Sam has money problems
Sam arrived at his house, number 56.
The lights were on in every room, and he could see his sixteen-year-old daughter, Emma, sitting at her computer in her bedroom.
Sam went inside the house and put his bag down.
'Wonderful,' he thought. 'No more work until Monday.'
Sam worked for the town's newspaper - the Bath Chronicle.
He was a reporter, but not a very important one.
He quite liked his job, but he didn't get a lot of money for it.
When he started work at the newspaper twenty years ago, he had move to London to work for one of the big newspapers
But time moved on and he didn't
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Sam still wrote about the ordinary lives of people in Bath and sometimes ... sometimes a big story.
Then all the people on the paper had to work together and it felt good again - for a short time.
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'Hannah, where are you?' called Sam.
'Upstairs with Alicia,' a voice replied.
Sam went upstairs and found his wife, Hannah, in the bathroom.
Two-year-old Alicia was playing in the bath with about ten yellow plastic ducks.
'Hello, my favourite two girls, ' said Sam and kissed them both.
'I heard that, Dad,' called Emma from her bedroom.
'What about me? I thought I was your favourite.'
'That was yesterday - when you made me a cup of tea,' said Sam and walked into his older daughter's room.
Emma was looking something on the Internet.
'I'm trying to find something about Chile for my geography teacher,' said Emma and turned to give her father a kiss.
'Go and ask Maggie. She's just come back from Chile,' replied her father.
'No, it's OK. I'll find it on the Internet. It's quicker. Anyway, she probably doesn't know much about the Mapuche Indians. Dad, you know I really like geography, don't you?' asked Emma.
'Yes,' replied her father.
'Well, our teacher wants to take us to Norway after school finishes in the summer. She told us about it today. It sounds wonderful. Can I go?' Emma looked at her father. He could see how excited she was.
'It'll be expensive, won't it?' asked Sam.
'I'm not sure,' replied Emma, but she knew it wasn't cheap.
'There's the money I got for my birthday. We can use that.'
'Yes, but that's not enough for a holiday to Norway. I'll'
talk to your mum about it,' said Sam, and he left the room - again thinking about money.