The fox and The hen

The wolf and the hen meet in an extraordinary way. The hen was doing whatever she needed to stay alive in a foreign place away from the hen house she loved so dearly. She was keeping herself alive with a job that she learned so long ago. The job was good for her. She was pretty and sky as the foxes she entertained. Not only did this job make her reach it filled her ego.

The fox on the other hand was beat up and tired of his life. He worked and slept and ate when needed. His self esteem was crushed and he spent his days and nights alone. He didn’t know that something amazing was about to happen because his self doubt went deep inside his very bones. The fox wasn’t always so self destructive. He lived as an outcast in the forest for years. He provided for himself and always carefully for those he bedded down with at night. The fox was working towards change and positive things were happening all around him. He was happy. He believed he could climb out of his self-made hell, but sadly he still felt alone.

Then he met the hen. He crept into her house. The hen was already prepared for the day when this particular fox would come knocking. She played weak and timid. Scared of being so alone in a foreign land. The hen was a great actor and like all hens selfish and self centered by design. The fox played right into her hand. After several dates the hen broke it to the fox by saying there have to be some changes if you want to be seen in public with the likes of me. The fox listened to the list of changes and they were all superficial adjustments. 

The fox set out to change his style and attitude.  All the changes came quickly and the fox felt better because he was getting compliments from everyone he knew. He was getting checked out all the time by all types of animals in the forest. The fox felt like a lion proud and pretty. His self esteem soared. This came with a price though most of the money the fox had saved disappeared in order to fulfill this obligation to the hen.

The hen was amazed at the change and she spent every spare moment she had with the fox. The fox felt the empty spaces in his heart fill up. The fox felt love for the hen but he knew the feeling was not mutual. There were some changes they still needed to be changed but the fox couldn’t let go of some of these devices he had refined long ago when he was growing up. The fox needed his assumptions. He sometimes assumed too much but his assumptions were very accurate most of the time. Even though the fox was humble he had moments of arrogance. This arrogance kept him alive for many years without it the fox would have had no reason to live. He would have curled up in a ball and ceased to exist.

The hen lived her new life at first but she started to grow bored. The foxes love and praise was not enough to keep her happy. She asked to go back to work. She proclaimed it was for the family but the way she spoke about her job every day and night made the fox curious. He didn’t know what to Belizean longer. The fox started to question his role in this setting.

The hen did her best to assure the fox that he was just paranoid. The fox heard things that were not meant for his ears. The fox has always pretended that he is hard of hearing but he hears just fie.  He heard a plea made by the hen to another fox and it hurt him tremendously. The hen was curious that the fox heard her so she tried to play a game to find out what the fox was thinking.

The game is being played and the fox is now really questioning where he really stands in the hen’s existence. What is so great about all of this is that the fox has overcome his doubts of himself. His self-esteem is soaring. The hen calls it arrogance but it is the hen who is arrogant. The fox is sly. He knows where he stands and each day he strives towards perfection. The fox is grateful of the hen and the work she helped the fox complete. The fox wants this to work with all his heart but he feels everything is slipping through his hands like sand.

The fox knows he can do anything he wants. He has faith in himself but he fears that he cannot fix this because he cannot control another. The hen doesn’t know what will happen next because the fox is sly. The situation is sticky and the fox is sick of being hurt.  The fox is confused now and words will not suffice. This is well past words now. The only thing that can heal this mess is action.

The fox is sad and feels like the world just punched him in the face.

The hen will never understand just how deep the love was going.

The end.