Mr.Teddy (part 2)

That night Willa slept with Mr.Teddy hooked in her arm. At first she felt funny to sleep with something so soft and fluffy. All the fur on Old Bear had worn off a long time ago. But Mr.Teddy seemed staring at her. Everytime she turned or moved, she felt his big eyes watching her. Willa woked up early the next morning. The sun had barely begun to rise. Outside, she could hear bird chirping. Something didn’t feel right. She lifted her head and stared down at her bed. Where was Mr.Teddy? She gropped around her covers, but couldn’t feel him anywhere. Where was he? Willa pushed herself up,squinting in the dim light. Had Mr.Teddy fallen out of the bed? She peered down at the floor. Not there. She shook her covers again, then leaned over to check underneath the bed. “Are you there, Mr.Teddy?” she called softly. A sock and some dust balls started back at her. 
Where Mr.Teddy could be? 
Willa’s eyes moved up her dresser, then over to the windowsill above the

doll corner .

She caught her breath. Mr.Teddy sat propped up on the windowsill,

staring back at her. His eyes seemed to be shining. 

"Huh?" Willa murmured. " How did you get over there?"

She climbed out of bed and lifted him off  the windowsill. “Mr.Teddy,” she scolded. “What are you doing? Did you get up and move during the night?” The bear’s dark eyes glowed back at her. “Stop staring at me like that!” Willa laughed.

“You’re giving me the creeps.” She kissed the top of his head, then popped him back on her pillow. “Maybe i woked up and put him there myself and don’t remember,” Willa said to herself.  At breakfast, she caught Gina staring at her. “What are you looking at?” she asked sharply. “Nothing,” Gina smirked. “Did you come to my room last night?” Willa demanded.“No,” Gina replied, still smiling. “Why would I?”

The next night, before she fall asleep, Willa made sure Mr. Teddy was hooked firmly in the crook of her arm. It took her a long time to fall into a restless sleep. She kept waking up and checked at Mr. Teddy. But he always right where she left him, in the bend of her arm, watching everything with those big, dark eyes of his.  In a funny way, Willa felt as if he were guarding her. She woke up the next morning with a start. Immediately, she felt around for Mr. Teddy. Gone again! Willa glanced suspiciously at the windowsill. Not there, either.  She sat up in the bad and began to search the room.

Her eyes swept over the doll corner, the floor, then moved up the dresser.
   “Hey you!” Willa cried out when she spotted Mr. Teddy on top of the dresser.

  “What’s goin on bear? What are you doing over there?” She jumped out of bed and hurried over. 

 She gasped when she saw the two porcelain eggs. They lay smashed under the big teddy bear.
 Mr. Teddy’s eyes had an evil glow.
      “Who did this?” Willa demanded. “Who broke these eggs?”
Willa tried o think. It could’t be Mr.Teddy. He didn’t climb the dresser and plop down on the eggs. No way.  So who could it be? The one person who was jealous of all her stuff.
    “Gina!” Willa shouted furiously. “How could you do this?” 

 Willa stormed into Gina’s room. Empty. Where was she?  Willa stomped back into the hall and stood at the top of the stairs, “Gina! I’m going to get you for this!”
            Her mother appeared at the bottom of the stairs. “Why are you shouting, Willa?”
            “Where’s Gina?”
            “She left early for school,” her mother said.
“Remember? She has chorus practice.”
            Willa clenched her fist. “Wait till she gets home tonight,” she growled. “She’ll be singing a sad song when i get through with her!”

            That afternoon Willa paced the front hall waiting for Gina to return home. She paced back and forth, back and forth, checking out the window every time she passed it.
            Finally she saw Gina coming up the front walk. She angrily pulled open the front door to greet her.
            “I know it was you who smashed my porcelain eggs last night!” Willa uttered in a shacky voice. She blocked Gina’s path.
            Gina pushed her aside. “What are you talking about, Willa? Are you totally losing it?”
            “You know what I mean,” Willa insisted. She followed her sister to the stairs. “You broke my best eggs for no reason. The you moved onto the dresses to make it look like he did it. What a sick, stupid joke.”
            Gina stopped. “I really don’t know what you’ve talkng about.”
            “Do too,” Willa snapped.
            It had to be Gina. Who else could it be?
            “You’re just trying to get me in trouble with mom,” said Gina. “Leave me alone Willa. I’m warning you.”

            Later, when Willa went to bed, she shoved Mr. Teddy all the way under the covers. “I want tou to stay down there tonight, okay?” she told him. She curled her body around his, then puled her covers up to her neck.
            Nobody could get Mr. Teddy out now, Willa thought. At least not without waking up her.
            But Willa was wrong.

-admin FF
source: Goosebumps Novel