Story Time Animated

Hi! I'm Chloe! I was born to the smartest mom in the world, Mrs Nikki. As a child alone she won multiple awards because of how genius she was and had her own law firm at 22. Everyone expected I would be smart like her. But instead of books, I loved music, and this made mom very angry.

There was this time when I was six, and my Grandma got me a mini guitar as my birthday present. I played with it all the time and found it difficult to do my homework.

Mom This is crazy!!! You should have gotten her books as a present!

Dad But you already did that.

Mom This guitar is making her not to focus on what is important. Everyone is laughing at me for giving birth to a child that's the complete opposite of me.

Chloe But mom, it makes me happy.

 Mom That's not the point! If you dont have straight A's, you're going to be a broke adult, like your uncle!

Uncle was mom's brother who hadn't done too well in school as mom had. I thought he was living fine, but mom always spoke bad of him. Infact mom was always nasty to people, except clients who paid her lots of money and her only friend Mariam. 

Mariam was nice, but her son was not. Even though we knew each other from babyhood, he was just a meanie.

In class, he scored straight A's while I struggled to have B's, and he would always look down on me for it.

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Hi! My name is Tazi and I was raised by apes.

When I was 8 years old I have vague memories of being brought to this island by my human parents. I don’t know why they were here, but all I know is that they never survived. One night, a jaguar came into our shelter and killed them. I would’ve been jaguar food next, if it weren’t for the apes.

One ape, I call her Ma, suddenly appeared and defeated the jaguar before it could eat me. Ma then found me, just a little girl, all alone, and decided to take me in.

I’ve been living with the apes ever since. We don’t have a language like humans do, but we communicate through body movement. And since I was 8 years old when I was taken in by the apes, I could still speak some English, though not very well.

It was tough adapting into this new life. I remember one time they were teaching me how to swing from tree to tree, and as I let go of the branch it snapped and I nearly fell to my death, but Ma quickly jumped forward and rescued me. It’s taken a lot of getting used to, but now, at 16 years of age, the apes have become my family and I have become less of a human and more of an ape.

Once my family started to trust me, they revealed to me something very special about them. Their hair is as strong as steel. For real. You could shoot an arrow at their back and it would not break through their hair armour. Because of this I’d always felt self-conscious since I didn’t have the same impenetrable hair as them on my body, but Ma always made sure I felt included.

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“Honey, I’d like you to meet Alyssa.”

I extended my hand and Alyssa smiled as she shook it. 

“It’s nice to meet you, Candice, I’ve heard so much about you.” 

Dad’s phone buzzed. “Please excuse me, I have to take this.”

Alyssa nodded and Dad left the room. 

Alyssa suddenly leaned towards me. “If you don’t do as I say I’ll make your life a living nightmare.” 

Hi there, I’m Candice from Ireland.

When I was three Mom passed away from an illness and it’s been just Dad and me ever since. 

Dad and I were very close. He always treated me like his little princess and we’d get manis and pedis together, go to the movies, he’d even set up my dolls and stuffed animals and we’d pretend that we were runway models. 

When I was 15, Dad introduced me to his girlfriend, Alyssa, and six months later they were married. She did and said all the right things when Dad was around.

“Ethan, I think it’s time Candice got her own computer.” or “I think Candice and I should have a girls day out!”

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When I was born, it was on a pirate ship. When I took my first steps, it was on a pirate ship. When I said my first words - you guessed it, I was on a pirate ship! My parents were the greatest pirates who ever sailed the seas. Other pirates cowered whenever they saw the flag of my family, the Shellwalkers, wave up in the air.

Growing up I loved the pirate life. The adrenaline, the fresh ocean breeze. My parents always made sure they took good care of me too. Life was good. Until, it all came crashing down with the force of a tsunami.

One night I was in my room when I heard a loud crash.

I ran outside to find colossal waves and a giant storm above us.

“Mom? Dad?”

“Tina! Quick, get to the lifeboat!”

“No, I’m not leaving you two!”

Dad: “Henry, take her!”

Mom: “We’ll be with you soon honey.”

Henry, my parents’ trusted right-hand-man, lifted me up and ran with me to the lifeboat at the side of the ship. We hopped in, but suddenly the rope holding it up snapped and the boat fell into the water with us in it.

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Hi, my name is Ayallah, and I’m from Spain. I never thought my mom would try to control my love life, but boy was I in for a surprise!

Growing up, I was an only child and my parents owned the largest makeup company in the city. 

When I was five years old, my entire world turned upside down when my best friend, Andy, told Dad that he saw Mom kissing Mr. Johnson, the mailman. 

Dad was devastated. You see Dad was ill and I really thought Mom loved him. He kissed me goodbye, told me that he loved me and left for good. Mom has hated Andy ever since. 

Andy and I were inseparable even though Mom tried to keep us apart. We kept our friendship a secret and actually started dating in high school. Andy and I were in our last year of high school and I couldn't wait to leave home and go to college so Andy and I didn't have to sneak around.  But what Mom did next left me speechless.

"Ayallah, I invited Andy over for dinner. I think it's time we deal with unresolved issues”.

Before I could object Mom continued, "Now, go upstairs and freshen up. Throw on something nice." 

At 6:15 the doorbell rang. "Ayallah could you get that please?"

