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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Kids Short Stories. Today's story is called

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Speaker 1: Flash the Cat goes outside for the first time. Flash

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Speaker 1: the Cat was about six months old and she had

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Speaker 1: spent her entire life inside. She had always dreamed of

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Speaker 1: going outside and loved to look out the windows, especially

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Speaker 1: when they were open. She could feel the warm breeze

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Speaker 1: blowing against her whiskers, and every day she dreamed about

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Speaker 1: what it would be like to run on grass and dirt.

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Speaker 1: She thought, Wow, maybe the grass will make me even faster.

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Speaker 1: You see, Flash was a very fast cat. She had

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Speaker 1: a lightning bolt in her fur right on the top

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Speaker 1: of her head, and she earned that by when she

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Speaker 1: was born, a real lightning bolt crashed and made her

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Speaker 1: the fastest cat in the world. Flash always dreamed of

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Speaker 1: running and playing outside in the sun, playing in the

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Speaker 1: leaves and chasing other creatures. She always loved the squirrels

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Speaker 1: because they had big fluffy tails just like her, and

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Speaker 1: she wondered, wow, could they be best friends? But she

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Speaker 1: never was able to play with them because she was

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Speaker 1: an indoor cat. One day, Benny, who was her owner,

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Speaker 1: left to go on an adventure with his leopard get

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Speaker 1: Go Leppie, and as they left, out the door. Oh no,

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Speaker 1: they left the door open. Flash looked at the door

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Speaker 1: and looked around. Nobody was around. Should she go outside? Oh?

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Speaker 1: She was a little scared because she had never been

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Speaker 1: there before, but she'd always dreamed of it. So Flash

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Speaker 1: carefully crept close to the door. M The air outside

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Speaker 1: smelled so nice. She thought, Oh, this might be my

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Speaker 1: only chance I got to do it, And so she

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Speaker 1: carefully crept outside and looked around and dashed off into

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Speaker 1: the bushes. Who she said, this is awesome, And then

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Speaker 1: she stopped in her acts. Wait a second, I'm outside.

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Speaker 1: There's scary animals out here. What if a bear gets me,

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Speaker 1: or a lion or a cheetah or a crocodile. You see,

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Speaker 1: Flash had watched a lot of videos on YouTube about

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Speaker 1: other animals, lots of scary animals out there, but they

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Speaker 1: were very safe when she was watching a video. But

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Speaker 1: now she's outside in the real outdoors. Are they really are?

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, do they live in her backyard? She

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Speaker 1: instantly was very scared. And then she looked back and

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Speaker 1: the wind boom closed the front door. I'm stuck out

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Speaker 1: here forever, Flash said, what do I gotta do? Oh?

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Speaker 1: She was a little scared, but then she saw a

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Speaker 1: squirrel and wanted to go say hi to the squirrel.

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Speaker 1: So she ran over to the squirrel, but I think

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Speaker 1: the squirrel thought she was chasing her, and so the

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Speaker 1: squirrel ran up a tree and Flash, I want to

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Speaker 1: be friends, come down and play. And the squirrel said,

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Speaker 1: there's no role that I'm coming down there. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: goog me. I'm Flash said, what, I'm not gonna eat you.

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Speaker 1: I just want to be friends. Can we play? What

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Speaker 1: do you do? What do we do outside? Do we

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Speaker 1: play with leaves? Or do we play in the dirt?

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Speaker 1: Or do we what's gonna what was the bad thing

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Speaker 1: is gonna happen? Is something gonna bite me or eat me?

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Speaker 1: And the squirrel said, snow down. Have you never been

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Speaker 1: outside before? And Flash said no, this is my first time,

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Speaker 1: and I'm excited and scared at the same time. I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure what to do or what not to do.

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Speaker 1: Can you help me? And the squirrel said, are you're

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Speaker 1: sure they're not gonna eat me? You promise? Flash said, oh,

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Speaker 1: I promise, I Am not gonna eat you. And so

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Speaker 1: the squirrel slowly crept down back down the tree and

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Speaker 1: the squirrel said, I roll rule number one about to

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Speaker 1: be outstarted these we have lots of fun. And the squirrel,

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Speaker 1: when he said he likes to have fun, he meant it.

