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In the African safari there were three friends. 

Nicole the giraffe, Renee the gazelle, and Melissa 

the lion. They had all been best friends for as 

long as they could remember. 

It had always just been Nicole, Renee and 

Melissa. They had fun hanging out together doing 

many things. Their favorites were swimming in 

the lake and running around the African plains.  

Then one day, Nicole suggested they make 

some more friends. "It gets lonely with just us 

sometimes, don't you think? New friends would 

be fun!" The others shook their heads. "No, we 

like it just us," they protested. 

Nicole got upset. She didn't know why her 

friends were acting like that "Oh well," she said 

"they can go be lonely by themselves." Later 

that night, Nicole thought of a plan to make 

more friends. She just hoped her old friends 

would take her lead.

The next day, Melissa and Renee couldn't find 

Nicole. They looked and looked and looked and 

they still didn't find her! They began to worry. 

"Maybe we drove her away?" Renee suggested. 

Melissa began to get angry, "That's crazy, she's 

our friend, she wouldn't just leave like that!"  

But as the day went on, and they still couldn't 

find her, it began to seem less crazy.

As they ran towards her, they noticed she was 

with someone else! They had never seem this 

giraffe before, and got very curious. Nicole saw her 

friends, and went to greet them, and introduce 

them to her new friend. "This is my new friend 

Niall. He's a giraffe just like me!" They didn't like 

the look of this. 

Over the next few days, Niall begun hanging out with 

them more and more. They went from being three best 

friends, to four. And when four people become best 

friends, they split into groups of two. "I wish we had 

other animals like us" said Renee. Melissa quickly 

snapped back "I don't. I liked it when it was just us three 

and we were all different." 

Melissa decided to come home early one day. She was 

sad her best friends were splitting apart. Luckily, she 

knew Renee would always be there, or so she 

thought. 

The next day when Melissa went to hang out with 

Renee and Nicole, she found they were both 

missing! "Oh great." Melissa sighed, and began her 

search. 

After many many hours 

of searching, she finally 

found her friends, plus 

Niall. Not only was he 

there, but a new 

gazelle was with them! 

"You have got to be 

kidding!" yelled 

Melissa. After talking 

with her friends, she 

found out his name 

was Ken. Melissa 

realized, she was a 

very lonely lion. 

She saw how happy both of her friends were 

with animals that were the same as them. If only 

she could be friends with another lion. Melissa 

was up all night thinking of possible ways to 

befriend a fellow lion. After a long time of 

thinking, she realized she would never find 

someone like her. She started to cry. 

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