Chapter4 Mrs Cox joins in

Chapter4 Mrs Cox joins in

'Er ... well ... I -' Just then, there was a loud banging.

'It's coming from Mrs Cox's house,' Franklin's mum said, glaring at her son.'Fancy getting an old lady mixed up in this!'

'I didn't,' Franklin cried. 'I really didn't!'

The banging grew louder and louder.Then Zack started barking. Something was very wrong.

Mr and Mrs Gates and Franklin dashed into Mrs Cox's house.

She was lying by her stairs, where she had tripped.Franklin helped his dad lift her carefully onto a chair.Mr Gates wanted to take her to hospital but Mrs Cox wouldn't go.

'I'm not leaving Zack,' she said. So they rang her son Eric, and he came to help her.

Mrs Cox was safe but Franklin knew he was still in big trouble.He ran back home and took the fish out of the back of the radiator. (Josh's sister had given it to him.)

He vacuumed up the chocolate drops on the carpet in his bedroom.

Then he dried the lemonade on his bedroom wall.He said sorry to Josh for getting him into trouble, too.At last, he said sorry to his mum and dad. His mum was very upset.

'We know you love Stanley Street. We all do -'

'-But there won't be space for all of us, when the twins arrive,' his dad said firmly.'We have got to move to a bigger house.' 'I know,' Franklin said, sadly.

Weeks passed but no one came to look at the house.Winter was coming and Franklin began to feel hopeful.Nobody wanted to move in winter, did they?

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