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Chapter Three

               “Why didn’t you use the brake?” Abby

            whispered twenty minutes later as they sat at

            the kitchen table.

               Jay shrugged.

               “Dunno!” he said.

               Luckily, Jay’s launching himself sideways

            off the bike had stopped him from crashing

            into his dad. The bump on to the ground

            hadn’t even hurt – well, not much.

               Dad glanced across at Jay and his new

            friend with the red streaks in her hair.

               “You can’t have been fed for a week!” he

            grinned as he watched Abby tuck into the

            plateful of food.

               Abby paused with her fork half-way up to

            her open mouth. Jay was steering food around

            his plate with his fork so that the spaghetti in


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