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PRESENT
Die Drei
Lara’s front door also slammed, albeit a little more gently than Annabell’s. The three of them wanted to meet at Maya’s place to set off together from there. Annabell ran down the stairs impetuously, as was her wont, jumped two steps to the landing and raced around the corner like a whirlwind.
She was full of impatience. Downstairs, she ran through the small entrance area of the building where the letterboxes were located and saw Lara walking down the street.
»Laaaaaraaaa!«, she shouted as loud as she could, releasing the tension of the morning’s argument from her heart.
Lara stopped and came towards the house entrance. Annabell pushed open the door, jumped down the next few steps, past the empty flower box, towards Lara. They both jumped up and down and hugged each other, even kissing three times, as they had seen the grown-ups do.
»Are you excited to see what happens when we’ve built the magic hut?«, asked Lara.
»You bet, are you?«
»Totally and how.«
»Hopefully, no stupid planet will come and crash into Earth.«
They walked in the direction of Maya’s house.
»Look, up there«, Lara pointed to a window on the second floor of house number 22. They both giggled. There was a model of a spaceship on the windowsill, pinned like a butterfly in a natural history museum.
»Boys seem to think impaling things is cool«, said Annabell.
»Yeah, it’s really crazy what they do«, Lara replied ambiguously. Neither of them could hold back and burst out laughing.
»Come on, let’s take this thing with us, and when t