I stirred, blinking into the night, "Mm…RJ?"

No answer.

A sat up and looked around me, "RJ…?"

The spot next to me was empty. A felt an odd feeling in my chest and I jumped to my feet and carefully walked out of our sleeping quarters, tail dragging behind me.

"Yo, RJ? Are you out here?" I whispered, cupping my paws over my mouth as if it would make a difference, "Where are you-"

I stopped mid-sentence when I saw his striped tail poking out from the hedge. Slowly I walked over to his side and peered through the hedge to see what he was looking at.

My eyes widened. It was that man from the other day. The Verminator. Dwayne…

He stood in the middle of Gladys's yard.

Gladys looked over at him with a gleam in her eye, "Is it done?"

"Affirmative," Dwayne grinned, looking over the yard.

"And did you put this one in?" Gladys asked, shoving a flyer in his face, "This…'Depelter-Turbo'?"

"The what…?" I ask quietly, brow furrowing.

"Rebekah?" RJ asks in surprise, realising for the first time, that I was there.

"That's a contraband item, maim," Dwayne says hesitantly, "As it is illegal in every state…" He paused for a moment before adding proudly, "Except Texas."

"What's going on?" I ask him, looking from him the Gladys's yard.

"I don't care if this thing is against the Geneva Convections! I want it!" Gladys says angrily.

"They're setting up these traps…" RJ says, staring out at the yard in front of him.

"Traps? What kind of traps?" My eyes widened, fur standing on end.

Dwayne laughs, "I thought you might." He passes her a pair of sunglasses, "So I took the liberty of installing it for you."

He turned something on a small dial and pressed a button.

"Animal traps…inhumane ones…" RJ slowly answers.

"They're going to hurt us?" I glare at Dwayne and Gladys.

"Worse…" RJ's voice is nothing but a whisper.

I look over at him in shock, "What?!"

Suddenly red lasers cover the ground on the other side of the hedge.

"Adios animal infestation," Dwayne smiles, tossing a small teddy bear into Gladys's yard.

There was a bright flash and the teddy bear was roasted by the lasers and then trapped inside a cage.

"Oh…oh my," Gladys laughs, clearly proud with Dwayne's work.

My heart hammers in my chest as I stare at the teddy bear in shock, "This…this is your fault…"

RJ ducks back into the hedge and I follow him, popping out on the other side.

"It's your fault they're doing this, RJ!" I snap, repeatedly poking him in the chest with my paw, "They wouldn't have even needed to call an exterminator if you hadn't come into my life and messed everything up!"

RJ winced at each poke.

"You're the reason we went over and started stealing food. It's your fault this is happening to those animals!" My eyes suddenly widen and I turn to where the others slept, "The others…What will they do for food? They can't go back over there. Not now..."

"I know…" RJ says, rubbing his arm, "I know it's my fault and I feel awful…"

I turn back to him and scrunch my nose up, "Then what are you going to about it?"

"I…I don't know…" He states quietly, sitting down on a rock, staring at his feet.

My shoulders slouched and guilt washed over me. I know he probably deserved being yelled at but he sure looked guilty about it and I didn't want to make him feel worse than he already felt. I sighed and walked over, sitting next to him on the rock.

We sat there in silence for the longest time and then slowly I looked ovr at him, "Why?"

"Huh?" He asked, looking over at me.

"Why'd you do it?" I clarified, "We didn't need all that food right away. We could have spaced it out. The food would have went bad by the time winter came anyway…So…why'd you make them all get it at once?"

"I had a good reason…" He answered slowly but didn't say anything after that.

"You wanna tell me that reason?" I ask, trying to pry.

He just stared at the ground and grabbed something from under the rock. It was a paper, with images all over it. Then I recognised them as to be the things we had collected in the log.

My brow furrowed, "RJ…what…what is this?"

RJ shook his head and kept his eyes on the ground, "…I screwed up, Rebekah…"

I looked from the paper to him and decided not to ask any more questions.

Silence filled the clearing and his head fell into his paws. His sad voice echoed quietly through the clearing.

"What have I done…?"

A/N: Well hello there! I am so sorry I haven't updated in the longest time. I've been preparing some of my artwork for a gallery sort of thing at my school. I was so excited about it but that meant leaving my computer for a while to get some of my artwork together. So once again, I apologize.

Turbo: *crosses arms* You should be sorry. Leaving all of those people like that...For shame.

Me: Turbo, we've went over this. You have your own story now. You can go over there instead.

Turbo: No. I like it here better. It's Salmon-y in here.

Me: *points at Rebekah* Told you it was salmon!

Rebekah: I think you're both insane.

Me: Hey!

Turbo: Thank you!

Vern: *Pushes open bedroom door* What's going on in here? This isn't the forest...

Me: *Facepalm* Why does everyone feel the need to come into my room...?

Rebekah: *Jumps on my bed* Dance party!

*Random lights flash out of no where and loud rave music is heard*

*Everyone randomly breaks out into dancing and about fifty other random people burst into the room*

Turbo: *Turns to face you* Thanks for reading!

Rebekah: And don't forget to review!

Me: *Stares at everyone in shock*...What the fu-

Rebekah: Bye!