Hello, and welcome to bedtime stories with me rara. Okay. So we are reading my book, the pesky kids too, bear in the woods and we're up to chapter eight, hide and seek. Here we go. Wake up order April, just because it's Sunday is no excuse to sleep in Finn's brain half processed the words, but not quickly enough for April's liking. She slapped his face three times to emphasize her point, wake up April repeated, Ugh, moon to oh, Mo Finn. He opened his eyes and realized he was still in the hospital waiting room. He slept the night on a vinyl armchair. He'd turned to see April being even more brutal in her attempts to wake Joe she'd taken off his shoe and was whacking him on the head with it. I, you supposed to be sick. Asked Finn April was still wearing a hospital gown. So Finn had to turn his head to avoid seeing glimpses of her bum through the gap at the back. I have got a split in headache, a great April, but I don't see how lion in bed day is gonna help that. Why are you waking us up as Joe looking at his watch? It's only six o'clock because there is a bear on the loose and it might be killing people right now, rounded April. Since when do you care about people asked Finn. I care said April you're upset because no one B believes you said Joe. Yes, admitted April. It drives me up the wall. How dare they say I'm too stupid to know what I'm seeing with my own eyes. Not to mention smelling with my own nose. I don't care how concussed I was. My brain cannot have imagined that stench all on its own. Was it as bad as Joe's feet asked fin much, much worse declared April Joe, hurry to get his shoes back on. Sometimes people smell weird things. When they've had strokes said, fin, I didn't have a stroke said April. I hit my head on a rock and nearly drowned. That's totally different. Still brain damage is brain damage. Reason. Fin it could have made you smell weird stuff. So you don't believe me either yelled April. You think I'm making it all up about the bear? No said fin, the human brain is a remarkable piece of biology. It's faster and more complex than the most innovative computer. I think your brain made up the bear. April lunged at Fin's throat. I'm gonna kill you Joe. Leap forward to save his brother tackling April to the ground, but she already had a firm grip on Fin's collar. So all three of them hit the Oleum floor. Take that back. Cried April, tightening her choke. Hold on. Fin. Let him go on Finn. Letting go. Urge Joe Wied Finn. We don't even have bears in this country said, Joe, of course, no one is gonna believe you. You too cried. April letting go of Finn and grabbing Joe. She was still sitting on Finn's chest. So he didn't get much pulmonary relief. That hurts complain. Joe, definitely trying to release April's freakishly strong fingers. Of course it hurts mud at April. I'm trying to hurt you. Good morning said Loretta brightly. As she entered the room, the three pesky kids looked up from their tangled heap on the floor to see Loretta standing over them. She was stunningly gorgeous in simple Capri pants and a polo shirt. Her beautiful hair hanging long and loose about her shoulders. That looks like fun said Loretta. She mind if I watch mommy doesn't let me watch professional wrestling on the TV at home. April sat up releasing Joe, although she was still sitting on Finn. What's that I smell. She asked, oh, I brought hot donuts, Citta holding up a large paper bag. I thought you might like some for breakfast. You don't want to eat hospital food. Daddy promises. They don't cook up the leftover bits from operations, but I've never believed him April scrambled to her feet and snatched the bag from Loretta's hands. Thank you. She said Joe Gast. It was so red here. April used a politeness word thin, also gas, but simply for breath now that he was able to move his ribcage freely, he desperately needed to re oxygenate his body. I brought you the local paper as well. Continued Loretta, does it mention the bear asked April spraying crumbs everywhere. She spoke with a mouth stuffed full of donut. No said Loretta. Although it does mention that you hit your head and it also reminds readers that you are the girl with a self evident mental self-evident mental health problems who ruined this year's annual cockroach races. Loretta pointed out the part of the text. She was quoting. I didn't ruin them. Protested April. We saved them. Yes. Well the last thing people remember is you are refusing to accept the key to the city said, Loretta and your dog, trying to kill a cat at it. Fin. They are not symptoms of mental illness at April. No, but it is a list of reasons why no one likes you said Loretta. So you are saying that if Mr. Popular over here, April pointed at Joe who turned pink with embarrassment to be reminded of his own popularity. If he saw a bear, everyone would believe him. Of course they would said, Loretta, Joe is good at lawn bowls. That counts for a lot in car won. Well I'll show them declared April. We've gotta get out of here and find it. Find what asked Joe duh, the bear said April, then do what? Asked fin. Catch it, kill it because it'd be pretty hard to do either. Once it's mold us to death, we're not gonna hurt it. Declared April, that bear is a majestic animal. I do not approve a hurting animals for any reason. Unless they're humans observed fin, then you're all for it. Humans have totally got it coming said April ly. But that poor bear can't be happy. It hasn't got any of its natural diet. There are no salmon for it to catch bears. Must eat something. Besides salmon argued Finn banana cream pie from picking it fast. It said, Loretta, at least that's what Yogi bear always says. In every episode of that cartoon, quite a repetitive show. Really? When you think about it, we could go and see officer Osen said, Joe, he's an excruciating idiot guest, April trying to finish Joe's sentence for him. No, he's an experts said Joe, with animals, an expert at being a nitwit said April rolling her eyes. Oh, hello said, dad appearing in the doorway. I popped time and got your uniforms. So you can go straight to school. We can't go to school today. He said, April, why are dad looking worried? Does Dr. VA wanna do more tests on you? They always wanna do more tests, but they never say what for, I don't care what Dr. VAs wants said April. I'm not gonna school because I've gotta find that bear. She still thinks she saw her bear. Dad asked Joe Joe noted also because it's Sunday said Finn people would think it was really weird. If we turned up for school on a Sunday, it is our dad. Donut offered Loretta holding out the bag to dad and giving him her most winning smile. He looked dubiously into the paper sack. Have you put sedatives in the donor? Duplicate me? No, but we are in a hospital said, Loretta, I'm sure that could be arranged. I don't think I should allow you to go off into the Bush, said dad fishing out a cinnamon Don and taking a bite. I've got a serious head injury set. April pointing at the large bandage on her forehead. Blood was weeping through the center of it. I need to recuperate. And what better? Way than out in the fresh air taking a Bush walk by the Creek. I dunno said, dad, we're gonna ask the local animal control officer. If you'll help said Joe Loretta offered dad another donut who looked at the delicious treats and then at her impossibly beautiful smiling face. Well, I suppose that does sound reasonable said dad taking a big bite out of his second donut. Perhaps I'd better come with you. No, you need to work on the computer set. Fin. You are gonna try to get it working again. Oh yes. I was remember dad, it's so hard at this time of year. There's so much work to do in the garden. You really should try. Joe urge. There might be a clue on who broke in right said dad I'll try excellence at April pulling on her gene. You didn't really drug the donuts. Did you thin a Loretta in a whisper? No silly said Loretta, but it is scientifically proven that the endorphins released when you consume a combination of fat sugar, gluten and complex carbohydrates are themselves a powerful drug, especially when you've been sitting in a hospital all night and you haven't had any breakfast yet. The way to a man's heart is through his stomach said fin, oh no. The way to cloud a man's brain is through his stomach said, Loretta, I don't care about hearts. I like to take control right from the power center of the central nervous system. And that is the end of the chapter. So we'll leave it there until next time. Goodbye.