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186 Cecelia Ahernfrom:to:subject:KatieTobyGrounded!I can’t believe we are grounded! And on our summer holidays! Our parentsdidn’t have to go all psycho about it! It’s not like we ended up goinganywhere—we were less than an hour away from home. Hardly worth lockingus in our houses for two weeks. I told you we should have taken a ferryover to France or something. In the films, the first places the gardai alwayscheck are the airports. That was where we made our mistake. I’ve been lookinginto this and we should have gone to Bus Aras, and got a coach to Rosslare.Next time that’s what we’ll do.What do you think Alex would have done when we arrived on hisdoorstep? Mum says he’s not even home, that he’s away on some meetings orsomething but I think she’s just lying to try to prove that our plan wouldn’thave worked. I don’t think he would have been mad, Alex is cool. But heprobably would have called Mum and she would have sent ten million squadcars and rescue helicopters over to get us.Poor Mum. I’m glad we’re not moving away but I feel sorry for her. Shewas so excited about doing that job and now she’s back stuck in that otherplace she said she was sick of a while ago. I feel kinda guilty. I no she wouldhave made me go anyway if Greg had said yeah but I still feel bad for her.She’s just wandering around the house looking real sad and she keeps onsighing as though she’s real bored and doesn’t no what to do next. Just likeus on Sundays. She gets up from one couch and moves to another room to sitin another chair. Then she gets up again and moves to another room andstares out the window for ages, sighs about three million times, moves toanother room, in, out, in, out ...she makes me dizzy just watching her.Sometimes I just follow her around, seeing as I’m not supposed to be allowedin the outside world and I’ve nothing better to do.Yesterday I started following her again and she started to walk faster andfaster, by the end of it I was chasing her around the house and it was sofunny. She opened the front door and ran outside in her pajamas teasing mebecause I couldn’t go outside (being grounded and all). But I ran out anyway