Chapter 24:

Pacific Coast Beach

It was the morning of the fourth of July. The sun streamed through the window. Bugs woke up and stretched. "Good morning."

Lola didn't say anything. He looked at her and saw her still asleep. They had been up late last night chasing each other, talking about their wedding, watching the Hell's Kitchen marathon and laughing at Chef Ramsey.

He lay back down and watched her sleep. She looked so peaceful and defenseless in her sleep. He put his hand on her chest and felt her steady heartbeat.

After a few minutes he decided to go make breakfast. He got up and put on those old bunny slippers and his robe. Before he left he walked over to Lola. He pulled the covers up to her shoulders then brushed her bangs out of the way and kissed her forehead. She smiled.

He smiled back. He leaned down to her ear. "I love you Lola," he whispered. Then he went to go make breakfast.

Lola woke up about ten minutes later. She turned over and expected to see Bugs but he wasn't there. She yawned as she got up and pulled her black silk robe off the side of the headboard. Then she went downstairs looking for him.

She sniffed. It smelled like food. She went into the kitchen and Bugs was at the stove making breakfast.

He saw her. "Good morning sleepy head. Happy Fourth of July."

She didn't feel like talking just yet. She just waved her pinkie at him.

"Not much of a morning person right now huh?"

She nodded and sat at the table. She managed to get up enough energy to say "What's for breakfast?"

"Cheese omelets," Bugs replied. The phone rang and he picked it up. "Would you like cheese on that burger?" he said. Lola laughed.

"What?" Melissa said.

"You want mustard or ketchup ma'am?" Lola laughed more.

"Bugs knock it off!"

"We have curly fries."

"Mmm, curly fries. No wait! Bugs…cancel that order."

"What's up Melissa?"

"We're all going to the beach. You in?"

"Which beach? You'd better not say Hollywood Beach because if you think I'm gonna deal with all those paparazzi…"

"Chill out will ya'? We're going to Pacific Coast Beach ."

"Oh. Yeah I'm comin'." He turned to where Lola was sitting. "Lola are you..." Lola wasn't there. "Lola?"

Lola ran into the kitchen holding up a green bikini with pink flowers and a purple bikini with light blue polka dots. "Which one, green or purple?"

Bugs studied them. "I like the green one."

"But the purple one is more revealing," Melissa said.

Lola snatched the phone. "We'll be there. Bye."

"But seriously you should wear the purple one. Bugs would like it…"

"Good-bye Melissa!" Lola hung up the phone.

Bugs parked the car at the beach. They got out and went to the trunk.

Bugs pulled out the surf boards. He put them in Lola's arms. "Surf Boards."

"Surf boards," she said.

He pulled out the sun block and put it on top of the surf boards. "Sun block."

"That's important," Lola said.

He pulled out the pack of water bottles and put them on top of the sun block. "Water bottles."

"This is getting heavy."

Bugs took out the cooler full of ice and put it on top of the water bottles. "Cooler."

Lola's legs almost crumbled. "Why aren't you carrying this?"

Bugs took out the towels. "I have my reasons." He put the towels on top of the cooler. "Towels."

"Why am I carrying everything?"

Bugs took out the umbrella's and put them on top of the towels. "Umbrella's."

"That trunk is large."

Bugs took out the snorkeling goggles and put them on top of the umbrellas. "Snorkeling goggles."

Lola looked at him annoyed. "Can you carry something?"

Bugs closed the trunk. "That's it."

Lola frowned. "What are you going to carry?"

Bugs thought. Then he took his sunglasses out of his pocket and put them on. "These. Come on Lo." He ran to the beach.

Lola struggled to carry everything. "Just to reiterate, WHY AM I CARRYING EVERYTHING?" she shouted.

When she got the middle of the beach she her legs finally gave up on her.

Tweety Bird came to the pile of stuff. "Hello beach monster. Have you seen Lola? She was just here but I can find her anymore."

"Tweety, I'm under here!" Lola said. Then she came out from under the pile of stuff. "I'll kill that rabbit!" She started to unroll the beach towels. The she tried to open the umbrella but it closed on her.

"Having fun?" Bugs asked.

Lola opened the umbrella and saw him standing next to her soaked with seaweed behind his ears. She frowned at him. "Oh yeah you've got me doing all the work!" She tried to open the umbrella again but it snapped shut.

Bugs stared and picked the seaweed from behind his ears.

"Don't just stand there! Help me!"

"Right." Bugs took the umbrella and opened it and stuck it into the ground.

After they fixed up all their stuff Melissa came over to them. "Have you guys seen Daffy?"

"Why are you so obsessed with that duck?" asked Bugs.

