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๐๏ธ 31 July 2025
โฑ๏ธ 11 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome back, friends, to short stories for kids. |
0:11.3 | And now it's time for today's story request. |
0:15.4 | Hi, Lucy. My name is Elena, and I am nine years old. |
0:19.5 | Can you please put me in a story where there is a manic book |
0:24.1 | and whatever I write in it happens in real life. |
0:36.9 | Elena thought a trip on a cruise ship would be the best vacation ever. Boy, was she wrong. Her parents said that they would be away for six long weeks out on the seas. They had only been sailing for a week, and it had already felt like a year. |
0:55.0 | Time went so slow when you were out on a ship in the middle of nowhere. |
1:00.2 | She wished time would just speed up. |
1:02.5 | Even worse than that, there were hardly any other kids. |
1:06.4 | The kids she had met would all be playing in the pool up on the deck and watching movies. |
1:11.9 | But Elena found it really difficult to talk to them. They all seemed to already know each other. |
1:17.3 | There were a couple of times when Elena almost tried to introduce herself. |
1:21.8 | She took a deep breath, plucked up the courage, and then, |
1:25.2 | "'Elena!' her parents would call. |
1:29.9 | We have a tuna sandwich for your lunch. |
1:33.8 | Wow, they really did appear at the worst times. |
1:36.8 | Sometimes it was tough to make friends. |
1:39.7 | She wished they didn't always have to interrupt her. |
1:44.1 | One afternoon on the second week, it felt like the hundredth. |
1:54.5 | Elena was wandering the halls of the ship, thinking of her bedroom back home with her books and video games, when she bumped straight into a tall, well-dressed man. |
1:57.8 | Whoa, sorry, Elena said. |
2:01.9 | Oh, that's quite all right, dear, the tall man said. |
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