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A Sense of ForebodingInstead of catching the bus home from school, Cassie must walk to the bank to meet her mum and dad. Cassie’s high school is in the next town, a bigger town, a hole of a town, she thinks, but bigger than their town. There is no purpose in walking down the street in their town—a school, a post office, a pub, and a corner store that sells milk and bread and hot pies. Nothing else to see.
But in this town you could find a reason to walk down the street. She passes Larry’s with its long aisles of cheap toys and ornaments where she and Alex always buy their Mother’s Day gifts. Next door is the newsagents where they always get their school books. Next, the grocery store with dusty wooden floors. No one much uses it anymore because of the shiny new supermarket that op
