Y’all know Leap.

Leap is our teenage rebel who grew up as a solo pup and therefore owns the farm and everyone in it.

And y’all know Jelly.

Jelly is our new(ish) girl from Alaska. She likes to torment her brother Lima, follow her idols Jenga and Pepé, and wear vines. She’s a teenager, too.

It would seem like our two teenage girls should be friends, but they’ve mostly hung out in separate play groups. Until, that is, @QuinceMountain brought them together for a journey in the woods.

At first they were kind of suspicious of each other. Jelly doesn’t always have the greatest social skills; she’s been known to try to befriend other dogs by stepping on their heads.

So Jelly leaned into @QuinceMountain for some hugs and comfort.

Well. Leap couldn’t STAND THAT.

Obviously Leap is the favored teen girl around here. Right? Right?? She butted in and pushed Jelly away.

But Jelly didn’t push back.

She didn’t stand up for herself.

She was just happy that Leap had paid attention to her. And now she wanted to follow Leap around.

Leap was pretty confused by this attention, because this is not the way her world usually works, but pretty soon she decided that actually it DID make sense for her to have a minion, thank you.

In fact, she wasn’t sure why she’d never had a minion before now.

There was only one thing left for the girls to do.

Together, they would go where no BraverMountain huskies had gone before.

INTO THE MUD

Leap went first—but of course her girl Jelly wasn’t far behind.

The mud was cold and stinky.

It may or may not have contained leeches.

They loved it.

The girls found their very own island. Their secret clubhouse, where no one else could go.

They played on their island for a long time.

Then they came splashing back.

Now they want to do everything together.

There’s only one moral to this story.

If you want someone to be your friend, get muddy with them.

The end.