Inised the bear cave

Inside the bear cave

I had wanted to remember every detail of Esmee and Emmets house to the exact measurements but as Every new room was revealed to me the previous one was reduced to mere smoky colours floating somewhere in the back of my memory. All I could concentrate on was the thudding of my heart and trying to stay still long enough so I could look around the given room and not throw up on any of the luxury carpets that scattered the floors in different colours. the ground floor had three rooms that included a light blue living room with white furniture, a white bathroom with a mirrored walls and chrome fittings and a glorious walk I n shower and the large modern kitchen that was black and white with big wall paper consisting for big poppy’s to perfectly match the red appliances that shined and sparkled. Through a door in the kitchen was a utility room and through that was a huge back garden. Esmee had told me that in the summer it was something to look at when all the flowers that lines the flower beds were in bloom and the Apple tree had green leaves and enough apples to make homemade pies but winter had stripped it of every colour it had apart from a wet grey that once again reappeared after we entered the hose cast upon it. Inside though everything was tidy and everything had its place apart from Mia’s stuff that popped up on the surfaces or that was piled on the floor of the living room were liz had obviously been playing with her before we arrived.

“ At the top of the stares of your right is the room for our foster children that we get that aren’t teenagers.” Esmee said beaming we walked up the first flight of stairs towards to the landing on the first floor. “It’s nothing much,” She added as we reached the top of the stairs and opened the door leading into a small room that was painted bright orange with safari park stickers littering the walls. Up the left had side was a single bed with an animal head board and down the other was a pine chest of draws a wardrobe. On the back wall was a storage cabinet that I could see was full of toys that looked mainly for a little boy of about six. It was perfect for any child. It was warm and cosy and it was safe something all children deserved. Something I never had like most of the other children that arrived to Esmee and Emmets, lost cold beaten and confused.

“We know it’s small.” Esmee said smiling as I reached out and brushed my fingertips over one of the animals on the walls as the tears welled somewhere in the backs of my eyes. They were making a difference changing the world. “The children seem to enjoy the animals though and if they are here for a long time we can change the wall stickers and things for princesses or something and we haven’t had any complaints yet. Your room of course is bigger and it has your own bathroom, much nicer than this.”

That seemed impassable I would have loved to have curled up at the end of the mattress and gone to sleep right then and never looked back. There was no way my room could be any nicer than that of course though I was wrong. My room was set in heaven.