Now Ori the Pooh was not the sort to give up easily. When she put her mind to honey, she stuck to it. Now honey rhymes with bunny, and bunny represents...a...?
"May? I like May, because she uses short easy words like; 'How about lunch? and 'Help yourself, Ori!'" Ori said, as she trotted to May's home.
May was pouring himself some tea, until she heard Ori the Pooh's voice. "Ori? Lunch? Oh no! Not again! Oh my, oh my, my goodness gracious!" May started to panic.
"Is anybody home?" Ori asked, shouting through the tiny hole in front of May's burrow. There was no response, so she tried again. "What I said was; 'Is anybody home?'"
"No!" May called out.
"Bother. Isn't there anybody here at all?" Ori asked.
"Nobody!" May lied, putting away all her food and dishes.
"Somebody's there, because somebody said 'nobody'." Ori said to herself, then she giggled and said; "Oh May, is that you?"
"Nooo!" May lied again.
"But isn't that May's voice?" Ori asked.
May took a honey pot, and talked through it; "I don't think so, it isn't meant to be."
Ori the Pooh stuffed her head through the burrow, and saw May; "Hello, May!"
"Oh, hello Ori." May said to her, but then he got surprised. "Uhh... Ori! A, uhh... what a pleasant surprise!" May said embarrassed, hiding the honey pot behind her back. "Uhh, how about lunch?"
"Thank you, May!" Ori said, hoping inside the burrow.
"Help yourself, dear." May said as Ori the Pooh sat at the table, putting on a bid, and humming to herself while holding a spoon and a knife.
"Would you like condensed milk, or honey on your bread?" May asked.
"Both, but never mind the bread, please? Just a small helping, if you please?" Ori asked.
"There you are!" May said, pouring a drop of honey on her plate. Ori just looked at it with a confused look, and looked at May. "Is a... something wrong?"
"Well, I didn't mean a little larger small helping." Ori said.
"But perhaps you'd save time if you took a whole..." May suggested as Ori the Pooh just takes the whole jar and eating up the honey. "Jar."
"Thank you, May!" Ori said happily gobbling it all up. So Ori ate, and ate, and ate, and ate, and ate, and ate, and ate, and ate... and ATE! Until at last she said to May in a rather sticky voice; "I must be going now. Goodbye, May!" she shook her hand, leaving some sticky honey on it.
"Err... goodbye, if you're sure you don't want anymore." May said in a disgusted tone.
"Is there anymore?" Ori asked, right before she exited.
"No, there isn't." May said.
"I thought not." Ori said, as she ate up the remaining honey on her face and shirt. She jumped through the burrow hole again, but she couldn't get out, no matter how hard she tried.
"Oooo help, and bother! I'm stuck!" Ori whined.
"Oh dear, oh gracious, well, it all comes from eating too much!" May said, trying to push Ori out.
"Oh it all comes from not having front doors big enough!" Ori said, still trying to get out.
"Oh dear, it's no use, there's only one thing to do. I'll go get Josh Klarke." May started running out through her back door, and panicked as she ran out to go get help. Ori the Pooh just laid there, still stuck in May's front door, when suddenly she started hearing eagle noises, and saw Brittany flying in the sky, and landing on a tree branch nearby.
"Well if it isn't, Ori!" Brittany said.
"Oh, hello Brittany!" Ori said.
"Splendid day to be up and about one's business!" Brittany said as she flew down to Ori the Pooh and observed her situation. "Oh... I say, are you stuck?"
"No, no! Just resting and thinking, and humming to myself!" Ori said as she hummed to herself.
Brittany cleared her throat and said; "You, ma'am, are stuck. A wedged girl in a great tightness. In a word, irremovable. Now obviously this situation calls for an expert!"
Just then, a hole gets dug up under Brittany, and a man dressed in a gopher costume pops out of the ground and says with a squeak coming out of his teeth; "Somebody call for an excavation expert? I'm not in the book, but I'm at your service. Budd's the name." he said, as he gave Brittany a business card. "Here's my card. What's your problem?"
"Yes yes yes yes. It seems the entrance to May's domicile is impassible." Brittany explained, wiping the dirt off of her. "To be exact, plugged."
"And you want me to dig it out?" Budd asked.
"Precisely!" Brittany said, as Budd was walking the opposite way, but Brittany stopped him and turned him around. "I say, it's over here my good fellow!"
