It had been raining for about an hour now. The blue rabbit was hiding in an empty hole. She's far from home, trapped by the rain. But strange enough, for once, she didn't mind it. Perhaps it's for the better. Now she could think. About the weather, about the green grass of August, about life.

She had been living in the same forest for as long as she could remember. She had grown playing with the deers and squirrels, jumping and trying to catch butterflies that flied over the flower bed. Everything was perfect here, but she knew better. She didn't tell anyone, but unlike those luckless mermaids who had never gotten a chance to step on the shore, she had went outside the security of the mother forest, couple of times.

She would never tell a soul how she could be there. But the world outside the forest was beautiful, but in the different kind of beauty. Instead of the fresh air of woods, it smelled like an awful mix of carbon, perfume, meats, and... practically everything. Instead of the warmth of the sun that went through the leaves of trees, it was the hot direct sunlight that almost burned her little uncovered skin on the tip of her long ears. But yet, she stood still. Too startled by the whole new environment around her.

Then she saw him. A little boy looking so charming in his white polo and casual knee-length jeans. "Blue rabbit..." he murmured. "I've never seen one like this before..."

The boy picked her up and brought her to his house. There, he immediately put her on the kitchen table and opened the refrigerator. He pulled out a carrot, sliced it into a few sticks and gave it to the blue rabbit. Hesitantly, she picked the carrot from his palm and began to chew. It tasted weird, not like ones she'd used to consume. But she swallowed it anyway. She's starving.

She looked up to the boy. The boy looked back at her. He smiled. And the blue rabbit returned his smile shyly. The boy, of course, didn't know this.

The boy played with her for a while on the garden. Then, his mother called. It's time for dinner. The sun has set for a while now. The boy patted blue rabbit's head and walked toward the house.

Blue rabbit was left alone in the garden. She didn't understand why the boy suddenly turned his back on her. She's very sad. She thought the boy wanted to play with her.

Blue rabbit looked around her, suddenly realized that she's alone, far away from home. She began to feel afraid. But she couldn't cry. She felt numb. Blue rabbit jumped to who-knew-where. She only stopped when she's already far away from the boy's house too. Now she's more terrified than ever. She wanted to go back there but she didn't know where she was. Fortunately mother rabbit came. Blue rabbit didn't know how mother rabbit could be there and in perfect timing too. But she did. Mother rabbit scolded blue rabbit, but she's much more worried than mad. Mother rabbit then escorted her daughter back to the forest.

Blue rabbit was sad. She kept thinking about the little boy and why he stopped playing with her. She didn't even like to chase the flying butterflies anymore, even when they're only a paw away from her.

One day, a yellow-black stripes honey bee came near blue rabbit and asked her what's wrong. Blue rabbit told the honey bee about the boy and honey bee said, "Maybe something happened to his brother?"

The rabbit tilted her head. "His brother?"

"Yes. When my brother was sick, I had to take care of him and spent almost all day in his chamber."

"Do you think his brother was sick?"

"I don't know... That day, why didn't you wait for him and ask him?"

The blue rabbit went silent. Was she afraid to know?

Days had gone slow for the rabbit. But yet, she managed to find her smile again. Mother rabbit had said to her, what's done is done. She could do better in the future. Don't you allow yourself to keep dwelling on your past, Blue...

Blue rabbit found herself in the outside of the forest, again. What made her here, she couldn't remember. She just felt like doing it and there she was. The sun almost rose on the horizon, giving gold shimmers on across the tall walls, the big road, and few people's heads. Blue rabbit sighed in awe. This place outside the forest, no matter how bad it smelled, always held certain fascination for blue rabbit.

As the sun crawled higher, the crowd of people increased. But people didn't seem to pay attention to blue rabbit, until it was noon. A girl with pony tail came toward the rabbit, interested with her soft blue fur. This girl was still wearing her plaid elementary school uniform and her Snoopy bag pack.

"Whoaa..." the girl said excitedly and then giggled. She took blue rabbit to her arms and softly caressed her fur. "I've never seen a blue rabbit before. I should tell my mother."

The girl ran toward her house with blue rabbit in her arms. The rabbit could hear the girl's beating heart and feel her strains of hair softly tickled blue rabbit's nose. The girl took her inside the house and show blue rabbit to her mother. "Itsn't it beautiful Mommy? I've never seen a blue rabbit!"

Her mother also looked at the blue rabbit in disbelief. "Me neither, Sweetheart... Me neither..."

Blue rabbit immediately made friends with the girl. The girl would spare a nice bit of her muffin for blue rabbit, allowed blue rabbit to sleep on her bed for a while, and laughed when blue rabbit played with her mother's knitting ball. That day was going fast, the sun had set and it's time for goodbye.

The girl put blue rabbit on the grass of her garden and said, "You know blue? Mommy doesn't want me to take you. She said I'm not allowed to take a pet because they always died. I didn't want them to be dead, but they do. Mommy said they all went to heaven. But I didn't want you to be dead also." By that, the girl left blue rabbit and went back into her home.

This time, blue rabbit knew that the girl had let her go. But still, every afternoon blue rabbit would go from her home deep in the forest to seek for the girl. And as always, the girl would wait for her in front of the door house, as patient as one little girl could do. The little girl would fed her, played with her, and told her stories.

One day, the blue rabbit was snuggling onto the girl's lap. While the little hand of the girl caressed her fur. Then the girl said, "Is it okay, dear Blue? If I take you for a while? I really want to adopt you, you know? I want something worth remembering, even if you have to die like the rest of my now-in-heaven pets. But I don't know... Mommy said, I will only hurt myself more."

Blue rabbit was wiser now, she'd really love for the girl to understand what she's trying to say. Don't fly if you're going to fall. It's stupid. It doesn't matter how beautiful the view, the hurt from the fall will erase everything. But go on and fly, as free as it can be. To land on the branch, as impossible as it might seem. Gracefully, with the one you love truly. You deserve something that will last.