Adventures in Cottontail Pines - The Summer Princess

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  That night, Flopsy had a dream. She was in the front of the Summer Jamboree parade in her petty dress. She was surrounded by all her friends and family from all over Cottontail Pines. Everyone was cheering for her which made her so very happy.

  That cheering slowly began to change into laughter. Flopsy looked from left to right trying to understand why. Even her closest friends were laughing at her. She shouted, “Why are you laughing at me?! What’s wrong?! I don’t understand!”

  Goober pointed at her from the sidelines and replied, “Your ears! Look at them!”

  Flopsy looked and her ears had become ten times as long, and everyone behind her had been falling over them. She panicked and quickly tried to roll them up; unfortunately, they got so heavy that she fell to the ground. The laughing only got worse. She pleaded, “Please, stop laughing! Stop it! It’s not funny!”

  She suddenly saw Wily the fox standing over her cackling. “Not so great to be a princess now; is it?!”

  Flopsy shouted, “No!” but found that she was sitting up in bed the next morning. She knew it had been a dream, but her fear was still very real. The rabbit hopped out of bed and walked up to her mirror. She looked at how large her ears were and how they dropped down to her feet. For the very first time, she did not really like what she saw.