Are you ready to meditate with Cori?
Make sure that you're in your bed,
You're comfortable and everything is just right in your room.
The lights are just right.
You're wearing your cosy,
Comfy pyjamas so that your body can start to relax as you listen to the story.
Tucker and Leo had gone over to Heidi,
Cherry and Vea's house.
They were hanging out on the back garden,
Sat on the chairs.
It was a nice day.
The sun was shining.
There was a nice,
Gentle breeze in the air.
It was one of those days where there were so many things that you could do.
What could we do?
Cherry was singing.
Oh yeah,
It's so good today.
She had a notebook on her lap that she was writing notes in.
I've been making songs.
I've decided when I grow up,
Right,
I'm going to be,
Well,
What would I be?
Yeah,
Definitely famous,
Right,
We know that,
But I was thinking,
Like,
I could be,
You know what I was thinking?
I was thinking maybe,
Maybe I don't have to just kind of work really hard at it,
Like a lot of people do,
Because I'm so talented already.
I was thinking that,
Like,
I could go on The Voice.
I've been thinking about going on The Voice.
And when I go on The Voice,
Right,
They'll go,
OMG,
I've never heard a cat sing like that in my entire life.
So talented,
So talented.
And I'd be like,
Yeah,
I know,
I know,
I should be famous already.
And they'll be like,
Yeah,
Yeah,
You should.
So I was thinking,
I could go on The Voice,
But I need to be original.
I need to make my own material.
I need to,
Like,
I need to write my own songs,
Like Ed Sheeran.
You know,
Ed Sheeran writes so many songs,
Right?
He writes songs for other people.
And other people sings his songs.
And you would never know,
Because he's,
Like,
So good at it.
And I'm like,
I'm like Ed.
I could just be Ed,
Or like Taylor Swift.
Taylor Swift,
Right,
She writes her own songs,
Right,
Don't she?
And I'm like that.
I'm like,
Look at me,
Look at my book,
It's full.
Tooker said,
Oh,
Cherry,
That's great,
Can I have a look?
Tooker grabbed a hold of Cherry's little notebook.
It had three pages with songs on,
That was it.
Tooker said,
Oh,
That's three songs at least.
That's really good,
That's three songs more than I would have wrote,
Cherry.
Cherry said,
Yeah,
Yeah,
Told you.
So many songs.
I've got so many songs in me head.
This one is the bestest so far.
Yeah,
It's such a great day.
Cherry started singing.
That's all she'd wrote down so far.
Yeah,
It's such a great day.
That was the line in the song.
Heidi said,
How are you going to get on the voice?
Cherry said,
Well,
You know,
I've been thinking about that.
I was thinking,
Hopefully.
Tooker,
Like I texted you earlier and said,
Tooker,
Bring over your stone.
Tooker brought his stone,
Right?
Tooker reached into his little bag that he had around his waist,
Like a little pouch,
And he pulled out the stone and said,
I brought it,
Cherry,
I brought it.
Are we ready?
Shall we go?
Shall we go?
Heidi said,
Wait a minute.
What's Cherry planning?
Cherry said,
Well,
You know,
I was thinking,
Yeah,
I could be famous as a cat.
That'd be awesome.
But,
You know,
It's a bit limiting.
It's a bit limiting,
Isn't it?
It's like,
How far can you go as a cat?
Does everybody want to be listening to a cat sing?
Whereas,
If I'm a human,
Then I could go on the voice.
And then I could be like Taylor.
I could be like Taylor,
Or I could be like Dua Lipa.
I could be like her as well.
I could be so famous,
Singing like that.
Tooker said,
What about a band?
What about a band?
I'd like to be a singer,
Especially if I was a human singer.
I think I would be very good at it.
Oh,
What a lovely day.
Leo said,
Oh,
My goodness gracious me.
Save me now,
Please.
Heidi said,
What,
Leo,
You don't want to be in a boy band?
Well,
It won't be a boy band,
Would it?
There's girls in it.
Heidi said,
Well,
Yeah,
True,
Good point.
It would just be like a pop band,
Right?
It would be like a pop band.
Heidi elbowed Leo and said,
You ready to be in a pop band,
Leo?
Leo said,
Oh,
I think I'm allergic.
Heidi said,
Oh,
Give over.
Come on,
It might be fun.
Bea said,
I think I would like it.
I always thought I was quite a good singer.
Cherry said,
Hold on a minute,
I'm the singer here in this band.
Tooker said,
Oh,
No,
No,
Cherry,
We could all be singers.
We could be like a boy band or a girl band,
But a mixed band.
We could be the mixed band.
We could be the everything band.
We're the everything band.
We're boys and girls together singing in a pop group.
Bea said,
Yes,
Cherry,
We could all sing.
Cherry said,
All right,
All right.
Come on then,
Let's go,
Let's go,
Let's do it.
Tooker pulled out his stone.
He held it up to the sun.
The sun started to shimmer through the white,
Opaque stone.
The golden threads running through it.
The veins in the stone started to shimmer in the sunlight.
And then there she was,
The beautiful angel.
One wish.
You get just one wish,
She said to Tooker.
Tooker said,
Oh,
Angel,
Oh,
Angel,
You know my wish.
You know my wish.
I would like to be human so we can be in a pop band.
Thank you very much.
Heidi,
Cherry,
Bea,
Tooker,
And Leo,
Along with Mr.
Kitty,
All found themselves in Tooker and Leo's garage.
Cherry was holding the microphone.
