Surprises

I'm too excited to stay in bed any longer even though it's still dark and the house is quiet.

I creep downstairs to see if HE's been. 

My name is written in fancy letters on a huge parcel. It might be a pram or a bike. There are two stockings hanging from the lower branches of the tree. There's a red one with a tiny doll's head sticking out of the top and a blue one with the back of a yellow car poking out. That must be Ben's. It's the biggest. I empty it out. At the bottom there is a packet of peanuts. I eat them all. He won't know. I'm not allowed them usually. I don't know why.

My throat is hot,

I can't breath.

Where's my mum?