Melissa sighed. "He's just so handsome, and he's an amazing kisser…"

Lola grabbed her hand. "You need to cool down, and Bugs is a waaay better kisser than Daffy." She started to drag her to the ocean.

"True!" Bugs agreed.

"Sylvester Catt you're gonna get b-b-burned," Porky Pig said.

"No I'm not!"

"Uh-oh, Sly's goin' on sun block strike," Bugs said.

Sylvester stood up. "Sun block is for losers."

Daffy looked up from his bottle of sun block. "Hey! Who you callin' a losther?" He noticed a spot on him that was not covered in white sun block. "Oops, I missed a spot."

"Hey Daff, can you put sun block on me?" Melissa asked sweetly.

"Sure baby." Daffy rubbed sun block on her then found her tickle spot.

"Hahaha! Daffy stop!"

Bugs rolled his eyes. "Well, not all of us are losers."

Daffy stood up aiming the bottle of sun block at Bugs' face like he was actually going to do something with it. "You know what rabbit…"

"Alright Sly, but when you get your butt burned off I'm gonna laugh," Lola said.

"Me too," Melissa said.

Then they all heard a CLANG!

Penelope slammed into a volleyball net pole.. "Pepe le Pew do you have my contacts?" As you can see Penelope was extremely blind without her contacts or glasses.

"My dear if you'd stop moving I'd give them to you!" Pepe called from across the beach. The two of them had apparently made up since that day at the park.

Penelope walked towards them with her arms out in front of her. "Where are you?" She grabbed Porky. "Is this you Pepe?"

"No it's P-p-p-p-p-p…not Pepe le Pew..."

Pepe le Pew put the contacts in her hands. "Here."

Penelope put the contacts on. "Porky Pig, why are you impersonating Pepe le Pew?"

"So you two are back together?" Sylvester asked.

"Oui," Pepe le Pew said.

"I'm done trying to keep up with you two. Would you just pick one already?" Lola said.

"Fine then, we're together," Penelope said.

"I wonder how long that's gonna last," Bugs mumbled.

"If you're together then get married again!" Lola exclaimed.

"Oh please Lola, you need to get your wedding out of the way first," Penelope said.

"I don't know about you guys but I'm going swimming," Lola said heading towards the ocean. Everyone else followed.

Lola jumped in and Porky, Bugs, and Daffy jumped in after her making a huge splash. Taz came out of nowhere and spun around in the water. Melissa splashed Daffy. "What gives?" Daffy tried to splash her back but got Bugs instead. Bugs splashed him back. "Quit it Duck!" Lola, Porky, and Penelope joined in. Taz kept tornado spinning and splashing everyone. Then everyone got an unexpecting Pepe le Pew who was bombarded with salt water. Soon all you could see was a ten foot high wave coming from every direction.

Then Foghorn Leghorn floated over innocently lying on his surf board. "Hey everybody…" Then he got lost in the big splash fight. "What, I say what is going on here!"

A little while later the splash fight was over Lola, Melissa, and Penelope were sitting on their beach towels chewing gum and flipping through magazines. Melissa had brought Wedding Day magazine, Bridal Gown magazine, and I DO magazine.

Melissa was reading this article in I DO about saying "I do." "It says here that when you say 'I do' look directly into your groom/bride's eyes and pronounce it clearly and sincerely." She turned to Lola. "That will ensure a happy relationship in the future."

Lola pretended to be insulted. "We've been happy all this time, what are you saying?"

"Did you find your dress?" asked Penelope.

Lola closed Bridal Gown. "There's nothing in here that really screams Lola Bunny."

Penelope opened the magazine back up. Melissa pointed to a dress with a short skirt, a red and gold top that looked like something Wonder Woman would wear, white boots, a blue cape, and a gold tiara. "Look at that! That's your dress."

Lola rolled her eyes. "Maybe if I was Wonder Woman getting married to Super Man."

"How about this?" Melissa pointed to a huge red dress that looked like something from the 1700s.

Lola glared at her. "You wanna be serious?"

"You know, I know this really awesome fashion designer in San Francisco named John Philip au Farrare…"

Lola fell back laughing. "What kind of idiot names their child John Philip au Farrare! What is he some French wierdo?"

"Yes!" Lola stopped laughing. "He designed me and my sisters prom dresses. I can make an appointment with him. He can make you a lovely dress."

Lola nodded. "Sounds great. Just don't say his name again!" She started laughing.

All of a sudden Bugs, Daffy, Taz, and Sylvester ran past them with their surf boards.

"Sthurfing contesth ladiesth! Cheer for me!" Daffy said.

Lola jumped up. "I wanna be in!"

