Sorry there was no update yesterday I'm not well at the mo, but as I am fed up with lying in bed and feeling like crap and as either someone - or a lot of someones (hard to tell with quest reviews) missed the updates, I wrote this... i can't make any promises for the rest of the week though - I'll see how I feel...

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"Whoa! Slow down there, buddy." called Reggie as AJ tore passed, but he didn't stop.

AJ ran from his room towards Miranda's at the other end of the corridor. Her burst in to find her putting together the doll's house set up in the corner of the room.

"I can't find it!" he exclaimed.

Miranda turned to him, her brow furrowed in confusion. She didn't know what he was talking about.

"You can't find it?" she asked.

"No, I looked and it's not there!"

"What 'it'?"

"IT!" cried AJ waving his arms by means of explanation. "You know!"

"It… oh!" said Miranda finally realising what he was talking about. "Well mommy always says when you lose something to try and think where you last saw it."

"I thought it was in the box with my baseball glove but now I can't even find my glove. Maybe you've got it by mistake… 'cause we can't let our moms find it."

"No we can't." agreed Miranda.

There were still one or two boxes of toys and books that needed unpacking, but Miranda was pretty certain they only had her stuff in them. Together they tipped the boxes out onto the floor and rifled through the contents.

"Do you have yours?" AJ asked as he desperately rummaged through a pile of Barbie dresses he already knew weren't hiding what he was looking for.

"Yep." said Miranda, getting up and hurrying to the bed. She pulled aside her pillow to show him the wrapped box concealed underneath. "They won't find it here."

AJ nodded, it was a good hiding place. He looked down at the mess of toys in Miranda's once tidy room.

"It's not here." He groaned.

"Maybe Gabby has it?" Miranda suggested.

"Where is Gabby?" AJ asked after a moment.

"I thought she followed you." said Miranda.

"And I thought she was with you." said AJ.

"We should probably find her." said Miranda.

"But we should check her room first for… the thing." said AJ, being cryptic in case a grown-up was listening in.

"Okay." said Miranda.

They cut through the adjoining bathroom to Gabby's bedroom. The boxes were piled up in one corner, no one had made an attempt to unpack yet.

"I guess we check them all." said AJ opening the first box on the pile and finding it full of teddies.

"Well won't the box have AJ written on it?" said Miranda trying to read all the labels on the box sides.

"Shhh… I'm sleeping." said a grumpy voice and they noticed Gabby's head peeking out from under the blankets of her bed.

"Gabby!" cried Miranda, pulling the covers back. "It's too early for nap time."

"I'm not really sleeping." said Gabby, crossly, scowling at her sister. "Its only pretend sleeping. I wanted to try my new bed."

She sat up trying to pull the covers back over her.

"Wait Gabby, we need your help." said AJ. "I can't find… my special thing."

Gabby looked to Miranda, not sure what he was talking about.

"…Mom's special thing…" said Miranda's deciding that was a better way of explaining it. "That we bought last week with our pocket money."

"The p…" began Gabby, but Miranda quickly covered her mouth.

"Shhh… 'Rissa might be listening." whispered Miranda. "It's a surprise remember."

"I remember." said Gabby.

"We need to look in these boxes." cried AJ, pulling the next one from the pile towards him, but it was heavier than he expected and fell to the floor with a crunch."

"Hey, who's breaking stuff." called Reggie, poking his head in the door. "Oh, it's you guys."

"We are helping Gabby unpack." said Miranda quickly, giving Reggie an innocent grin.

"Don't you think you should finish with your own room first." said Reggie, "Because I've just seen the mess on your floor young lady…"

Miranda opened her mouth in protest but Reggie hadn't finished.

"And AJ I just brought up your last box. That's a nice baseball mitt you've got, maybe we could have a throw around sometime…"

"Baseball mitt!" cried AJ, stiffening suddenly. "Gotta go."

With that AJ raced from the room.

"What's up with him?" Reggie asked.

Miranda only shrugged in reply.

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