1 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 1: Hello friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. A short 2 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 1: message for grown ups. If you get value from our stories, 3 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: please consider subscribing to sleep Type Premium. With Sleep Type Premium, 4 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:32,960 Speaker 1: you receive four stories per week, plus super long sleep sounds, 5 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:41,240 Speaker 1: guided meditations, music for sleep and more. Visit sleep Typepremium 6 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 1: dot com to subscribe. A link can also be found 7 00:00:45,920 --> 00:01:06,640 Speaker 1: in our show notes Thank you. Did you ever have 8 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 1: a day where everything seems to go wrong? Well, Pixie 9 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:21,200 Speaker 1: feels that everything is going wrong for her In this episode, 10 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 1: I am going to share part of Pixie's story. This 11 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:31,399 Speaker 1: is the first part of a two part introduction to 12 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 1: her story, Pixie and the Green Book Mystery, written by 13 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:55,880 Speaker 1: Coraline Grace Oh Crumbs. Pixie mumbled, why is everything going 14 00:01:56,040 --> 00:02:02,000 Speaker 1: wrong today? The morning started it out rather crummy when 15 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 1: she showed up to school wearing apples from her bows 16 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 1: to her toes. It wasn't out of the ordinary for 17 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 1: Pixie to have apples on her clothes, but she had 18 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 1: never worn so many. In fact, she was quite fond 19 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:29,960 Speaker 1: of them. After all, Pixie's real name was Marigold, just 20 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 1: like the apple. Pixie's classmate Jack noticed the apples during 21 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:42,919 Speaker 1: a math test. He began to point and snicker. Soon 22 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 1: others erupted into laughter. A Laura, Pixie's BFF, gave her 23 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:56,360 Speaker 1: thumbs up and whispered, just ignore them, Pixie, okay. To 24 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 1: make matters worse, the teacher, Miss Gruff, called Pixie to 25 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:04,920 Speaker 1: the front of the classroom and fussed at her for 26 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:10,639 Speaker 1: disrupting the class. I've never seen such muttering and slouching. No, go, 27 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:15,360 Speaker 1: sit down and finish your problems. Miss Gruff had a 28 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 1: stormy face and didn't like kids. Pixie was used to 29 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 1: being the teacher's pet, except in this class. She sat 30 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:33,399 Speaker 1: back down at her desk and picked up her blue pencil. 31 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 1: It was fish face Jack's fault, Pixie thought, but said nothing. 32 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 1: Nobody likes a tattletale. What does he know? He has 33 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 1: eyes like a fish and doesn't blink. Pixie blamed her 34 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 1: big sister Caroline for the fashion disaster. Apparently wacky clothes 35 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 1: and knee socks are gee in seventh grade. GC stands 36 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 1: for girl centric and means cool. But this was not 37 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:18,160 Speaker 1: the case. At Strawbridge Elementary, Pixie glanced at the ticking clock. Ugh, 38 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 1: it was only ten oh nine. A m later, at 39 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:31,479 Speaker 1: the water fountain, Pixie took four gulps of water and ping. 40 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 1: Oh no, she cried, looking down at her soggy pencil. 41 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: It was a special blue, fuzzy pencil. Her Aunt G 42 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:49,680 Speaker 1: had sent it from one of her exotic travels. Gracie 43 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 1: Bell Jingles was her real name, but Pixie called her 44 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: Aunt G for short. Pixie was sure great Kings and 45 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 1: Queen's had used this pencil to sign important papers. Super gross, 46 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 1: she huffed, pulling it out of the mucky drain. My 47 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 1: day has gone from bad to worse. A Laura kept 48 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 1: trying to cheer Pixie up. She even gave her a soft, 49 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 1: centered piece of chocolate from her lunch box. It was useless. 50 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: Pixie watched Jack show off his hot pink laced shoes 51 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:36,840 Speaker 1: at the lunch table. Pink's a silly color, she said 52 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:41,279 Speaker 1: in her head. And to make matters worse, one of 53 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:47,920 Speaker 1: Pixie's loopy ribbons fell into her caramel dip. The only 54 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 1: time she perked up was when the school bell rang 55 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:56,040 Speaker 1: at the end of the day. Usually, she and A 56 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 1: Laura counted how many acorns they could crunch under their 57 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:05,680 Speaker 1: shoes walking home, but today she ran home by herself. 58 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:16,840 Speaker 1: Pixie didn't even stop to catch the falling leaves. Pixie 59 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 1: opened the front door just as her mom was coming 60 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 1: out of the kitchen. Welcome home, miss Pixie. Get to 61 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:29,320 Speaker 1: your homework straight away, please. Today they had plans to 62 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:33,479 Speaker 1: romp the library for garden books. This is when she 63 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 1: and her mom emptied the shelves, making book piles to 64 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:43,480 Speaker 1: take home. Sometimes they romped for specific things like fairies, 65 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 1: and sometimes they just romped whatever caught their eye. Normally 66 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:53,479 Speaker 1: Pixie would be tickled pink about flower filled books, but 67 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: not this day. She went into the kitchen and plopped 68 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:04,159 Speaker 1: books on the table. There was some chocolate cake batter 69 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:07,839 Speaker 1: left in the mixing bowl, so with one hand in 70 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 1: the bowl and the other holding a pencil, she began 71 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 1: her work. After working for what seemed like an eternity, 72 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 1: Pixie finally finished adding three digit numbers. Takes time. She 73 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 1: was dog tired. Math wasn't too difficult. She just didn't 74 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: see the purpose of fat numbers reading mounds of library 75 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 1: books now that made perfect sense. Pixie's tummy was still growling, 76 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:49,760 Speaker 1: so she walked over to the fridge. She wanted to 77 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 1: make ants on an apple log before going to the library. 78 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 1: Peanut butter apples topped with raisins was the perfect after 79 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:05,840 Speaker 1: school snack. But before she could open the pantry smack, 80 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 1: she tripped over their droopy hound, Nutmeg. Her hand smashed 81 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 1: into Caroline's half eaten peebee and j sandwich on the counter. 82 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 1: What a gooey mess. Looking down, Pixie saw her sock 83 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 1: charm was hooked on the dog's collar. She tugged it, 84 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:33,920 Speaker 1: breaking the green string that tangled around him, and stuffed 85 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 1: it in her pocket. But it would take more than 86 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:41,680 Speaker 1: string to get him off the cool tile that dog 87 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 1: loved melting on the kitchen floor. Nutmeg was not brown. 88 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 1: He was covered with black and white spots. Caroline won 89 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:55,520 Speaker 1: him in the town's Pie in the Sky contest two 90 00:08:55,600 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 1: years ago and named him Nutmeg. That was her secret spice, 91 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 1: But to Pixie he was an oreo kind of dog. 92 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 1: It was time to set off for the library, and 93 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:16,280 Speaker 1: the thought of a happily ever after story brought Pixie 94 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:22,679 Speaker 1: a half smile. She loved reading books of all kinds, 95 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 1: especially fairy tales. Sometimes she even checked out super scary books. 96 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:33,480 Speaker 1: These would keep her up all night long, hiding under 97 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:39,120 Speaker 1: her covers. Thankfully that wasn't very often. A trip to 98 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:44,439 Speaker 1: the library might be what she needed to cheer herself up.