Shallow Fate

Breakfast

Meg's POV:

     I wake to a sweet smell. Pancakes. My favorite breakfast food in the world! I sit up on the couch and get my thoughts together. i remember the nightmare and being in Once-ler's lap against his chest. Right before I went to sleep his kissed my on the forehead. That's nice to remember. "Finally waking up sleepyhead?" I hear Oncie joke and I see him making pancakes. But there's also a lot of animals in here too. All the barbaloots look stuffed except for the biggest one begging for more pancakes. "Who's up for ninth's?" Oncie says. Or for the lazy one, who's up for first's? "Ooh I am!" I say sarcastically like I had no idea he referenced to me. Oncie gives me some pancakes and I eat them all, acting like a starved dog. I ask Oncie for one more pancake from his excess pile and I sit it on my plate. I wait for him to face me and I throw it at his face. I just had to! Oncie acts shocked for a brief moment but quickly springs into action. He shoots one back at me. "No fair! You're hogging all the pancakes!" i jump for the plate but he blocks the path. I try to push him away but he grabs me by the waist and throws me away from them. He throws a few more at me which I salvage for "ammo" and run to the other end of the room.  He chases after me and launches all his pancakes at me at once. 'Dumbass!" I yell in a playful way. Realizing what he just did he jumps over and tackles me for my ammo. "This bear hug is so threatening Oncie!" I yell and try to escape. Nope. He grabs me up by the waist and raises me to his shoulder height. Good lord this man is strong. He looks so weak though. "Ready to give up yet?" he says "Nope!" i yank free from his grip and purposly fall to the ground, hugging the pancakes. He ends up flipping me over, throws the pancakes aside, gets on top of me and pins me down on the floor. His face just inches, almost centimeters from mine. I know my face is probably tomato red and I notice his is flushed pink. Well that's nice! We stare at each other for what seemed like forever and then he finally helps me up and says he needs to show me something. We go in his little place and he shows me his completed thneed. "Tomorrow I'm going into town to sell it!" "That's great Oncie! I'm proud!" We hug for a while and we spend the rest of the day lounging around doing whatever we wanted until the sunset.

Once-ler's POV:

     Well that was just plain amazing. Having a pancake fight with your crush. So sweet. I should've kissed her while I had her pinned down. Stupid! I can't take it any longer! I'm asking her on a date. I don't care what that Lorax has to say! I can see it in the way she acts. She likes me back. I know it! Maybe I'll see if she wants to have a picnic at night. Yeah, that sounds pretty romantic! I walk inside to go see what she thinks. "Hey Meg?" I ask sheepishly. "Hey Oncie?" She replies in a giggly tone. "You wanna go have dinner outside.. like a picnic at night? I-it's okay if you don't want to. I'll be fine. You know what, I knew you'd think I'm dumb. I'm sorry, I'll go make dinner now and we can eat it inside like normal people." "Oncie! Stop being so hard on yourself. You're not dumb and I'd love to picnic outside tonight, right by the lake. We can hear the fish hum and sit together and talk about life." Meg says as she comes up and hugs me from behind. I turn to face her and hug her back. "I'm gonna go make dinner now. Can you go find blankets and stuff like that?" I ask her sweetly. "No problem." She replies. She walks off and I go to make dinner like I said. This is going to be amazing. I think to myself.