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Speaker 1: And pretty soon Flash and the squirrel, whose name was Nuttie,

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Speaker 1: started to have so much fun in the backyard. They

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Speaker 1: made a big pile of leaves and jumped in the leaves,

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Speaker 1: and then they ran over to um the edge, which

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Speaker 1: there was a big hill, and they would roll down

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Speaker 1: the hill and they had so much fun. Then all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, what is that? Flash said, Oh, that's

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Speaker 1: just the room the rain. I am not going to

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Speaker 1: get wet cat. You see, cats do not like water.

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Speaker 1: We don't get wet. What I can't let it get

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Speaker 1: rained on me. I can't get wet. What do we do?

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Speaker 1: Where do I go? The squirrel said, wait, you can

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Speaker 1: come up to my room nest. Let's rap the blue

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Speaker 1: stay droll and Flash said, uh, that's very high. Um, yes,

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Speaker 1: be able to get back down. So let's let's make

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Speaker 1: a different plan. And Squirrel and Flash looked around, Um, okay,

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Speaker 1: how about under there? And there's a trampoline in their

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Speaker 1: backyard and Flash said, I'm gonna go under the trampoline

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Speaker 1: because I think that will help me stay dry, and

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Speaker 1: Nutti the squirrels said okay, I'll come with you, and

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Speaker 1: so they both were underneath the trampoline as it started

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Speaker 1: to rain, and Flash His imagination started to go crazy

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Speaker 1: as she thought, Oh my gosh, this is the first

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Speaker 1: time in the rain. What if it floods. What if

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Speaker 1: it never stops raining? What if the sun never comes back?

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Speaker 1: And the leaves aren't crunchy but they are so gross

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Speaker 1: right now because they're wet. Oh no. Flash was very worried,

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Speaker 1: but none of the squirrel did a good job of

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Speaker 1: helping her feel better. They played games under the trampoline

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Speaker 1: and they actually did have a lot of fun. And

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Speaker 1: then the rain stopped. Oh good, Flash said, I'm I

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Speaker 1: think I'm ready to go back inside, and then something harrible?

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Speaker 1: What is that? Nutty the squirrel? So don't move a mushroll.

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Speaker 1: You see, there is a giant talk in the backyard.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what a hawk is? A hawk is

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Speaker 1: a big, big bird with very sharp claws that likes

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Speaker 1: to eat small animals. Oh my gosh, what do we do?

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Speaker 1: What do we do? What do we do? What do

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Speaker 1: we do? Nutty the squirrel said, I have ste I'm

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Speaker 1: a lot faster than that hawk. I've run out and

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Speaker 1: distracted and run up the tree, and you can run home. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Flash said, okay, all right, so you're gonna run and

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Speaker 1: distract the hawk and then you'll are you sure you'll

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Speaker 1: be able to get away your stir absolutely? Okay? All right,

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Speaker 1: so in the count three, you're gonna go first and

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Speaker 1: scare the hawk, well not scare him, but distract him,

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Speaker 1: and then I'm gonna run back to my house right through.

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Speaker 1: Just like that, they both followed the plan. Nutty the

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Speaker 1: squirrel started rolling around on the ground, and the hawk

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Speaker 1: saw him and took off right to the squirrel. Just then,

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Speaker 1: Flash the cat raced back to the door their Their

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Speaker 1: back door was cracked open just a little bit, and

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Speaker 1: she snuck inside, and she then looked back out the

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Speaker 1: window and saw Nutty the squirrel high up in the tree,

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Speaker 1: safe in his nest. Oh my gosh, Flash said, that

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Speaker 1: was crazy. I can't believe I went outside. That was amazing,

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Speaker 1: But I also kind of just love inside. And then

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Speaker 1: Flash curled up on the couch and said, I I

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Speaker 1: don't know if I'm gonna go back outside, but it's

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