With their teacher gone, the children of Jellystone didn't know what to do. Augie at this rate didn't know the concept of death till after her teacher died in front of her and now it haunts her to this day.
Mayor Huckleberry stepped in as a temporary role as teacher. However he ended up deterring from the lessons and just rambled about whatever.
That day during recess, Augie denied Shag and Yakky's request to play Caveman and Dinosaurs and sat underneath the slide. The other children were just staring at her.
"Why is Augie acting so weird lately?" Shagg said. "She doesn't even wanna talk to us anymore"
"Did we do something wrong?" Ruff said.
"Is this about the cookie? because I told her I didn't eat it!" Reddy said.
"No, it might be because of what happened with Mr Kabong," Yakky said. "If I witnessed a man die in front of me, I would be traumatized for the rest of my life."
After school, the kids went over to Doggie Daddy's house to talk to Augie. Shag knocked on the door, Doggie Daddy opened the door to see a bunch of kids outside his house.
"Hey kids, what's going on?" Doggie Daddy said. "Are you gonna ask me to buy cookies or something?"
"We wanna talk to Augie," Shag said. "We wanna know why she's avoiding us"
"Oh believe me I wish I knew" Doggie Daddy said. "Augie's been avoiding me too. You guys don't blame her for what happened, do ya?"
"Of course not!" Yakky said. "Now can we talk to her?"
"You can try," Doggie Daddy said. "I tried getting her out of her room but she wouldn't budge. Not even to eat dinner"
All the kids walk inside the house and walk upstairs to Augie's room. It's the door with her name written in her handwriting.
Shagg knocks on the door. The gang hear shuffling.
"Go away Daddy" Augie said. "I don't wanna talk right now"
"Augie, it's us," Shag said. The gang suddenly hear footsteps approaching the door, along with several locks being unlocked and a pin being entered.
The door opens and Augie is standing, her face is all red and puffy from crying.
The kids welcome themselves into her room. It's surprisingly well kept. Usually a depressed person would have a messy room but it seems like Doggie Daddy cleaned it up for her.
"What's wrong, Augie?" Shag said. "You've been avoiding us like crazy. You didn't want to play Caveman and Dinosaurs with us"
"You never turn down a game of Caveman and Dinosaurs!" Yakky said.
"I've just had a lot on my mind," Augie said.
"You know we don't blame you for what happened," Shag said. "We may be kids and we may be cruel, but we would NEVER blame someone's death on one of our friends"
"Mr Kabong risked his life to save yours!" Ruff said.
"But I wish it didn't have to be like that!" Augie said. "This town is torn apart and it's all because of me"
"It is not!" Yakky suddenly said. "I don't want my friends to be sad. Because I get sad"
Yakky started to cry.
"GROUP HUG!" Ruff shouted. All the kids grouped up and hugged each other in one big group hug.
"As your friends, we are gonna stay here until you feel better!" Shag said. "Unless Ma starts destroying the town again looking for me"
Augie sighed. If she was gonna be sad, at least she would be sad with her friends.
Across the block was a bowtie shop owned by Magilla Gorilla. Business had been slow due to the town still in active mourning. Standing at their usual quarters were Jabberjaw and Loopy De Loop. Jabberjaw had her head down. She wasn't dead or anything, she was crying.
Because some residents just can't move on.
