14 Hopefully a Good Day
Hello again! I don't have much to say about this chapter except that I hope you like it.
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Flaky usually never drank coffee, as it usually made her jitter more when she got scared, but this was her last day being conscience, so she sipped at it as she watched the weather report, Russel smiled as he pointed to the rainy cloud behind with his hook, "Yar! Later today, we be having a big storm, so put on ye-uh, your raincoats or stay inside, because it'll blow ye away due to the strong winds!" he announced and when he was done and the screen went back to Sniffles, he sighed as usual by Russel's lack of grammar.
Flaky blinked "Huh…but it's so sunny out," she mumbled and looked outside, there was no clouds outside today, well, it was normal for them to get the weather wrong so she sighed and continued her coffee.
It wasn't until very soon that she began to get anxious and decided to go outside to meet with her friends as usual.
Cuddles was nowhere to be found, so she hung out with Lumpy, Handy and Toothy.
"Hi guys," she said pathetically, the guys said their hellos' back cheerfully, ignoring her sad face- not because they were mean, but because Flaky told them she was going to be like that for the week, due to a 'sad book she was reading'.
"Ya know something, I heard it was going to rain today…but I don't see a cloud in the sky," the brown beaver said looking up at the sky.
"Me too, I guess they got it wrong again," Toothy replied looking up as well for a moment.
Flaky was about to say something, but stopped when The Mole came strolling up and 'looked' up at the sky as well, "I believe it is going to rain today," he said simply, Lumpy blinked "How?" he asked.
"Well, for instance, anything could happen, the wind could blow some clouds in, a tornado might blow in…anything," he said with his usual air of importance in his tone, as if he knew everything.
It suddenly began to dawn on Flaky she hadn't seen or heard from The Mole since she went to go get hypnotized, what a coincidence that she should see him again on this certain day.
But whatever reason, the fact made her happy that she would get to see him for the last time. Her happiness turned into awkwardness as he patted at her face as he noticed she was there.
"Ah, Flaky, I haven't seen you since the hypnosis event, did it work?" he asked.
Flaky blushed as she looked at her other friend's questionable faces, she bit her tongue and hummed sadly for a moment "No…I'm sorry," she lied.
For reason The Mole chuckled "Well, I bet it would have been amazing if it had worked, now wouldn't it? No matter, I like you the way you are now," he said and made a thumbs up sign with his paw.
Flaky giggled timidly and looked back the other three boys who smiled unknowingly, as they usually did, she smiled happily back, it was perfect, this is exactly how she wanted her last memories of them, happy like they normally would be. Unlike a certain someone that she loved dearly with all of her heart.
She mourned inside deeply over the cruel fact.
"Say, has anyone seen Cuddles today?" Toothy asked suddenly causing Flaky's thoughts to go blank.
"No, it's strange, the guy is usually out on days like this," Handy replied frowning, Lumpy frowned as well "Huh, must of tooken off early," he said, meaning that he guessed 'Cuddles might of died early'.
Flaky gasped, her day was suddenly turning into even more of a nightmare, of all of days- she wasn't going to see her best friend? "I hope not, I- I- really wanted to talk with him," she said, her eyes painfully sad.
The Mole patted her reassuringly on the head "Maybe you can find him, I believe he does have a knack for being adventurous, doesn't he?"
Flaky smiled, she had forgotten all about The Mole's sweetness, "Yeah," she said with a nod, "I'll go look for him," she said and wondered off.
She searched all across the town, in all of the buildings, knocking on everyone's houses at least twice, she even checked at her house a few times, it seemed like he was the only one missing too…
And then she realized she hadn't checked one house, she gulped… she didn't want to, afraid she might go into a break down and somehow lose the day, but she had to, she JUST had to! Her feelings anxious, she began to walk to the direction of his house, her tummy flipping with sweet butterflies and sour fear.
Her limbs went cold as Flippy's house came to view, she noticed his truck was there, but he might have or might not be home, since he liked walking more than driving.
Her first thoughts were to check in the windows, so she did.
