WOOHOO WRITING THIS IN CLASS!

Edit: No longer in class. Wrote SOME of this in class.

Monopoly, Stories Of Friendship And Betrayal

Natallia sighed in relief. The talent show was over.

She didn't want to run out halfway through again and worry Bones, so she stuck around for the whole thing this time. But man, was she tired. Of course, as soon as she got home and relaxed a bit, she'd bounce back.

She stood up and stretched her arms above her head, yawning.

"Man, I'm tired.." She muttered to herself.

"Says the person who's almost guaranteed to be staying up until, like, four tonight."

Ah yes. Bones. He was here too.

"Hahah, yeah, sure." She muttered halfheartedly. She.. honestly didn't care what he was saying right now. She was that tired. Wow.

Well, that and the fact that what he was saying was incorrect, as she was actually trying to fix her sleep schedule until the show was over, but whatever.

"I'm going home now." She murmured, walking away. Bones followed quickly.

"H-hey!" He called. She turned to him. "Okay, I know this is, like, the second time in a row I've done this but are you okay?" He sounded concerned. Huh. Wow.

"Yeah, just tired. I feel like it's been a long day." She told him. She felt bad for making him worry, but almost felt worse to not lay down and sleeping for about 10 hours right this very second.

Not that she would do that. She has to get up tomorrow for the next performance!

Uhhhg.

"Well, can I come with you?" Bones asked.

What? He wanted to hang out? Woah! Sweet!

"Yeah sure!" Natallia chirped before she could really think about her decisions. Impulsive as always.

"Cool!" Bones smiled.

As the walked back to Natalia's house, they chatted enthusiastically.

"So, what do we do at my house then? I don't have any ideas, so what were you thinking of?"

"I don't know, I was leaving it up to you!" Bones chirped.

"Well, okay. We could watch TV, play video games, watch Youtube, I could crush your dreams, play with Adrien until we can think of a better idea…" Natallia began listing ideas, not knowing which Bones would prefer.

"You could crush my dreams?" Bones snorted, chuckling.

"Yeah! I could! Ya know, now that I actually think about it, that sounds pretty fun!" Natallia grinned.

"Okay, sure, how are you going to crush my dreams?" Bones asked, smirking sarcastically.

"You'll see" Natallia grinned evilly and dashed back to her house, Bones yipping surprisedly before running to follow her.

Natallia entered her home, going to her Paulownia Closet (name of the animal crossing item) and opening it. Bones watched in confusion as she rummaged around a bit.

"AHA!" She called out, grabbing an item from inside and pulling it out, holding it above her head with both hands triumphantly.

"... Monopoly?" Bones asked confusedly.

"Yes! Monopoly! The board game most famous on the internet for ruining friendships!" She smiled evilly. Bones went pale, although no one could really tell under his white fur.

"Well then why would we play it…?" Bones asked, a bit worried at what her answer may be. But not that worried, she clearly had no intention of ruining their friendship. But he was confused as to why this was this game they were playing.

"Well, I always loved this game! It can be a bit intense, but that's fine! I used to play it all the time, so I know I can kick some ass at it too!" Natallia grinned, looking a bit nostalgic.

"Alright,then we'll play it, but doesn't it usually take a while to play?" Bones asked. Natallia grinned. "I don't mind! Do you mind?" Natallia asked, forgetting all about being tired and miserable. As usual.

"Not really. Okay then! We'll play monopoly!"

"Sweet! Oh, but it's gonna be kinda boring with just two players.. As much as I do love Two Player Games.." Natallia muttered, throwing in a Be More Chill reference for good measure.

"Welp." Natallia pulled out her phone and immediately typed a message into it, well, after putting in her password and shit but you get the point.

Bones felt his phone vibrate in his pocket and checked it, out of instinct.

Natallia had typed something into the groupchat.

StabbyStabby69420: Hey, anyone wanna come over to my house and play monopoly with me and Bones?

Bones blinked before, against his better judgement, also typing something into the groupchat, despite being right next to Natallia in real life.

SkullsRibcageBoi: Why is your username on here still StabbyStabby69420?

SkullsRibcageBoi: WAIT AND WHY IS MINE STILL SKULLSRIBCAGEBOI DAMN IT NATALLIA

SkullsRibcageBoi has changed their username to Bones.

StabbyStabby69420:Boo

StabbyStabby69420 has changed their username to Nutellia.

PurrlingAtYourMisery: OH GOD WHY

BaskinRobin: You don't even LIKE nutella wth

Carmen: Why are you like this?

Nutellia: Oh damn I forgot for a second that you were in this groupchat Carmie! Hiiii!

