'Brown Teddy Bear'
I didn't know what was so special about that little brown bear my little blonde headed brother carries around. He takes it everywhere he goes. When I say everywhere I mean *everywhere*
Wherever the bear is he is. TK is. I don't mind though, whatever makes TK happy makes me happy.
'MATT!' TK yelled. He ran over and tackled his older brother as the two began to wrestle playfully. Matt went easy on TK since he was younger than he was and was fragile too.
'Matt guess what?' TK asked red faced from all the excitement.
'What?' Matt asked smiling.
'Mommy took Teddy to go get cleaned today and says it'll be a while for him to come back!' TK said sighing, 'I sure miss Teddy.'
Matt smiled as he little bro trotted off to go play with some of his other toys while hid Teddy bear was gone. Of course Matt's smile faded as TK's words sunk in. Mom took Teddy to go get cleaned? That wasn't right. Matt suddenly remember something his mother had said to his father some time ago while TK and Matt were *suppose* to be asleep.
*Flashback*
'I think TK is growing to old for that old Teddy Bear of his,' Mrs. Ishida said to her husband. 'He drags that thing everywhere, it's a mess and no good now. I think we should get rid of it.'
'Now Nancy,' Mr. Ishida said sighing, 'Is it to much for a little boy to have a teddy bear? He loves that thing we can't just take it from him, he'd be heartbroken.'
'Well,' Mrs. Ishida said hesitantly, 'Maybe if we said it got lost or something?'
'No,' Mr. Ishida said, 'He'd still be upset.'
'I know but,' Mrs. Ishida started, 'the thing is no good anymore it's falling apart.'
'Let him keep it Nancy,' Mr. Ishida said sighing, 'He's a little boy, just wait a bit he'll grow out of it you'll see.'
*End of Flashback*
Mother didn't get rid of Teddy did she? Matt had to know, for the sake of his little bro he had to know. Matt rushed down stares and into the living room where his mother was fixing to take out the garbage. Uh oh…. There it was the little brown bear tucked away in the bag.
His mother stuffed the bag into the garbage can and left. Matt took advantage of this and ran outside, pulled open the garbage can and began rummaging through it. Two old folks passing by stopped to stare.
'My, people these days,' the old lady said to the other, 'going through garbage cans for food.'
'Bless his heart!' the other said walking over to Matt and giving his ten dollars. She smiled and left. Matt blinked why did she give him ten bucks? Oh well some people are just nice, really nice.
He finally found the bear and pulled it out. It was covered in dirt and filth, just like him. TK better be happy about this. Matt took the bear ran back in the house set the washer and put the bear in. Hopefully he did it right. Twenty minutes later he took the bear out. It smelled like flowers and looked fifty times better than Matt did. It was clean and warm. TK *had* defiantly be grateful about this.
Matt walked into TK and his room where TK was playing with his fire trucks. Matt walked over and pushed the teddy bear outward toward TK who looked up smiling.
'Teddy!' TK squealed happily and he took hold of it and snuggled into the soft bear, 'Thanks Matt!' TK jumped up and hugged Matt who was grinning and ruffling his kid brother's hair.
'Hey Matt?' TK asked looking up at him.
'Yeah squirt?' Matt answered.
'You need a bath,' TK said as Matt chuckled to himself. If only TK knew, if only he knew.