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“Maybe it was a trick? Maybe someone

has been messing with your computer.”

“No. It was the CD. It was definitely the

CD. What was the game, though? What

were we supposed to have done?”

Jake and I would probably still be

puzzling over that if what happened next

hadn’t – well, happened next.

There was a loud crashing and banging of

doors and commotion downstairs. At first it

sounded like the usual thing: Mum

shouting, Clara shouting, Mum screaming,

Clara screaming; then Clara thumping up

the stairs. She was still in a bad mood,

obviously. I would have stayed where I was,

particularly after the felt tip incident, but it

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