Love, Rosie (13 page)

you
and
your
family
to
Boston.

I
hope
the
relocation
package
we
offer
will
be
to
your
satisfaction.
If

there
is
anything
further
that
Charles
and
Charles
Co.
can
do
for
you,
do

not
hesitate
to
ask.
Maria
will
call
you
to
discuss
a
suitable
date
for
you
to

begin
work.

We
look
forward
to
seeing
you
at
the
office.

Welcome
to
the
team!

Yours
sincerely,

Robert
Brasco

President
of
Charles
and
Charles
Co.

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:

to
:

subject
:

Alex

Rosie

Re:
DISASTER!

I’ll
call
you
when
I
get
home.
It’s
true.
Dad
was
offered
a
job
doing

something
that
sounds
incredibly
boring
.
.
.
I
don’t
really
know,
I
wasn’t
lis-

love,
rosie

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tening.
I
don’t
know
why
he
has
to
go
all
the
way
over
to
Boston
to
do
a

boring
job,
there’s
plenty
of
them
right
here.
He
can
have
mine.

Oh
Rosie,
I’m
so
pissed
off.
I
don’t
want
to
go.
I
only
have
a
year
left

in
school;
this
is
such
the
wrong
time
to
leave.
I
don’t
want
to
go
to
a
stu-

pid
American
high
school
or
whatever
it
is
they
call
it.
I
don’t
want
to
leave

you.

I’ll
call
you
later
and
we
can
talk
about
it.
We
have
to
think
of
a
way

that
I
can
stay.
This
is
really
bad,
Rosie.

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:

to
:

subject
:

Rosie

Alex

Stay
with
me!

Don’t
go!
Mum
and
Dad
said
that
you
could
stay
here
for
the
year!
Fin-

ish
school
here
and
then
we
can
both
decide
what
to
do
after
that!
Please

stay!
It
will
be
so
brilliant,
us
living
together.
It’ll
be
just
like
when
we
were

young
and
we
used
to
keep
each
other
up
all
night
with
those
walkie
talkies!

Remember
them?!!
We
used
to
hear
more
static
than
our
voices
but
we

thought
we
were
so
cool!
Remember
that
time
on
Christmas
Eve
absolutely

years
ago
we
decided
to
start
a
“Santa”
watch!
We
planned
it
for
weeks.
I

can’t
remember
ever
being
so
excited!
We
drew
little
diagrams
of
the
road

and
maps
of
our
houses
just
so
we
could
cover
every
angle
and
not
miss
him.

You
were
on
the
7-10pm
watch
and
I
was
on
the
10pm-1am
watch.
You

were
supposed
to
wake
up
and
take
over
from
me,
but
surprise,
surprise
you

didn’t
.
.
.
I
stayed
awake
all
night
screaming
down
into
that
walkie
talkie

trying
to
wake
you
up!
Ah
well,
it
was
your
loss,
I
saw
Santa
and
you