Are you ready to meditate with Kari?
Are you ready to be super,
Super still and quiet?
Lay down in your bed so you can relax your body and let go of your busy day.
Heidi and Cherry were worried about Veya.
It had been three weeks now and Veya had not been quite herself.
And progressively,
Week after week,
She seemed to be getting even more depressed.
Three weeks ago,
They had a friend in town.
Harrison was really good friends with Veya.
And they'd just been hanging out for a few days.
They'd been to the beach.
They'd gone on long walks.
They'd played.
You name it.
They'd done all sorts of fun things together.
And then Harrison had to go home.
That was the first thing three weeks ago.
Veya is normally totally okay with having friends come and visit and then having to go home.
But for some reason,
When Harrison went home,
It also coincided with the sun going away and the clouds coming out in the sky.
Now that doesn't seem like such a big deal,
Right?
Changing the weather.
And to everyone else,
It wasn't a big deal.
No one even put two and two together at first.
But eventually,
Cherry figured it out.
Cherry said to Veya,
What is it,
Veya?
What's wrong?
Veya said,
Nothing.
I'm fine.
Cherry said,
Oh,
No,
No,
No.
Don't you go telling me that because I don't believe you.
You know why I don't believe you,
Veya?
Me and Heidi have been watching you,
Right?
We've been watching you for weeks and you're just not yourself.
You don't want to do dress up.
You're not wearing any of your princess outfits.
You've basically been living in sweaty bottoms.
That's it.
Sweaty tracksuit bottoms for three weeks.
That's not you,
Veya.
I mean,
That right there is a red flag.
I looked at Heidi and I said,
Veya,
In sweaty tracksuit bottoms.
Are you joking me?
I never in a million years would have thought that Veya would have wore sweaty tracksuit bottoms.
But look at you in your grey baggies,
All sweaty and you've got ice cream on them.
You've got you've got like dirt on them.
God knows what else all those other stains are.
I mean,
It's not you,
Veya.
It's not you at all.
When was the last time you had a shower,
Veya?
Veya went a little bit pink in the face thinking about it.
But then she was that fed up and felt that depressed that she didn't even remember the last time she had a shower.
She didn't even really mind that she'd not had a shower.
She didn't even care that she'd not had a shower.
She just felt down and low.
She didn't have any energy.
She didn't have any reason to smile.
She didn't have any reason to get up in the morning.
She didn't have any reason to be her normal self.
She was just tired.
Heidi said,
We've let this go on long enough,
Veya.
We need to have some kind of intervention.
That's what me and Cherry are doing right now.
This is an intervention.
Both Cherry and Heidi were sat staring at Veya very intensely.
The Veya just kind of turned her back on them and rolled over as if she was rolling over to face the wall.
She didn't want to hear it.
Oh,
No,
No,
No,
No,
You don't.
Cherry grabbed a hold of one of Veya's paws and pulled her gently back towards them.
You have to look at us,
Veya.
We're your sisters.
We love you.
This is an intervention.
We're not doing it anymore.
We need our old Veya back.
We're really sad that you're sad.
We're really,
Really unhappy because you're unhappy.
We've let this go on way too long.
You need to get outside,
Veya.
You need to get some sunshine.
You need to have some friends over so you can play,
Dress up and have fun and fantasize and play unicorns and like,
You know,
Be your normal rainbow self.
But you're not doing anything.
You're just laid on your bed in your sweaty tracksuit bottoms.
And all you want to do is just sleep.
I mean,
That's the sign right there.
When has Veya ever just wanted to sleep?
She never just wants to sleep.
We should have known,
Heidi.
I feel really guilty.
I feel really,
Really,
Really,
Really guilty because you know me,
I'm like awesome.
I'm like an awesome doctor when I put my mind to it.
I'm an awesome doctor.
I'm an awesome sister.
I'm an awesome best friend.
I'm so good at everything I do.
How did I not notice that my sister Veya was just getting worse and worse and worse and worse?
Actually,
You know,
I think I did notice,
But I was so like confused that I didn't know what to do about it.
And you know what happens sometimes when you don't know what to do about something?
You just pretend it's not happening,
Don't you?
You kind of just put your head in the sand like one of those birds.
What are they called?
Pigeons,
Heidi said.
Uh,
Do you mean an ostrich?
Ostriches put their heads in sand,
Not pigeons.
That was so funny.
See I'm even so funny.
I'm so funny.
Veya,
You didn't even laugh one little bit.
Not even a smirk,
Not even a little twitch on your lips.
Nothing.
And that was a really funny joke,
Veya.
See who's going to laugh at my jokes if Veya don't laugh at my jokes anymore?
Veya was just sat listening.
She didn't really,
Really care what they were saying.
She just wanted to close her eyes and go to sleep.
It was just so gloomy outside.
The world was dark and cloudy and gloomy.
She was so tired of gloomy days.
Every day for the last three weeks since Harrison had gone home,
When she opened the curtains first thing in the morning,
All she saw was gloom.
Gray,
Raining,
Cold,
Miserable.
Some days even sleeted.
It didn't snow.
Snow would have been better.
At least it's white and bright.
And it always feels clean.
Nope,
No snow.
Not so lucky.
Just dark,
Miserable,
Rainy days.
Cold,
Damp,
Rainy days.
She was so tired of them.
