Chapter 9: A little bit of drool

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  high class four.

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  So here is Chapter nine off Mr Stink titled A

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  little bit off Drill off the gold guys.

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  Chloe locked at her alarm clock radio when she finally

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  dropped into bed.

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  6:44 a.m. She had never been to bed that late

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  ever. Adults didn't even go to bed.

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  But late maybe vory naughty rock star ones, but not

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  many. She closed her eyes for a second.

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  Chloe Chloe Week off, Chloe shouted Mother from outside the

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  door. She knocked on the door three times, then paused.

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  A knocked one more time, which was especially annoying, as

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  Chloe hadn't expected Or two.

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  She looked at the alarm clock radio thing again.

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  6:45 a.m. She had either been asleep for a whole

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  day or a whole minute as she couldn't open her

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  eyes. Chloe guessed.

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  It must have been a minute walked, she said.

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  I'm just shocked by how deep and she signed it.

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  Telling stories all night had turned Chloe's voice into that

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  of a 60 year old ex coal miner who smoked

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  100 roll ups a day.

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  Don't what May young lady, it's time you stopped lazing

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  in bed.

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  Your sister has already completed a triathlon this morning.

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  I get up.

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  I need your help today On the campaign trail, Chloe

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  was so tired she felt like she had grown into

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  her bed.

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  Now, you guys, what do you think that description means?

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  She felt like she had grown into her bed.

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  Pause the video, have a chat with a seven or

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  an adult.

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  What do you think that means?

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  She felt like she had grown into her bed.

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  Well, it means she's really tired, all right, She's not

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  comfortable, and she's not tired in bed that she feels

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  like she is part of the bed.

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  She's almost become a part off what she's lying on.

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  She doesn't differentiate herself from her lying on the bed.

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  It's almost as if it's one object that she is

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  now part of.

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  All right, let's keep going.

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  In fact, she wasn't sure where her body ended on

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  the bed.

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  Begone! She slid out from under her duvet and crawled

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  to the bathroom, blinking in the mirror.

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  Chloe thought for a moment that she was looking at

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  her own Nana, then, saying she made her way downstairs

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  into the kitchen table.

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  We are going campaigning to that, said Mother, as she

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  stepped her grapefruit juice and swallowed the motorway tailback of

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  vitamin pills and food supplements she had lined up neatly

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  on the table.

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  Sounds boring, said Cloy.

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  She made the word boring sound even more boring by

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  making it longer than it really needed to be.

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  On Sunday mornings, Mother would allow the television to be

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  switched on so she could watch programs about politics.

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  Chloe, like watching television in the house reviewing was rationed.

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  Even an advert for a stana stair lift was a

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  treat. However, these political discussion shows, which for no apparent

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  reason were broadcast on Sunday mornings, were bombed.

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  Numbingly boring.

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  Ni goes, What do you think is meant by that

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  description? She felt about one phenomenally boring bomb.

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  Nominally boring.

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  Try saying that three times really fast.

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  See if it's a little tongue cluster bomb.

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  Nominally boring from nominally boring from nominally boring like the

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  little, the middle one got a little bit mixed up

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  there. It's quite hard to say fast.

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  What do you think is meant by that description?

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  Then guys bomb nominally boring?

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  Well, she doesn't enjoy the the shows that her mom's

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  mix her watch the politics shows on.

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  She's saying that the last that long, that her bomb

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  on the seat is numb because she sat in the

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  same place happened to watch the TV on Dhe.

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  She gets all numb, alright, because you're sitting there that

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  long and she's really bored.

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  That's what that description means.

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  Alright, guys, let's keep going.

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  They made Ploy.

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  I think that she wanted to be a kid forever

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  if this was what the grown up world was like.

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  Chloe always suspected that her mother had another motive for

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  watching. She had a crush on the prime minister.

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  Chloe couldn't see it herself, but lots of women her

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  mother's age seemed to find him.

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  Dishy dads amazement.

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  Mother would always stop whatever she was doing to watch

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  the PM if he came on the news.

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  Once cool, we had even spotted a little bit of

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  Drew lose out of her mother's mouth when there was

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  some footage off the prime minister in denim shorts playing

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  Frisbee on the beach.

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  Off course, even the sight of her mother drooling didn't

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  make those politics shows Anne last boring, but Chloe would

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  have watched 100 off them if it meant not having

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  to spend the day campaigning with Mother.

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  That was high boring.

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  It was going to be well, you are coming, whether

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  you like it or not, said Mother.

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  Aunt. Put on that frilly yellow dress that I bought

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  you for your birthday.

