Outside the book, Rabbit admits to Tigger that he did once look forward to being the Easter Bunny, but his exclusion the previous year made him feel unwanted. Tigger says it was not his or the others' intention to leave him out, but Rabbit, still bitter about the past, continues to deny the Hundred Acre Wood Easter. Tigger returns to the present and tells the others the bad news to the others, while also explaining the reason why. Rabbit also returns to the present, but the narrator purposely stops on the wrong page, at Roo's house, where Rabbit sees Roo wishing that he could make things up to Rabbit. Still unconvinced, Rabbit returns home. He puts away Piglet's Easter basket, Pooh's honey pot, Eeyore's bunny ears and Tigger's striped Easter egg in the trunk and goes to sleep. The narrator wakes Rabbit up by speaking in a ghost-like voice before transporting him forward in time to "unwritten pages of the book" – the future of the Hundred Acre Wood. On one page, it is Spring Cleaning Day and everything is organized exactly as Rabbit wants. Initially delighted, Rabbit asks where his friends are, thinking that they are late, but the narrator says that they all moved away because of his selfishness. Refusing to believe this, Rabbit ventures off and tries to find them. He realizes that the narrator wasn't kidding when he discovers that his friends' homes are empty and abandoned, causing him to regret his terrible behavior towards them, but the narrator claims that Rabbit didn't treat his friends like friends and that he only cared about himself. Not wanting to be alone for the rest of his life, Rabbit runs back to his house intent on having Easter, only to find out that his friends' things have gone with them.