Story: Coming home

Jay was excited. His dad had been away for three weeks, and that evening he was coming home. 

All day at school Jay couldn’t concentrate, he was really looking forward to seeing his dad at dinnertime. 

He ran home from school, and went straight upstairs to get his homework finished as soon as he could. When the phone rang and Mum said it was for him he wondered who it could be. 

It was Jay’s dad. 

He said something had come up and he wouldn’t be home today after all. His dad said he was sorry, but Jay was very disappointed. 

Jay went to bed sad that he would have to wait to see his dad. He wanted his dad there, then. 

The next morning, Jay woke up still feeling sad. He had spent a long time wondering why his dad hadn’t come home.

When he went downstairs for breakfast, there was a big box in the sitting room, and when he got to the kitchen, Dad was sitting at the table! He took Jay through to the sitting room, and told him to open the box. 

Inside was a brand new bike, exactly like the one Jay had wanted for his birthday.
Dad explained that he had been planning to come back the day before, but there had been a problem with the delivery of Jay’s new bike, so dad had gone to collect it, and that was why he was late coming home. 

Jay forgot all about being disappointed in his dad, he was so excited about the bike, and so glad that his dad was back home.