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It was as if Abby being eleven like he was

and in the same class meant that Hill Road

Primary School was the right place to go.

Except Jay didn’t think it was the right school.

As far as he was concerned the right school

was the one he had just left for no good

reason at all. And that was Parkside. Parkside

was special. He had been there since he was

four. It had a big wide entrance with a big

reception desk. Mrs Bailey sat at the reception

desk. She was always there. Every morning,

when Jay arrived at school, she was sitting

there and every morning she said, “Good

Morning, Jay!” and every morning Jay said,

“Good morning, Mrs Bailey” because that was

what you were supposed to say. All the

classrooms were down the corridor on the left

and the cloakrooms, the hall, the library and

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