Chapter Five

Mr. Bear fell into a deep, dreamless sleep, but suddenly he was awake.

His heart pounding. He could hear footsteps on the stairs, and he couldn’t hear any alarms!

Mr. Bear crept out of the bedroom and onto the landing. He looked down, and there was Mrs. Bear in the hall, tapping a code into the keypad.

She glanced up at him, and a guilty expression passed over her face. Then she scowled.

“All right, you caught me,” she said, and sighed. “We’ve been turning the alarms off every night. We just couldn’t cope with it anymore.”

“Oh no! What if someone had broken in?” moaned Mr. Bear. “What if …”

“They didn’t though, did they?” said Mrs. Bear. “And what if you’re just worrying too much? What if your alarms are making our lives a misery?”

Mr. Bear realized Mrs. Bear was right. Now it was his turn to feel guilty.

The alarms certainly hadn’t stopped him from worrying, had they? In fact they had only made things much worse.

Mr. Bear did a lot of thinking that day, and finally he came to a decision.

He called Wizard Security for the last time, and it wasn’t long before all the alarms were gone.