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kitchen or on the phone. Hopefully she

would be too distracted to notice us slipping

back into the house and going up to my

room.

She was. Five minutes later we were in

front of my computer. It was pretty old, but it

worked. Mum and Dad were planning to

buy me a better one for my next birthday,

but that wasn’t for another week. It wouldn’t

be new, of course, just second-hand.

I switched it on and took the cd out of the

box again. It might not work, of course.

I put the cd in and waited. There was the

usual whirring sound, a clunk then another

whirring sound. Our eyes were glued to the

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