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So many bunnies
The end of the world came unexpected.
George Rabbit was in search of true love. He was dating this bunnie he met at the farm. Yet, She wasn’t the right one. “A little chubby isn’t she.” George thought. This situation had been repeating itself for quite a while now. From all the bunnies he met, there was something he didn’t quite liked about them.
While going out with Lily the white bunnie he thought “She hops incredibly disgracefully.” Then he went out with the brownish bunnie and while she did have grace, she wasn’t that polite. “Is this ever gonna end?” said George to himself. He was being picky, but after all, he was in search for his soulmate and not just any flirt.
But what George didn’t know was that every bunnie he dated would end up having a ton of children some months later. At the end of his first year as a casanova, he had already created 20,546 little bunnies. And that number quickly incremented as those bunnies had bunnies, and their bunnies had bunnies, and more and more bunnies.
There were so many of them that burrows became flooded with bunnies and, without any space to live in, they had to look for other homes. That is how bunnies started to populate forests, jungles and cities. They were everywhere. There were just so many bunnies that they started to take over the system and got the power all to themselves.
Bunnies were doctors, politicians and important members of the state. George started to notice the increase of his own kind and started to wonder why. He went to grab some drinks with his old friend, the old and know it all Owl. “You know it’s all your fault, right?” Said the Owl. “What are you talking about?” “Haven’t you noticed the incredibly stupid amount of bunnies out there?” “Yeah, but what does that got to do with me?” “They are your children, specially from that not so cute rabbit you went out with around October.”
There were so many bunnies on Earth that food became scarce. There were not enough carrots for all of them, so they started eating whole forests. Drinking lakes and oceans till they were dry. They made so many burrows that the Earth began to crack. Contamination was increased to levels no one could imagine. The world was devastated. The sky became dark, air wasn’t breathable anymore and the ground started to tremble. The moon did not come out at night and you could barely see any rays of sun.
“Guess you won’t find your soulmate after all, George.”
And suddenly, everything stopped.
Diana L. Bañuelos
Sergio A. de León
