Original Writing Prose "I heard a car pull into the driveway, and I knew I was in deep, deep trouble".

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“I heard a car pull into the driveway, and I knew I was in deep, deep trouble”

        Rebekah stood in the doorway to her bedroom, and looked around.  There were all of her collection of teddy bears sitting on the window sill, which had a fabulous view all over the village below, and in the corner of the room was her dressing table, littered with make-up and jewellery.  On the walls there were posters, pictures of almost anyone who’d had a top ten hit in the last year.  At the beginning of every year she took down all of her posters, ready to make room for the new ones that would take their place soon enough.  She started to take them down one by one – but it wasn’t the end of the year.  She was leaving home and going to live on the other side of the world – in Australia with her boyfriend (now fiancé) and his family.          He’d only proposed to her that morning but she’d said yes immediately – he’d been her boyfriend for the last five years and she’d always known that she’d marry him.  She stopped for a minute and thought about when they’d first met all those years ago.  She’d only just had her sixteenth birthday then and he was seventeen.  She’d noticed him in the park, pushing two little girls on the swings.  She’d thought how lovely he was with them, but as she listened to them, how he treated them almost like adults.  

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        One of the little girls had fallen off the swing – and Becki’s initial instinct made her run over to help.  Making the little girl (Aimee, Marc’s niece) smile again was what had broken the ice between her and Marc.  

        Now she was packing up her room to go and live halfway across the world with him and his family.  They would be leaving tonight.  They had to as his little sister was very ill, and needed urgent treatment which could only come from Australia.  Becki hadn’t even told her parents she was leaving home yet – she didn’t ...

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