After a while the police gathered all us kids together and got us working – they’d got extra hooks from somewhere, and as we were on level ground it wasn’t a hard job: we just ripped and ripped, and spread it all out.
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In our little neighbourhood there were more cooking fires than usual, and a few cases of beer. There was music and singing, and everyone was happy.
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‘I don’t want to know where, I don’t want to know why, but I just want to know we’re safe. There’s nothing in the house, is there?’
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Her eyes were all full of tears, glittering wet – and I got scared because she was scared, and I know Raphael was most scared of all, though he won’t ever say so. ‘I don’t want us getting caught up with the police,’ she said, gripping us hard. ‘Everyone knows what things they do.’
Let Rat be the little hero and bring them what they wanted in a few days’ time
Her eyes were all full of tears, glittering wet – and I got scared because she was scared, and I know Raphael was most scared of all, though he won’t ever say so. ‘I don’t want us getting caught up with the police,’ she said, gripping us hard. ‘Everyone knows what things they do.’