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  You look almost pretty or not.

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  Khloe did not look anywhere near Pretty.

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  In it.

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  She looked like a quality street.

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  If that wasn't bad enough, she looked like one of

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  the unpopular flavors that get left in the 10 until

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  way into the new year.

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  Now, guys, what do you think is meant by that

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  description? Let's get it off.

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  On the screen, she looked like a quality street.

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  Know what language feature language devices that that we've looked

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  at quite a lot this year.

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  She looked like a quality street.

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  Well, it's a simile, isn't it?

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  Because she's comparing herself to something else, all right to

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  see if it's similar, She said she looked like a

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  quality street, now a quality street delicious.

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  I love having those Christmas is quite shiny, isn't it?

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  It's very colorful, very shiny, very bright.

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  She's comparing herself to a sweet that you would get

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  in the quality Street him.

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  If that wasn't pardon off, she looked at one of

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  the unpopular flavors to get left and tell them to

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  away into the new year.

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  The only color she really liked wearing was black.

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  Bob Black was cool, and even better.

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  It made her look less chubby.

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  Chloe desperately wanted to be a golf, but she didn't

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  know where to start.

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  You couldn't buy golf clothes in Marks and Spencer's on

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  anyway. You also needed the white makeup in the black

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  hair day on.

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  Most importantly, at the skill of looking down at your

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  shoes at all times, how would she go about becoming

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  a Garth?

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  Was there an application form to fill out AH, Committee

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  of Super Goths?

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  Who would bet you forgot nous or was it golf?

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  Nous says Today, Khloe had once seen a real life

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  got hanging around by, have been in the High Street

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  on, become incredibly excited.

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  She really wanted to go over and ask her how

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  to get started in the golf world.

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  She was to shake, which is ironic, since shyness is

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  something you need if you want to be a successful

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  golf. In the unlikely event of Elizabeth, the cat becoming

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  a Garth, she would look like this.

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  There's a little picture.

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  Let's get back to the story.

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  It's cold outside Ploy said Mother.

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  When Chloe come downstairs in the horrible quality straight dress,

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  you'll need a coat.

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  How about that tangerine colored coat your grandmother made you

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  last Christmas?

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  Chloe reached into the room onto the stairs.

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  This was where everyone in the family kept their coats

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  in Wellington boots.

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  She heard a rustle in the darkness.

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  Hard Elizabeth.

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  The cat got shot in there by mistake.

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  Or had Mr Stink moved indoors, she switched on the

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  light. Peeking out from behind the bottom of an old

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  fur coat was a frightened face.

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  Dodd H What are you hiding in here for?

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  Chloe whispered.

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  You're meant to be at work.

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  No, I'm not.

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  I lost my job at the factory.

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  Said Dad sort sorrowfully.

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  What whole lord of us got me had redundant two

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  weeks ago.

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  No one is buying new cars right now.

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  It's the recession, I suppose?

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  Yes, but why are you hiding?

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  I'm too frightened to tell your mother.

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  She'll divorce me if she finds out.

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  Please, I beg you.

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  Don't tell her I'm not sure she'd Div.

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  Please, Chloe, I'll sort all this out soon.

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  It's not going to be easy, but I got another

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  job if I can.

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  He leaned forward so that the hammer, the fur coat

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  was draped over his head, the thick for looking like

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  a mass of curly hair.

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  So that's what you look like with her.

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  Chloe whispered.

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  What it was definitely died on the CD cover with

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  the for over his head.

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  He looked like You look just like he did in

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  the photo with that astonishing perm.

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  If you need a job, you could always go back

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  to playing guitar with the serpents.

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  Doom said.

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  Chloe. Dad, look startled.

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  Who told you I was in a band?

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  I saw your CD and I asked, Mother, but sheesh

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  said that.

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  Keep it down, wit.

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  Where did you see the C.

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  D? I was looking for my old hamster cage in

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  the shared on.

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  It was in a box with the Lord of All

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  junk. There was a burnt guitar with it.

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  Dad opened his mouth to say something, but just that

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  moment a door slam upstairs.

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  Come along, Chloe.

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  Moving to mother.

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  Promise you won't say anything.

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  about me losing my job.

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  Whisper dot I promise.

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  Chloe shut the door, leaving her dad on all fours

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  in the darkness.

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  Now she had to fully grown men hiding around the

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  house. What's next?

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  She thought, um, I going to find Granddad in the

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  tumble dryer.

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  That's the end of chapter nine.

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  Everybody All right?

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  Well, we enjoyed that by for my boys and girls.