The location app on Meri’s phone pinged as she was shifting the last cardboard box. She knew what the notification would say: Taj has 0% battery. Ask him to recharge. Her son was always forgetting to plug in his mobile, unlike his twin sister.
‘What’s in the box?’ her husband asked from the other side of the garage.
‘Mum’s old National Geographics, I think.’ Meri hadn’t been able to throw them away in previous clean-ups.
After brushing off the dust, she slid a knife through the crusty tape. But instead of a magazine cover with the distinctive yellow border, she found a pile of exercise books. The top one had a heart-shaped label: Meredith Carmody, Year 9 English, Kinton Bay High School, 1998. Year 9. The same as her twins now.
Turning her back to Rollo, she shielded the book with her body and flipped it open to a story in her neat teenage handwriting…








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