Hey all, January has been a crap month... back to school and work from the holiday's. Semester 1
exams for highschool (at least where I am) and NO DAMN SNOW TO PLAY IN (unless you in new York,
"You have my sympathies" {milk covered robot head smiles}) Anyway i hope this brightens up your
mood.
Vinnie sat in the corner, eyes stained by half an hour old tears, truly upset not for himself but for his
best friend. He wasn't angry at Sunil, and in his heart he knew Sunil wasn't angry with him. He knew his
buddy like the back of his hand, and he knew that he struck a chord with his friend, that his anger
was directed towards the emotion filled memory rather than Vinnie. Vinnie himself recalled snapping
at Sunil when he brought up the day when he lost his tail TWICE! It saddened Vinnie greatly to see his
friend in such stress and repression. He was determined more than ever not only to find out what
happened but to fix it. Yes! He would fix it, that would be his birthday present to Sunil, screw the collage
he had planned earlier, this birthday present was going to last, if his name wasnt Vinnie Alfonzo Terrio,
damnit he would make this the best gift his buddy could ever receive.
He knew where he had to go. He needed to see Pepper, the girl he so humiliatingly chickened out on
talking to the day after he heard about Sunil and Pepper being best friends. And unlike that first day he
approached her with no fear, calmly walking up to Pepper to ask her the question that was burning in
his brain, the questions possible implications giving him more fear than Peppers revilment could ever
dream.
"Pepper... can I speak to you about somethin?" Vinnie said as he approached Pepper, lying down
Working at writing joke notes.
The skunk looked up from what she was doing "Need to borrow another balloon for that collage? Russell
told me you were working on one, cause let me tell yeah i don't think it will stick well with glue".
"No im done with the collage, i need to ask you something... something personal if you don't mind." Vinnie replied.
"Alrighty then", she said cockily, bouncing up from her work smiling , "shoot gecko, there isn't any topic
that'll disturb me, ive heard it all!"
"Ok well i have been talking to Russell and Zoe, and they have been telling me that you and Sunil used
to be bff's right?"
Peppers mouth opened slightly and her eyes widened, both shocked and disillusioned... she felt a deep
worrying strain in her chest as floods of memories came back to her in an instant, disturbia set in...
slowly but surely Peppers open mouth turned to a light frown and her eyes drooped down in slight
despair. She sat back down, letting her head and eyes fall to the ground.
Letting out a short sigh she said, "Yeah... I guess we were best friend...sorta...".
"Well that's why I came Pepper... I... wanted to know what happened with you guys, ya know, why you
aren't so close now. I want to find out what happened so I can comfort Sunil, when I brought the whole
thing up he seemed to get upset and we had a fight... so can you tell me what happened."
She was ready to deny the lizards request in her dumpy mood, but then thought about how it effected
Sunil, and how Vinnie wanted to console him. She didn't want Sunil to be still upset over what
happened, and if anyone could comfort him it wouldn't be her re-discussing the unfortunate
event, it would be his best friend.
"Oh...Ok..." She said under her face fur. She sat upward and looked at Vinnie, visible distress still on
her face.
"I guess it all started in late winter, just about a month after Christmas. It was Presidents Day, since it
was a holiday Mrs. Twombly decided to close the shop, as all the pets would be at home with their
owners and other stores wouldn't be open... but because she had a day off and because she was
experiencing a surge of good business she decided to host a dinner party for all the regular owners
of pets who were taken care of here. And of course all of the pets got brought by their owners for the
fun of it, my owner took me and the Nevla's took Sunil. I actually met his parents for the first time."
Pepper smirked and began to chuckle "OH gosh! They were worse than he was! They were telling him
left and right not to touch anything, afraid that he would catch something or get a bruise , they were
jumping at every loud sound there was." She stopped and let out a deep sigh, recovering from her
humour. Her smile faded and she continued.
"They met me and at first they seemed off put by my jokes, but they started to like me. Anyways we
me and Sunil started to play around, we were play fighting, and joking, dancing to the music being
played when we felt like it,but Sunil didn't seem himself. All throughout the night he just had a weird
awkward smile, just under the happiness of our playing you could tell he was nervous about something.
Over the course of the night he would became jittery and often he would look as if he was entranced in
a deep thought. And another thing he did, Every once and awhile when I was talking to some other pet, I
would look back to Sunil and he would already be starring at me, DEEPLY starring at me. When I turned
around he would quickly look somewhere else. He looked like he knew that there was a killer coming,
like it was coming for me and he had to look out for it at all times. He was actin real strange.
"So then slow music started to come on the music player, real slow like, like in those stupid girly movies
when the main girls are having a date montage. Every couple in the room started to slow dance, swayin
back and forth in their arms and stuff. Some of us pets started to do it too, we didn't really care we
were just copying our owners, trying to do what they did, we thought it looked cool. We were doing it
with each other randomly, I danced with Zoe and Penny danced with Minka (Russell and Sunil weren't
having any of it."
Pepper froze up, she took a deep breath, and continued. "Then Sunil singled me out, and asked me
directly to dance with him, still in that same awkward voice he used earlier. He took me into his arms
and we began to move around and dance to the music, but it wasn't good fun like the rest of us dancing,
it was all awkward. I could feel him all tensed up, he was all stiff. We couldn't look at each other,
whenever we looked up at each other, we would look back down, it was just too awkward for the both
of us. Even though I liked dancing with him, and I knew he liked doing it with me, there was a really
awkward air."
"I couldn't handle it, it was too much, I tried to break the ice, i needed to get rid of that funk or i was
gonna go insane! I Started to twirl around playfully, encouraging him to pick up the pace, i forced him to
along and he had trouble catching up but it worked. We picked up the pace of our strokes, keeping in
line with the beat but moving faster and flowy than anyone else. We both started to smile, we were
having good fun, it worked, we felt amazing. We both laughed a little as we continued, and it all ended
with him doing a dip on me. I looked up at him, he had a huge grin on his face, and i smiled back... and
then..." pepper paused.
"What happened"? Vinnie asked in her silence.
"... he bent down... and kissed me..." she said looking down.
"WAHT!?" Vinnie screamed as he fell to the ground in shock.
ITS HAPPENING! It'll get even better... I promise.
