Are you ready to meditate with Kari?
Are you ready to be still and quiet?
To try and relax your body as you lay down and listen to this story?
To make sure that you're snuggly and cuddly in your bed?
Heidi,
Cherry and Vea were very excited.
They had gone camping with some of their bestest friends.
Aria and her sister Maisie was there and Aria was going to have a birthday.
She was going to be seven years old.
I mean how cool is that?
Aria's dog was there,
Jasmine.
Jasmine was quite old and she was a little bit slow but she was still so much fun.
And then also Aria's friends Winnie and Waverly was there.
They were having such a good time.
They were camping in this place that was next to the lake and it had the wonderfulest,
Most bonnest,
Most beautifulest forest right there.
They were playing hide and seek in the forest.
Cherry was supposed to be finding everyone.
She was having a terrible time with it.
OMG I am so tired of this game.
I am normally so good at everything.
She was talking to herself as she was walking through the forest trying to find all of her friends.
At this point she hadn't found anyone.
They were all such good hiders.
She wasn't impressed.
I don't like it.
I've decided,
I've decided that I might not be good at everything.
Which is a shocker.
It's a real shocker and a shame to know that about yourself.
But you know sometimes I think it might be quite humbling.
I feel a little bit humbled that I'm not the bestest hide and seek person in the world because I thought I was.
I thought I was so good at hide and seek.
There,
There you are.
Oh no you're not.
She just basically saw a bush behind a tree and thought that that was one of her friends.
She carried on talking to herself.
I think that we should do something else.
If anybody's listening can we play something else because I'm so over this game.
I'm so tired of it.
Ha ha there you are.
She saw a bird in a tree and thought it was fair.
It wasn't fair it was just a bird.
Oh gosh.
This game it's very frustrating.
How you supposed to find people when all you can see is bushes and trees.
Bushes and trees bushes and trees.
That's all I've seen for the longest time.
Unless my friends look like trees and look like bushes then I can't find anyone.
I quit.
I quit.
She started shouting as loud as she can.
I submit.
I don't want to play this game anymore.
I say we play something else.
I quit.
It's over.
I win.
Come back.
Come back.
Everybody started to come out of their hiding places.
They all told Cherry that she did her best.
But really she wasn't that good at hide and seek.
It was time to do something else.
Aria said how about we play on our bikes.
Heidi said oh it's been a long time since us cats have been on a bike.
Cherry said don't you worry about that.
I know I can ride a bike.
Faea said I think I can ride a bike.
It's been a while.
Heidi said it's been a long time for me.
We'll have to see how we do.
Aria and Maisie and her friends Winnie and Waverly liked to draw chalk patterns on the path when they played on their bike.
They made curls and swirls and figure eights in all different shapes with chalk on the path and then they would follow the chalk patterns with their bikes.
So it was kind of like an obstacle course while you were bike riding.
It was very fun.
Well that's what the girls thought.
Heidi kept falling off her bike.
I think I might pass on this one said Heidi.
I don't think I'm very good at this and I didn't bring my helmet which is not a good idea.
Cherry said weeeee as she passed on by with her back paws up in the air.
I can do it with no hands.
She lifted her front paws up and the whole bike started to wiggle and shake and it looked like she was going to go flying off the bike but she put her paws back down on the bike and her back paws back down on the pedals and she managed to pull the bike back into control.
Phew said Cherry.
That was a bit scary.
I don't think I should show off like that so much.
Faea did really good on her bike.
She did it nice and slow.
She had her helmet.
She had her elbow pads.
She had her knee pads.
She told Heidi that she could borrow everything if she wanted to try again but Heidi declined.
She sat down,
Pulled out a book out of her backpack and started to read and just listen to everyone else having fun.
That was enjoyable to her.
Reading a nice pleasant book,
Listening to everyone else,
Almost killing themselves on their bike.
They played on the bikes for quite some time and then they got hungry.
Well Cherry got hungry before anybody else.
When do we eat?
The girl said you have to make a fire to be able to eat when you're camping and that takes some time.
Well said Cherry.
Let's get a move on because I'm starving.
I'm absolutely starving.
My stomach is going poof poof poof poof poof.
It's been talking to me since 12 o'clock and it's 3 o'clock and we need to eat.
So let's start this fire and get things moving and get some s'mores going because I've heard that when you're camping you eat s'mores and erm what's a s'more?
Aria explained what s'mores were.
They were one of her particular favourites so she knew exactly how to make them.
She knew exactly what was in them.
She knew exactly how to make the perfect one.
When the fire's done she told everyone that she would make them s'mores.
Everyone sat round the fire on rocks or benches or camping chairs whatever they had.
Some people just sat on the floor on their blankets.
There was quite a crowd of people there what with all the parents and the pets and everything else.
Jasmine got comfortable and laid down on a blanket.
She was pooped,
She'd been running and playing near the lake all day and she was ready to just go to sleep.
The cats were all sat together.
Aria and her sister Maisie were huddled up together and her friends Winnie and Waverly were sat on another chair next to them.
They were all watching the flames and the fire.
It was very relaxing,
Very mesmerising.
Aria thought that the fire was hypnotic.
It's so hypnotic.
Aria asked what she meant by that.
Don't you know what hypnotic means?
It means when you get completely mesmerised by something you kind of start to go ooooo ooooo and you drift off into another world.
A world where magical things happen.
Kind of like when you meditate with Kori.
You know when you close your eyes and you get all sleepy and dozy and you feel like you're floating and your body feels so relaxed and your words and everything in the background that Kori's saying just kind of blur into one.
Because that's because you've got hypnotised.
You've got mesmerised.
Your mind is relaxing and drifting off to another place in time.
