Happy Tree Friends Collection

A Day of Poco [Poco, for Alice]

Poco FLuff, a small beige kitten who enjoyed pink things and child's play, was sitting on her bed. There was music coming from somewhere as she hummed along, her feet kicked in the air. She looked around her room and rushed over to the closet; she had an idea. 
"Today is the day," she said to herself as she pulled out her bow and bright pink kitty socks. She gave up with her sentence because not even she knew what she wanted to do. As she was putting on her clothes for the day she had a great idea, to go out and play at the park. She finished everything and grabbed a snack on her way out. 
The park was warm as she skipped up to the swings, she sat down and it hit her like a truck,she sat on the swing in silence for a moment. She looked around and saw people staring at her in a disgusted fashion. She whimpered and looked at them, there was a particularly nasty look from one woman.
She forgot to come out to the rest of the village. Poco was so caught up in being herself she didn't realize the town still didn't know what to call her or how to address her. She whimpered and ran to the nearest public girls bathroom, not thinking anyone else would be in there she ran in and hid in a stall.
Tears flooded down her fuzzy and warm cheeks as she hid her face in her hands and sobbed. The toilet seat was down so she sat and pulled her legs up to her chest.
She heard a flush, then a close stall click open; a few footsteps fell and stopped in from of her stall door.
There was a soft knock, "honey, are you ok?" a voice came. The voice was unfamiliar but she had heard it somewhere. She swallowed and wiped her eyes and fluffed the front of her fur on her face.
She took a deep breath and smiled, then stood and opened the door, "I'm fine, see?"
She finished her sentence and saw a very surprised female standing there, the girl was surprised to see her classmate acting like a girl.
As soon as Poco saw the surprise on the girls face tears rushed back to her eyes and flowed down her cheeks once again. "You hate me too, right?"
The girl shook her head, "How could anyone hate you? You're being you." she turned to show her small backpack to Poco and she saw tons of little buttons with different colors and color patterns on each one. They were LGBTQ+ flags on buttons, this made Poco smile.
The girl turned back around and was immediently embraced by a sobbing Poco, the girl wrapped her arms around Poco's neck and copied her embrace. After a few minutes, Poco pulled away from her and rubbed her eyes.
"Thank you," she started. "I truly needed that."
The girl smiled, "sibling love, right?"
Poco couldn't hold back as more salty tears evaded her eyes, she watched as the girl pulled off the genderfluid and transgender buttons from her bag. She held them out to Poco.
Poco accepted the genderfluid button and pinned it to one side of her bow.
"I'm Poco by the way," the girl spoke.
Poco froze in shock, "you're who?"
"Poco," the girl replied again. She smiled and clipped the other pin back to her bag. She waved goodbye with a smile you would see on a loving mother and started to fade from existence.
"What," Poco said quietly to herself. "the hell just happened?"