Protecting Genie

Chapter 8

When I was younger, I use the hate the 'rapid butterfly' movement in your stomach when you'd fall or when you were going extremely fast, like on a roller coaster. But now that I'm older, I absolutely loved it.

As soon as the hole closed up, I put my hands in the air to enjoy the ride; my luggage far ahead of me. Way way far ahead, I could see Bunny 'tunnel surfing' on top of one. Effortlessly, he glided side to side, enjoying the rush as much as me.

It ended too soon when we came to the end of the tunnel. I was launched slightly into the air and skidded to a rough halt on my hip.

"Ow!" I rolled onto my back. "Horrible landing, giving myself 3 out of 10." Bunny had already gotten my luggage up right when he came to my aid.

"Sorry lass, should have warned ya about the end." He put his paw out for me to grab. "And I give you a 5."

"You're so generous. I'll do better on my next landing." I grabbed onto his paw to pull myself up. I brushed off the dirt when I suddenly felt a dull sting right where I landed on. I pulled my shirt up and lowered the hem of my jeans slightly to see a small cut right on my hip bone. "Oh, would you look at that? Do you have some water?"

"Over here. This gives me a chance to give you a fast tour." Bunny was able to grab all of my bags and lift them up onto his shoulders. I can't help but be amazed at how strong he is.

This place is beautiful. So many hills and grass and flowers, I can feel my inner flower girly girl wanting to come out and romp around the fields. It kind of reminded me of that movie where that nun lady is singing ....Sound of something.

Putting that aside, we came to a path lined with flowers that looked a lot like tulips.

"Try not to hit one of them." I wasn't really paying attention to the way I was walking. I must have hit one cause next thing I know, a bunch of the flowers stood straight up and pointed at me.

Shit, what did I do?

Before anything could be said, all of the flowers puffed out some kind of smog that clouded my vision. I started to freak out a bit on the inside. I can't see anything except is....wait, is this colors? All I see is clouds of colors.

Wow, I'm surrounded by colors.

"Pretty!" Whoa, that's something Sophie would say. I stood in the cloud just admiring how all the colors blended together to form new ones that didn't even have names. It was all so captivating.

Eventually the cloud cleared away; so I could now see Bunny smirking at me.

"Nice pants." He remarked at me. Looking down, I noticed that the color had stained my jeans to where it now looked like a rainbow.

"Hey, not bad. Maybe I'll do this to all of my jeans." I twirled around in excitement, something almost every girl does when she wears a new fashion statement.

"Just to let you know, the color won't come out."

"I can deal with that." We just laughed off the incident and continued our way down to the river.

I have to say that I'm glad I finally get some time to hang out with Bunny. Last time this happened, I fell asleep on him. I wonder if he'll let me do that again.

He's pretty tall, about 6 and a half feet or so; a heck of a lot taller than me. At first glance, his fur looks like different shades of gray but seeing it closer, it looks more like gray with a mixture of dark blue. The bright sunshine in his warren really brings it out nicely. And his eyes are a pretty bright green. I love it.

While studying him, we had come up to the river. His voice brought me out of my daze.

"There are two rivers here, the clear one for drinking and such; and the colored one for painting my eggs. I'm sure you'll be able to distinguish between the two."