She looked down at her clothes,
Looked down at their feet,
Looked down at her human girl body,
Turned around and looked at everyone and said,
Yay!
It worked!
Tooker was on the drums.
Leo was playing guitar.
Heidi and Bea were singing,
Along with Cherry.
Tooker also had a microphone that he could sing into,
And so did Leo.
Mr.
Kitty was playing the keyboard.
They all were strumming on the different instruments,
And Heidi and Bea were doing vocal tune-ups.
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I like this.
This is cool.
I knew I'd be a drummer.
I can do it really well.
Look at me.
Tucker started playing the drums.
He sounded like he'd been playing the drums for like 40 years or something.
He was so good.
Cherry thought he looked super cool.
Mr.
Kitty or I should say D'Angelo was looking very suave today.
He had a baseball cap on backwards,
A big oversized cream sweatshirt and some khaki pants.
He was wearing green vans and Vea thought he looked absolutely beautiful.
He smiled over at Vea and started drumming on the keyboard,
Playing around with different notes and different formations as if he knew exactly what he was doing.
Vea blushed.
He looked so handsome,
She thought,
And it really suited him being in a band.
He just automatically looked 10 times cooler.
Vea was wearing a gold jumpsuit.
It was all shimmery and it had a belt around the waist and she had a gold headband on and gold dangly earrings.
Heidi was wearing a pink dress and she had pink glasses on with pink converse and she looked super cool.
Leo was dressed all in black today.
He looked like a moody artist,
A perfect soulful guitar player.
It suited him too.
And Cherry,
Cherry was wearing bright green.
She had on green skinny jeans and a dark green t-shirt.
Tucker said,
Since we have a gig tonight,
We best practice.
Come on,
Let's get it together guys.
Is everybody ready?
Let's go.
Automatically.
Instinctively,
Everyone got into formation and started doing their part,
Singing the song that they were going to sing.
They were going to be singing at a local university.
The university was holding the congratulations graduation party in their big amphitheatre area and they had been invited to play on stage.
It was one of the biggest gigs that they'd done so far.
They were getting pretty famous.
Pretty famous as far as in their town,
They were getting pretty famous.
People started to recognize them and know them,
But they still practiced everything in the garage because that was their place and they hadn't got enough money yet to be in a studio making records or anything,
But they believed that they would get there.
They started to sing an original song and Cherry was the lead singer in this particular song.
They went through all of it a couple of times until it sounded really,
Really good.
And then they went to the second song that they were going to sing and Tucker got off the drums and came around to the second mic that was next to Cherry.
They were singing a duet.
Heidi and Veo were going to be the backing singers.
It was more of an a cappella kind of song,
So drums weren't needed,
Just the guitar and a little tiny bit of D'Angelo playing on the keyboards.
It was a slow song and they had to look at each other while they sang it.
Cherry was super nervous.
She stood really close to Tucker.
Tucker was looking exceptionally cool today.
He had on one of those headbands that you wear when you're playing tennis,
Like a sweatband,
But on his dark black hair,
It looked super cool.
And he had wristbands on that matched it.
They were black.
He looked a little bit like a skater dude today.
He had on a black t-shirt,
Black jeans,
And black converse.
And Cherry thought he looked absolutely yummy.
She smiled at him and swallowed,
Getting ready to start the song.
Tucker thought Cherry looked super pretty today.
He really liked her in green.
It made her red hair and her green eyes stand out and all of her little frettles popped all over her face.
He thought they were the cutest thing he'd ever seen,
But he hadn't told her that.
They started singing.
They actually sang really good together.
And as humans,
It didn't sound like someone was scraping their nails down a chalkboard.
They actually had really good voices.
And they harmonized really well.
They actually had really good voices.
And they harmonized with each other exceptionally well,
As if they were both just really natural at it.
Everyone else did their part as they sang.
Faye looked over at Mr.
Kitty,
D'Angelo,
And smiled as she was singing the part of the background singer.
D'Angelo smiled back.
Maybe they could do a duet at some point,
He thought.
He'd like to sing with Faye.
Faye had such a pretty voice.
When the song was over,
It was time to pack up all the gear.
Cherry said,
I think we're ready.
We're ready.
We're definitely ready.
Excited,
To Tucker.
Tucker said,
Yeah,
It's gonna be awesome.
They didn't realize how much gear you needed when you were in a band.
There was amps,
All of the equipment,
The wires,
The electrics,
All of it.
Luckily,
Cherry's mum and dad had a van that they used.
And that's how they got all of the stuff over to the university.
And again,
It took them another couple of hours to set everything up.
But that night was the best night of their lives so far.
Everyone loved the band.
Everyone loved their singing.
And everyone did slow dances when Cherry and Tucker did their duet together.
They called the band The Whitestone.
They thought that was pretty cool.
You know,
After Tucker's magical stone.
The Whitestone.
They all dressed in white for the performance.
So they all looked like they were wearing some kind of uniform that was super cool.
The girls had golden jewellery on,
Just to represent the golden veins that run through the magical stone.
It was the best night ever.
And Cherry and Tucker actually looked like they might be falling in love just a little bit more.
After the performance,
They packed up all of their gear.
They talked to a lot of the kids at the university and hung around and had some puns just to warm them up a little bit.
The next day,
When they were back to their normal animal selves,
Cherry said to Heidi and Veya,
OMG that was like the bestest night ever.
I'm so proud of you guys.
I'm so proud of you guys.
I'm so proud of you guys.
OMG that was like the bestest night ever.
OMG I can't wait to be famous.
It's just going to be so so cool.
The end.
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