Chapter 3: Chapter Two – Don’t Panic

Chapter Two - Don’t Panic

Emily decided, quite sensibly, not to panic.

The breeze shifting around her room settled and Emily shivered as the air stilled. She still sat on the edge of her bed, her hands folded on her lap and her breath coming in deep gulps.

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Emily stared at the woman, no, the girl, standing before her where no one had been a minute before.

She was on the shorter side, with a squat figure and big chubby cheeks framed by brown hair that was cut off at neck-length. She would have placed her at thirteen or fourteen, with some growing left to do. She had a simple beige T-shirt with the word ‘Bear’ on it in big letters over a pair of green cargo shorts.

She looked, at least to Emily, like any other teenaged girl. That was, if the girl didn’t have a pair of rounded ears poking through her hair and a few words floating about her head.

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WereBear, Level One

Emily looked away from the hovering words. The girl yawned. “What do you want me to do, Boss?”

“What?” Emily asked. She didn’t know why she was surprised by the girl talking. She should have expected it, really. “W-who are you?”

The girl blinked slowly. “I dunno. You haven’t named me yet.” She reached under her t-shirt and scratched at her tummy. “So, we're gonna do that?”

“Name you?” Emily asked.

It kind of made sense. She’d never been one for games and such, but she knew that naming pets was normal. But this was a girl, an actual human... maybe. People didn’t name other people, not unless they were naming a baby, and that was a comparison that Emily was really, really not ready to make.

The girl nodded. “Yeah. I mean, unless you’ve got something else that needs doing?” She looked around the empty room as if to confirm that there really wasn’t anything to do.

“I... how?” Emily asked. She shook her head a moment later. That was moving ahead too quickly. She had to figure things out. “Can I... unsummon you?”

“Nah,” the girl said.

Emily’s heart sank. “Oh. Okay. Um.”

“You okay Sis?” the girl asked.

“I’m fine,” Emily said faintly. It was her favourite lie, one that came easily to her lips.

“Alright, well, whatever.” The girl stepped up and Emily flinched, but she wasn’t attacked or hurt. The girl just climbed up onto the bed, shuffled around, and flopped onto her side in the middle of the bed.

“W-what are you doing?” Emily asked.

“Did you want me to scoot over?” the girl asked. She tapped the free space left on the bed. “There’s room. You’re not fat.”

“N-no, I mean. That’s my bed.”

“Got another bed?”

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“No?” Emily said.

The girl shrugged one shoulder, pulled the pillow down lower, and smushed her face into it. “Wake me up when stuff’s happening.”

Emily’s hands danced uncertain gestures through the air. “Oh-okay?” she tried.

In the end, she did succeed in calming down. The girl on the bed next to her didn’t feel like a threat, or like someone dangerous. She was just a normal teenager that had appeared out of thin air and who had slid onto Emily’s bed.

She was pretty sure there weren’t guides for that kind of situation online, at least, none that wouldn’t get her added to a watchlist.

“Okay,” she whispered to herself.

She needed a list. A nice checklist, with things to do, and tasks that she could tackle in a reasonable and logical order.

Rushing over to her desk, she found a notebook in one of the drawers and placed it on the surface. Then she dug around for a pen that worked and got to making her list. It wasn’t a terribly long one, but she didn’t need a long list, she needed a functional one.

1. Learn about power.
2. Turn off sign above head.
3. Learn about bear-girl. Name her?
4. Find a place to hide bear-girl.
5. Go to classes on time.
6. Call mom.

Emily set her pen down, re-read her list, then chewed on her lower lip a bit. It... was a list. She could do those things. Turning, she found the bear-girl snoring on her bed, low rumbles that faded in the background as soon as Emily didn’t pay attention. She could almost pretend that there wasn’t a person in her room if it wasn’t for the words floating above her bed.

Step one was first. “Status?”

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