The hen Pipoca (Popcorn) shakes her feathers. It’s five in the morning and the rooster Pimpão has already woken up. And, of course, woke up all the hens with him. 

Pipoca jumps out of the chicken coop and looks for something to eat on the ground. The day is cool and there are dark clouds in the distance. It looks like a storm is coming. She loves days like this!

Look, there’s corn on the ground here, she thinks. And there’s more corn there. And over there at the end there’s more corn.

She begins to follow a trail of corn on the ground. 

She looks back. The rooster Pimpão is surrounded by hens. They all say wonderful things about his feathers. And he is happy. Of course, he loves being the center of attention.

Fortunately, no one else noticed the corn. She loves corn!

Pipoca continues to follow the trail. She is very satisfied, so she doesn’t notice that she goes through a hole in the fence. She just thinks she’s very lucky.

After a while, Pipoca lifts her head from the corn trail. She looks around. Oops. The chicken coop is already far away.

Pipoca gets scared. Foxes tend to walk close by. She hears a branch snapping behind the bushes.

‘Oh no! What have I done? No one hears me asking for help here’, she thinks, panicked.

She sees something colorful behind the bush. It’s a rooster. It’s the rooster Fábio.

‘Pipoca. How are you?’, he asks.

‘What are you doing here, Fábio?’, Pipoca doesn’t say it, but she feels relieved.

‘I’m not afraid of foxes, as you know’, he says in a whisper. ‘Did you like the corn?’

‘Was that you?’

‘I knew you would like it.’

The hen Pipoca scrapes the ground with one paw. She doesn’t know what to say.

‘Leave Pimpão, Pipoca’, he says. ‘Let’s get out of here. Just the two of us.’

‘Do you still like me then?’ she asks.

‘Of course I do.’

Pipoca is happy and pecks Fábio on the head. Now he knows she likes him too.

The two walk away towards the horizon. Behind them, the fox Adélia doesn’t believe her luck.