Bones: Hey Carmen

PurrlingAtYourMisery: oh hey carmen sup

Carmen: Oh geese all of your usernames are horrible puns

Nutellia has shared one image.

Nutellia: Yesss…

Bones: Damn it Natallia you know she meant geez

Nutellia: So? Why would I ever pass up the opportunity to post my beautiful canadian brethren on here?

Carmen: Wait your canadian?

Nutellia: No I'm a goose. A canadian goose specifically.

Nutellia changed their username to IAmAGOOSE.

Bones: stop

IAmAGOOSE: No.

Carmen: Okay isn't this chat getting a little bit off track?

IAmAGOOSE: Yeah you're right, I was wondering if any of you guys could come play monopoly with me and bones?

BaskinRobin: Well im right next door and have nothing better to do so why not

PurrlingAtYourMisery: yeh sure

Carmen: Sorry I can't really make it.. I'm in a different town and all.

IAmAGOOSE: Okay that's fine, everyone else prepare to have your dreams crushed by the monopoly master

IAmAGOOSE: Also changing my name back cuz dann thats annoying

IAmAGOOSE: *Damn

IAmAGOOSE has changed their username to StabDab42069BlazeItKINKY.

Bones: nOOO

StabDab42069BlazeItKINKY: Fine geez

StabDab42069BlazeItKINKY has changed their username to InhaleTheMemes

Bones: Close enough.

Bones heard Natallia giggle and looked up. He sighed happily. Natallia always loved their groupchat shenanigans.

Plus, it was one of the only ways to keep in contact with Carmen, which was always nice. It was comforting to know that even though she was in some other town now, she was still friends with everyone. They wouldn't drift apart that easily.

There was a knock at the door, which Natallia rushed to get, grinning widely. There stood Robin, who'd arrived first, obviously.

"Hey!" She chirped, stepping inside Natallia's mess of a living room, which took up the entire first floor of the house.

"Hello!" Natallia greeted back, before going to move some plants off the tulip tables in the center of the room and bringing some chairs from upstairs. She set up the game, smiling cheerily.

Soon enough, Purrl had arrived too, and the game begun.

"Okay, first I think we're supposed to establish the turn order, which will be decided by whoever rolls the highest number now. We do not move the amount of spaces we roll here, as this is only to decide turn order. After the order is established, whoever gets the highest number rolls first and then moves. Whoever got the second highest number goes second, exetera." Natallia explained the rules seriously, taking on a whole new tone than the one she had at the beginning of Bones's visit, now being much more serious.

Everyone rolled to establish the turn order. Purrl was first, followed by Bones. Then Robin, and finally Natallia. Natallia doesn't seem to mind this, despite being the most serious about monopoly in this group.

Everyone rolls. Purrl rolls high numbers, a 10 from rolling a 6 and a 4, and lands on Just Visiting, at the corner of the board. Which is unfortunate, as this has disallowed her from buying a property this turn.

Bones rolls and lands on income tax. A bad start.

Robin gets St. Charles Place, a pink property, after rolling an 11.

Natallia rolls 3 and gets Baltic, a brown property.

"Off to a great start!" Natallia remarks sarcastically, chuckling.

Purrl gets St. James Place, orange.

Bones gets Connecticut, a light blue property.

Robin lands on St. James Place and pays Purrl.

Natallia rolls a 9, and gets Electric Company.

…

The first monopoly is obtained. No one is worried yet.

…

Another monopoly. Everyone is a bit uneasy now.

…

Someone has gone bankrupt. Things have gotten serious. The properties from the bankrupt player are inherited by the player who bankrupted them. Indeed, things have gotten serious.

…

Everyone watches the final two contestants, after another has gone bankrupt. The calmest player looks to the angriest, who looks ready to kill. Sneakily, the calmest takes a picture of the board with their phone, just in case.

The second calmest looks unsettled, nervous. It is easy to see why.

The third calmest looks concerned for the calmest one's safety.

The least calm looks ready to kill.

A player rolls the dice. Nothing significant happens. They've landed on their own property. The other player rolls, and lands on an owned railroad. All the railroads are owned, so this player owes 200 dollars to the owner.

"RAAARGH!" Purrl shrieks in frustration and flips the board.

Natallia bursts out laughing. "Oh my god, that didn't even bankrupt you! Chill!" She cackled.

Robin glances at the two, unsure of whether to be amused or uneasy.

Bones is concerned.

"Whatever, game's over. It's a tie. It's over." Purrl muttered. She wasn't usually one to be a sore loser, because yes, despite what she was saying it was obvious that she'd lost, but this had really gotten on her nerves.

"Actually…" Natallia smirks, an evil glint in her eyes, as she shows off the picture of the board she'd taken. They would be able to set the board back up with this and continue the game.

