to think"…crap," he said defensively.

Flaky was somewhat impressed when the two girls backed down and looked at each other in thought, but they said nothing and walked away…perhaps Cuddles had spoken to them.

Flaky smiled brightly and pulled Disco Bear into a big hug, and he gladly took in it, his smile matching hers.

"Thanks," she said and snuggled him with her heart-shaped nose before she let go, careful not to make a mess with her ice cream.

"You're welcome baby, I'll always be here," he said sweetly and they walked on.

Suddenly Cuddles came up to them, "Hey Fla- Scarlet!" he said and looked at Disco Bear, but not as enthusiastic "…Disco Bear." He said with a weird look in his eye as he looked at the bear, as if he was thinking about something he didn't want to, he then looked at Flaky skeptically, searching in her eyes to see who was 'online' at the moment, since Flaky was looking like the extremely pretty Scarlet at the moment, but he smiled normally.

"Oh, hi Cuddles," Disco said and took Flaky's paw, Cuddles' stared at the locked paws for a moment, but back at Disco Bear, "Yeah, you think I can talk to my friend? I think she might find it important," Cuddles asked eyeing Flaky as he said 'important'.

Flaky and Disco Bear looked at each other, the bear looked at the porcupine curiously and she nodded, "I'll call you, I promise," she said quietly to him, Disco Bear nodded while he pouted he then kissed her, causing Cuddles to make a grossed out face and gag in disgust and Disco Bear left.

"That was gross, and it would be less gross if it wasn't him," Cuddles said still making a face, Flaky merely giggled timidly.

"For some reason, kissing makes me light on my feet…and sort of…dizzy," she said and randomly licked at her ice cream, as if it would make the feelings go away, they didn't.

Cuddles coughed in shock "No! No! Flaky, you gotta stop kissin' him then!"

Flaky blinked cutely and innocently "Why?"

"Because, I've heard a lot of things-I've read a lot of things, and know a lot of things! And Flaky! I think your starting to- ugh…," Cuddles said in anxious tone and then dropped into a raspy whisper- "-like, like Disco Bear!"

Flaky dropped her ice cream, not realizing it fell on her foot.

"I can't, that's not possible…unless…," she said her voice drifting off in thought and ignoring Cuddles' next two comments.

"-Unless… you have this weird obsession with bears you don't know about!" Cuddles said suddenly with a smile-thinking to himself, his imagination running around.

"For all we know- you might start liking Pop next!" Cuddles fake gasped and laughed at his own joke.

Cuddles' happy face dropped when he noticed Flaky's horrified expression.

"Do you think…that maybe Scarlet is falling out of love with Disco Bear?" she asked suddenly, Cuddles looked up surprised.

"Theres a chance, but who knows…," he said and then there was a silence.

"Wasn't there something important you needed to tell me about?" Flaky asked curiously.

"Oh yeah! On my way from your house yesterday, I saw Flippy…he was sitting in his truck sobbing his eyes out like a baby," he said looking kind of sad himself.

"Sobbing?" Flaky said quietly, not sure what else to say, but she was very surprised.

"Yeah, until he saw me and ran me over, hurt like crap," Cuddles said and rubbed his back from the memory, it was like that for him, if he tried to remember how he died then that certain body part that got hurt first would start hurting for some reason.

Flaky ignored his comment, the image of Flippy's last expression had melted, and now all she could think about was him crying in his truck, it was a depressing thought, she just wanted to hug him and explain everything.

Her face became pained; he had said it right in her face, that he never wanted to see, hear, or do anything that had her in his life…he didn't want her in his life.

Again, no tears came, her eyes stayed dry.

Flaky finally realized that she was never going to talk, or get close to him; ever again, he would never know how she felt. Never. Ever. Ever. Ever

"Whoa, no, no, please, don't make that face…Flaky? Are you going to die? Flaky?" Cuddles panicked as poor Flaky began to curl up on the ground, in fetal position on the hot ground, her face drowned in horror as she stared in to a cruel, dark, cold space.

"Oh crap, can you hear me?" he asked, but she said nothing so again, he decided to pick her up. But this time, she seemed small, like a defenseless baby, it was easier to carry her as he headed for the Hospital.

Several times Scarlet tried to take over, but something in Flaky's mind that was freezing blocked her path, it was useless to break over, so she couldn't ruin Flaky's life even more at the moment.

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I like Cuddles when he's worried! XD And hmm, I wonder whats gonna happen when they get to the Hospital!