"Momma, can we go to the park now? You promised."

A simple question deserved a simple answer, however for Kailey Richardson, some answers never came. Today was one of those days.
Her mother, a lovely woman with auburn hair, had been submerged into the world of tax bills and couldn t find a way out. Kailey did all in her power to get her mother s attention, even if it meant annoying the life out of her.
"Kailey, I'm busy. You know that. Please sweetie, go play in your room until I'm done." Kailey's mother said, not even looking up. Kailey huffed impatiently, but did as she was told nonetheless. She marched prudently up to her room and flopped down onto her bed.
Kailey surveyed her room as she lay on her bed, and came across her bookshelf. After discussing to herself whether she should get a book or not, Kailey finally got off of her bed and walked over to the bookshelf. Now, Kailey couldn't read most words that were beyond her reading level and a lot of the books she had lacked pictures for some reason. But there was one book that she had memorized, start to finish. It was a book her mother had made her a year ago for her birthday.
The little girl gingerly got the book out from the shelf, grabbed a stuffed teddy bear from the window sill, and sat down on her bed.
"Ollie, have I ever told you about the Caring Kingdom?" she asked the teddy bear. She made the teddy shake its head no.
"I feared that." She said. "Good thing we have time to tell it." Kailey smiled at the teddy and opened up the front cover of the book. It had such a beautiful illustrations that even if Kailey hadn't had memorized the entire book, she could easily guess what was going on.
"The Caring Kingdom is a world where marvelous creatures called the Care Bears, and Care Bear Cousins live. No day has a dull moment there, and no one is ever sad for long. The Care Bears and Cousins leave their paradise on occasion to go down to Earth to help a human child with their troubles. Very rarely, do children ever need aid from the Care Bears and Cousins more than once. But, with every rule, there is an exception."

Kailey smiled at the text, then at Ollie.
"I'm going to be that exception Ollie." She told the toy. "I'm not sure how, but one of these days I m going to go to the Caring Kingdom and stay there."

Kailey paused for a moment like the teddy bear was talking to her.
"Well, I'll take you with me. And all the Care Bears and Care Bear Cousins will be there. I won't be completely alone..."

Kailey paused again, given the teddy a moment to speak.
"Mommy won't mind if I'm gone. She didn't notice the other day when I stole those cookies from the cookie jar..."

Ollie was given a moment to express his opinion.
"Well Daddy caught me, but it wasn t Mommy though!"

Ollie was given a chance to express his opinion again, but before Kailey could talk back to him, her mother came into her room.
"Okay Kailey, we can go to the park now. I FINALLY got the bills caught up enough."

"Can I take Ollie, Mommy?"

Kailey's mother smiled.
"Of course. We wouldn't let Ollie be left out of the fun."