Jack was very excited. There was a box in the hall.
It was big.
It was brown.
It had a sticker on it saying 'this way up'.
it was perfect.
mum opened the box. Inside was a lot of white stuff that snapped and clear stuff that popped and a small black thing with lots of buttons on it.
Mum only cared about the black thing but Jack loved the box.
it was perfect. And it would be his.
That night mum read Jack a bedtime story. It was about an alien spaceship landing on earth and a boy who saved the world. Jack was very scared but very brave. Mum said goodnight and turned off the light.
but Jack couldn't get to sleep. Outside he could hear the whirring of the spaceship and the murmur of the aliens creeping up to his window.
he wasn't scared.
he wasn't worried.
he was terrified.
So he went downstairs. In the kitchen was the box. It looked amazing.
so Jack crept over the floor,
grabbed the box,
dragged it upstairs,
and pulled it into his newly-painted bedroom, where he put it on his bed and climbed in. He played all night long, fighting aliens.
long after, he put the box in the cupboard and went to sleep, dreaming of aliens and spaceships. He decided that he wanted to be an astronaut when he was older.
or an alien.
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