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such a nervous driver. It will be good for her to practise in the evening too. She’s only ever driven in daylight.”
Jasmine noticed that her mum hadn’t offered to take Ella herself. Ella was extremely clever and hardworking, but she was not a natural driver.
“If she could learn it all from a book, she’d be fine,” Mum had said.“It’s actually driving the car that’s the problem.”
“I can’t wait to start driving lessons,” Jasmine’s little brother, Manu, had said. “I’ll be the best driver ever.”
Manu was staying at his best friend Ben’s house tonight.Which was lucky, because otherwise he would have wanted to sit in the back of the car while Ella was driving.And Manu’s comments were not the sort of thing a nervous driver needed to hear.
The car continued its jerky progress along the track. Jasmine smiled.“That’s definitely Ella driving,” she said to Sky.
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