Teddy

How does a one define that moment when you know you are in love?
Experts have define all sorts of scientific reasons and occurrences that happen with "love".All of which are logical and have sound reasoning. They can be measured and weighed. The scientists know the chemistry of love. But no one really understands the heart. Generations upon generations of people have contemplated this concept of love since time immortal. Gurus and Shamans, Priestesses and Priests, all claiming to have a bead on what makes the heart fall in love.

For Teddy, it was the first moment he laid eyes on Lucy. Such a precious child. The excitement in her eyes as she asked him to come play, how could he have said no to that smile. Teddy was entranced. He was enthralled, Lucy held him in the palm of her hand.

The years passed, and as they did, so did the friendship of Teddy and Lucy. They confided everything in each other, crying on shoulders, pillow talk, the two were inseparable. Teddy loved every minute of it. Lucy was his world. He wanted nothing more in life than to make Lucy happy. He took on bullies, mean teachers for her, he was her knight in shining armor. There was nothing wrong that Teddy could do.

Then puberty set in. Lucy realized that there were other things in life than hanging out with old, scruffy Teddy. He tried hard to be there for her, but Lucy was always a bit of a wild child, and they grew apart. Lucy went her own way with the popular crowd, and Teddy just sat in the shadows, living out life alone.

It seemed like only a minute, a day had passed since they were running through the fields, or having a tea party, but high school graduation came around and Lucy went off to college. Teddy didn't want to go anywhere, so he stayed put. It seemed that Teddy was waiting for Lucy to miss him and come home. People would shake their heads at the sight of Teddy, knowing that his dreams were all for naught. Lucy had out-grown their friendship. Life would never be the same for Teddy, it seemed that he was just gathering dust, waiting.

The years passed and they weren't kind to Teddy, he grew solemn and subdued, a shadow of his former self. He had long ago given up hope of ever seeing Lucy again. The last whispers he had overheard was that she had gotten married and was getting ready to give birth to her first child. Teddy had been crushed, his soul destroyed. He had no reason to go on. Everyone could see that he was a fragment of his former self, a shell with no stuffing. There was nothing left in him.

Teddy vanished from thin air it seemed one day. No one could remember where they had seen him last. They gave a brief search for him, but it seemed everyone was glad to see him gone. He was old and bedraggled now. No one wanted to be around him. Teddy was broken and wasting away, rotting and molding it was said.

Then one day, Lucy came home. She brought with her a precocious toddler and a heaping of emotional baggage. Like most relationships in our modern times, it didn't last. Lucy had caught her ex cheating so now she was on her own. With a baby to raise. She needed Teddy. He was the only one who could help her. But no one knew where he had gone. In fact, no one had even thought about him in years.

This wouldn't do for Lucy. She was on the verge on a mental breakdown, and now to hear of this, that Teddy was missing. It just simply wouldn't do.
 Lucy searched high and low for Teddy, day in and day out. She nearly wore herself to a sick bed, not eating or sleeping, so intense was her search for Teddy.

She finally found him one day, in the back of an old shed at the edge of the property. A place they had spent lots of time in as children, a special place for the both of them. Lucy found him weeping his loss of her. She was so overcome with relief upon finding him, that her tears joined with his, and they wept in bitter happiness. For Teddy was in really bad shape, he had come here to pass on to the other world. Teddy could never give up hope that she would come back.

Frowning through her happy tears, Lucy looked down at Teddy and said, "We have to get you cleaned up. You have been my companion through all the tough time, always there for me. I need you now, like I never needed you before. I need you for my daughter, Emma."


With that, Lucy picked up Teddy,"I'm going to make you new again, Teddy. I need you to help me raise my daughter, Emma."
Teddy couldn't have been happier, with the woman he loved, doing her bidding. He really was a cuddly teddy bear.