You're My Ugly Pineapple

Chapter four

"So, Sky, about Buck," Ellie started.

"No, Ellie, I don't like him." 

"Come on, I saw how ya looked at him," She teased, the boys being quiet and feeling incredibly awkward. 

"Ellie, even if I did like him, finding Sid is more important," I sighed. "We have other priorities."

"You do like him!"

"Fine! I do!" I submitted, flopping down on Diego in defeat. "Can you blame me? He's the first other weasel I've met in years!"

"Sky, if you two get married and live together does that mean Crash and I can spend more time with Buck?" Eddie exclaimed, jumping up to me.

"What? I'm not telling you that!"

I heard a scream from the distance and hid behind Diego's head, my eyes wide from terror.

"Sounds like a Jungle of Misery to me," Crash whimpered, walking alongside Ellie and clinging onto Eddie. 'Finally, they dropped the subject,' I thought. 

I looked backwards with Ellie quickly to check if we were being watched and Ellie called out to Manny. "Hold on..."

"What, what is it? Peaches?" He exclaimed, running over to Ellie.

"What? No! I just, I got a funny feeling."

"You're hungry! Low blood sugar," Manny quickly looked around for something Ellie could eat. "Oh, there's some fruit!" He quickly ran over to the plant and Diego went with him, along with me. 

"No, Manny!"

"I wouldn't do that if I were you," I said, leaning over to see the fruit better. "This isn't exactly your playground."

Manny snorted at my acquisition and continued to reach for the fruit. "Like I'm gonna be afraid of a pretty flower." He touched the fruit and vines whipped out and grabbed Manny and Diego by the ankles. 

"Bet ya didn't see that comin," Diego sighed, just before being lifted up by the vines. I went to let go of Diego but a vine cam out and grabbed me too.

"For the record, I blame you for this," I yelled, looking down at Manny. The plant engulfed us and we were sent into near pitch darkness. It was sticky and slimy inside of it, and extremely claustrophobic inside of it as I was pressed close up against Manny and Diego. I heard mumbling from outside before I recognized another voice. 

"Buck! Help!" I yelled, my head sticking up in between the petals so I could see him.

"I didn't know Sky was in there! Blimey!" He stopped stretching and ran over to try and save me before I was taken back inside the plant. 

"I feel tingly," Diego frowned, squirming around.

"Don't say that when you're pressed up against us!" Manny yelled, squirming against the pressure the plant was putting on him. 

"Not that kind of tingly!"

"Wait, I feel it too..." I muttered, looking down to see a gross sort of green liquid rising up. I nudged the boys, looking down, and they started panicking even more.

"Help! Someone help us!" Manny yelled.

In a few seconds Buck came down and got stuck in the little hole at the top, his face next to mine. 

"Sorry for dropping in unannounced, sweet 'eart" He smirked, running a claw along my chin. A swarm of butterflies filled my stomach and I blushed bright, sticking my tongue out at him. 

"Come, love, 'elp me with this," He grabbed my hand and pulled me down, and I took a deep breath before we dove underneath the liquid. He cracked open a part of the bottom of the plant and saw two vines, one red and one blue. I pointed towards the blue vine but he shook his head and cut the red one instead, causing a massive surge of bubbles that made the liquid rise faster. Buck was squished up against Manny and I was trapped under Diego, with my face still close to the blue vine. Buck's knife fell beside me and I quickly grabbed it, cutting through swiftly.

The plant started inflating and Buck quickly grabbed onto me, kissing my hand and taking his knife back. His arm was wrapped tightly around my waist as we were launched into the air, and he grabbed a leaf from a tree above us. I grabbed onto it with my other hand and we gently floated down after Manny and Diego had landed in a pile. 

"Pfft, tourists," He chuckled, walking over to the side. My knees seemed to buckle as he looked over at me at winked, a smile and a warm blush reaching my cheeks. 

"Barfed on by a plant... awesome," Crash and Eddie exclaimed, the liquid from inside the plant all over their faces.

"Thanks for saving us, Buck," I smiled, grabbing onto my tail shyly and fiddling with it. He looked over at me and grinned, shrugging his shoulders. 

"Anything for you.." 

"Buck," Ellie interrupted, "Will you help us find the floppy green thing?"

"That's not necessary!" Manny exclaimed, getting up and sending Diego sliding to the ground.

"Yes, it is," I exclaimed, my ears perking up at the thought of us spending more time with Buck. Our chances of survival would multiply, and I got to spend some more one on one time with him. Win, win!

"Alright, I'll 'elp ya!" He grinned, in front of us, crossing his arms.

"But I got rules. Rule number one, always listen to Buck!" Fair enough, I suppose.

 "Rule number two, stay in the middle of the trail." Again, fair enough. Safety is important.

"Rule number three, all beautiful lady weasels shall stay beside me," He smiled, winking at me. I blushed harder and Ellie nudged me, smirking. 

"Rule number four...he who has gas travels at the back of the pack," Buck added, smiling cheekily. Eddie whined and walked to the back of the group, dragging his feet sadly.

"We should all have our heads examined," Manny muttered, trying to clean himself from the gross plant barf. 

"That's rule number five! Now let's go find your friend," Buck smiled, grabbing my paw. I blushed but didn't pull away, walking alongside him deeper into the forest.

Out of all the animals on earth, I fell for a deranged weasel. An amazing, handsome, deranged weasel.