A tale of a Bunny and Owl

The evening came around and you are already on your 8th bag of Doritos, Netflix was running as a background music to your constant thoughts, not having much attention the content to the show itself. Your parent left you just yesterday for a vacation, not even thinking about inviting you as well but its not like the really cared, at least they were kind enough to let your teachers give you a small break to recover from your sickness, and now finally being free from everyone it seemed like the perfect day to end it, unnoticed and unbothered

You couldn’t really remember when this phase of you started, and honestly you didn’t even think there was a clear moment that made you feel this way. A bunch of moments through middle school which resulted in your high school life to end up broken as some people would say, making it so you couldn’t really enjoy stuff any more like video games or hanging out with your friends, always reassuring them that you are fine and you were just in a bad mood today, however there was always one friend who didn’t buy your stuff.

You hear a soft knock on the door that almost resembled a song of sort, you didn’t bother much of checking who it was, but luckily the door opened by itself, not really caring about forgetting to lock the door as a head with pink hair popped through the crack of the door, like a bunny checking the area to see if it’s safe from any predators.

“Hey….it’s me” Chaehyun said in a soft tone, as she found you sitting on the couch. “You feeling well? I heard that you were sick from the teacher so I decided to come in for a visit” she asked as you didn’t really want to talk, so you simply nodded. she entered the living room and turned on the lights, god the light was too strong for your eyes, making

“Oh wow…I just noticed the amount of snacks you have, well don’t worry, because Chaehyun, the queen of sweets is here!” she said cheerfully as she took her bag and took out a box inside it. She then opened the box and there were a couple cookies, not something to complex, just the classic chocolate chips type of cookies, the smell sure did try to allure you to eat them.

“Ta daaaaa! What do you think? I made those myself, you can feel free to take some” she said as she handed you the box.

“Thanks, I will eat it later” you bowed to thank her as you put the cookie box to the side of you as you were back to focusing on the Netflix series, Chaehyun suddenly sat next to you, joining you in watching the series.

“What are we watching?” she asked as she nudges closer, making your shoulders touch each other.

“Uhh…Atypical, you have seen it?” you asked her as she just shook her, “i don’t know, it’s like a nice show” you added, in full honesty: you had no idea what it was about, it was the first that popped up in your home page. Suddenly you feel her touching your hands.

her hand traced around yours, as she rubbed your palm slowly, feeling the fresh cut that was still there, “what happened to your hand?” she asked tilting her face ever so cutely, but in the same time it felt like you were on an electric chair, one wrong answer and you will surely be done for

“Kitchen accident” you quickly blurted out as quickly as possible. “I tried to make some sandwiches today and by accident i cutted my hand” you explained, hopefully she will take the explanation as after a few seconds she smiled, “thank god” you thought to yourself as she left your hand

“Well how about you let me treat it for you, the band-aids are in the kitchen right?” she asked while standing up from the sofa and walked toward the kitchen, you nodded and didn’t give much thought about it when suddenly….

“Oh shit” you realized she maybe will find the knife you used to cut yourself, you rushed toward the kitchen, but it was already too late, Chaehyun was leaning her self on the kitchen sink, holding the knife in her hand as she looked at it.

“Blood….and freshly new” she murmured as she inched closer and closer to you and held your sleeve, shoving it away only to see the worst that she could’ve expected “full of cuts…” she said as you could feel her curse under her breath, as she moved away and for the first time she looked…mad?

“Listen chae….its-”

*SLAP*

The entire world stopped, frozen by the god of time himself, you could feel how the sound of slap rippled from your cheek all the way to your entire body and ending your ears, you had your hand on your right cheek, hoping it will ease but it didn’t, because pain like that was only physical, Chaehyun seemed even more furious than before.

“Shut the fuck up… d-don’t think i am dumb and don’t know what is this” this has caught off guard, this was the first time you’ve seen Chaehyun curse like that “don’t tell me…” she asked as you looked away, embarrassed she finally caught you.

“b-but why? you have so mu-mu-much to live fo-for” she stuttered as tears started to form in her eyes.

“….” you couldn’t speak.

“WHAT? BECAUSE YOU FEEL LIKE NO ONE CARES FOR YOU?! THAT IS NOT TRUE, WHAT ABOUT YOUR PARENTS?! WHAT ABOUT YOUR F-FRIENDS, WHAT AB-ABOUT M-M-M” finally she couldn’t hold her tears anymore as finally she just lunged in and hugged you, completely thrown off guard as her hands got around your back and her face is on your chest, crying her heart out like never before, usually Chaehyun’s faces were usually between happy or pouting, but seeing her crying like that… it hurts you, more than you will believe it should.

“Please…p-promise me your *sniff* won’t end it all, y-you have to… please?” she looked up at your eyes, tears still stuck in her eyes as you took a deep sigh and nodded. You almost thought it was for show, like your parents, but her tears felt so real as you could almost feel it flowing on your shirt

“I…will think about it” you reply, not finding any other way to get around her words, you hope those words will stop her crying.

In response Chaehyun’s face turned 180, back to the usually cheerful and bubbly girl she always use, her tears flew down again but now they were of happiness, knowing you will not leave her, “for her” you thought to yourself as you were joining Chaehyun in the embrace when suddenly…

*growl*

Both of your faces suddenly gain shades of pink as they turn away since you could hear not only your own but her tummy rumbling as well. “heh…uhh what about some pizza?” she asked, her face a bit red from the awkward situation as you nodded.

