Children came through them in that wave of released energy that happened every afternoon, noise and movement and backpacks swinging, and I was watching for one specific Lunch bag, one specific way of running, and then I found it.
Andre came through the gate at full speed with his mouth already open and his eyes already on me and he hit me at the knees with the full force of a four year old who had been storing things up since morning and could not contain them one second longer.
"Mummy!" His face pressed into my stomach. "I did the reading by myself today, all three pages, My teacher said I was very good, and also I have a theory about the hamster, I think he has a crush on the water bottle because he sits next to it and stares at it and that is what a crush looks like I think"
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