My mind raced and my stomach churned as I opened the door. Before me stood a slender, 6'2, black haired Godlike version of Jason Mamoa. He was holding a bouquet of flowers. 

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Hey there, I’m Alexis and I’m from Cantivina. If you think that’s a made-up country, you’re wrong, because I’m the queen of it.

Growing up, life was pretty strange. One time when I was 2 years old I was at a grocery store with my parents when suddenly 5 men dressed like ninjas burst in and tried to grab me!

“GET AWAY FROM MY DAUGHTER!”

One of the ninjas grabbed me and started to run away with me in his arms. 

“MAMA! PAPA!”

“NO! ALEXIS!”

I bit on the guy’s hand and he dropped me.

“Why you little–”

His next few words were snatched from his mouth as two bodyguards jumped in and knocked him out. More bodyguards arrived and dealt with the other ninjas, and before long I was escorted away from the grocery store with the eyes of everyone on us. Someone in the crowd scoffed angrily, “ I wonder who those people are?” His wife then said, ``they must be movie stars or something”. When we got home, I asked my parents what had happened and they told me not to worry too much about it.

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Hey guys, I’m Annika Sabeen. I grew up in the Arctic.

My last memory of human life was from when I was 10 years old. I remembered my mother carrying me out into this icy landscape. The wind was blasting us with thousands of icy crystals, and I held onto my mother tight, but she let go of me and dropped me on the freezing floor. 

“Mama!”

My mom turned and ignored me. She disappeared, and that was the only memory I had of her. I didn’t even know what her face looked like. The trauma of being abandoned in the Arctic had wasted away what memory I had left, so now all I knew was that my name was Annika Sabeen.

After she abandoned me, I was devastated. But I decided I wasn’t going to go down without a fight. I was determined to survive. I learnt how to make a fire out of the sticks left in the woods nearby. I learnt how to make an igloo to shield myself from the snowstorms. I lived off of seal meat and sometimes even polar bear meat. Life was tough. And boring. Until one fateful day.

I was about 16 years old. I had just returned from fishing, when I noticed that smoke was coming out of my igloo. I felt my heart skip a beat. I hadn’t lit a fire! So how was there any smoke? Was an intruder in my home?

I sprinted as fast as I could and barged in, my spear in hand.

“GET OUT YOU–”

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Hi, my name is Darla, and I'm from Italy. I often wonder if my life would have turned out differently if I didn't have this scar. 

I was blessed to grow up in a loving family. Dad was a teacher and Mom had an online business so she was always there for me when I needed her.  My family was perfect. But one night my world was turned upside down.

Even though I was five at the time, I remember it like it was yesterday. Mom and Dad were preparing dinner and I was sitting by the kitchen table. Suddenly, a masked man entered the kitchen and Mom grabbed me in front of her. Dad tried to ward off the intruder with the knife in his hand but the intruder snatched me from Mom and threw me into Dad's path. I felt a sharp pain on my face and Mom screamed. 

The relationship with Dad wasn't the same when I was released from the hospital. Dad couldn't bear to stay in the same room that I was in. He no longer looked at me or hugged me. 

One day Dad went to work and he never returned. I was heartbroken and for years I blamed myself. If it wasn't for this ugly scar then maybe Dad would still be around.

As I went through school, kids and teachers were mean about my scar. I tried to make friends but one girl named Charlotte told everyone that I had an infectious disease and nobody wanted to play with me. 

I resorted to wearing a mask in hopes that things may change but it didn't. The last straw was when a teacher placed my lunch in a dog bowl and ordered me to eat it. Mom removed me from the school but she was also able to get the teacher fired. Mom homeschooled me and I was happier than I'd been in a long time.

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What’s up guys, I’m Naya and I’m from India.

My mom raised me all by herself and she didn’t have it easy. We were poor. Very poor. She worked as a maid for this super rich family, and when I was 8 years old I begged mom to let me work with her too so we could earn extra money.

“Please mom, I wanna help.”

“Oh I don’t know…”

“Please!”

“Well, okay honey. Thank you.”

“Yay!”

I was excited, but I didn’t really understand how terrible my mom’s work was.

When we arrived I was so shocked by how massive the house was. It was a mansion, all white and pristine like a palace. We didn’t get to enter through the front since we were considered inferior, so we had a small back entry where we got changed into our uniforms and started our tasks for the day.

My mom and I were in the living room cleaning up. I was only 8 years old so I was pretty clumsy, and I accidentally knocked over a glass of orange juice that was on the table, staining the fluffy white carpet.

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“Ya!”

I urged the horse on as we galloped away from the bandits chasing me. 

“Get back here!”

I held the small treasure chest in my hands closer to me.

“You’ll never get my treasure!” 

The bandits soon overtook me and circled around me. One of them moved closer, scaring my horse and causing him to rear back.

“Woah, there boy!”

I lost my grip of the chest and it fell to the ground.

“No!”

“Haha! The treasure’s mine!”

But before the bandit could get his grimy hands on my treasure, I brought out my lasso and looped it around the chest, dragging it back into my hands. We galloped away, speeding far from those evil bandits. I had found this treasure fair and square. All they wanted to do was steal it from me!

Suddenly I heard a loud ringtone. Someone was calling me. I held the reins of the horse and the chest in one hand, then swiped to answer my phone with the other.

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