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Apuntes

``` CHAPTER ONE • Subtopic: The Paris Trip Announcement "I'm fourteen, not four!" Pupils who want to go to Paris must confirm their places online by midnight on Sunday. As I walk out of school on Friday afternoon, I remember the words of my art teacher, Miss Williams. Every year, my school has a trip to Paris for the Year 10 students. Everyone looks forward to it, and lately, it's the only thing anyone talks about at school. But I still haven't talked to my Dad about going. "I must tell him tonight. I will tell him tonight," I tell myself, and my stomach fills with butterflies because I'm so nervous. Dad doesn't let me go anywhere without him. All of my friends are allowed to go to the cinema, to the shopping centre, or bowling by themselves. But I can't even go to the local newsagent without Dad phoning me up every five minutes. --- • Subtopic: Dad's Overprotectiveness "Daddy's here, Seren," says Arabella, and her friends laugh. I put my head down so that my long hair is in front of my face. Dad's waiting for me at the school gates. He picks me up every day, but Arabella never gets bored of finding it funny. When will he realise that I'm not four? When will he realise that I...