Ubertines: Bunny Gamer Take Me With You (1369 hits)
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Submitted by katy <chibiusaoni.at.yahoo.com> (View user info) at 2006-02-08 15:26:43 EST
I remember the first day I saw her. We were 17. God she was so beautiful. We were both in a park watching the sun go down. Unlike the rest of the few people around gazing into the setting sun, she was lying down on a mattress of fallen leaves watching the sky turn purple behind the black silhouette of bare trees. Her hair was the same color of the leaves she lay in. I think that's what I noticed first.
Of course if you see a redhead on a bed of leaves watching the sunset the only appropriate thing to do is go up and introduce yourself, or at least get her name so you can say you remember her the next time you see her and start a conversation. I got lucky though. I walked up to her and plopped myself in her leaf pile and just said, "Hi, I'm Lou."
"Hey, my name's Bunny."
She didn't even look over. While I was trying to come up with something witty and charming to make her look at me, my mouth went ahead without my brain's permission and I heard myself ask, "are you shitting me?" and then a muttered "fuck" after realizing what I just said. She just laughed at me. Laughter is a good thing... right?
"Sorry. I'm an air sign, I think that mostly means air moves through our heads and takes away any kind of thought process."
"S'ok. Yeah, my name's really Bunny. It's not short for anything, it's not a nickname, and it's not a translation from another language. I don't know what my parents were thinking, maybe they wanted to make sure I'd hear enough laughter in my life, even if it was focused at me."
Oh lord she has green eyes. She has those perfect crystalline pale green eyes, alabaster skin, red red hair. I think this is the beauty poets write about, or at least cheesey romance novelists.
"Is that your real hair color?" please say yes, please please please.
"Yeah, red rabbit... Is that your real hair color?"
I looked at my own shabby black strands of hair, nothing compared to her crown, "Yeah, black irish. Ya know, right now, we're kinda like that fairy tale, Rose Red and Snow White."
"Ha yeah. Black irish hey? I'm irish. Last name's Imrionn, it means 'plays a game.'"
"Bunny Gamer. Ya know there's a song about you. No clue who did it off the top of my head but I know there's a song about you."
"Cool. I'm famous almost."
That was our whole first conversation. I think I was in like as soon as she sat up, I know I was in love as soon as we started talking, even if we didn't say anything. And in spite of me being an giggling idiot around her, she put up with me. I got her number, she took mine. I think I flew home that afternoon but I could be wrong, I might've walked.
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She called me first. About two days later while I was on the couch watching some stupid cartoon. I answered the phone with a mouth full of coco puffs. I'm really good at being stupid with this one. When I heard the bells of her voice on the other end of the line I immediately started choking and then thrashing because I spilled a bowl of cereal down my entire body. After I started cursing, she just told me that at least she knew it was me on the line. I'm so smooth.
She said we should do something. I tried to act like I thought I could live without her but I fell all over myself trying to get the "yes" out before she changed her mind. We went fishing. I know, I know, girls don't fish but I really swear that's what we did for our first date. I found out it was a date a little farther along the afternoon.
We both lived pretty close to the coastal part of town. We met at the beach entrance. I always thought redheads should never wear pink until I saw her. She reminded me of innocence. I think I blushed when she walked up, and I tried not to pay attention to the fact she probably noticed. Irish people turn red when embarrassed. I thought I saw a hint of rose to her cheeks as well, but that was probably just sunburn from the other day. She doesn't even have freckles on her shoulders. I need to stop thinking about the body parts she left uncovered.
Then again those thoughts kept my mind off the fact I'd chosen a white t shirt and torn jean shorts as my outfit. Oh well at least I'd done something with my hair beyond washing it. Sorta.
Fishing went well. I managed to not spear myself with a hook and look like a dweeb in front of the girl I wanted to kiss. Yes, some 17 yr olds only want to kiss. Eventually, and really after like four hours, we got tired of fishing. Really we both got hungry and smelled some kind of good seafood cooking and decided to wander down a little ways and get some grub. We got some calamari and fried clams. Typical beach fare I guess.
"Bunny."
"Yes?"
"Nothing. I just like saying your name. How many other reasons would I get to say the word bunny on a daily basis. It's a fun word to say."
"You're weird."
"I know." Crestfallen would've been a great way to describe my feelings at that point. Until...
"I like weird."
Yes I'm in. And then a miracle. She kissed me. And it wasn't on the cheek. Ever so gently, she turned her blossom of a mouth towards me and kissed me on the mouth, held for a couple seconds and then let go. She tasted like sugar. Even over the fried fruit of the sea we'd just had, she tasted like sugar. Alone, except for the vendor, on a beach, wind blowing, waves crashing, sun shining, the girl I love kissed me. I know what perfect's like now.
