You open your mouth to scream, but you remain silent. Stitching begins to spread from the corners of your plush mouth. It slowly stiches your lips together, sealing your mouth shut in a smile. You can only paw at your face with your fingerless stumps.
You hear some laughing on the nightstand, and look down. What you see is....you! In shrunken form!
"Finally, i can talk!"
Staring at this imposter, your eyes open wide in confusion and terror. Or they would, if they werent already open wide in a beady, glassy expressionless stare.
This shrunken imposter of you is sitting where you left the teddy: on your nightstand. He isnt moving. But that soon changes.
He begins stirring his arms, and flexing his fingers.
"Ah, thats better!" he says, cracking knuckles that should be yours.
At the same time, your own arms lift up, then bend inward, just like a typical teddy bear would. And there they remain. All feeling, save for a vague notion that theyre still attached to you, and the ability to move them lost to you.
You attempt to scream. To yell. To make sone kind of loud noise, but your mouth is forever sealed closed and you no longer have a voice box. You remain totally silent, despite your mind going crazy.
You then see the imposter begin to stand up, just as you flopped down on your rearend in the middle of the floor. Your toeless stumpy legs bend slightly at the knees. All you can do now, is sit there staring vacantly out of your beady glass eyes at the front of your former dresser. Now his.
The imposter walks to the edge of the nightstand, ands looks down. "Yikes! This will never do! One last thing, " he says. He begins to grow, and you begin to shrink! You notice the world around you growing larger. He sits down on the nightstand, and hops off as he grows too large for his former new home.
"No, no, noooo!!!" You think, as you shrink down to the exact size and dimensions of that dirty old muddy blackish-brown teddy you found and cleaned.
"Hah! Oh, this feels good to FINALLY be able to actually move on my own! Bet you cant say the same thing. You can't even say anything, can you, " The imposter chuckles. "Tell ya what? If you ask to change back to who you were, i'll allow it to happen."
You remain completely silent. Your mind raging against the prison of this new body. You can actually FEEL the stitching on your face, smiling.
"Well, i guess you dont want it that badly then, " he says. Knowing full well you're unable to ever speak again. A stupid stiched-on smile you can do nothing about. Completely at the mercy of humans and/or the world around you.
"Guess ill take you where you found me, " he says ominously, as he looms large over you.
"Oh no! Please!" But your protesting mind goes unheeded.
He picks you like your made of.....well....cotton and fabric. Which you now are!
"But first...."
He holds you in his arms as he turns tiwards your mirror. You see yourself and the very teddy bear you had found outside in that mud puddle. Except, your perspective is way off!
"Now, to sear your image into your trapped mind forevermore, so youll always know what you look like. A ridiculous looking plaything for children. Only, no child will ever be playing with you.
The imposter sets you down on the same spot on your night stand, where you put him! Now, the roles are reversed. Youre now stuck silently and unmovingly looking out of the teddy's eyes from your nightsyand, at your former self whike he grabs your clothes and syarys putting them on. Your blue jeans. Your T-shirt. Your socks. Your shoes. He grabs your wallet sitting next to you, much larger than ever. Grabs your keys. Then grabs you!
You attempt to resist. But with your mind trapped in a useless, silent, unmoving body, you dont. You cant. Youd be crying if you could. You're just dangling by a an arm rom your own hard. Swinging around. Looking at your own house for the final time!
You watch as he closes your bedroom door. The world spins as he turns around. You then hear the distinct noise of the backdoor opening, then closing. Mom! Mom's home!
The imposter runs down the steps the same way you always did.
"Hey mom! Im going over to Dustin's house, " the imposter says without skipping a beat!
"Ok, honey, just dont stay out too late."
"Oh, i wont. He's going with his dad on a fishing trip tommorrow. Im just going to hang out there for a few hours."
"Ok, have fun."
"I will. Bye!"
Which is true! You WERE going to hang out with your best friend for a few hours!
The world spins again, as the imposter heads towards the back door.
You attempt to shout out. To say something. To say "wait!" Then "mom! Its me!" But your mouth is sealed shut in a stupid grinning line. You continue to just uselessly stare out of your dumb, lifeless black beady eyes.
The imposter is now outside on the porch, as you watch your childhood back door alam shut for the last time.
He runs out to yoyr car, throws you in. Gets in himself, and starts driving off. Where, you cant tell. Your just stuck on the passenger seat of your own car on your back. Looking up at the car's ceiling.
Soon, the car comes to a stop. The imposter grabs you, and gets out. The park! Youre back at the park! No!
He walks over to the same mud puddle you found this cursed teddy bear.
"Now. You may be wondering what happened, and why youre now stuck as me. I was created specifically as a soul-trapping object. I would take on the properties of the first human to vome into cintact with me, and that poor shmuck would become me. The only difference, is that my conciousness didnt exist until you went to sleep after touching me. You? Youll be stuck as an inanimate object for the rest of time. I also get your personality and all of your memories. And youll keep them as well."
"Well, anyway, i cant be seen talking to a dumb teddy bear out in public. Looks like its going to rain soon. That sucks. Anyway. Have a nice eternity!"
And with a simple flick of the wrist, you went sailing through the air. The world spinning crazily about. Within a short two seconds, you landed squarely in that same mud puddle you found that teddy bear! You can only watch helplessly from your side, as the imposter walks away, gets in your car, and drives off.
Soon, the world goes quiet. Light whispering wind. The chatter of a few birds. You try your damndest to move. Anything. Bjt you remain perfectly still. Just and object. "A fuckin' teddy bear! Im just a god damn fucking teddy bear!"
Your plush body just lays in this muddy puddle, slowly soaking up tbe dirty brown moisture. Turning you nearly black. You even begin to FEEL filthy. Then the clouds open up. The cold wet rain begins to fall. And still, you lay in this dirty old mud puddle. Unable move. To blink. To do anything. Your mind kind of effentually goes "blank."