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  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Dedication
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  57. Acknowledgements

‘Okay,’ said Heidi. ‘I recommend we put marks next to the “must-haves” and then we put other marks next to the “nice-to-haves” and we get the “must-haves” first and then we have our calculator and we see what eighty bucks gets us.’

It seemed like a good idea.

‘We probably won’t get it exactly right the first time,’ Greta said. Everyone looked at her. It was emotional genius. They were all scared. They nodded, but none of them were sure it was worth doing if they couldn’t get it perfect the first time. More than one of them thought about saying, ‘Shall we just not bother?’ They looked around at the others to see if it was the right time to say it, but before they could Heidi said, ‘Okay, let’s go.’

They caught the bus down to the supermarket. They were pretty sure they could catch a bus home but also Dell and Heidi had a taxi chit left over from a late night they did at the shop. While Heidi had been away, their boss had started to tell them to take a taxi home and they’d left a taxi chit in the till. It was there every week, even though now that Heidi was home they were fine to walk. They were all fine to walk anywhere they wanted because there were always two of them. They didn’t need a taxi chit for late nights so they could, theoretically, use the taxi chit tonight, although it wasn’t exactly what the taxi chit had been given to Heidi and Dell for. There had been a lot of talk about the weekly taxi chit ever since Heidi came home and started going to work with Dell again, but they hadn’t broached the subject with their boss, so the taxi chit kept being there. It wasn’t necessary, and maybe Dell and Heidi should have pointed that out – like when you get too much change – but, also, they weren’t paid very much and also maybe Heidi would go away again. It was Heidi who’d said this. ‘They don’t know I’m back for good,’ she’d said. And they had to agree, this was correct. Heidi and Dell’s boss did not know that Heidi was back for good. The other three had looked at Heidi. She knew they were looking at her, but she stayed looking at the taxi chit which at the time had been in the middle of the dining table like it was on trial.