Speaker 1: There was something that Max hated more than anything moving.
Speaker 2: He hated every single part of it. He hated the
mountains of cardboard boxes stacked around the house like little
brown castles. He hated the sound of tapes screeching as
Dad pulled strips from the roll. He hated watching his
bedroom slowly disappear, shelf by shelf and poster by poster,
until it no longer looked like his room at all.
Most of all, he hated saying goodbye. That was very sad.
On his final day at school, everything had felt strange.
His classmates had signed his notebook with little messages and drawings.
Some kids wrote silly things, some drew cartoons. Tyler had
drawn a basketball with stick legs and written, don't replace
me with a cooler friend. Max had laughed when he
saw that, but only a little. At recess, he looked
around across the playground and watched everybody running around and
shouting and playing tag and basketball, And suddenly his chest
had felt heavy, because tomorrow this would all keep happening,
only he wouldn't be there. Now, he sat in the
back seat of Mum's car, staring out the window as
they drove toward their new Town rain tapped softly against
the glass. Everything outside looked unfamiliar. Different streets, different houses,
different trees. Even the playground looked wrong somehow. Mom glanced
at him in the mirror. You okay, back there, she said,
n Max replied. Dad smiled gently. You haven't even seen
the new place yet, he said. Max folded his arms.
I don't care.
Speaker 1: Twenty minutes later they pulled into the driveway. The house
itself was not bad. Actually it was pretty nice.
Speaker 2: It had white walls and a large window and a
porch swing that moved gently in the breeze. Yeah, they
need lots.
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