Budd turns around, and sees Ori the Pooh stuck in the burrow hole. He observes the situation and says; "First thing to be done is get rid of that girl. She's grummin up the whole project!"
"Dang it all, she is the project!" Brittany corrected him.
"Umm... hard diggin." Budd said as he started digging Ori out. "Might hit bedrock, danger can happen, risky." Just then, a clump of dirt falls on Ori the Pooh and Gopher. "Needs planks for bracing. Big job, take two, three days."
"Three days?! What about lunches?" Ori asked.
"No problem, I always go home for lunch." Budd said. "Oh, this will run into money."
"I say, how much?" Brittany asked.
Budd takes a stick and starts sorting the math in the dirt. "Er, do the job for hourly wage, plus cover materials, plus overtime, plus 10%."
"And your estimate?" Brittany asked.
"Can't give you an estimate, too risky!" Budd said, poking Brittany's stomach with his stick.
"Blast it all!" Brittany said with an annoyed tone.
"Good idea! Will dynamite, save time!" Budd said.
"What's the charge?" Brittany asked.
"The charge? Oh, about seven sticks of dynamite." Budd said.
"Oh no no no, the cost, the charge in money?" Brittany added, trying to be more specific.
"No charge account, I work strictly cash." Gopher said, as he started walking to his hole.
"Obviously, but I should think..." Brittany started.
"Well I can't stand around lollygagging all day, I've got a tight schedule..." Budd said, as he fell into his hole. "If you think it over, let me know. You've got my card. I'm not in the book, you know."
"Oh dang it all, he's gone!" Brittany said.
"After all, he's not in the book you know." Ori said.
"Oh." Brittany said.
"Here we come, don't worry!" May called out, running back with Josh Klarke following her.
"Cheer up, Ori, we're coming! We'll get you out!" Josh Klarke said.
"Well... maybe." Danielle added.
"Silly old girl! Here, give me your hand." Josh Klarke said, as she grabs Ori the Pooh's hand and tries to pull her out, along with May helping out, but Ori the Pooh would still not come out.
"Ow, it's no use, I'm stuck." Ori the Pooh said.
"Well, if we can't pull you out Ori, perhaps we can push you back." Josh Klarke suggested.
"Oh no, not that!" May panicked, running back inside through her back door, trying to push her out some more, and even placing a chair under her legs. "Having got this far, it seems a pity to waste it!"
"Ori, there's only one thing we can do, wait for you to get thin again." Josh Klarke said.
"Oh bother, how long will it take?" Ori asked.
"Days, weeks, months, who knows?" Danielle guessed.
"Oh dear, if I have to face that, that thing for months... Make the best of it." May said to herself, facing away from Ori the Pooh's butt by facing the other way, but it was no use, because Ori the Pooh's reflection was on the mirror. "Oh no! There it is again! Well, I'll just turn it to the wall." May tries to turn the mirror around to face the other way, but the mirror frame pops out. "Oh dear!" Just then, May looks through the frame and got herself an idea. "Yes, a picture frame!" May places the frame on Ori the Pooh's butt, but her legs couldn't fit through, so she decided to rotate the frame and it worked. She wanted to decorate some more, so she placed a flour pot on her butt as well. "And a splash of color. Oh, it, it, it just doesn't have the rustic and proper look. A totem! I know just the thing!" May places some long leaves on Ori the Pooh's butt to make it look like a bunny. May started painting a face, which started to tickle Ori the Pooh. 'Something... tickles..." Unfortunately for May it messed up the look. "Oh, Ori! You messed up my bunny!" May facepalmed herself.
Shortly after, Joseph and Evelyn came by to visit poor Ori the Pooh. "Ori, Joseph has a surprise for you!" Evelyn said.
"Flowers!" Joseph said excitedly, giving Ori the Pooh some daisies.
"Honeysuckle!" Ori the Pooh said excitedly, and was just about to eat the flowers.
Evelyn giggled. "No, Ori, you don't eat them, you smell them." Evelyn reminded her.
"Oh." Ori the Pooh said as she gave the flowers a good sniff.
"It's not bad, not bad at all!" May said, taking a good look at the work of art she did with Ori the Pooh's behind. "It's rather good, I think." Just then, the flowers that Ori the Pooh was sniffing was giving her an allergic reaction, and she sneezed, which caused May's work of art to get messed up, and cause a big mess in the middle of her floor. "Why did I ever invite that girl to lunch? Why, oh why, oh why?" May whined.