Purrl was seething.

Robin tensed up, not liking the expression on Purrl's face and worried a fight was about to break out.

Bones only grew more concerned.

Natallia chuckled.

"I quit." Purrl signed out, deciding that this wasn't worth it. Things had gone downhill ever since Natallia got the brown property monopoly, and things had only escalated from there.

Natallia lit up. "Oh my god! I win! I haven't won a game of monopoly since I was a little kid!" She cheered, celebrating. Purrl's eye twitched. Robin put a comforting hand (Hand? She's a bird though? So wing? Fucking Animal Crossing logic…) on her shoulder, to calm her down. Bones let himself relax a bit, but not much. He was still very concerned for Natallia's safety right now.

Natallia looked like she didn't even care. She was completely calm, maybe a bit apologetic for kicking so much ass, but mostly proud of herself.

Natallia was the happiest in this situation. For, as she'd predicted (though she didn't completely believe it then), she'd won the game.

Robin was the first to go bankrupt, and had gotten some iced tea and snacks as she spectated the rest of the game. The sweet flavor of the tea was soothing, but she couldn't completely relax with Natallia egging on Purrl like that.

Bones was next to go, and was very concerned over the murderous expression on Purrl's face. To make matters worse, Natallia was only pushing her further. That coupled with the fact that this game was apparently known to ruin friendships made him very nervous.

Purrl was pretty freaking enraged right now. Far from murdering anyone or having a psychotic break, but pretty angry nonetheless. Something about this game, how it was mostly based on luck, how quickly it went from 1 to 100, and especially how calm, almost mocking Natallia seemed throughout it all, it was just.. It was infuriating! Still, not to the extremes of ruining a friendship or whatever, but damn!

"It's okay, calm down, you did good…" Robin muttered quietly to her, and slowly Purrl felt the fur on her back, neck, and tail flatten out from its previous puffy, stressed state. The anger slowly washed away, leaving her only feeling defeated and very, very salty.

"Wow, that got tense!" Natallia remarked unhelpfully, still chuckling. Purrl only managed a halfhearted glare. Bones looked appalled.

"Dude, SHUT UP." Bones whisper-yelled to her, quiet and panicky. Natallia only chuckled.

"But really, damn, you guys take monopoly way too seriously!" She exclaimed, ignoring the dog.

Purrl felt her ear twitch irritably. "That's true but that doesn't mean you need to rile us up more over it.." She hissed softly.

"This family is falling apart!" Bones jokingly wailed, dramatically.

"But yeah we all need to relax, let's just watch some Netflix or something and calm the fuck down!" Natallia offered.

"Yeah, yeah that sounds nice." A still salty Purrl agreed, significantly calmer than before.

Natallia chuckled. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I can't help it, this is just funny to me! I've just never seen anyone take this game so seriously!" Natallia apologized, feeling a bit guilty but still pretty giddy over her victory.

She set up Netflix on her Wii once more, fully prepared to set up the Bee Movie. No one objected to this, surprisingly, despite the fact most of them had seen it before, multiple times.

Emphasis on the most.

"The Bee Movie?" Robin chirped, chuckling lightly. "Well yeah, obviously! Only the best movie to ever exist!" Natallia exclaimed. "Well except maybe besides the Emoji Movie but that's besides the point." Natallia muttered quietly as an afterthought, sarcastic. Yeah no, the Bee Movie was way better than that crap, she decided.

"Okay, I'll take your word for it!" Robin replied jokingly. Natallia immediately detected something wrong with that sentence. She didn't know what, but something was off. What was it thou-

"I've never actually seen it!" Robin proclaimed, causing Natallia to let out an offended gasp. "You've NEVER seen the BEE MOVIE?!"

"Seriously what's the big deal about the Bee Movie though, it's a dead meme at this point." Purrl said, having already seen it more than once. "Betrayal!" Natallia exclaimed, putting a fist to her heart in feigned pain, as if she'd been stabbed there and was trying to stop the bleeding.

Wow. That puts an image in your head.

"It's a kids movie where the main character offers a suicide pact to someone! Of course it's a big deal!" Natallia exclaimed. "Wait what?" Robin asked, unbelieving.

"Yeah! And he tries to sue the human race!" Natallia continued. Also all the animal villagers are included in the human race I guess, no racism here, don't question it this is Animal Crossing logic.

"Okay, I need to see this, this can't be real." Robin decided.

"Well then welcome, to the best movie you'll ever see." Natallia told her, selecting play as the movie started. "It's not that great." Purrl told Robin quietly. At least, it wasn't as great as Natallia was making it out to be.

"Prepare to lose your Bee Movie virginity." Natallia smiled.

