Hey friends it's Mr. Jim and welcome back to Kid Short Stories.

Have you heard about our book that is coming out this fall?

Yes, oh my goodness, I cannot wait for you to be able to hold this hardcover book in your hands and

there's some really awesome rewards as well for this pre-ordering that begins in just a few weeks so have your parents click on the

link for Mr. Jim books down in the show notes below so that we know how many books to

order in our first run of printing. Are you guys ready for today's story?

Me too, let's go!

It was a cloudy but pretty nice day as Theo was playing with his friends outside

They were at the playground in their neighborhood and having a ton of fun racing around and playing all kinds of different playground games.

7, 8, 9, 10, ready or night here I come!

shouted Theo as he uncovered his eyes with his hands and started to look the He started looking around the playground and pretty soon he found that everybody had crawled inside of one of those slides that's like a tube

Yeah, they were all squeezed inside and had nowhere to go but down.

I got you all! shouted Theo as one by one they slid down the slide right into his hand.

I guess that wasn't a good idea for us all to get in that slide, said one of his friends,

and then all of a sudden drip drop drop oh no it's starting to rain shouted

Theo all right guys well I guess we'll play more tomorrow, said one of his friends.

Bye, Theo!

They all waved and ran their different directions to head home.

Theo was pretty bummed because they were having a ton of fun and then it just had to

end all of a sudden and unexpectedly. Oh change can be hard right? Yeah sometimes

when we're playing or doing something that we really want to do, all of a sudden something happens that changes our plans.

Just like what happened to Theo, they were having a ton of fun.

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