Ponsies sits on a bench in a park by herself, watching the older kids play. Her legs dangle off the bench.
Three kids are playing kickball. Ponsies claps her hands in excitement, and slips off the bench and runs into the game. Someone kicks a ball and it hits her square in the face. She falls back on her rump, surprised.
Another kid pulls her up roughly and leads her off the field. With a displeased frown he points to a sign: “Only kids THIS HEIGHT and up can play.” He walks back to the game.
Ponsies stares at the sign, and she starts to cry. She curls up in a ball beside the sign, next to a freshly turned flower-bed with sacks of soil. She lays her head on one of the sacks, still crying, tears dripping on the sack and soaking the contents within. Eventually, she falls asleep.
She wakes up, aware of something moving underneath her. Sitting up, she sees the sack she was lying on stand up! She backs away, but the sack proves itself to be friendly, picking a flower and giving it to Ponsies as a gift.
Ponsies is touched and gives the sack a hug. As she looks over Flower’s shoulder, she sees a ball lying by itself in the empty field. Excited, she drags Flower to the ball and they start playing.
Ponsies is happy to at last find someone to be her friend. Flower is happy as well. However, it starts to rain, and Flower becomes soggy and can’t play anymore. They go back and sit underneath the tree again.
Ponsies looks concerned as Flower sags and goes limp. It rains harder, and starts to thunder. Ponsies tucks herself into a ball, afraid of the storm and the death of her friend.
The rain stops, and Ponsies looks to where her friend lays. As the sun comes out, flowers sprout out of the sack . . .
Ponsies is awaked by a person handing a flower to her. She smiles, gets up and walks away with her new friend. Behind her, a flower unfurls from the sack she was lying on.
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