Aaaand that's all I'm writing for now! Don't get used to two chapters in such short span of each other guys, it's not going to happen often. Probably. Bye!

IMPORTANT: No wait. I agreed to do oneshot requests. Fuck, I need to work on that now. Okay, I'm doing one request now, whichever one I got first, I got two. Okay, I think Fueled By Nightmares's request was first, I just checked, so I'm doing that one first. He wanted Bones to get one of the special oranges from New Leaf (If any of you forgot the game is set in City Folk) and debate whether to eat it or plant more special oranges with it.

Since it fits with the story pretty well, I might decide that it's cannon, but a flashback. I don't know, I have to write it first. So without further delay, time to write this oneshot! I'll do the other request next chapter. Sorry.

Oh. Special oranges are actually called perfect oranges. Good to know.

Oneshot: Debate, Stories Of Perfect Oranges

When Natallia found the dog, he was pacing. He looked stressed, unhappy. On his counter sat an orange. Natallia noticed something off about this particular orange though. It looked abnormal, and a lot more… orange… than most oranges. It looked weird.

Bones kept on pacing.

"Sup." She greeted, causing him to practically jump out of his skin.

"N-Natallia?!" He exclaimed, after the initial shock wore off. "Oh my goodness, I am so happy to see you!" He exclaimed, immediately capturing her in a bone crushing hug, pun not intended.

She hugged back, chuckling a bit. "H-hi."

It should be worth mentioning that Natallia just got back from one of her disappearing trips, and this is the first time Bones has seen her in months. Yeah, that's not relevant at all..

She just came into his house, since she has a key by the way. Not weird at all.

"So, what's happening here? What's wrong?" Natallia asked. Bones's expression darkened.

"Oh, oh no." He went right back to pacing. "What do I do, what do I do…" He muttered to himself, remembering he had an issue.

"WHAT'S WRONG." Natallia repeated. He stopped and looked at her. He seemed to internally come to a realization, and grabbed her by the shoulders desperately. Natallia had no idea what was happening right now.

"You have to help me." Bones told her, desperate. Natallia looked back to him, and his dishevelled appearance. Whatever this was, it was really making him stress out. "Definitely." Natallia told him. He sighed in relief.

"Okay. Okay." He sighed. Natallia prepared herself, knowing he was about to go off on a tangent.

"So have you ever heard of perfect fruit?" He asked.

"What? Perfect fruit?" Natallia uttered out the familiar sounding phrase. She then gasped.

"OH. OH MY GOD."

"YEAH, I GOT IT FROM ONE OF MY BROTHERS IN THE MAIL. WHAT SHOULD I DO?" Bones asked her.

"Wait what do you mean?" Natallia asked.

"Do I eat it? Do I plant it for more? What do I do?!" Bones asked.

"Oh. I thought you were going to sell it."

"Wait-WHAT?! Of course not! This is a PERFECT ORANGE. It's one of my favorite fruits! And it's PERFECT! I can't SELL it!" Bones exclaimed.

"Oh, okay, okay." Natallia murmured, in understanding. She hummed in thought, before coming to the obvious conclusion.

"Plant it. It'll take a while, but it'll be worth it to have more perfect oranges, plus I'll get to try one too this way, well, if you'd be willing to share." Natallia told him. The tension left his body.

"Yes! Your right, of course, that's obviously the best solution, th-thank you!" He stammered out, sighing in relief. "How long have you been stressing out about this?" Natallia asked.

"Five minutes."

"..."

"Hey, food is important to me okay, I was really freaking out about it!" Bones explained, embarrassed and trying to smooth out his ruffled fur.

"It's fine, come on, we'll go plant it together." Natallia smiled.

…

"WHAT?!" A heartbroken shriek echoed throughout the town of Lavryn. For when Bones and Natallia proudly went to check on their beautiful perfect orange sapling child, instead of seeing a small tree, beginning to grow up, they saw a tiny, dying sapling, too late for it to be saved.

"I… I don't understand." Bones proclaimed, falling to his knees dramatically. The only noise heard was typing into a phone, and then silence.

Bones turned to look at his friend, squinting and reading something on her phone before her eyes fell on a single sentence of whatever she was reading, and her expression went from upset and confused to horrified.

"Oh fuck.." Natallia muttered. "What? What is it?" Bones asked. She looked to him, guilt and sadness filling her ocean blue eyes as she closed Wikipedia and put her phone away, back in her pocket.

"You can only plant a perfect orange in a town with oranges as its native fruit."

And that's the end! I've decided that yes, this will be a cannon flashback in the series, cuz I like it and I can do what I want. I might write a sequel, but probably not. Bye for real now everyone!