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  • Looking after Mum

    Had to repost this later on due to lack of replies.

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  • Watching Windows - Chapter 1

    Chapter 1: I don't quite know where to start. This is so confusing. I never should have begun in the first place. He was stupid to suggest it. Maybe I ...

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  • Watching Windows - Chapter 2

    Chapter 2 My first instinct was to panic. My heart started thumping about in my chest, like a one-man army, and I felt lightheaded and sick. I sat down shakily ...

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  • Watching Windows - Chapter 3

    Chapter 3 Chapter 3 I went to the admissions immediately, and said falteringly to the middle-aged woman at reception, name's Amelia Harper, and my dad told me to come here, ...

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  • Watching Windows - Chapter 4

    Chapter 4 When Mum asked me that question, my world just about stopped spinning in its orbit. For a moment I didn't find any words to say. Then, I stammered, ...

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  • Watching Windows - Chapter 5

    Chapter 5 Fidgeting nervously, I stood uncomfortably outside the room, not knowing whether to knock or to just enter. When I’d walked into a science lesson, my teacher had handed ...

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  • Watching Windows - Chapter 6

    Chapter 6 At the end of the month, Mum came home from the convalescent ward she’d been transferred to after a week at the hospital. We took her very slowly ...

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  • Watching Windows - Chapter 7

    Chapter 7 The whole school knew about me. It became more and more obvious as each day crawled on. I noticed that the people huddled in their tight little groups ...

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  • Watching Windows - Chapter 8

    Okay...this is a really crap chapter. I perservered with it again and again but couldn't get it right. So be harsh and detailed Part II : Chapter 8 Two Years ...

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  • Watching Windows - Chapter 9

    Chapter 9 It was seven in the morning on the first day back at school after the summer, and I felt all the groggy misery that went with that fact. ...

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  • Watching Windows - Chapter 10

    Chapter 10 “So, Amelia,” said Susannah with her usual sentence starter. “How’ve you been?” True to form, I gave her my usual reply. “Uh...fine.” She had been giving me the ...

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  • Watching Windows - Chapter 11

    Okay well...here it is, finally Sorry Demeter and Jasmine for the long wait What can I say... Chapter 11 “When are you going to start confiding in me, Amelia?” Susannah ...

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  • Watching Windows - Chapter 12

    Chapter 12 On Thursday, I got another permission note to skip a lesson so I could have another session with Susannah. I ignored the piece of paper sullenly, balling it ...

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  • Watching Windows - Chapter 13

    Chapter 13 Again I found myself sitting at the neat kitchen counters and pouring out tea. After I had stuffed the teapot with tea bags and put it on to ...

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  • Watching Windows - Chapter 14

    Hey Here I am again. Yes, I know, a bit of a cheesy chapter but hey! I needed something nice to happen to the MC for once in her miserable ...

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  • Watching Windows - Chapter 15

    Chapter 15 “Hi, Amelia,” beamed Susannah at me as I walked into the mentoring room. “Hi, Susannah,” I sighed, sinking into a chair and swivelling round on it. “You’re looking ...

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  • Watching Windows - Chapter 16

    Chapter 16 “Oh my God!” shrieked Kirsty to her Mini-Ks the next morning, as we were waiting for Mr Graves to come in for double maths. “I can’t believe I ...

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  • Watching Windows - Chapter 17

    Chapter 17 “Don’t be like this. Please. Don’t be like this.” It was midnight on a Wednesday and I was trying to get a reaction out of Mum. She sat ...

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  • Watching Windows - Chapter 18

    Chapter 18 It was nearly Christmas, and I was sitting on my dream-sill, watching snowflakes glaze the window, dreaming about the sound of whistling windchimes. I had just returned from ...

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  • Watching Windows - Chapter 19

    Chapter 19 Mr Fenton read Shakespeare’s “To be or not to be” to us in English. When he had finished, he asked us, “So, what do you think? Do you ...

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  • Watching Windows - Chapter 20

    Author's Note : This chapter is going to really, really, REALLY confuse you. That's the whole point. Don't worry, you will get an explanation eventually. Just go with it Chapter ...

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  • Watching Windows - Chapter 21

    Chapter 21 Everything happened really quickly after that. Kirsty and I screamed, “Ruby!” simultaneously, and rushed over to the edge, peering over, trying to see her in the pitch black. ...

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  • Watching Windows - Chapter 22

    Chapter 22 I stopped off at the florist’s on my way to the funeral. Mum and Miss Alcock had asked to drive me, but I needed to walk there, for ...

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  • Watching Windows - Chapter 23

    Okay guys...penultimate chapter. Part III: Chapter 23 It is the present time now, of course – the real present. If you can do your maths ok – even I can ...

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  • Watching Windows - Epilogue

    Okay, so this is the last chapter. Phew! I just wanted to say, thankyou so much to everyone who’s been reviewing during the course of this novel. Thankyou to those ...

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