Planet Bear by Rebecca Royce

Author:Rebecca Royce [Royce, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: After Glows Publishing

6

I didn’t know if I dreamed. At some point, the bed dipped, and Cole must have joined us. I didn’t open my eyes. I just knew it was he who had nestled in behind me. The world faded again. It was my stomach that woke me. It grumbled, needing food. Whatever it was that was changing me, making me feel okay about what should have been lunacy, hadn’t altered my need to eat.

The bears might not need to eat regularly, but I did.

They both lay still while light came through the windows. I guessed it was mid-morning. I scooted down the center of the bed as to not wake either of them and padded my way to Finn’s drawers. I simply couldn’t continue to go along in the clothes I’d been wearing for so long. I grabbed Finn’s shirt and put it on. If he didn’t like it, I guessed I’d get to see his temper for the first time.

Cole’s eyes opened, and he extended his hand to me. “Jessica, come back. The bed is cold without you.”

He wasn’t really awake. Cole dropped his hand and rolled over. They were back-to-back now, as though all I needed to do was crawl back in. I might have considered it if my stomach didn’t beg me to fill it. I’d come back after I ate.

I went downstairs. The house was cold, the way the bedroom had been. I looked around. When I’d headed up the night before, I hadn’t thought it at all chilly. Was it possible it wasn’t actually any different in temperature right now? Maybe I was just being sensitive to it now. In any case, I was cold in Finn’s t-shirt that fell past my knees. I hated even opening the fridge, but I stood in front of it, trying to decide what to eat. Since I’d been here, it had been only the one salmon dish and the porridge. I was going to have to do better than that.

Eggs, it seemed, like salmon, looked very similar, and I soon discovered some other things that seemed familiar. I stumbled through the kitchen and managed to cook myself some food. Eggs and something that reminded me of bacon. I was ravenously hungry. Cole’s footsteps behind me alerted me that I wasn’t alone.

He sat down in the chair next to me. All of the furniture in this house was huge, and yet with Cole, it looked regular sized. I broke the bacon in half and put it near his mouth. He took a bite and grinned. “I’m the one supposed to be feeding you.”

I took my own bite of the other half of the bacon. “Did your mother seriously take all of her meals with someone else feeding it to her?”

“Not every meal.” He shook his head. “My fathers were so busy. There were times it was just her here with us. She fed herself then. But if they were here? Yes, they fed her. They loved it. They’d be utterly upset with us that we’re not.

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