Free Man By:FoxWiz foxwizard@hotmail.com or drakes@trinidad.net Cast: Buster, Babs and Shorty. A short story of Buster and what he dreamt. Will his dream come true? How does his girl and his friend react to this? An interesting story of love and friendship. My first short story and hopfully my best. Swept with darkness, Buster struggles through the covering leaves in the dark. There was no end to the smothering leaves. It seemed that there was no escape. Then it cleared and finally he was out of cluster of leaves. He walked though the darkness for what seemed like hours until he saw Babs with his friend Shorty. The only thing that was different about them was what they were doing. Buster stood in shock as he saw them kissing! And such a passionate kiss. He saw them rub skin agianst fur. Their lips move like waves. He stood frozen as he saw them make love. Shorty moved his lips up and down upon Babs' lips. Babs was losing pounds as she did this and looked lovelier by the pound. It was sickening too see his girl kissing his friend. He ran to them to stop the horror. He ran for miles and was tired when he reached them. The two separated and Babs tripped Buster and he fell between them. He turned around to see them laughing at him. They pointed at him and laughed louder. He couldn't bear it, he started shaking his head with his hands on each side. "Noooooooooo!" he screamed as the horror washed over him. Buster eyes opened and he breathed like he had been under water too long. He was sweating and recalled his dream. He tightened his fist as he remembered and said, "Shorty." Shorty is a young magician in training at level two. So there are alot of things he cannot do. He wore a purple shirt, jeans, glasses and an orange cap. He is called Shorty because Merlin thought it would be funny for him to have a name like that. This is just to give you an image of what he looks like. Back to the story... Buster stormed through the school hall the next day, disregarding toons in front of him by just pushing them out his way. Babs saw him pass by at her locker and saw the look on his face. She dashed after him, wondering what wrong with him. "Buster." she shouted, but he didn't respond. She bumbed into other toons, and that prevented her from catching him. BAM!! Shorty was slammed against the wall by Buster. Shorty stood shocked at this, watching Buster's cold eyes. Babs came up to them out of breath. "Whoa (pant), Buster, what's the (pant) rush?" Babs said. "I wanna know how long you two were dating behind my back," growled Buster. "What? Where did you think up that?" Babs remarked. "Buster, why don't you let go of me and explain it to her." Shorty said. "Not until you answer my question." "I didn't want to do this..." Shorty said sadly and pointed at Buster with his fore and middle fingers together. Suddenly, Buster was lifted in the air. His feet were at the same level as the top of the lockers. "Shorty, put him down." Babs pleaded. "All right." He lowered his fingers and Buster was let down until his feet reached the floor. "Buster," she began, "what do you mean by me and Shorty dating?" "Last night I had a dream of you two kissing. But it was too real to be a dream, and the only person besides Shirley who can do that is Shorty." "So, you go blaming him 'cause of a dream." Babs remarked. "Why would I want to date with Babs?" Shorty asked. "Hey!!"Babs shouted. "No offense, but I don't intend to have a girl." "Ehh? Why not?" Buster asked. "You see there's a difference between you and me, I'm a free man and you're not. I can do anything I want, but you sometimes have to do it with Babs. With the length of time you two have been together, you're stuck with her. Why would I break my freedom by getting a girl? Worse yet, taking some else girl. No way! I'm not going to have a girl. I don't even intend to have one. Buster, what you had was a dream, that's it. I'm free and intend to stay that way." He walked off leaving the two bunnies stunned. They turned to each other to see the same expression. Buster broke the silence by saying, "I guess I was wrong about him." "Uh huh." This was all Babs could say as they watched him walk down the hall. "Let's get to class." said Buster. "Okay." They walked off to their class, then Babs turned to watch Shorty. There was something that bothered her, and had to get it off her chest. "I'll meet ya in class. I just forgot something," Babs lied. "All right," Buster said and went in the class. Babs ran down the hall, she had to catch Shorty. "Shorty! Shorty!" she called out. He turned to see the pink bunny run up to him. She stopped in front of him panting. He waited for her to catch her breath. "Shorty," she said after she stopped panting, "did you really mean what you just said back there?" "Yes." he said. "Don't you even get the urge or craving for it?" she asked. "Yeah, it's hard to stand it, but I manage... barely." he replied. She felt sory for him and said, "Well, I know someone..." "Hey, Babs." shouted Buster. She turned and said, "Just a minute. As I was saying..." As turned and said this, Shorty was no longer there. She smiled and said, "You'll find love soon, Shorty. Or it will find you first." With that she ran to class mumbling, "I better lose a lot weight from all this running. The End