“...If you don't mind, maybe you or Giggles could invite her out.”

Warning, this is not an episode of htf, this is YURIIIII if you aren’t a fan of petunia x flaky x giggles do not read this.

Flaky wakes up in a cold sweat, she pants a bit as she quickly looks around the room. She feels her chest, making sure there wasn’t a wooden spike still going through her. She sighs as she slowly crawls out of bed, noting that her alarm clock said 4:55 am. She slowly gets out of her room and goes to the bathroom mirror to make sure every other injury she saw in her dream wasn’t there before finally heading downstairs. She starts making breakfast but quickly it turned into a fruitless endeavour, she forgot to put bacon in the fridge last night, the two eggs she cracked both spilled off the side of the pan and she was out of hash browns. She lets out a sigh and just takes a moment to calm down. She just pulls out her loaf of bread already having lost all care about the day, but to add insult to injury, when slicing the bread she accidentally cut her finger. She just drops the knife and slams her hands on the counter, a loud thud coming out as she quickly just puts the loaf away and screams out in annoyance, sighing and going to her couch to play on her phone.

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Petunia was preparing a few more things for a potential trip to the mall with giggles, but then something struck her. She thought about Flaky… Maple dragged Flaky out to the mall with them in the past and she seemed to enjoy it. She looks over at Giggles who was sitting on the couch. “Hey! I’m gonna go see if Flaky wants to come along! I’ll be back in a bit!” Giggles looked over and smiled. “Sure thing!” Petunia waved a bit before she stepped outside and started on the short walk to Flaky’s house.

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Flaky was STILL on the couch on her phone, she had been there for 12 hours just trying to distract herself from everything on her mind. But her phone gave a notification of only having 5% left and she let out a big sigh. She got up and instantly her stomach let out the biggest growl ever. She looked over at the kitchen which was still a big mess from the morning and sighed. She slowly meandered over and put her phone down, going to scan the fridge or freezer for something to make. She found a bunch of meat to make primaries but there wasn’t a single thing to be found to make sides with. She stared at her open freezer for 3 minutes straight before she let out the loudest sigh ever. She pulled out a frozen package of baloney and put it in the sink. She then reached for the drain blocker to let her fill the sink, but as she did it she knocked over a cup full of cutlery which shattered as it hit the floor and spilt tons of cutlery all over the floor. She yelled out in anger and annoyance and hastily shoved the drain plug into the sink and started filling it with warm water. As she waited for the sink to fill with water she went to go grab the bread and slice it to make sandwiches, but she tripped over the still open freezer and fell on her face. She laid on the floor for a few seconds before she slowly got up and closed the freezer. She hobbled over to the cutting board, knife, and bread that was still there since the morning and pulled some bread out to start cutting into slices for baloney sandwiches. For once it actually seemed to go fine, but then a bit of water overflowed from the sink and landed on her foot, burning it a little bit as she jumped in pain, throwing a piece of bread on the floor. She quickly drops what she was doing and turns the sink off, not noticing the real amount of overflow that happened. She turned to go back to cutting bread but she slipped on a puddle and fell over on the floor again, hurting herself quite badly this time. She couldn’t take it anymore, she curled up on the floor and just started bawling her eyes out, her shoulder hurt so bad and she was just so sick of everything right now.

Petunia walked up to the door and knocked a few times, noting that the windows were quite dirty, and the knob looked quite dirty too. After a minute of silence she started hearing the sound of some crying, she tilted her head and slowly and meticulously opened the door, making sure to get no dirt on her paw. She opened the door and scanned around, a look of horror forming in her face. This house was a complete mess even from someone normal’s perspective. Though the now louder sign of crying snapped her out of it as she started walking through the house, eventually finding Flaky on the ground, sobbing with the giant mess of a kitchen around her. She couldn’t help but feel horrible for Flaky. She scanned around a bit and saw an oven mitt on the counter, it was definitely thick enough to save Petunia from getting pricked. She kneels down next to Flaky and gently rubs her shoulder. “Hey there Flaky… What’s going on…?” She had a nice calm voice as she gave Flaky a nice warm smile. Flaky was still crying to herself but managed to choke it down enough to respond. “E-Everything…” Sniff sniff. “I’m such a mess I can’t even survive in my own house!” She managed to quickly get it out before her eyes squeezed shut as she returned to her mess of crying. Petunia rubbed her shoulder a bit more before sitting back up and looking around. She scanned what needed to be done and then set the oven mitt back down on the counter. She reached into her bag and pulled out a pair of medical gloves to protect herself from any gunk and then started cleaning up the kitchen. She didn’t exactly know where anything went, but she put away everything on the counters besides the food. She noticed the baloney in the sink and pulled it out, feeling that it was thawed out now, and then unclogged the sink. She then looked at all the cutlery and glass on the floor and got a bit wide eyed, quickly turning back and looking at Flaky with an even more sympathetic look. She grabbed a towel to push glass out of the way, and then slowly and carefully picked up all of Flaky’s cutlery as she put them all into 3 separate cups to distinguish between the 3 dishes. After that she lifted the towel and shook it out, scanning around until she saw a broom, finally getting rid of the glass threat. Finally she sliced two slices of bread and made Flaky a baloney sandwich.

