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    Poppy the Popsicle lived with her 

Poppa and Momma in the Freezer 

Community. She was almost in 

kindergarten, and was very curious.

She was a tad careless, too. Once, she 

was over by the Bread Oven Nursery,

and she stuck her little icy face near the

stove's flames - she just wanted to see

what would happen. 

Her parents ended up taking her to the

Icy Hospital of Molecule Damage. You

see, all creatures in the Freezer 

Community had something in them

called "molecules". These molecules

could have different speeds, 

depending on the state of their carrier.

If an ice creature's molecules were

moving slowly, that was a good thing. 

   When their molecules moved slowly,

that meant that they would stay frozen.

If their molecules started moving a little

quicker, then that wasn't good. When 

their molecules move to this state, they

start turning to a liquid...which is a 

bad thing; they would be moved to the

Icy Hospital of Molecule Damage, into

the I.C.U.!   However, it could get a lot

worse.

   If their molecules started moving with

extreme speed, they would turn into a 

gas! Once they were a gas, they were

invisible; nobody could help them! 

They would just have to change back

into a liquid, somehow. Then, 

someone would find them, and they 

would be admitted into the Molecule

Hospital.

    For a Popsicle to melt, heat energy 

would have to be applied to the 

Popsicle. Then, the Popsicle would melt 

into a puddle of fruity slush. If even

more heat was applied, the slush would

evaporate, or become a vapor, a gas.

Then, the fruity vapor would condense,

or gather, into a cloud. After that, the

Popsicle would change back into a 

liquid again, then a solid, due to 

 the cold. Basically, heat energy can 

change the way a Popsicle's molecules

behave in a negative way. (Or so the 

Freezer Community thought. To them, 

melting was a severe, life-threatening 

thing. They viewed it as the worst thing 

that could ever happen in a Popsicle's 

whole life.) Yeah, you can see the 

problem with Poppy's curiosity. 

    One morning, Poppa told Poppy, 

"Poppy, you must learn to be more 

cautious and careful! You'll get hurt one 

day!" 

Poppy said, "I know, Poppa. I'll be extra-

special careful. Don't worry!" 

Well, Poppy SAID she'd be careful. But 

was she? Not exactly...

   So here it was: Poppy's first day of

kindergarten at the Freezer Elementary.

Her parents were very anxious. Would

she be safe at school? Would the 

teachers watch her, so that she 

would stay out of trouble? WOULD

SHE EVEN SURVIVE?! This was 

very hard on her parents. Poppy was

simply way too curious.

    The amazing part: she survived. Not 

only that, but she stayed out of trouble!

To good to be true? Yup, exactly right.

Well, Poppy did stay out of trouble for

one day, but nobody said anything about 

the SECOND day. She was just too 

curious, and her curiosity eventually got 

the best of her. 

    During the second day safety class,

Poppy received news she had never, ever 

heard before! The news: If she got

anywhere to near this thing called heat 

energy, she would do something called

"melting"! Melting meant becoming a 

liquid. And, if you got heated up enough,

you'd turn into a gas! Oh, what a 

nightmare! 

    When you became a gas, your family

couldn't see you at all! You'd be 

invisible! At least, if you were a liquid, 

you could still live in the Freezer 

Community...but if you were a gas, 

you'd be stranded in the air, and you 

can't be frozen into a solid immediately. 

You would have to condense into a 

cloud, and then become a liquid. Then 

you would have to be frozen back again!

    Poppy didn't know if her parents knew

about this terrible fate in which one's 

molecules are damaged. What if they 

didn't, and they evaporated into a gas?!

Did they really know, but hadn't told 

her? Well, Poppy didn't know that

her parents were trying to protect her, 

and had known about it all along. So, she

decided to go and tell them herself.

    So Poppy did exactly what she was 

going to do, she told her parents about 

"melting". They weren't surprised. They 

told her that it was true and that in order 

for her to not melt, she should do exactly 

what they told her.   She took this very 

seriously. The next day, she did 

everything the teachers told her to do. 

She even started to get A's and B's in the 

Freezy Safety class!

    But one day she was out with her 

friends (at her first sleepover), and there 

they decided that it was so boring in 

Freezer town. A couple of hours later 

they came up with a genius plan to take a 

little adventure to Fridgeville. Being that 

this was a year later, they had forgotten 

everything they learned in the Freezy 

Safety class. 

So, later that night they headed outside 

for their journey. As soon as they got out 

of freezer town they started to feel hot. 

An hour or so later they started to watch 

each other drip! Eventually they realized 

that they were melting and freaked out! 

Later, they were completely melted into 

little puddles of fruity juice. The people 

of Fridgeville were very confused.

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