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It was getting towards the end of the school year. We both had enough measurable intelligence, according to the school system, to graduate a year early. We both also had kind parents who let us do nothing for an entire year before being thrown back into reality. Spring ends and summer approaches. All the public venues slowly fill up with crawling teenagers and children just holding their breath for the last bell of the year until there's an explosion of youth overflowing the world.
We spent months together over the summer. Beyond the funny looks that we'd get holding hands or kissing, we actually forgot the world around us, and the world forgot about us. I guess for a time that's how love goes. Nothing else matters, just your own little bubble of life. We had our magic fairy tale.
"Bunny."
"Yes?"
"Nothing," hehe got her.
"Gamer."
"Louisa."
"I hate that name." Butthead.
"I know, so stop saying Bunny unless a full sentence or question is going to follow the name."
"Yes ma'am." I then stuck my tongue out at her. It seemed like a good idea. She stuck her tongue back out at me. I really honestly swear we were 17.
"I've got a bad question."
"Ok, shoot."
"Bunny," hehe. Ok she didn't like that. Wow I didn't know she had daggers for eyes. "Sorry. Where are you going to school next year?"
"I dunno. I hadn't thought about any of that. Why? Where are you going?"
"I dunno either. I was gonna wait till my parents said some shit about it and then make up my mind. Promise me something?"
"Anything."
"Take me with you where ever you go?"
"Anywhere love."
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I remember the first day I met her. I remember the last days I saw her even better. Normal day, normal time, normal us. Rain, alot of rain, was falling all around. It was ok though, late August doesn't really have the coldest of rain and there was a little breeze around the droplets helping us forget that the rain only replaced the humidity that was smothering us a few hours ago. We went for a stroll. As much of a stroll you can take in the rain anyway. Puddle jumping I guess. She was a good three inches shorter and 20 lbs lighter than me but somehow she got bigger splashes. If it weren't for the fact I was already sopping wet I woulda been jealous of her splash.
Neither of us had ever had a girlfriend before, which is probably why we only thought of kissing when we first met. We didn't know girls could do anything else. We'd figured out over the span of months, from the end of spring and entire summer, that you could. Talk about innocence. Maybe we were still virgins by the end of that too. I never thought about it, it just seemed natural to us. We were supposed to be this way. It was a good feeling. I'd never felt particularly weird by all standards, but she had. I think it brought her some comfort.
We had this little spot in the woods. Somewhere I used to go when I was a kid. There was a shallow cave with some overhang and trees guarding the way. We went there alot, when adult presence made sure that mood wouldn't be allowed to overtake us. Most of the time though we just held eachother, for comfort I think. Difference is exile but exile together was ok. We didn't pay attention to things people said when it was obvious they had no idea what they were talking about. Mostly just some funny looks, a comment here or there, sometimes rude usually just religious.
Other people knew about the cave too. Rarely did they ever come during the day though, so that's when we went. The bad thing about the trees is you can't tell by the approach if someone's in there or not. You can kinda listen, which we do, but since we're the only daytime visitors really we don't pay that much attention. That's why we didn't see the boys.
I can't remember much of what happened after we walked into the mouth of the cave. There was a blur and a pain in the side of my head. I heard Bunny scream and tried to get up and was held down. They hit me in the head again and as the blackness swallowed my consciousness whole all I could hear was her screaming my name.
When I woke up my head was wet sticky. I realized a few minutes later that that wasn't the only part of my body that was in pain and wet with blood. Crying, I sat up and realized where I was and what'd happened. Bunny was to my left, she was breathing but very unconscious. I couldn't make up my mind if I was supposed to carry her with me or leave her there and get help. The darkness outside made up my mind for me. I picked her up and carried her, head over my shoulder, broken body cradled in my arms. She was a small girl, seemed even smaller and lighter than I remembered her.
It was a short walk, when I got to the road I tried to run but almost dropped her. I got to the first house and pounded on the doors. As soon as the woman opened the door she dropped the plate she was carrying and a short scream escaped her open mouth.
"Please," was all i could manage. I didn't know my jaw was broken too.
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Four days later she was still in a coma. I sat by her side every day. I sat with her while they did the exam. I suffered through my own alone. I was lucky, she wasn't. Everyday it was the same, critical but stable, on life support.
A week later I was released, I spent all day and, when the nurses would let me, all night. She wasn't getting better. Her skull was fractured in several places. I guess since she wouldn't stop screaming they wouldn't stop hitting her until she did.