While Ori's bottom was stuck at the top of page 28, her top was stuck at the bottom of page 30. So both ends waited to get thin again. Her friends came to help her out regardless. When it was raining, Josh Klarke held an umbrella over her, to keep her dry. Day after day, night after lonely night. At night, Evelyn came to keep Ori the Pooh's head warm with a little blanket over her head. Ori the Pooh was snoring, and wondering what's for breakfast. May was laying on Ori the Pooh's butt, shaking over all the snoring that Ori the Pooh is creating. Shortly after, a lunch box popped out of a hole next to Ori the Pooh. "Huh? A lunchbox?" Ori observed.
"It certainly is!" Budd said, popping out of the hole. "I'm working at swing-shift you know. Time for my midnight snack. Say, aren't you that stuck up girl? I still think I can blast you out of there."
"Errr... what sort of lunch is in that lunch box?" Ori asked.
"Here, a... let me see here..." Budd searched the lunch box to see what he had that's edible. "Summer squash!" He eats up the squash inside his mouth, biting it in one go. "Summer salad... scootash... custard... and honey!"
"Honey?!" Ori asked excitedly.
"HONEY?! Oh no!" May panicked as she was about to run outside, but she trips over one of her chairs.
"Could you spare a small smackerel?" Ori asked, trying to mimic Budd's squeaky voice.
"Say, you have to do something about that speech impediment, sweetie." Budd said, giving the honey pot to Ori.
"Oh, thank you, Budd!" Ori said, and was just about to take the pot, but May ran in the way, and took the pot away.
"Oh, no, not that, no, no, no, no, no, no. Not one drop!" May demanded.
"But May, I wasn't going to eat it! I was just going to taste it." Ori begged.
"I'll taste it for you!" May yelled at Ori, and ran back inside her burrow.
"That supercilious scoundrel confiscated my honey!" Budd whined.
May came back quickly, pounding down a sign that says; 'DON'T FEED THE GIRL!'
"I'm gonna skidaddle." Budd complained, and started walking away. "I'm not in the book!" Just then, Budd falls into her his again and says; "And I'm a dinkdad glad of it!"
And then one morning, when May was beginning to think that she might never be able to use her front door again, it happened. May was leaning on Ori's behind, and her butt budged. May excitedly ran outside and yelled; "It happened! She budged! Hooray! Josh Klarke! Josh Klarke! She bidged! She badged! She boodged! TODAY'S THE DAY!"
Just then; Evelyn, Joseph, Josh Klarke, Brittany, and Danielle all showed up and cheerily started singing... well, except Danielle. Hooray for you! Everyone sang.
Hooray for me! Ori sang.
Hooray, hooray! Ori will soon be free! Everyone sang. Everyone started marching over to Ori the Pooh to pull her free from May's front door. Now the time has come for proving what the diet did for Ori, and we pledged she'd be unwedged, that's what she's gonna be! She'll be pulled and she'll be tugged, and eventually unplugged. We'll have a tug of war, to open May's front door! Josh Klarke grabbed Ori the Pooh's hands, Evelyn pulled Josh Klarke for support, Danielle pulled on Evelyn, and Joseph pulled on Danielle. Think heave-ish! Think ho-ish! And out Ori will go-ish! Budd popped out of his hole, and pulled on Joseph to help out. For mind over matter, has made the girl un-fatter! But Danielle's tail wasn't all that secured, and popped out, causing Joseph to lose his balance, and causing Budd to fall back into his hole, but that didn't stop the others from trying to get Ori out. May was on the other side, trying to push. Heave! Ho! Heave! Ho! Heave, heave, heave, heave, heave! A strong pull from the others, and a berserk push from May caused Ori to fly right out of the hole and into the sky.
"There she goes!" May yelled.
"Suffering sassafras! She's sailin clean out of the book! Quick, turn the page!" Budd yelled, as Ori the Pooh was flying right out of this story, back inside another page, and gets stuck inside a Honey Tree. The bees all get startled and start flying away.
"Stuck again." Danielle said.
"Don't worry, Ori! We'll get you out!" Josh Klarke yelled.
"No hurry! Take your time! Yum, yum!" Ori said, as she started eating all the honey inside the tree, and continued to sing. Girls love honey, and I'm Ori! Yum yum yum yum! Time for something sweet!
So we come to the next chapter, in which... "But I haven't finished yet!" But Ori, you're in the next chapter! "Oh! What happens to me?" Well, let's turn the page and find out!
