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What… What are they doing? They were supposed to be running toward me

They disappear round the corner and for a few moments I’m too baffled to speak

"Luke, was that Mum and Dad?" I say at last

"I think so" Luke sounds equally puzzled

"And did they really… run away fro away froue

"No!" Luke says quickly "Of course not They probably just didn’t see you Look!" He suddenly points "There they are again"

Sure enough, Muain, this ti for a few steps, then Dad drarabs Mum and points at me

"Look!" he says "It’s Becky!"

"Becky!" Mum exclaims in a stilted voice "It can’t be true!"

She sounds just like she did in the aatha Christie last year, when she played the lady who discovered the body

"Becky! Luke!" Dad calls

And now they really are running toward us, and I feel a huge swell of e

"Mu my hands out I land in Dad’s arreat big hug

"You’re ho all right?" Mum peers at me anxiously "Are you OK?"

"We’re fine! We just decided to cohtly "We knew you’d beus!"