Random Shot: Bunny

Published: May 31, 2020

• 1,245 words (the biggest failure. i was hardly set on making this a less than 1k shot but my stupid ass failed to see the word count so yeah, kill me please, im so dumb 🤦)
• Hybrid (my first time doing this concept, 'm not really well-equipped but i still did my best tho it's a short one ✌️)
• F L U F F ☁️ (yey, bc im having headache from trying to write angst)

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Placing my hands on the sides of my hips, standing straight in front of the couch where he sat timidly, I tried so much to appear intimidating, enough to make him cower down and admit to his wrong doings. He looked too tiny—despite his full-grown body— and too vulnerable as he sullenly had both his hands down on his lap and his head down, avoiding having eye-contact with me.

Mahirap para sa akin ang huwag kalimutan ang kasalanan niya kapag ganito siya… pero hindi puwede. He had to learn.

"You know I could always revoke your carrot privilege, right?" masungit kong tanong sa kaniya. He remained silent, his pair of pink bunny ears that fell down the sides of his head twitching a bit, a sign that he was listening to me. It seriously took me a lot of resistance not to bring my hands to his smooth mop of dark hair to caress them and feel against my palm the softness. Bumuntong-hininga ako. "Tell me, why did you lock up Squidball and Dumpling inside the storage room?" And for how much I hated to use to him this voice, I couldn't help it.

He needed to know that he was wrong, that what he did was wrong and there was no way I would just let this pass. He should also know that being locked up didn't feel good, he should know.

Nanatili siyang tahimik. Mentioning his carrot privilege didn't work, that meant, he still hadn't seen the problem here. Of course he knew he was in trouble, he was just too stubborn to admit it. So I guessed, I didn't have a choice but to use my next level card to him. He wasn't sparing me a glance so he didn't see my face, if only he would, he would see that I wasn't just playing around anymore. Squidball and Dumpling were his playmates, locking them up inside the storage room while I was not at home? Hm, such a bad bunny behaviour.

Naisip ko ring mas mabuti nang hindi ko nakikita ang mukha niya. There were a lot of things his pair of bunny eyes and his adorable bunny teeth could do to me, it wasn't really the best of time to get distracted by his bunny charms.

"Soobinie, I know you hate sleeping on your pelt, but if you refuse to admit what you did and apologize, then I'll have you sleep in your cage…" I hardly pursed my lips together to stop myself from taking what I said back, my hands by my side balling to a fist because as much as he hated it, I also hated not having him beside me at night.

I knew that kind of punishment wasn't something he fancied, so I wasn't surprised when he quickly pushed his head back, raising a devastating face at me with his glistening pair of bunny eyes and thin lips pulled down to a frown, pair of deep dimples appeared on his cheeks. Kung may mas ilalaglag pa ang mga bunny ears niya, siguro ay nangyari na. From the other side of the room, both Squidball and Dumpling were too busy with their own meal to even spare us a bit of their attention. That was because they just got out of the storage room after hours—five long hours. My kittens must have been so scared, and hungry.

When I turned to look back at the hybrid, who was most likely trying so hard to reflect on what he did, he was failing miserably. One of the attitude I had picked up that Soobin had was he never liked to share the attention he was getting from me, he never wanted to admit the wrong things he did unless I prodded them out of him but he knew how to reflect, to learn from those wrong things. He really just a brat because he knew, he was my baby.

Sighing in defeat, his lips pursing firmly, he didn't make me wait long for his explanation. "You… you w-were gone longer than usual, and I-I was really really sad, you know bunnies get lonely easily, it kills us without the presence of our master. And… and those two k-kept on making me feel so needy, so I locked them up to shut them up…" From the way his soft voice broke and quiver, I knew he wasn't really confident about what he did, that he didn't really like it. He also tended to act on instinct and that was something I didn't take him accountable for.

He was a hybrid, a bunny hybrid and yes, from the research I had done before, I had learned that bunny hybrids get lonely easily, it could actually kill them. The exact same reason why we had Squidball and Dumpling, I bought them for him, so he wouldn't feel alone when I was at school and he was one at home. The kittens got along with him very well, to the point that he didn't mind if he shared my attention with them. I also didn't want to think about how he could understand those felines because I knew it was a hybrid thing.

Being the defeated this time, feeling the familiar fluttering in my stomach and beating of my heart, I was sure I wasn't mad at him anymore. I wasn't even mad at him in the first place. Ibinaba ko ang mga kamay kong nasa baywang ko saka marahang inabot ang mukha niya. Really, though sometimes he was a brat, I just wouldn't want to know what I would be without him. He was already a part of my life, a special part at that, that part I would die if taken away from me. I lovingly caress his cheeks that made him close his eyes, moving further into my touch with a pleased hum. Naupo ako sa tabi niya kaya mabilis siyang kumapit sa akin.

Bunnies are very sensitive, they won't let you touch them unless they are familiar with you, unless they are comfortable with you.

Soobin was big, his physical appearance was literally human only with a pair of pink bunny ears and a soft ball of pink tail but it still didn't stop him from fitting into my arms, finding his perfect place as if there wasn't a place he would be in this world but in my arms. He gently leaned his head on my chest, his pair of long pale arms protectively wrapping around my waist to pull my closer to his body as his legs cutely placed me in a lockdown, literally engulfing me with his big body. He smelled like bubble gum, the sweetest one from his collection of bath bombs.

On that part of the couch, he cuddled me like how we usually did on a lazy Sunday morning.

"You'll have your carrot privilege back, but I'll only let you sleep with me tonight after you apologize to Squidball and Dumpling, and promise them to never do it again," I softly mumbled against the crown of his head, my lips being tickled by his hair.

"I promise…" he mumbled back against my chest, soft purrs coming out of his mouth showing how comfortable and pleased he was right now.

I smiled, I knew there were a lot of hybrid out there, also a lot of bunny hybrid but I would fight just so the world would see that my bunny, my Soobin, was the best out there. The best bunny hybrid.