Flaky was still off in her own world, all she could think about was how every day just seemed to get worse and worse, she’s so pathetic, she whines at the smallest bit of fright, the only time she ever does anything is when someone forces her to do it… Even just trying to feed herself became an impossible task… Suddenly she felt something tapping her shoulder. She rubbed her eyes for a moment to brush the tears away and slowly sat up, managing to finally clear her eyes enough to look around. At first she saw a blurry Petunia looking down at her with a small smile, but then she noticed the sandwich that Petunia was offering her. After a few moments of her just staring at it she slowly reached up and grabbed it from her, in shock from the gesture as she took a small bite. Flaky quickly grew a bit of a smile as she looked up at Petunia. “Th-thanks! … Petunia…” Her smile faded as she slowly pulled herself up, she almost tripped on herself as she got up, but Petunia grabbed her hand and held her up, chuckling a bit as Flaky quickly grew an embarrassed look. But Flaky’s embarrassment was short lived as she looked around and realized that Petunia had completely cleaned Flaky’s entire mess of a kitchen. At first she had a look of awe, but it quickly turned into a look of sadness as the gesture made her feel completely worthless, Petunia could do everything in just a few minutes… While she couldn’t do anything all day… “You really did everything for me… heheh…” You could hear her sadness grow at the end as she let out a sigh. But Petunia stepped up beside her. “Oh don’t be so hard on yourself, it’s the least I could do.” She grins over at Flaky. “Now let’s go give you a bath, you look filthy!” She chuckled a bit as she grabbed Flaky’s hand. Flaky jumped from how tense she was, but she was not at all able to fight back as Petunia started dragging her through her own house.

Petunia led Flaky upstairs and checked the few doors around until she found the bathroom. As Petunia put Flaky in the bathtub she finally spoke up. “W-WAIT!” She suddenly called out, before getting an embarrassed look. “I-I mean… Sorry I didn’t mean to-.” Petunia put the drain cover on and reached for the faucet. “You! You don’t have to do this! Really! I’ll be fine, I just-.” Petunia was basically ignoring her as she started filling the bathtub, and as it was filling up, she found a thing of soap to throw in to help in the cleaning. Now that the tub was full and Flaky was silent in embarrassment as she just froze still, Petunia had free reign. Quite obviously, the first task on the agenda was to wash all that dirty dandruff out of her hair. Petunia earlier had pulled some heavy duty gloves out of her bag back when she was cleaning and now she pulled them out of her tail and put them on. She grabbed a scrubber from the edge of the bathtub and dipped it in the soapy water before getting to work on scrubbing out the flakes from all of Flaky’s quills.

It took a very long time of scrubbing, eventually Petunia started humming to herself as she got closer and closer to making Flaky much cleaner. Flaky still had her eyes glued shut and was hiding her face with her arms in shame as Petunia got to really realize just how dirty she was. Petunia thought she had done everything or almost everything, so now was time for part B of the process. She started cupping clumps of soap and pouring them on Flaky’s head, most of it pouring off and getting over the rest of her body, getting in her skin and her fur and her quills, really getting everywhere to help fight the germs. Finally Petunia unblocked the drain to let the water level start falling as she stood up and grabbed Flaky’s shower head. She aimed it away from Flaky and turned it on, making it a nice cozy amount of warm and adjusting it until the water pressure was low and wide spread. She brought it down to Flaky and started using it to wash away any leftover gunk or flakes as she washed away all the soap from her body. As Petunia went on washing, Flaky finally was defeated enough to open her eyes and accept Petunia taking care of her. Once Petunia was done washing her arms she got curious and started feeling the fur on her arms, instantly being blown away with how soft she was. Every time she felt her fur it was always dirty and uncared for and didn’t feel too great, but right now she felt absolutely perfect. She turned to look at Petunia while she was still focused on finishing off the hard task of washing off the quills. Flaky couldn’t keep herself from just staring and smiling at Petunia, she just felt so safe around her, especially since Petunia was doing all of this just for her. After a bit, Petunia finished up and turned to Flaky to give her a thumbs up. Petunia instantly saw that Flaky was fixated on her and when Flaky instantly turned away in embarrassment, she giggled a little bit.

