1/2 A SLAP IN THE FACE! Laura loved Hugh, but did Hugh love her? She certainly hoped so. Your task is to put the verbs in brackets into the past simple tense. Laura Walker and Hugh Elliot 1. They 2. (live) in the same street. (grow) up together. Laura loved Hugh. When Hugh (come) out to play, Laura was happy. When Hugh stayed in, (know) she loved him when she was about five. Just five years old and she was in lovel Hugh was a boy. He loved throwing stones and playing Cops and Robbers. He 5. Laura was sad, She 4. (like) Laura, but to him, she was just a playmate. Sometimes, he even 6. (make) fun of her. One day, when they were about eleven, Hugh 7. (get) a girlfriend. It was not Laura, it was Carol from the next street. Carol was beautiful and clever. Laura was broken-hearted. She 8. (cry) so muchl But happily, that relationship 9 (not last). Carol got sick of Hugh and 10. (chuck) him. Hugh (tell) Laura: I don't care. Carol is not the girl for me'. Laura's heart fluttered! Hugh will soon realise that I, me, myself, 11 Laura, I am the girl for him, she 12. (think). The next day, Laura was out with her friend Bessie, They (see) Laura's name on a wall, It was written in white paint. I wonder who (reply). Laura knew it! 13 did that? Laura said. I saw Hugh do it' Bessie 14. Hugh loved herl He 15. wrote her name on a wall? So, when Laura next saw Hugh, she asked him: "Hugh, did (write) her name on the walll He must fancy her if he you write my name in lovely, beautiful white paint on the wall? "