Claire woke up the next morning as groggy and bed headed as usual. She tossed and rolled in the little blow-up bed that she would place in the living room. She groaned a bit for the fun of it, but it looked like she was experiencing a hang-over more then anything. But either way, Claire ended up falling out of the bed and was fully aware of everything around her.
"No, not morning!" she said out loud to no one.
"I said the same thing." Oopsy, now Care Bear again, said as he came into the room.
"Did you fall out of bed too?"
"Almost." he smiled.
"That's right, I would have waken up when you fell out of bed because I would have heard you fall on the floor."
"Very funny." Oopsy said sarcastically.
"Don't dis the comic relief honey." Claire said as she sat up.
"Never to that again."
"I won't plan on it."
They looked at each other for a moment, transfixed on each other. Just remembering what had happened the night before. Kissing was rare for them. When you are a Care Bear any romantic feelings are scraped from your brain, you are trapped to just care and treat everyone like family. How Oopsy had romantic feeling for Claire was a confusing thought, but it was nothing for how he felt compared during the times he was human. Humans had no limitations to their romantic actions, something that Oopsy had grown jealous of. It was the thing he feared that would take Claire away from him. Love. True, human, unadulterated love. You have to be a human to 'go steady' or 'engage' or 'marry' someone as Oopsy had been told. Growing up in a place where no one was like you and had stuck out made Oopsy feel rather unneeded in the Kingdom of Caring, Claire was the one that made him feel like he belonged some where. Where the place was was with Claire, on Earth or in Care-a-lot.
"Did Wingnut make breakfast yet?" Claire finally asked.
"I don't know but it smells good!" Oopsy responded.
"Let's hope that it's breakfast, not one of Grumpy's inventions that exploded and some how smells like pancakes and sausages." Claire giggled.
"Let's hope." Oopsy laughed.
"Or maybe it was Grizzle!" Claire joked, ready to laugh for a while. "He turned the Care Bears into breakfast foods and we're the only ones left!"
"Yeah." Oopsy said, actually liking the idea.
"You just can't me straight in the eye and not kiss and tell!" Sari told Claire later that day. Claire rolled her eyes. She looked her friend straight in the eye and said,
"I will not kiss and tell."
"You're lying." Sari said, although it was obvious Claire was not.
"I am not lying Sari. What happens between us will stay between us. It's that simple. We do not always have to act like sisters you know."
"Give me a hint please?" Sari begged, getting herself in Claire's view.
"I..." Claire started, "Kissed a Care Bear and I like it."
"Are you going to sing the full song too?"
"No. Then I'll have to give Katy Perry the credit for the original song."
The two girls laughed.
"What songs do you think we can get away with?" Sari asked.
Claire thought about it for awhile. Then a big smile stretched onto her face.
"None of them. Not without giving someone proper credit that is."
"Darn those copyright laws!" Sari laughed, shaking her fist in the air. The girls laughed together. When their laughing subdued it was a while before any one said anything. It was Sari, who decided to ask the unquestionable.
"What will you and Oopsy do when you're older?"
"What are you talking about?" Claire asked her friend, nearly wondering if she was insane or something.
"Since it's sooo obvious you are Oopsy are inseparable, what are you two going to do when you're old enough to get married? Surely you can't marry a Care Bear of all things. And what are you going to explain to your boyfriend that your last boyfriend was a Care Bear?"
"Sari, your mind thinks of things that make doctors wonder what went wrong."
"I know. But it just crossed my mind, ya know? It felt like it needed to be said."
Claire sighed as she thought about the options and the ups and the downs that went with them.
"Well..." Claire said, setting her thoughts out, "I guess if worst comes to worst and we really want to be together forever, then I would have to be a Care Bear permanently or Oopsy would be a human permanently."
"Wow." Sari said in wonder. "And when you're a Care Bear, any thoughts of romantic pleasures are scrubbed out of your brain aren't they?"
"Pretty much." Claire nodded, "It's amazing with what Oopsy has gotten away with already."
Sari looked down at the ground. Claire had told Sari about the time Grizzled had turned her into a Care Bear, but this nearly gave a new view on it.
"Do you... do you think that you and Oopsy will... always be... always be... close to each other?" Sari asked, she sounded unsure of herself. Of the future.
"Maybe." Claire's answer was. "No matter what happens, we'll have each other in the place we need it the most."
"The bedroom?" Sari asked. This launched to girls into giggles.
"No!" Claire said. "In our hearts."
"What a way to end the stories all mushy and lovey-dovey Clairinda." Sari joked.
"What ever it takes Sari. What ever it takes without the readers annoying us later about how bad the story was." Claire said in a paranoid tone, as she looked straight at you reading this story. Breaking the fourth wall the only way a story character knew how...