The day she died I was curled up on her bed. I read her a fairy tale, Snow White and Rose Red. Her family was there too. And mine. They all understood us. They knew. I knew what she wanted as well her family did. No life without health. I held her hand when they unplugged the machines. It had been three months. Her hair was still growing in from when they had to shave to try and repair her broken skull. Her eyes didn't flutter or open once the whole time. Every time I said Bunny Gamer I was hoping maybe she'd wake up and smack me for being annoying.
Minutes after the machine stopped pumping her heart and filling her lungs for her, she died. Quietly and peacefully in her sleep as I guess all good people deserve. I was whispering how much I loved her and that I know she tried to keep her promise and it'd all be alright.
"Take me with you."
I think she heard me before she left.
User Reviews
Submitted by Blinkish (user info) at 2007-02-10 14:32:46 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
wow, katy, this was fucking incredible.
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2007-02-10 14:06:59 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
+2 cos she said she is gonna kick me in the nutz if I didn't.
-Dave
Submitted by gravitas (user info) at 2007-02-10 14:01:20 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
great story
Submitted by Amontillado (user info) at 2007-02-10 13:10:14 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-11-02 06:34:39 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Ace
Submitted by SantaClaus (user info) at 2006-09-19 13:58:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
xzc
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2006-09-13 00:56:40 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Very well done. I might've rated this a +1, but I looked at the reviews briefly and found the title was assigned.
Very nice in any case, but especially with that idiotic title.
Submitted by Stagger_Lee (user info) at 2006-09-08 04:06:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Predictability doesn't matter. This was really good, especially considering the title you had to work with. It made me sad.
Also, this is #6 on Best Ever.
Submitted by Maltese (user info) at 2006-09-05 13:48:53 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
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Submitted by Anansie (user info) at 2006-03-20 19:29:21 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
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Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2006-03-06 12:50:17 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
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Submitted by chgable (user info) at 2006-02-14 05:51:06 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
You are my favourite writer here
Submitted by CrazyHorse (user info) at 2006-02-13 20:51:24 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
beautiful
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2006-02-10 17:06:28 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
ok NOW i've read it, and my opinion definitely hasn't changed
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2006-02-10 13:33:17 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Well, since you've officially beat me now on account of reviews, I can now officially rate this...
...and say that you did a f**king excellent job with this. Wow. I stand in the corner, ashamed.
You certainly deserve the trophy out of the rest of us sloths.
Submitted by maiorano84 (user info) at 2006-02-10 05:39:04 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I'm trying to drink more beer but I can't because of the lump in my throat, you fucking bitch.
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2006-02-10 05:27:58 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
i haven't read this yet, but i just wanted to let you know i think you're the coolest person here. well, in terms of 'online-persona' anyway. you could be boring as hell in real life(whatever that meants) for all i know. in fact you probably are. but whatever, take it however you can get it right?
Submitted by ChurleR (user info) at 2006-02-09 12:56:07 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Ow. My brainmeats just vaporized their seratonin levels.
Submitted by Nellypaal (user info) at 2006-02-09 08:06:09 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Really very good.
Submitted by GaidinCanuck (user info) at 2006-02-08 23:30:11 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Good stuff.
Submitted by Bigmike (user info) at 2006-02-08 23:01:26 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Nicely done.
Reads kind of like a suicide letter. I like that feel of it.
Submitted by LadyPlural (user info) at 2006-02-08 22:03:03 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Considering the title you had to work with, this was fucking awesome.
Submitted by ghola (user info) at 2006-02-08 21:02:16 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
+2 fucking two.
I don't think this could have been any better. The horrible title did not impair you.
Ace man.
Submitted by Dead_0hi0_Sky (user info) at 2006-02-08 20:55:53 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
woah, flippin awesomeness right there.
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2006-02-08 20:33:32 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
...And another for Method's douchebaggery.
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2006-02-08 20:20:56 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Method has been banned several times because he's an ASSHOLE!!!!!!!!!!!
Fer Chrissakes, Method, stop rating folks who are in a contest,
you ignorant, self-centered, supercilious twit. Fucktard.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-02-08 20:00:03 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
about the gender, i have no clue caes. it was one of those i'm gonna sit down and write and hope shit doesn't spew forth cuz i wanna win. but now i can't :(
Submitted by Technoboy (user info) at 2006-02-08 19:49:47 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by tinactin (user info) at 2006-02-08 19:38:23 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
For Xiu Xiu
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2006-02-08 19:29:26 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I'll kill the Greek.
Then I can have you all to myself...
Great stuff as usual.
