Steve: The Adventure Bear

A story of friendship, acceptance, and moving on.

• Self help
• Short story
• Children

								
Steve was a teddy bear. A nice round teddy bear that you could plant your face into its nice warm and cozy, fluffy skin and just fall asleep. Steve was a teddy bear who loved to go on unbelievably extraordinary adventures through the cosmos, jungles even the the ocean from time to time. He loved these adventures so much that he would let his friend Julia come along with him. They’d spend hours revolutionizing things like the first ever wheel, to car, to jeep to plane to to boat to spaceship, and they would do this within a matter of hours, days even. They were always the most joyous occasion. Stealing from pirates and then swabbing their decks. Saving the world before sending them home. Life was good life was simple, life was peachy. Until one day, the adventures stopped.

Steve had not known why, or how, they stopped could it be his imagination had run dry, or had he been too repetitive, too angular in his journeys of triumphant that he had completed every task that the universe had to throw at him? Had he become the savior of the world? No… no that couldn’t be it he had these tasks for what seemed to be a millennium and then one day they’re all were completed. Done. Over. I feel as though this could not be the conclusion. Steve thought “There had to be another adventure, another task, another delusion to succeed in.” Nothing can be over. Nothing’s ever done. Because if nothing was now over then there wouldn’t be any fun. He scratched his head and paused a moment for a reason for why this happened. When suddenly from the corner he spotted a little girl. A little girl so quaint and small you think she was a mouse if it hadn’t for her pink dress, pigtails, and tiny shoes to match. 

Steve walked over to the wee little girl and asked “How do you do?”, but she never did answer. She just sat there curled in the corner of the dark room. As if something scared her from inside the room. Steve looked a bit closer and squinted trying to see a smidge of something, anything, but it was in fact too dark. Steve and his tiny hands walked up to the young girl's arm and asked “May I hug you.” he asked, so soft, and so kind, “Hugs help, so I’m told when you're sad alone”, but he got no response. He hugged her anyway, and with one small apology, a sudden glow began to grow and grow and grow, clearing up the darkness. 

It had been a miracle, the adventures were now back, with Gloria, and there's Gloria, and there’s Gloria, and everywhere he saw, he saw Gloria. He tried to reach out but Gloria didn’t respond, which was a bit more confusing and he wondered. Then he stopped and realized that something strange was going on, Gloria was in a living room, and a pool, and her room was all similar to the adventures going on. He stared at them wondering if it was all make-believe. Then he appeared suddenly on what seemed to be a movie screen.

His adventures with friend… no it just couldn’t be. Was it really that simple, simply make-believe? Steve fell to his knees and he started to cry a little, but it wasn’t very long, cuz there was a sensation that tingled. He opened up his eyes and what saw before him was… Gloria? Gloria, he just couldn’t believe his eyes. He was just so happy that he began to cry.

Gloria hugged Steve for a moment but then let him go a bit. Then she began to say these most peculiar words:

“Steve”, she said holding him at his shoulders, “You have been so good to me, but it’s time for me to let go. You have another journey to attend.”
“I don’t understand,” said Steve in full discontent, “What do you mean? I have many more journeys to attend with you so many-”
Gloria put a finger to his mouth and pointed towards the little girl. She walked Steve over to her and introduced them.
“Steve this is Stephanie, Stephanie this is Steve.” They waved at each other awkwardly, not really sure what to do.“
“Steve I have a very important task for you,” Gloria said. Steve listened carefully,” I need you to comfort Stephanie like you comforted me. It seems she is just a bit afraid of the dark. Can you help?”
Steve hesitated for a moment, and in that moment he started looking back on all that he and Gloria had been through together facing bumbling pirates, saving the world, and racing down city streets… he was going to miss those adventures.
“Steve?” Gloria said, encouragingly, “Stephanie likes adventures too. She actually likes them so much that she drew all of these.” Gloria pulled out a handful of pictures and showed them to Steve. Steve was shocked that there were pirates, and aliens and jet skis, and all sorts of adventures. His eyes glowed in fascination.
“I think you and Stephanie, would be great friends” Gloria continued, “Best friends, even.”
He looked at Gloria one more time this time with a smile. He hugged her and she hugged him. Then with one last embrace gave Steve to Stephanie. Starting a friendship and adventures that would last a lifetime. 
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