She yearned for sunshine.
Sunshine meant flowers.
Sunshine meant pretty pink dresses.
Sunshine meant sparkly sandals or dress-up shoes with no rain puddles.
Sunshine meant you could feel the warmth on your skin.
The warm sunny days on your skin made you feel all glowy inside,
Like a flower reaching for the sun.
Vail liked to think of herself as a flower.
A pink tulip.
And every time the sun came out,
She'd open up to the sun as if to say,
Morning sunshine.
What a lovely day.
But all she'd been saying at the moment was,
Oof.
It's so gloomy.
So dark.
And dank.
And bothersome outside.
And she'd just get back in bed.
She hadn't told Heidi or Cherry that this was what was really bothering her.
How could she?
It was just the weather.
That was pretty silly,
She thought.
She never realised before how depressed she got when it was dark and dank and rainy and gloomy outside.
Who does that?
Who in their right mind gets depressed when it's not nice weather?
And then she thought,
Oh,
I'm just going to tell him.
This intervention thing is painful.
I would just like some sunshine.
Me just wants the sun.
Heidi said,
OMG.
Cherry said,
Hey,
That's my saying,
OMG.
What?
What?
What you're OMG-ing at?
Did you just have a discovery?
Did you have like a spark of light?
What happened,
Heidi?
Heidi said,
She has sad.
She has the sad disease.
Is it a disease?
Or is it just a condition?
Sad.
It's when you miss the sun.
That's what's going on with Faea.
How could I have not known?
She needs sunshine.
Faea perked up a little bit.
It's a thing,
She said.
Um,
The way I feel is it's not crazy?
No,
Said Heidi.
No,
Lots of people all over the world have this thing where when winter comes,
They get really down and depressed and they just don't function very well.
They yearn for the summer.
That's me,
Said Faea.
That's me.
I just want the sun.
I know what to do,
Said Heidi.
I know exactly what to do.
I'll be right back.
Heidi disappeared.
Cherry was excited.
OMG,
This is so exciting.
Faea,
Faea,
Heidi's going to fix you.
She's going to fix you right now.
You're going to feel so much better,
I promise.
Bet you any money.
OMG,
This is so good.
Why didn't you tell us that you were upset about not having any sunshine?
Heidi could have fixed you three weeks ago.
You know she's so smart.
Oh,
Faea,
Give me a hug.
Cherry grabbed her hold of Faea and pulled her in really close and give her the biggest squeeze and she kissed her and kissed her and kissed her and kissed her on the forehead.
I love you,
Faea.
I love you.
We really don't like it when you're depressed.
She kept saying,
She kissed her over and over again on her forehead.
Don't be sad.
Don't be sad.
She kept kissing her all over her face.
Come back to us,
Faea.
Come back.
We miss you so much.
I miss your princess outfits.
I miss your clumpy,
Clumpy,
Clumpy across the bedroom floor.
I miss everything.
I miss all the sparkles off your dresses that get stuck up my nose sometimes.
I even miss that.
I really do.
Come back,
Faea.
Come back.
Heidi walked in carrying what looked like a sun lamp.
A sun lamp.
It was like,
You know,
One of those things that you can sit in front of and get brown,
Like a sunbed or something,
That kind of thing.
Cherry said,
What you got there?
Heidi said,
It's a special light that shines like the sunshine.
And when you turn it on,
You sit in front of it for a certain amount of time.
I'm going to have to read my book again because I forgot how long.
Every day.
And it cheers you up and it makes you feel like you're actually back in the sun.
Like it's summer again,
But it's not.
It's cold and miserable outside.
But you still get the vitamins and the minerals and all the benefits of the sun coming on to you from this special sun lamp.
When did we get that?
Cherry said.
We've had it years,
Said Heidi.
It used to be dad's.
OMG,
Said Cherry.
This is so amazing.
Plug it in.
Get it on.
Quick.
Heidi plugged in the sun lamp.
Cherry and Heidi convinced Veya to come and sit in front of the light.
I'm going to read my book,
Heidi said.
It won't be a minute.
I think it's supposed to be like 10 minutes that you sit there,
But I'm not sure.
Heidi disappeared again.
Cherry sat in front of the lamp with Veya holding one of her paws.
This is actually really nice.
Veya said.
Yes,
It does feel nice.
Actually it feels really nice.
I can feel as if my whole body is starting to wake up again.
As if the sun is shining on my face.
As if all the flowers are coming out to say hello.
I feel a little bit happy inside.
Cherry said.
OMG.
Yay,
It's working.
Yay.
She grabbed hold of Veya and kissed her and kissed her and hugged her and hugged her and kissed her and kissed her again.
All over her face.
Veya laughed.
She smiled and laughed really big.
For the first time in ages.
Oh,
I love it when you smile,
Said Cherry.
It's the best.
Her and Cherry sat quietly.
And just stared at the light.
And let the light soak in.
It felt as if she was like a lollipop thawing out in the sunshine.
She could feel the tingles in her paws.
And each one of her legs started to wake up and vibrate with life again.
Her heart started to feel lighter.
Her shoulders didn't feel so heavy.
Her eyes felt bigger and brighter.
And her face was naturally smiling without even trying.
The sun lamp was working.
Her depression was lifting.
Her whole mood changed.
They got happy Princess Veya back once again.
The end.