Luckily, he had his windows open; obviously showing he didn't believe the report was true either.
She bit down on her bottom lip as she listened for a sound as she checked the living room window, nothing, but she slowly peeked through the dark green and pink curtain and checked anyways, she let out a small whispery gasp as she saw that his living room was a living…mess.
Lots of things were on the floor, the walls torn and a lot of dangerous weapons stuck into the wall awkwardly.
Surely he wasn't this messed up because of her, so she assumed it was something else that was more important than her entirely.
She let down the curtain and checked the kitchen window, her mouth hung open in surprise and happiness as she heard talking, so she sat down under the window and listened.
"You have a lot of problems, you know that Flippy?!" she heard Cuddles say angrily.
"Yeah, but they aren't any of your concern!" Flippy replied, Flaky almost gasped, she hadn't heard his voice in so long, but it saddened her when she noticed that Flippy's voice was hoarse.
"Well look out now buddy, because now, they officially are! My regards to Flaky!" Cuddles hissed.
"Argh! I told you NOT to say her name!" Flippy yelled and something glass broke.
"Well I'm sorry Mr. Sensitive! But Flaky is my friend! I can say Flaky's name as much as I like! And I don't understand why you won't believe me, is it not normal for other people to have split personalities like you?!" he yelled back, Flaky flinched.
"No, it's not! And why would she tell you before me? So your just lying! I don't get why she had to fall for that…that… IDIOT!" he yelled and something fell and hit the ground hard.
"It's because of Scarlet, I keep telling you! Why would I lie about this?" Cuddles replied a little more calmly this time.
"Because Cuddles, you're blind, you're blind, stupid and young! Flaky promised, she promised she'd never change, she did, but I can see how you're making this worse for me, you're just trying to get back at me for the times I killed you! Well listen to this: If you don't get out right now, I WILL change- and I WILL kill you! So you better get the HELL out of my house, NOW!" Flippy screamed.
There was a long silence; except for the sound of the mint green bear's huffing.
"Fine." Cuddles replied and then there was silence, Flaky crawled quickly away from the window as she heard Flippy shuffle around.
She spied from the side at the front of the house and watched Cuddles walk out, his face pink with anger, he slammed the door behind him, so Flaky decided to come up to him and hug him tightly, causing Cuddles to gasp.
"I was looking for you," she said and let go.
"Did you hear?" he asked quietly.
"Well, I found you talking to him in the kitchen, when you told him 'he has a problem'…I can't believe you told him…I can't believe…he didn't believe you," she said and finally began to sob out tears.
Cuddles patted her arm "Don't cry, please, it's not your fault…here, you wanna get some ice cream?" he offered sweetly.
Flaky made a small pitiful sound, but sighed and nodded.
Back inside Flippy gasped silently as he heard them from the nearest window, she had heard…but he grew angry again, even she was against him about the whole 'killing' thing, he felt incredibly and terribly miserable, he had broken her heart, but she had too, it wasn't fair, and now he would never talk, see, hear, feel her again…
When they got inside the ice cream shop, they got their treats, and sat down, Flaky sniffled.
"I- I… never heard you talk… so angrily before…," she said.
"Me either, but I guess I just…snapped," he said resting his hand on his head.
"I'm sorry," Flaky said sadly and stared down at her ice cream.
"Don't be…um, but Scarlet can be, she's scaring the Heck out of Petunia," he said.
Suddenly Scarlet took over, and Cuddles could easily tell as he jumped back, Scarlet grinned menacingly, "Wonderful Cuddles, because by tomorrow, you should be scared of me too, since I'm capable of wonderfully terrible things, you'll regret ever going against me sweetie," she said and let Flaky take back over, who gasped when she did.
"Oh, what did she say?" she said putting her paw on Cuddles' shoulder.
Cuddles simply glared at his bowl, "The usual. I just wish she'd get killed when she's taking over, it's not fair she knows how to dodge things coming at her," he said grumpily.
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I will say nothing this time, as the best part of the story is coming up next!