A/N: I've been having a few ideas lately that aren't really big enough to make into a full blown story (or even a one-shot) so I have decided to start this collection of drabbles, which I may still add to from time to time. Hope you enjoy them :) This first was inspired by Taylor Swift's "Never Grow Up."
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Jackie didn't quite believe her mother in law when she told her that children were always ready to grow up faster than their parents were. At the time she had been quite sure that she was perfectly able to accept the fact that her eldest child was going to be starting school.
But the sight of Jimmy dressed in his uniform – his shirt buttoned wrong, shoes on the wrong feet, hat askew and schoolbag on – standing in her doorway before sunrise announcing that he was ready changed her mind.
Alice had been right; she really wasn't ready for her little boy to grow up.