Once the pizza arrived, you had one of the deepest conversations you ever had, talking about whatever came to mind. From as basic things such as “what topping belongs to pizza” which you couldn’t agree on if pineapples should be on pizza or not to the point the two of you called your friends for help on deciding who will win this debate, when suddenly one topic began to float in your conversation between the two of you. It was bothering you for a while. Not even your parents stopped, why was she here?

“Chaehyun….why do you care?” your question caught her off guard, making giggle lightly as she looked at you

“What do you mean? im your friend, that is what friends do right?” now the arrow of question is directed toward you.

“Well…i mean like: why do you care about my depression, it’s not like you had it yourself or something, so i doubt you understand it” you reply, you didn’t mean to sound rude however Chaehyun simply giggled as she pushed away her sleeve, revealing cuts, similar to yours.

“I uhh…got those in middle school, years of being in that state of mind of….not wanting to live anymore so that is what i did, i had depressive thoughts all day, and i will cut myself from time to time” she said as she scooted closer to you, showing how some cuts are starting to become less visible “but look…it’s almost fully healed, it takes time and sometimes i get those thoughts again…but i know i have people that truly care about me and will help me get over it” she said, looking into your eyes, “is she talking about me?” you couldn’t help but ask yourself, however there was one question that was still on your mind. waiting to be answered.

“How did i deal with it?” this was the question that left Chaehyun hanging as she focused on the answer seriously. “Well…i think the most important thing i did to start my journey to cure my depression is telling my parents and friends, as much as you think they won’t care if you share burden, only the people who truly who care about will stay” she smiled as the answer came to her mind, remembering the path she was in as well,“ the journey regardless of what is it about its always better to do it together, don’t you think so?” she said with a cute smile.

“Yeah…i guess you are right” you replied as you look at the clock, seeing it was 12:30 AM, realizing how long the both of you were talking “uhh i think we should go to sleep now right?”

you asked her as she nodded

“Correct, having a good sleeping schedule it also helps in stuff like this” she said as Chaehyun closed out and was on her way to leave the room

“Wait!” you stopped before leaving, causing her to return to the room.

“Yeah? is everything good?” she asked

“Well i was uhh….thinking if you could….i don’t know…” you couldn’t really find the correct words to say to not make the situation awkward which caused her to laugh, and as if she read your mind like Dr. strange she hops into the mattress and scoots herself near you, putting her hands around your back, embracing and pulling your face close to her.

“Don’t worry, everything will be alright, how about you lose yourself in the dream world, while i will guard your body in this world, deal?” she whispered ever so cutely as you simply smiled at her, you could swear with how she talked it sounded like a sleep comfort sleep, made just for you.

“Goodnight Oppa” she simply said as her eyes closed, starting to slowly fall asleep, you swore she looks like a cute bunny with her sleeping face, all she needed was a bunny headband and a cute tail, and you would never find a difference between Chaehyun and an actual bunny.

30 minutes later your mind still struggled to enter sleep mode, and you didn’t want to stay awake all night, giving you no choice but waking her up, fortunately Chaehyun was a soft sleeper so after one tap on her nose she woke up, looking at you with a soft smile.

“Can’t sleep?” she asked as you nodded, causing her to giggle ever so cutely, “want me to hum some songs to sleep?” another question comes as you nodded, another giggle comes as she goes a bit up so she could have her face near your ear as she started humming, some songs you recognize as K-pop and some were not, however it didn’t take too long for you to finally fall asleep, you could hear faint sounds of her whispering in your ear something you couldn’t comprehend as you could feel her face nuzzling your chest, making you smile in response as the two of you finally drifted off to sleep. knowing you finally have something to wake up to in the morning: a cute bunny named Chaehyun.

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Once upon a time there was a bunny, which was loved by everyone in the forest and had many friends, everywhere she hopped the world seemed to shine just a tad bit brighter, everyday she will roam around the forest and look for berries and bring food to the entire forest population.

One night the bunny found herself in the dark side of the forest, fully alone as she was trying to find her way home, suddenly her ears could hear a soft sob, as the bunny looked around to see where the origin of the voice came from she found an owl, sitting all by himself on the treetop looking at the forest creatures.

As the bunny climbed up the tree she sat near the crying owl on the tree she asks why is he crying, the owl sighed and explains how he is constant worry of everything, from the tree that is going to rot sooner or later to the fox that constantly wants him for dinner, he also explained how this life full of worrying is making him sad, not wanting to live like this anymore.

However, the bunny simply smiled and talked with the owl in order to relax him and agreed to be his first friend in the forest, not aware how deep this friendship will go. From that day onward the owl and the bunny became friends, in goal for the bunny to help the owl to let go of the worries and finally a happy life.

“WOW, another personal best” Chaehyun said, clapping her hands happy to see you get better with each game, however after playing Mario Kart for over 3 years, you were more than skilled in the game, Chaehyun herself wasn’t that good with her best placing in races being 8th place, but her smile still carried on because as long as its time with you, she would don’t mind a last place.

It has been a month ever since that night you planned to end your life and you could confidently say: Chaehyun changed your life for the better, all starting with your daily schedule that finally started to look better, with every afternoon being spent with Chaehyun, for people looking from the side, those meetings might as well be called dates, but the both of you knew it was just a hangout, there was nothing more between the two of you.

With the help of Chaehyun you also finally had the courage to tell your friends after finally coming back to school, as just as Chaehyun expected your friend group simply rushed in and hugged you, letting you know you were important to them as you could Chaehyun could simply just look at you with an “i told you” face, you rolled your eyes as she joined the hug as well.