I can hypnotise you if you want.
Listen,
Close your eyes.
Everyone started to laugh.
Aria said no I'm serious.
I'm serious.
Stop watching.
Actually no.
Stare at the flames.
Watch the flames in the fire.
Oh you're feeling so peaceful inside.
You're feeling so relaxed.
You're feeling that relaxed that when all the s'mores are finished and cooked and ready you won't want them.
You'll want to give them to your bestest friend in the world.
Cherry,
Me,
Every single one of you will just say Cherry I love you.
Here's me s'mores.
And you'll feel so good about giving away your s'mores.
Aria peeked one of her eyes open,
Snapped herself out of the hypnotic state and said you trickster.
Everyone snapped themselves out of the hypnotic state.
Cherry said Heidi I can't believe you were trying to talk us all into giving us a s'mores away.
Cherry started laughing.
It almost worked.
You were almost all under my secret hypnotic powers.
You know it's okay.
Said Cherry.
I don't want everyone's s'mores.
I'd be sick if I had that many marshmallows and that many graham crackers and that much chocolate then I would definitely be sick.
Thank goodness you all snapped out of it.
But you know I must admit if I wanted to you wouldn't have been able to snap out of it because I'm so good.
I'm so good at hypnotizing because I learnt from Corrie and she's the best.
She can make anyone get hypnotized and relaxed.
Just listen to her voice for like two seconds and you go like that you're out.
So yeah I know I'm as good as her and I could probably have made you all each and every one of you even Jasmine the dog and Jasmine didn't even want a s'mores but she would have given me a s'mores.
Yeah wouldn't you Jasmine.
Jasmine just like lifted one eyebrow and twitched one ear and then closed her eyes again and completely ignored Cherry.
Anyway while we're eating a s'mores what else do we do when we're camping do we tell each other scary stories.
Aria said well I don't really want to be scared but that might be funny.
Maisie said I don't think I like that idea.
Heidi said how about we tell happy stories.
Happy stories might be better than scary stories especially since we're in the middle of the forest and it's kind of dark and that might not be a good idea Cherry.
Cherry said all right yeah I get it very smart guys very smart.
I don't think I want a scary story anyway because if I had a scary story then I might be up all night in my tent and I might not be able to sleep and every time a critter in the forest moves or twitches or cracks a tree trunk or a branch or something like that I'd be like and sitting up in bed going and then like going oh oh this is so scary I want to go home.
Yeah I can see it happening now let's not do it let's tell happy stories.
Bea said Mia has a happy story.
Once upon a time there was a princess.
Cherry goes oh no not another princess story.
Bea said hmm okay once upon a time there was a fairy.
Oh I like fairies said Cherry.
I like princesses but you know you can only hear so many princess stories Bea.
Tell us a nice fairy story.
Do you like fairies Aria?
Since it's gonna be our birthday we should really tell a story about what you want to listen to.
Aria said that she liked fairies so everyone got quiet.
They were all munching happily on the s'mores which Aria had made perfectly by the way.
They were so yummy and delicious and just right.
They all stared at Bea as she started to tell a story.
Once upon a time far far away there was a fairy.
Fairy that lived underneath a mushroom.
She was so small and so cute and so so tiny that she lived underneath a mushroom in the middle of the forest and no one ever knew she was there.
One day a group of lovely girls Aria,
Maisie,
Winnie and Waverly all were walking through the woods singing a song.
They all had such beautiful voices.
The voices were so sweet,
Pretty and nice and the song was really really happy and nice.
But the fairy came from underneath her mushroom and came out into the forest to listen.
She was trying to get closer.
She decided she needed to fly closer and closer to where the voices were coming from.
She needed to see who was singing.
The sound was so sweet,
So pretty she just wanted to see who was singing.
She flew closer and closer and closer until she got that close that she just sat on a tree trunk right next to where the girls had all sat down on the floor singing the song.
She closed her eyes and listened.
They sounded like angels.
The girls were listening to Veya telling her story and because she was talking about them even if they were wonderful singers or not it was so nice to listen to a story about yourself.
Everyone was listening very intently.
Veya was a very good storyteller.
Then somehow the tiny little fairy that was holding on to the trunk of a tree with her eyes closed lost her grip and fell down to the ground right in the middle of the four girls singing.
Aria noticed her.
She said,
A fairy.
All of the other girls stopped singing.
Everyone stared at the tiny little pretty fairy in the middle of their circle.
The fairy just froze.
The only thing that she moved was her eyes looking at the girls to see what they were going to do next.
The girls all smiled and said hello.
This was very reassuring to the tiny little fairy.
She realized that the girls were very sweet and kind and loving and she was safe.
She introduced herself.
She said that her name was Lilypad.
All the girls liked her name.
She asked them if she could sing with them.
The girls said yes.
They sat down in the circle and all sung the prettiest,
Sweetest,
Most relaxing and jellic songs.
The whole forest listened to them singing.
All the animals got sleepy and relaxed.
The voices were so soothing and calming.
The trees stopped swaying in the wind and got very still listening to them singing.
All the insects,
The bugs,
The spiders,
The creepy crawlies,
Everything got sweet smiles on their faces and just sat still and listened.
And then eventually everything got so relaxed they closed their eyes and listened.
The girls kept singing.
The sounds kept vibrating through the ground and the trees and all around them until eventually everything was fast asleep.
The end said Faya.
When she looked around the fireplace,
The cats had got comfortable with their blanket and fallen asleep.
Aria and Maisie,
Winnie and Waverly were all sleeping.
Jasmine the dog was asleep.
All the parents were asleep.
Faya snuggled down into Heidi and Cherry who were already asleep.
They closed their eyes and fell asleep too.
The end.
