It was the dead of night when Olive snuck out of her home. The sheep was fed up with her family’s whining and complaining. They never did anything fun. All they did was point out things that she already knew, and things she could care less about. Olive had been planning on running away for some time, but now was the time to put her plan to action. Landing softly onto the grass, Olive scurried into the woods and out of sight of the house.

She had enough money with her to buy a ticket for the train and a hotel to say at for one night. The rest would go to food that would tide her over until she could find a job. Then she could rent an apartment.

Then again, it was only time until someone realized she was a runaway and turned her over to the police.

Olive sighed and leaned against the trunk of a tree. She had gotten half way through the forest. The train station was only a mile away.

She stood and began to walk when a growl stopped her.

‘Oh no…’ Olive thought miserably as she turned around. There, only a couple of feet away, was a wolf. ‘This is not good…’

She took a step away, but that caused a feral bark from the beast. In the dead of silence, that one bark seemed to deafen her ears.  Her nerves were shot. She couldn’t out run a wolf, nor could she talk her way out of getting eaten.

Thinking quickly, she did really the only thing to do. Run.

Olive bolted to her right, running as fast as her little hooves could take her. Behind her, the sound of heavy breathing and footfalls informed her that her tormentor was hotly pursuing. She willed herself to use all of her energy in running knowing that the station must be near.

Fate, however, seemed to be against her.

One of her hooves caught in a hole; thus causing her to fall face first into the cold dirt. Olive only had enough strength to turn her torso to her chaser, and seeing him leap into the air at her. She turned away, not wanting to meet her death….

… Which never came.

Olive opened her eyes and turned her head to see that the wolf had landed right into a large hole in front of her.

‘But… That wasn’t there before. I would have fallen into it…’ Olive puzzled over the sudden appearing gap when the ground beneath her began to quiver. She blinked her blue eyes and to her amazement, the earth beside her opened up and a head came with it.

“Hey! What’s the big idea for breaking my home? I should throw this rock at you!” Olive blinked in shock as she got yelled at by a star-nosed mole.

Who apparently was not happy.

The mole huffed and crossed her arms; her squinted eyes glaring at her. Olive smiled uneasily before waving stupidly.

“Um… I’m really sorry about your home. If you need me to fix anything--”

“You’re a sheep.” The mole stated sharply. “What do sheep know about digging holes and tunnels?”

Olive paused before shrugging. “Well… I guess not a lot…”

Just then, a howl pierced the night air causing Olive to jump and scoot as far away from the fallen wolf as possible. The mole watched this before sighing.

“Well, we can’t have the wolf in the hole, but if we do he’s eat you for sure. So what to do…” The mole thought before suddenly smiling. “I know! You can stay with me until the wolf is gone!”

Olive blinked before raising her hands up. “Wait a minute. I thought you--”

“I don’t hate you for destroying the tunnel I was just working on, though you are going to help me rebuild it.. Or I can just start over again. Do you like worms?” The mole suddenly asked. Olive had to hold back a gag and politely answered “no”. The mole shrugged. “Too bad. Well, come on!” and with that she disappeared into her hole.

“Oh yeah, I’m Mole-chan.” The mole shouted back up at Olive. Olive smiled.

“I’m Olive Hitsu.”

A clawed paw came back to the surface and shook the sheep’s hand. “Nice to meet you, Hitsu-jin.”

And that is how the mole and sheep became friends.

THE END