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loved it. And she loved seeing Tom every

day too.

“Stop!” Lucy puffed. “There can’t be

anything really wrong, Tom.”

Tom stopped – not because Lucy had

said so, but because he was out of breath

and had a stitch in his side. That was one of

the reasons why Tom didn’t usually like

running – that and because he wasn’t really

built for running. Whatever that meant.

That’s what his mum and the PE teacher

said anyway. Tom didn’t really care about

being not very good at running. Right now

he just cared about seeing Gran.

Two minutes later they were ringing the

doorbell to Park House. Tom rattled the

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