"Sure. But I don't think you can handle the extreme wavesth," Daffy said.

Lola picked up her board. Daffy should know by now that she was extremely good at things like this. "You really shouldn't have said that duck."

They got in the water and waited for the wave.

Foghorn Leghorn came on over the intercom. "Welcome, I say, welcome to the annual Pacific Beach Surfing Contest everybody." Wile E. held up a sign that said CHEER. The crowd cheered. "Let's I say let's meet our contestants. Our first contestant is that long eared carrot chomping Bugs Bunny! Next is the beautiful and extremely talented Lola Bunny. Let's give them a round of applause they're getting married next month!" The crowd cheered again when they saw the CHEER sign. "Next is that envious, greedy, good for nothing…"

"Yeah we get it!" Daffy yelled.

"Daffy Duck!"

The crowd was silent. "Ha ha, very funny!" Daffy said.

"Next is that crazed cat who can't catch Tweety Bird but I say boy, ya' gotta love him anyway, Sylvester Cat!" CHEER, the crowd cheered. "Last but I say not least, the wild and crazy Tazmanian Devil!" The crowd cheered. "Alright surfers mount your boards! Ready, set, I say get out there and surf!"

They rode the waves. Bugs flipped upside down and stood on his ears and did some turns. "That I say that's pretty impressive Bugs! Keep it up son!"

The sun was beating down on Sylvester and was burning his skin. He tried going under the wave but it was no use. He got so hot he couldn't take it. Finally he crumbled and fell off the surf board. Wile E held up and AWW sign. "AWW!" went the crowd. "Oh! And Sylvester is down! Next time I say next time ya' might wanna wear some sun screen Sly!"

Lola stood on one hand on the edge of her board and swayed her legs back and forth. "My, oh my that's a difficult trick! This is what I mean when I say extremely talented!" Lola looked at Daffy who was waving to the crowd. The wave was about to crash onto him. "Daffy…"

"Daffy Duck may wanna watch out before that wave makes duck soup outta him!" Daffy snapped out of his trance. "What?" Then the wave crashed onto him and he fell off. Wile E held up an OOHH sign. "OOHHH!" went the crowd. "And Daffy is down! Nice duck but he doesn't listen to a word ya' say.."

Taz tornado spun and stirred up the water around him. The crowd "OOHED" and "AAHED." Then he accidently made a whirlpool and was sucked in. AWW. "AWW!"

"What I say what a way to go down!"

Only Bugs and Lola were left. They looked at each other with a devious grin. Lola did pushups. Bugs got a pull up bar and did pull ups.

"Nice to get some exercise while you're in this!"

Lola got a fishing rod and sat on the edge of her board fishing. Bugs got a couch and HD TV with Verizon Fios and flipped through the TV channels smirking at her. Wile E held up another sign. STARE INTENSELY. The crowd stared intensely.

"I say I have never seen anything like this in my ten minutes of commentating a surf contest!" Wile E held up another sign. LOOK RIGHT. LOOK LEFT. CHEW YOUR GUM. YOUR FLY IS OPEN.

Foghorn snatched the sign out of his hands. "Stop it I say stop it son!"

Lola got out a grill and started grilling burgers. Bugs balanced on one foot on a beach ball with three textbooks balanced on his head playing paddleball and balancing six plates on his finger. Just as they were getting into fierce competition, they crashed into each other and fell off. LONG AAAWWWWW. "AAAWWWWW!" went the crowd.

"I say I guess there is a tie here today folks! Bugs and Lola both win the giant chocolate sundae with strawberries, star sprinkles, American Flag decorations (in I say in honor of Independence Day) and a cherry on top! Congrats. I am Foghorn Leghorn signing off. Thank you I say thank you and good night!"

Bugs and Lola sat in the sand eating their sundae.

Daffy came over and held out his hand. He sighed. "Congratulationsth you two."

Bugs eyed him. Daffy wouldn't try to be that nice on his own. "Did Melissa put you up to this?" he asked.

Daffy took one of their strawberries. "Yes."

Bugs picked up a strawberry and held it in front of Lola's face. She bit off half of it and Bugs ate the rest. Then she covered another one in whipped cream and held it in front of him. He bit half of it and she ate the rest of it.

Daffy stared at them with a disgusted look. "That's just nasty."

Sylvester walked over to them. "Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow."

"S-s-s-still no s-s-s-s-s…SPF 15 Sly?" Porky asked.

Sylvester shook his head stubbornly. "No. Ow. If you don't mind, ow, I'm going to lie on my beach towel and dream about how delicious that bird tastes.." And that's what he did.

