You were just another bug in the peaceful meadow Sunny Patch, you weren’t friends with many but did go out a lot. You had to, you had to see Spiderus… He didn’t know you loved him, yet you did and you often watched him without him knowing, secretly keeping pictures of him in your room in The Hollow Tree, but never letting anyone — not the yellow spider Flora, your adoptive mother, or her husband nor her kids — see it. Spiderus didn’t live with you and didn’t visit you, as he didn’t care about anyone enough to, so you didn’t worry about him finding out.

This morning you woke up, ate breakfast, and did the usual. You didn’t go completely outside yet but you peeked out of the door of the gigantic Hollow Tree you lived in, looking down at all the bugs below starting their morning, hoping you’d see Spiderus…