After the events on the baseball game. Patricia and her friends are heading to the playground for her to have fun at the slide. Carrie and her sister heads to the sand box to build themselves a sandcastle. Sugi sits on his bench to look at his friends while Ice heads home to continue on what he is suppose to do with the program.
Patricia heads to the ladder while the girls looks at her doing the thing. When she is ready to go down the slide. She starts screaming in fear causing his father to be heard.
"Patricia," Her father said, "What's going on?"
"I'm afraid to go down the slide." His daughter cried loudly.
"Patricia, it's just a slide. There's nothing to be afraid off."
She slides down the slide with no fear and it turns out that she is doing great at it. When she heads to the ladder. She climbs up on it before she heads down at the slide. When it is the third time. She starts to scream when she is at the ledge of the slide because someone has leveled the slide without her notice.
"It's okay Patricia," His father said worrying, "You can do it. I'm always here with you."
"Yeah, but," She replied immediately in scared, "The slide's height is too high."
"What? How did you know?" He stands up from his bench before heading to the slide parts to see what's going on, "Your right Patricia, someone made a prank at you. But, still. You need to go down the slide to prevent your fears from happening."
Patricia gulps down and slides down with fear. Her father accompanies her at the bench to discuss it.
"Even when your fears are here," Her father said, "You can still do it."
"But, how?" She replied in anxious, "How can I know the height of that thing even when I'm still scared?"
"Look, all you have to do here is not to mind that thing and always be brave. That's what my mother said when I was a little boy."
She nods a yes as her father continues to explain everything to her about it. She then, joins with Carrie and Jacquai to have fun at the sandbox.
"Hi Patricia," Carrie said happily, "Why are you scared at the huge slide?"
"Actually," Patricia replied, "I'm just afraid of heights."
"You mean that you are afraid of heights?"
"Yes."
"Okay," Jacquai replied back to her, "If your scared of heights. We'll adjust the slide on the park and we'll watch you doing it."
"Okay."
Carrie and her sister along with their friend head to the park's slide where they will test her fear's against the heights on it.
The final height's results is 5.90. So Patricia can only do the sliding thing up to the height's limit.
"Okay, I see..." Carrie said after she scream in fear above the height's limit, "You can do the sliding up to 5.90 length tall."
"Yes." Patricia replied.
"So what's your age right now."
"I'm at age 11."
"So I see... You're current age is 11. So which means that the maximum height of the slide is 4-8 tall."
"If that's the case," Jacquai said to Patricia, "Then, why did you scream at the maximum length of the slide?"
"It's because I'm going to fall off the slide immediately." Patricia replied.
"Okay, so if that's the case," Carrie replied back, "We'll tell Ice about it tomorrow to solve your problem."
"Okay."
"So I guess it's getting late," Carrie said to her friends, "So we have to all go home because our parents will be upset about it."
"Okay."
"Sounds good."
"I'll see you tomorrow at school."
Her friends replied before standing up together and head home to their respective houses as is.
During dinner time at Patricia's house. His father saw he not eating her food properly because she is thinking about the slide what happened last afternoon.
"It's alright. Patricia," Her father patting her shoulder, "I'm always here with you."
"Okay." She replied in a bit worried.
"Look, as long as you have your courage. You can do it."
"Right. Dad. I won't give up. And show myself how improve I am."
"Yup, that's the spirit. Girl. So eat your dinner then, go directly to bed to get some rest."
Patricia eats her dinner with her father before taking a toothbrush and having a goodnight sleep.
The next morning. Patricia is having her math class at her classroom. She stares at the math equations thinking about the slides last afternoon. The teacher saw her daydreaming. She smacks her stick at the table just to get the attention on her.
"What on earth are you thinking about, Patricia?" The teacher yelling at her.
"Sorry," Patricia apologizes to her, "I was just thinking about the slides that I screamed about last afternoon."
"What do you mean the slide?"
"You know that I was screaming at the playground last afternoon causing my friends and my father to hear about it."
"I see... What your thinking about. You are scared at the highest park's slide just you think that you might fall."
"Yes."
"Therefore. You can show your courage on how to do it later but, as of now. Focus on what I'm discussing on the board!" The bolded words are the yelling parts before she heads back to the board to continue the discussion of this subject.
The teacher wrote something on the board. She asks any of the students to volunteer for the answer. She sees her again thinking off the slides at the park. As a result. She asks her to solve the problem on the board.
Patricia stands up on her chair to solve the problem on the board. She looks at the problems very carefully before she can write it on the board. When she finishes the problem on the board. The teachers checks her answer and as it turns out. The answer is wrong.
The school bell rings loudly causing all the students to have their time to have a break period.
During her break time. She meets up with her friends at the school library too discuss about her fears at the playground.
"Okay Patricia," Ice said questioning, "Why are you scared at the slide last afternoon?"
"It's because I was scared of heights."
"Then, I'm going to test you how fear you are at the park later this afternoon at the school."
"How?"
"I'll show you the details at the park later."
Later at the park. Ice uses his old wagon before with the handrails attached on the side just to test his friend about the fear on the slide.
He pushes the wagon onto the tall hill and it turns out that she is not screaming anymore with fear because her father and her teacher taught her about the courage.
"Okay," Ice said after the test of her fear, "If you are not scared anymore. Then, why don't you go to the slide and ride down like joyful."
"Okay." She stands up and heads to the real slide just to finalize how fear she is.
When she goes down the slide. She is not screaming anymore. So as a result. She is not scared at the slide anymore causing her friends to cheer joyfully and hugging her.
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Fly higher than the stars
FantasySugi along with Carrie, Jacquai, Patricia, and Ice do a lot of great things and brand new adventures as long as they always get together. Even when they are alone or with their parent's assistance. They can still do it.