Petunia got up and found Flaky’s hair dryer, before she picked it up, she wetted some toilet paper and wiped it off, noting that there was a pretty significant layer of dust built up along the entire device. After that she plugged it in and walked over to Flaky who was still hiding her face from Petunia. Petunia turned on the hair dryer and started drying off all of the quills as Flaky couldn’t help but smile and relax from the nice warm feeling of the hot air. Eventually petunia finished up and got up. “Where do you keep the towels Flaky?” Petunia said as she put the hair dryer back where she found it and stood at the door. Flaky suddenly shook her head to snap out of that warm feeling, she turned to Petunia and managed to hide most of the emotions she was feeling. “Oh! Uhm… there’s a closet in the hallway…” Petunia put on a little smile and opened the door. “I’ll be right back then!” Petunia slid out of the door and walked away. Flaky instantly dropped the act as she put on a huge warm smile. She nuzzled her own arm, loving the feeling as she started to realize what all the fuzzy feelings she felt were. After a minute or so, Petunia returned with a large white towel and instantly got to work on brushing Flaky’s fur off. She was very efficient with it, due to her own fur she knew how to do this the right way and quickly got Flaky nice and dry. She folded up the towel and looked around, deciding the most fitting place for it was on the laundry machine. After that, Petunia was unsure of what to do next, she looked around the bathroom and then at Flaky, very visibly lost in thought. But Flaky suddenly got up and ran up to her, giving her a big hug. Flaky squeezed nice and tight as she couldn’t fight against her affection for Petunia. Petunia however was caught quite off guard, initially she froze up from the surprise, but then after a few seconds of Flaky squeezing her, she slowly moved her hands onto Flaky’s shoulder and her hip, mostly unable to hug her due to all the quills. Flaky eventually pulled away and saw Petunia’s shocked face, instantly assuming the worst and having all of her worst fears instantly flash to the front of her mind. She quickly stepped away from Petunia and turned away in shame. “I’m so sorry! I don’t know why I did that! I was just! Uhm…” She sniffles a little bit. “It’s uhh… probably getting late… Surely you don’t wanna keep Giggles waiting… haha…” The misery in her voice just kept growing and growing. Thank you so much for all you’ve done… It means a lot…” Flaky sniffled again and was suddenly so quiet that Petunia couldn’t hear her. “Especially to just a.. friend of a… friend…” But Petunia put a hand on her shoulder. “It is getting late.” She rubs Flaky’s shoulder to comfort her. “Why don’t we get you to bed?” She says as she suddenly heard her phone vibrate. Flaky looks at it and without any evidence has a good idea who it is. She sniffles again and looks down as she starts walking to the bathroom door. “That’s Giggles isn’t it… I’m sorry I didn’t mean to keep you so late… you should head home… I can put myself to bed…” She sounded so defeated as she opened the door. Petunia pulled her phone out and read her text message from Giggles. “Hey Tunie, hope you two are enjoying yourselves! I’m off to bed now so no rush on getting home <3” Petunia blushes a bit and quickly types back. “It’s not like that Gigs! She just needed someone… that’s all!” She looks between her phone and the empty doorway that Flaky has left from as she headed to her room. Her phone vibrated and she looked back at her phone. “Whatever you say Tunie. But you do know how much she likes you, if she really needed someone maybe it’s best to stay the night.” Petunia suddenly went wide eyed. How much Flaky… liked her? That’s a thought she had never thought of before… She thought about it and realized how Flaky was so unstable around her… Yet she seemed happier than she had ever felt in her life. She questioned it for a second, then realized it was Giggles, HER GIRLFRIEND telling her that Flaky has a crush on her… So she totally approved of this… Petunia stepped out of the bathroom and walked up to Flaky’s door, where she heard Flaky sniffling to herself in bed again. Petunia had all of the realizations hitting her at once as she slowly opened the door. Flaky quickly gave her a look of shame before looking away again and hiding her face in her arms. Petunia walked up to Flaky’s bed and lifted the blanket, seeing a very uncomfortable amount of flakes on the bed sheet. She looked around and couldn’t find anything, but eventually she caught a glimpse of something that looked big enough to be a sheet. As she walked up to it she found out it was a year old blanket… still in its packaging. It seemed Flaky had never got around to finding a place for it, so it was just tossed aside for a long time. Petunia opened up the wrapping and released the blanket, unfolding it to make it take it’s full size. She looked back at the bed and saw Flaky looking bewildered at her. “W-what… what are you d-doing with my blanket?” She still sounded all choked up, but Petunia put on a bit of a smile. “Scooch over a bit, will ya?” She said in a light hearted voice as she walked up to the side of the bed. Flaky stared for a second, like full on stared, but then she slowly backed off the bed as Petunia put the new blanket over the bed and suddenly stretched out, climbing onto the bed and getting herself comfy while laying on her back. Flaky just stared… in complete disbelief. After a solid 30 seconds of her trying to process what was going on, Petunia just moved over and grabbed her hand, pulling her into bed. Flaky squirmed a bit but she didn’t resist as Petunia pulled Flaky onto her, resting the poor porcupine’s face against her upper chest. Flaky grew incredibly flushed, but after a bit, the softness of Petunia’s fur instantly lulled her into a sleepy state. “Goodnight Flaky…” Petunia said softly while she gently rubbed Flaky’s chin. about 30 seconds of chin holding later, Petunia heard Flaky lightly snoozing, already having fallen to sleep. Petunia just smiled to herself while looking down at Flaky. She very slowly and carefully moved her arms around Flaky’s back, moving the clumps of quills aside until she could safely hug Flaky. She got one arm around Flaky’s upper back and one arm around the loser back as she pulled Flaky nice and snug with her. Eventually after holding flaky close for some time, Petunia fell asleep too, a big smile planted on both of their faces. The end