We Bare Bears The Truth Or Never Again

Chapter 15 Always A Second Choice

After everyone did the blindfold obstacle course, they left the open area to head to their next destination. During that whole time, Panda felt frozen in his own body and mind. He tried to speak with Amanda face to face, but he was too unprepared to meet her like this. He was lucky that Amanda took her time to be in his footsteps by being blindfolded and she did a good job on guiding him, but it wasn't enough.

While Panda is carrying Clifford on his shoulders, he's walking in front of his brothers. "Grizz...I can't believe you found Amanda." He responded.

"That's like the third time you've said that." Grizz replied. "You don't have to say thank you again."

"Yeah it's starting to become annoying." Chloe added. "You already came back and now you're feeling like a scratched record that keeps repeating itself."

"Please don't joke about what I've been through, I can't react to everything all in one day." Panda rolled his eyes. "I may feel better because of Lucy, but Amanda...I was expecting her to come back to San Francisco on a different day, not today."

Grizz and Ice Bear thought they managed to make their brother happier after what he went through, but even they didn't think they could've gotten this far. "Ohh...maybe if this happened tomorrow or next week, everything wouldn't be so sudden and unexpected."

While the group in the front continued to travel on, Panda stopped himself. His brothers took notice while Clifford thought his ride was cut short. "Panda." He looked down on his friend. "If you think Amanda is only here because of you, you might as well go out with her by leaving the trip."

"I'm not gonna leave just because she's here Clifford." Panda responded. "I've only met her once before and right now, she's helping with one of the Poppy Rangers."

"So you're gonna wait until you're ready?" Chloe asked. "What if she heads back to the subway station? You know she doesn't live here."

Upon taking Chloe's consideration in question, Panda would think of something to do for Amanda. Unfortunately for the final set of activities available for the afternoon, he's unsure if they would impress Amanda. The last activity was lucky, but he's doubtful about a positive outcome, during the later activities, he could potentially embarrass himself.

"Maybe if I knew about this earlier, I would have made a schedule for Amanda." He responded while he got back to his walk.

"Yeah, you're probably right." Grizz lowered his head. With the back of the group taking their time catching up, Lucy and Kale are sightseeing in the forest together. Behind them, Amanda just finished picking Wallace up to get a better look of the singing birds on one of the branches. When Grizz messaged her about the camping trip days ago, he only talked about Ranger Tabes and every kid's name of the Poppy Rangers but not Lucy, Kale and Chloe.

"Umm...excuse me?" She called, which caused the two to turn around.

"Yes?" Kale smiled.

"Sorry Grizz didn't tell me who you two are. What are your names?"

"I'm Lucy and this is my boyfriend Kale." Lucy introduces herself. "So...you must be the late camper, right?"

"Yeah, a lot of delays happened along the way, it isn't easy for everything to go as planned."

Lucy and Kale would give Amanda some occupation with one of the later activities, but they remembered they should also do something with Panda after everything they went through today.

"Well we're going to swim at Lake Anzo later so...maybe we can swim together?" Lucy offered.

"Yeah, I was hoping swimming was one of the last activities which is why I have my swimsuit in my bag?" Amanda said, showing off her backpack.