Chapter 2: The Breakup?
Parappa was just sleeping in his bed. His room wasn't exactly the cleanest as some clothes were lying around the floor. He had been sleeping in late like he usually did on weekends. Right now, it was 11am as Parappa heard a ringing noise wake him up. He just sat up stretching while reaching onto his night stand, grabbing his cellphone and holding it up to his ear. "Hello?" he answered while getting up. "Hey, Parappa," a female voice responded. He recognized it as his girlfriend, Sunny Funny. She was a flower whose father General Potter often really bothered her and him about their relationship with each other.
"Oh, hi Sunny. What's up?" Parappa responded. He was always happy whenever he was around her or talked to her, even while he was still waking up. "Parappa… we need to talk," Sunny claimed. He immediately became serious upon hearing this. "Alright about what?" Parappa asked while putting his hat on, since he never really took it off. He could hear Sunny's voice sound slightly upset. "Listen… it's about us. M-my dad just getting to annoying now. I think it will be better if we stopped seeing each other like this for a while… and just be friends?" she explained her frustrations with her father and that she couldn't handle it any longer.
"W-wha…? You're breaking up with me?!" Parappa asked expectedly, already feeling upset over hearing this. "I-I'm sorry, but I just can't take my father anymore… I'll s-see you at school at Monday," Sunny apologized before hanging up.
Parappa just stood there holding his cellphone in his hand, looking at it and feeling awestruck by the conversation he just went through, questioning if he had just lost his mind in a dream, at least hoping it was all a dream. His cellphone began beeping with the dial tone as he hung it up and sighed, looking at himself in the mirror. "It's not a dream…" he mumbled not sure what else to do. He put his cellphone away in his pocket before continuing downstairs, just trying to process what he just suddenly went through.
Parappa heard his cellphone ring again, but in a higher tune. He looked down, noticing that it was instead Matt calling. He reluctantly put his cellphone up to his ear. "Hello?" he answered bluntly with sadness in his voice. "Hey, Parappa, there was another murder! It was just two houses over from the one we saw yesterday," Matt claimed having seen General Potter there and everything set up in the crime scene. "…alright… maybe we should go to Violetriver," Parappa responded thinking, but not as happy as he used to. He wasn't with Sunny anymore, so he may as well not to try and respect her father. "It's eighty miles outside of town, so it'll probably take a while," he said, noticing how sad his friend's voice sounded which confused him.
"Meet me at the Beard Burger," Parappa said before hanging up and grabbing his skateboard, before he heard the sound of a happy ringtone chime from his cellphone. He just groaned knowing that it was Sunny. He pulled out the cellphone out and threw it across the room, seeing it land on the bed while continuing to ring. He just walked off with his skateboard, feeling like his heart was shattered into tiny pieces. It hurt so much that he didn't know how to react.
Parappa left his home while the rest of his family wasn't awake yet. He was riding his skateboard through the streets which had been cleared up from the snow last night. He soon arrived to a popular fast food restaurant known as Beard Burgers. He stopped there and just tried to wait for his friend Matt to arrive. "Hey parappa!" he looked over his shoulder, seeing a familiar fox friend of his with yellow fur and pink hair, and was wearing a pink coat, green skirt and orange shirt. "Oh, hey Paula," Parappa said bluntly to his friend, not really wanting to talk so much since she was friends with Sunny though, she could easily that he was miserable.
"Uh… are you okay?" Paula asked her friend. Parappa just sighed nodding his head. "No… I'm not in the slightest… I'm going out of town for the weekend with Matt," Parappa responded irritated next to the point of crying, just thinking back on it. This seemed to instantly catch her attention. "Can I come along?" Paula asked. Parappa sighed again while shrugging. "Sure, why not?" he bluntly answered. Just then they saw Matt coming on his new bike, giving a small wave to his friends. "Hey guys," he greeted them. Paula was questioning how she could go with them when she didn't have anything to ride on.
"Hey, Matt. You mind letting Paula ride with you?" Parappa asked. Matt nodded. "Sure, just hang on" he happily agreed, although noticing his friend's depression confused him. Paula felt uneasy by how easily Parappa let her come along without her knowing anything, but she didn't complain since she liked being with her friends.
Paula climbed onto the back of Matt's bike and wrapped her arms around him to hang on since she had no protection if she fell off. "Well come on. To Violetriver," Parappa said while skating off ahead to lead the way. Matt and Paula followed on the bike, thinking that will eventually get there, even if it was a long eighty mile ride away from their hometown.
Soon they were going through a forest that was getting covered in snow. Parappa was just sticking to the road and moving out of the way whenever a car was coming back, which surprisingly wasn't too often while they were riding along. "Hey, Parappa, are you okay? You haven't sounded right at all," Matt claimed, knowing that his friend had been sounding upset for the whole morning. Parappa just groaned while rubbing his eyes. "Sunny dumped me. That's all," he explained while trying not to sound like he was going to cry over it. Matt and Paula were shocked to hear this. "Sorry to hear, dude…" Matt told him while they were continuing to ride.
"Yeah, if you need anything, just ask. We're here for you," Paula exclaimed. Parappa felt a little cheered up already. He nodded, happy that his friends reassured him that everything will be fine. He just smiled, but it didn't last long though as he just continued the long ride to Violetriver.
End of Chapter 2