When big bear and little bear first held hands

Before the big bear and the little bear were bears all together they knew each other a little bit. The big bear liked the little bear, and the little bear liked the big bear, but they did not know that they liked each other that way and they were not special friends yet.

Way back then the big bear had a house all of his own, with some grannies that lived next door that the big bear talked to. The big bear was busy with his work-school, but he was getting to know the little bear too. One night the little bear and one of his friends came around to the big bears house to watch a film.

The little bears friend sat in a the comfy armchair, and the two bears-to-be sat on the sofa next to each other. It was a scary film, so they all had blankets to hide under.

Then there was a scary part, and the big bear put out his hand under the blanket on the sofa. And the little bear put out his hand under the blanket on the sofa. And without looking at each other at all not one but oh no... the two hands met each other.

And the two hands didn't move away from each other. They stayed there for a while and held each other. And then the scary bit of the film ended, and the hands went back to where they were before, just like nothing had happened at all.

The bears didn't talk about that hand holding for years and years and years. When the bears did talk about it, the little bear told the big bear that even though they have both had adventures of lots of kinds sine then.... but the holding hands for the first time was one of the biggest adventures and most exciting adventures that the little bears had ever had.

That made the big bear feel all warm and lovely inside.