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Moving

Age: 7

Jack pushed the trolley along just able to see above the handle bar, being the smallest in class wasn't a perk at the moment. "Okay, we need milk, bread, something for dinner, something for pudding, suitcase for Jack and I promised him a chocolate bar of his choice" said Anna "I thought you said no more treats for no reason!?" reminded Jonathan "But I have a very good reason-" but Anna was cut short "'Cause I made a level 4 picture in art on Monday!" said Jack proudly "Did you now!" replied Jonathan ruffling his hair, "Yes that was what I was going to say, actually it's because he has trouble with making friends at the moment" she said whispering the last part.

Jonathan took the trolley from Jack who reluctantly took Anna's hand and walked over to the holiday section of the supermarket. In the section there was cards clothes information leaflets and suitcases. "Which would you like? There's a blue one, a green one, a purple one..." Anna continued but Jack didn't hear, his heart was set on the blue suitcase with the lightning bolts in the top right and bottom left corners. "That one" he said pointing to the suitcase "Are you sure you don't want the blue dinosaur?" asked Anna surprised that he'd chosen from the teenage section "Yes" he said blankly "Okay then" answered Anna.

Jack pulled his new suitcase across the front drive while eating his caramel chocolate bar. "Go get your toys and put them on your bed along with your shoes" ordered Anna, Jack immediately obeyed struggling to get the suitcase up the stairs but with a look on his face that said I can do it! so they let him do it by himself but always keeping an eye on him. "Done!" shouted Jack to Anna, as she walked into his room. "Well done! Now let's decide which toys are going to be in the car" said Anna as she sat on his bed, "I don't want any toys in the car!" exclaimed Jack "Well you're going to have to have at least one!" said Anna a hint of frustration in her voice.

Eventually Anna decided that he would have his teddy in the car as it was the only soft toy he had left. Jonathan put the two left seats up and propped them against the metal bars to keep them from falling, and put three big black suitcases in the boot. When everything was in the car Jack strapped himself in and Anna placed his teddy on his lap and climbed in herself, Jack looked the teddy over, it had a big patch on its right side and its eyes had been replaced by buttons long ago. The van with their furniture waited for them to go ahead, the car roared up and began to move out of the drive.

Jack awoke to the rumbling of cars, he realised that he was holding his teddy to his stomach and he decided that as long as none of the jerks at school could see him he could play with it as long as he wanted. The car came to a stop outside a large house with a garden next to the garage that they parked the car in. Jack picked up his suitcase and rolled it up to the house while Anna unlocked the door and Jonathan began to unload the car. When they got inside the house they were greeted by a staircase covered in cream carpet, "Would you like a tour sir?" asked Anna bowing while pretending to be a butler. To the right of the stair case there was a door which led to a wooden floored room with a bar counter splitting it down the middle to make it a kitchen diner. Up the stairs on the left there was a furry floored room which was to be the living room, in front of the stairs was possibly the smallest room in the building that Jack assumed was going to be the bathroom. "Now do you want the entire top floor of the house or do you want the room nearest to the bathroom?" asked Anna "Top floor! Top floor!" squealed Jack.

When the house was furnished the kitchen diner had the table and chairs from the old house along with the kitchen equipment. The living room had a new flat screen TV with big speakers and a wii console and a 'gaming chair' with speakers next to the ears that looked like a car seat. The bathroom had a new white bath/shower with tinted sliding glass and a toilet and sink. The room next to the bathroom had a dresser with a mirror and a double bed. Upstairs there was a blue bed duvet and white sheets with white pillows. Next to this was a small flat screen TV with a built in computer. There was also a toy box with all of his action figures set his teddy down on the pillow before flopping on himself and falling straight to sleep with his clothes on.