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SPECIAL DELIVERY

He hurried down the stairs, taking them two at a time to check whether the package had arrived. It had.  He grabbed it from the floor without checking the others and quickly slid his finger behind the seal and opened the envelope.  He pulled off the bubble wrap and pulled out the prize.  The acclaimed remote looked normal, but it supposedly had the power to control people.  Of course he didn’t believe that, but there was no harm in finding out.  He ran back upstairs to my room to get changed for school, where he would test the remote’s power, to see if it was true.

“Jason, breakfasts ready”, came the muffled shout from my mum.  He put the remote in my inside pocket and went down stairs.

“You didn’t clean your shoes again did you, I’ve told you three times this week and you still haven’t done them.”  I pulled out a seat and prepared for a lecture.  

“All you’re bothered about is sitting in front of that bloody computer all day long and watching…” It worked!  The second I pressed the pause button, she could no longer move or speak.  The dog had frozen with its two front paws on the table, ready to eat my breakfast.  

“T.V”, “all day long and watching T.V”.  I played with the remote for a while pausing her, and the playing and rewinding her.  I quickly pressed pause again before she got chance to lecture me again.  I put my shoes on and left the house, leaving a trail of dirt behind me.  Through the kitchen window, I fast forwarded her, and pressed play as she started to wash up.

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“Did you revise for the test”, was the only question Jason had heard all morning.  Mr. Smithson had threatened Jason with a cause for concern, if he failed to achieve at least a ‘C’ in the Biology test.  And of course, Jason hadn’t revised at all the night before.  He searched high and low in his brain for an excuse that would get him out of the test, but to no avail.  He quickly sat down at the back of his form room and began flicking through the paged of his textbook, trying to learn as much as he ...

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