The Greys Chapter 13: Bonnie Hopps
#14 of The Greys
Let the comedy of errors commence!
Bonnie had been clearing the table after feeding her slowly dwindling, Infantry Company sized family dinner. The eldest children had moved out to their own houses in the Tri-Burrow areas, well, all of them except Judy who was living in the big city. She couldn't help but let out a small sigh, as she picked up the one hundred and fifty plus dishes from the gigantic table and fed them into the dishwasher in groups of twenty. This part always took the longest, but trying to take all the children out for dinner would mean they'd have to take a second mortgage out on the farm, a prospect that the motherly rabbit didn't find appealing.
Bonnie had just about left the kitchen to go read her book, The Tales of Avalon: The Princess of Persia, to pass the time while the dishwasher did its work, when her phone rang. She wasn't expecting any calls, and part of her hoped that it was Judy, but Judy rarely called the house phone. The pear-shaped woman reached her hand out to pull the handset off the charging unit and stuff the transmitter under her ear.
"Hopps Residence," she said in her usual calm voice, but she was surprised at who spoke to her. "Hey Bonnie, it's your sister, Mary-Ann," the voice said in a voice that sounded like she was ready to spill some very hot gossip.
"Hey Mary-Ann, sounds like you've got something spicy," the mama bunny said as she made her way over to her favorite chair. As much as she enjoyed her novel, that was full of gossip and conflict, there was something about real life that intrigued her more.
"I sure do. You hear about the new Grey in town, sis," the other bunny asked over the phone.
"Other Grey? You would have told me if Jeane was pregnant"
"Oh no, she's not pregnant. But get this. Another fox showed up today named Kody Grey. He's apparently a war hero and Gideon's cousin."
"Gideon doesn't have any cousins."
"I know! Gideon said that Kody found out about it last year through one of those Geneology websites, but I didn't buy into it for a second. Those two look like brothers. Apparently, June Oberon, the polar bear who's married to one of the crop dusters, said that she heard from a reliable source that Kody Grey spilled the beans to Bill Blake in front of Marian Wether's yarn store. June told me that Kody is Gideon's twin brother. According to her reliable source, Kody was locked up in the attic this whole time."
The whole story made Bonnie blink. Something about all this didn't sound right at all. Jeane Grey didn't seem like the kind of woman who would do that to a child for their whole life. Minor punishment, maybe, but she'd always been a loving mother, if not a bit overbearing. "Are you sure, Mary-Ann," Bonnie asked over the phone.
"If I'm lying, may I be hit by a streetcar," the other rabbit said, professing that she believed every bit, but Bonnie wasn't exactly sure, "That's quite the tall tale, Mary-Ann."
"And one hundred percent true!"
The motherly bunny doubted that. "Thanks for telling me," she replied, "I'll see you at church tomorrow."
Bonnie hung up the phone before pulling out her m-Phone. The person who could set this whole thing straight would be Judy, because of her access to records, but it wasn't exactly one hundred percent legal. She hated to put Judy on the spot, but she had a feeling that her daughter might be the only one the people would actually listen to. The curvy woman let out a sigh as she pressed the ScreenTime button.