Part 2

He crept slowly toward the ICEE haven and wondered if he should wait for the family to leave or just go for it.

He woke up in a daze, feeling like he was looking through red tinted glasses he glanced around the cave. Bewilderment took him over. What happened? He saw numerous large ICEE cups strewn about along with several pairs of children’s socks. Those socks, it was all coming back to him now. He had decided to enter the 7-Eleven with an overbearing sweetness. He walked on his toes as if he was avoiding stepping on snails. Making his way towards the ICEE machine he pretended to have a hat and took it off and bowed towards the sales clerk. Tip-toeing towards bliss he noticed children stood in his way. They had already filled their cups but were drinking them quickly and kept going back for more. “If the apocalypse came today would you be ready?” the bear asked the children. At this, they stared at him, sticky sweetness dripping from their faces. “Would you?” asked the oldest. The bear hadn’t expected this. Alarmed but trying to stay calm, he said, “Well I would if only I had some shoes.” Looking down at the children’s feet, he said “Yours will do!” Then quicker than any bear he swiped their shoes and their ICEES and made his way out the way he came in, making sure to bow his head to the clerk as he left, to which the clerk just shook his head.