waking up in a cold sweat bright heart scrambles to find his dream journal to write down his latest nightmare
august 1st 1990
dear dream journal,
tonight was the worst nightmare yet. i dreamt that no heart finally caught me and was preparing to suck the caring feelings right out of my soul, now i can't fall asleep because my heart is pounding with extreme fear. bright heart then closes his dream journal and sighs to himself "i can't keep going on like this every night, even bedtime bear is starting to notice how frazzled im becoming."
"it might be a good idea if i go seek out his help, no matter how embarrassed i am about all of this."
the very next day bright heart wakes up while feeling completely exhausted and looks at his clock
"oh man im late, i promised to help grumpy to fix his kitchen sink."
bright heart grabs a cup of coffee and runs to grumpy's house just in time to see it flood and grumpy grumbles to himself "oh why do these things always happen to me."
"there you are bright heart. can you help me finish fixing my kitchen sink? im way behind on the rest of my work"
3 hours later bright heart finishes up the kitchen sink "that should do it grumpy, i gotta get going now bye"
bright heart waves bye to grumpy as he dashes off towards bedtime bears house just in time to see him leave the house
"hey bedtime i was wondering if i could get some help on some nightmares i've been having"
Bedtime ushers Bright Heart into his house and offers him a cup of hot chocolate. "What seems to be troubling you Bright Heart? You look like you haven't slept all that well last night." Bright Heart gathered up all of his courage and began to tell Bedtime about his nightmare.
"What do you make of it Bedtime? These nightmares keep coming and I don't know what to do about it. I figured you could help me since dreams are your area of expertise."
Bedtime sipped from a mug of his own. His day had just begun after all so it was going to take him a little while to wake up. "Why do you suppose you feel No Heart is singling you out? Have you done something lately to anger him?" Bedtime didn't remember hearing about anything from the others.
Bright Heart thinks long and hard about Bedtimes question "Nothing that I can recall which is really disconcerting Bedtime, and the nightmares just keep getting more and more dreadful. Isn't there anything you can do? I know that you have the power to manipulate dreams. Grumpy would talk about how you would change his dreams around whenever he had a terrible nightmare."
"Don't remind me. You don't even want to know what that bear finds terrifying." Bedtime said with a little shudder. Running a finger around the rim of his mug he said, "I am willing to try. You'll stay here tonight and I will drop in on your dreams. Then I can see them for myself and help you turn them happy."
"Thank you so much Bedtime Bear. What time should I come back over to your house? Tenderheart has me lined up for some caring missions down on earth. I should probably get going right now, see you tonight and thanks again."
Bedtime gets up to see Bright Heart out, "Just head over whenever you start to get tired. I'll be up all night." He told his cousin with a sleepy grin.