"T-t-t-talk about s-s-s-s-stubborn," Porky said. "Hey Bugs L-L-L-L-Lola can I have some?"

Lola flicked some of the sundae off her spoon onto Porky's nose. He licked it off. "Mmm. M-m-m-maybe I should have e-e-e-entered."

"You wouldn't sthand a chance!" Daffy said.

"C'mon Daff, just because you were the second one out doesn't mean you have to put everyone else down," Bugs said.

Daffy walked away mumbling some curse words about Bugs.

Around four o clock Bugs, Daffy, Tweety, Pepe le Pew, Taz and Porky were looking over Wile E's blueprints for an awesome sand castle. Remembering his last "genius idea" they were all reluctant to go along with it.

"You really think this will get us into the Guiness Book of World Records?" asked Daffy.

"If it doesn't you can hang me by my thumbs and force me to use olive shampoo," Wile E said.

Bugs picked up the buckets and shovels. "Well," he tossed one to Taz and Pepe le Pew. "I say we get this thing started now if we wanna finish it before the next issue."

They got to work. Ten minutes later the girls came over and stared. The sand castle didn't look like much, just a couple hills, a pile of wet sand, and seven looney tunes at work.

"What are you loons trying to accomplish here?" Melissa asked.

"We're making a sthand castle that's gonna put us in the Guinessth Book of World records!" Daffy exclaimed. Bugs snatched his beak off just for the fun of it. Daffy glared at him and put it back on. "Jerk."

"Sweet! I wanna be in it!" Lola said.

"Me too!" Penelope said.

Tweety showed them the blue print. "This is what it's gonna look like!"

The girls oohed and aahed and got to work.

When the castle was finished, it looked more like a palace! It was twice as tall as Foghorn and seven-foot deep mote!

Pepe le Pew took out his camera. "Alright mez amis! Say Looney Towers!"

"I thought it was called The Looney Palace!" Penelope said.

"No it was Duck City !" Daffy said.

"No one agreed to that!" Bugs said.

"How about we just say whatever we want it to be?" Lola suggested.

Pepe took the picture and they all said random stuff.

A little later Lola sat on the railing on the pier drinking a pina colada smoothie and watching the sunset.

Bugs came over to her. "Hey."

"Hey."

"Why you over here by yourself?"

"Just watching the sunset."

"Mind if I join you?"

Lola nodded and he sat next to her. She sipped her smoothie. She held it out to him. "Want some?"

"What kind is it?"

"Pina colada."

He took a few sips. "Mmm. Very pina coladaish."

Lola giggled. "Well it is pina colada flavored."

"Why do we keep saying pina colada?"

"I don't know. Why do we keep saying pina colada?"

"We should stop saying pina colada now." Bugs' eyes got wide in mock horror. "Darn it! I said pina colada again."

"How about we just stop saying it?"

Bugs smiled that devious smile of his. "Sure but can we say that?"

"What?" Then she got it. "No but we can say those."

They laughed for a while then looked at the sunset for a few seconds. Then their eyes focused on each other. Bugs brushed his hand across her cheek and they kissed.

"Hey Bugsth, Lola, get your furry butts over her we're playin' fristhbee!" Daffy called.

Lola was about to say something along the lines of "Shut up!" or maybe something ruder but Bugs pulled her back to him not wanting to stop. She put her arms around his neck and he held the back of her head and they kissed harder.

Daffy turned to Melissa and Taz who were standing behind him. "You see how those long eared lip lockers ignored me? I'll show 'em" He picked up the Frisbee and threw it. "Bugsth!"

Just as they were getting extremely absorbed in the moment the frisbee hit Bugs in the head. "OW! Daff…" Then he lost his balance and fell. Lola tried to catch him but he pulled her into the ocean with him.

"You shouldn't have done that Daffy," Penelope said.

Bugs and Lola came out of the water steaming with anger.

"Shall we get him now?" Lola asked.

Bugs nodded. "Let's do so." They chased Daffy around the beach when they finally caught him they picked him up and threw him ten feet into the ocean.

Lola brushed off her hands. "Well that takes care of that."

Around nine o' clock everyone sat on the beach. Taz ran over with popcorn and smoothies for everyone.

Sylvester had been seriously burned and was lying next to them in pain. He was also red and steaming. He had been lying there for six hours!

"You should have listened to us," Lola said.

He managed to let out a small "Shush!"

"Remember when I said I was gonna laugh? Well ha, ha and wait for it…," she leaned close to his face. "Ha!"

"I said SHUSH! Oooow!"

Lola snuggled up close to Bugs and they shared a bowl of popcorn.

The first firework went off. Then the sky was just full of light and explosions.

Everyone oohed and aahed.