Chapter 5
So, just yesterday we learned that Teddie grew a human body.
It was the oddest thing I ever saw. Teddie just took his head off, or, I guess, the top of his costume off, and was a person. So, he almost immediately started hitting on me.
Sure, he's done it before. And, maybe I was encouraging it. He's a very sensitive bear. I tried to encourage him, I wanted him to help us solve the case. But, I'm afraid I created a monster, now.
We had to go buy him some clothes, because, in his own words, he was "like a newborn". Chie kept laughing whenever Teddie would make a "BEAR naked" joke. I was almost done with him, with it all. I couldn't do it anymore. I could stand not being able to say to Chie "No! This isn't funny! Can't you see how this isn't?" I wanted to just punch Teddie until he turned back into a bear. I just wanted to close my eyes and not feel it anymore. I wanted them to understand.
I was grimacing, and I didn't even know it. I didn't want them to see what I was feeling, and I understand the irony there. I wanted to hide behind my shadow again, I just couldn't handle Chie laughing at me like that. But I didn't have to. Se stopped.
I almost didn't hear her when she asked what was wrong. It was like her giggles were still in my ears, burrowing deeper and deeper, shutting me off from all other sound. But she managed to break through, and I heard them again.
Of course, I told said that it was nothing. But she looked at me with a frown. She could tell that it wasn' just nothing. I don't think she knows exactly how I feel about her, but she knows that she was tearing me up inside. And, of course, Teddie couldn't tell what was wrong. Dumb bear.