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while others stressed and screamed, some smiling proudly while others carried on talking as their children hung from their coats; all collecting the centres of their own little universe. She used to watch as some children were more pleased to get out than others, often wondering what their home life must be like.
    She smiled excitedly as a little blonde girl strolled up to the car, colouring book in one hand and a ridiculously big bag in the other; stuffed with rolled up artwork and books of all kinds. Sarah waved and pulled a silly face at her through the window and Alex gave her an equally morose, yet amusing face back and started the car. The door swung open and Sarah climbed in, all legs and noise.
    “Hey Terror, how was your day?” Alex smiled as Sarah fumbled around getting comfortable and strapping herself in. The other children waved frantically and obsessively as their parents dragged them through the spitting streets, oblivious of time and neediness of an adult’s obsession with it. As Alex watched all the children get hastily bundled into cars and pulled across the streets, she gazed at them with a smile at innocence of it all. Sarah eventually finished her goodbye waves and there was a sudden clunk as her seat belt snapped into place.
    “It was okay thanks!” Sarah said bubbly. “We learnt why water bends light and why objects look bigger in water!” she continued proudly. Alex smiled as she switched on the wipers, her expensive sports car roaring and grumbling as it waited. Sarah sighed as she breathed on the window and doodled hearts and faces on the mist. Alex pulled out cussing under her breath as all the insane parents in their cars decided to all escape at once on the same piece of road. Horns beeped and faces cursed as she simply sat there waiting for her turn, tapping the steering wheel and cursing with a breath of silence. Eventually she got her chance and pulled out.
    “So why DOES water bend light and why DO things look bigger in water?” Alex asked jokingly. Sarah pulled out a colouring book and pencils and began to hack at the pages mercilessly on the back seat.
    “Dunno, I really weren’t paying attention” Sarah replied innocently.
    “Good girl!” Alex laughed.
    Alex pulled out onto the highway carefully as her car lost itself among the organized chaos, the roads packed to the brim full of impatient traffic as the skies fell down around her. Horns beeped angrily and red tail lights glared in the rain; cars overtook each other impatiently as the soaking scenery raced passed. She gazed through the windscreen almost hypnotized by the rain and lights before opening her window to get some fresh air on her face, a vain attempt at waking herself up to get them home in one piece.
    “Gotta get gas babe” Alex said as Sarah butchered her colouring book.
    Alex pulled into a gas station and got out with a stretch. As her tank filled up, she gazed around as life hurried by, the rain making everything but the red and white lights of the road invisible. She walked up to the kiosk raiding her pockets and slapped a bill on the counter as she waited patiently for someone to turn up. Eventually, a tall skinny ratty looking man strolled out of the toilet rubbing his hands on his pants like some kind of Neanderthal, deprived of manners, social etiquette and hygiene.
    Sarah looked up as Alex stood a few meters away awaiting the attendant’s attention. She wiped her misty faces from the widow and looked up into the sky with awe at the rain. Suddenly, she sat back and stared into the front, hypnotized by Alex’s keys as they slowly jingled in the car’s dash. Her big shiny green eyes blinking a few times as the glittery metal had her almost hypnotized, the rain silenced around her in lost concentration.
    Back at the kiosk, Alex sighed as the attendant strolled leisurely towards her.
    “Twenty-eight dollars lady” the irascible and haggard oaf said as he picked his gums with probably the same finger he