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2006-02-08 19:18:25 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
You deserve a +2 for getting a half-decent story out of a title like that.
But this wasn't a half-decent story, this was a really good one. To be honest, it's a bit predictable, but the emotion and the love that the narrator has comes through so well and so powerfully. It's like a real person was telling the story, not a character or a stereotype -- you know what I mean? What's the term for that...excellent narrative voice, or something like that?
I don't know why you were initially so misleading with the gender of the narrator though. What was your goal there?
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-02-08 19:08:41 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
someone kill method for me twice. where's nath, he'd do it creatively.
Submitted by Ballare (user info) at 2006-02-08 18:07:55 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
... and another 'cause it was just that good.
Submitted by Ballare (user info) at 2006-02-08 18:07:39 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by AshK (user info) at 2006-02-08 17:25:40 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2006-02-08 17:08:12 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
This was absolutely, tragically beautiful.
Submitted by RamJetMax (user info) at 2006-02-08 16:52:19 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Summer loving had me a blast
Summer loving happened so fast
I met a girl crazy for me
Met a boy cute as can be
Summer days drifting away to oh oh the summer nights.
Tell me more, tell me more
Did you get very far
Tell me more, tell me more
Like does he have a car
She swam by me she got a cramp
He ran by me got my suit damp
I saved her life she nearly drowned
He showed off splashing around
Summer sun somethings begun but oh oh the summer nights.
Tell me more, tell me more
Was it love at first sight?
Tell me more, tell me more
Did she put up a fight?
Took her bowling in the arcade
We went strolling drank lemonade
We made out under the dock
We stayed out till 10 o'clock
Summer fling don't mean a thing but oh oh the summer nights.
Tell me more, tell me more
But you don't gotta brag
Tell me more, tell me more
Cause he sounds like a drag
He got friendly holding my hand
She got friendly down in the sand
He was sweet just turned eighteen
Well she was good you know what I mean
Summer heat boy and girl meet but oh oh the summer nights.
Tell me more, tell me more
How much dough did he spend?
Tell me more, tell me more
Could she get me a friend?
It turned colder that's where it ends
So I told her we'd still be friends
Then we made our true love vow
Wonder what she's doing now
Summer dreams ripped a the seams but oh those summer nights
Tell me more, tell me more
Submitted by ruthless (user info) at 2006-02-08 16:47:30 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Where's your camwhore?
Submitted by r1nce (user info) at 2006-02-08 16:38:32 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Wow.
Submitted by cdoggown (user info) at 2006-02-08 16:28:09 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Strong. Sad. Well-written.
Submitted by TigerLilly (user info) at 2006-02-08 16:22:55 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Right on.
Submitted by ruthless (user info) at 2006-02-08 16:07:45 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2005-12-30 14:46:16 (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2005-12-29 14:28:48 (#)
Ranking: 2
plot dragging? interest waning?
Then try, LESBOFICTION!
Yes folks, LESBOFICTION is the miracle cure that can add zing and zest to any old story! Just add one dose of LESBOFICTION to your tale, and BLAMMO! Instant hits!
Why not add LESBOFICTION to your next post, today?!
Submitted by Agent_Smith (user info) at 2006-02-08 15:57:10 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
P.S. LET'S MAKE SOME FUCK
Submitted by simple_catalyst (user info) at 2006-02-08 15:56:41 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
*WEEPSEMUBEERS*
so beaute.
*sniff*
Submitted by Agent_Smith (user info) at 2006-02-08 15:56:16 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
HOW ABOUT YOU BLOW ME WHERE THE PAMPERS IS, YOU FUCKFAIRY
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2006-02-08 15:51:08 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Agent_Smith (user info) at 2006-02-08 15:35:25 (#)
Ranking: 0
WTF IM NOT READING ALL THAT?!?!?!?
That is so lame.
WTF DON'T RATE IT THEN!?!?!?!?!?
Submitted by HighVoltage900 (user info) at 2006-02-08 15:48:10 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Don't worry about it inion. Let it slide.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-02-08 15:47:21 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
hmm...it was good, yet a little strained in places - this is a solid +1.5.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-02-08 15:42:50 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
someone go kill method for me...
Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-02-08 15:37:17 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Strong ending.
Excellent.
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2006-02-08 15:36:48 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
sad
Submitted by Agent_Smith (user info) at 2006-02-08 15:35:25 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
WTF IM NOT READING ALL THAT?!?!?!?
Submitted by HighVoltage900 (user info) at 2006-02-08 15:33:10 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I have good reason for not being able to get through this today.
I love ya katy, so you get a +2 because I will assume this was to par with your normal stuff.