You have a good story here, but it needs some work. I'm including my editing notes and comments below. The problem area, my corrections, and my comments are in red. (I hope---sometimes it doesn't work)
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No one really knew knows -- delete 'knew' the full stories about -- story these events, but it began like this: I was quietly walking to my local supermarket, Mum just gave me two dollars -- 'had just given' not 'just gave' for bread, milk and little something -- insert 'a' after 'and' for myself. I thought this was very nice of my mother to let me have the change but I got a huge shock when I found out the cost of the milk it was one dollar -- put a period or comma after 'milk'. By the way, what happened to the bread? and ninety-nine cents, so I gave the man his two dollars and left the shop. The day was a nice spring day, the sun was shinning and the birds were swooping. He just spent what he thought was going to be his change, yet he still says it was a nice day. How about a little mention of his emotions at this point. It might also be nice to mention his age in this first paragraph somewhere. The age of a young character makes a great deal of difference in a story.
I took my time walking home, it took me about thirty minutes to do a ten minute walk. When I got home there was a note on the table “gone out, back soon call me if you need anything, loads of love Mum”. What a nice note I began to thing to myself, -- 'think' not 'thing' but it should actually be 'I thought to myself,' rather than 'I began to think to myself'. my Mum is not normally this nice. I did not think anything of it; -- you just said he DID think about it, so delete this entire phrase. I just put the milk in the fridge, sat down and watched some cartoons for a while.
A news flash came on during my cartoons I was watching “Three people, have been arrested today outside the local police station”. Three people being arrested is not the kind of thing that warrants a news flash in the middle of a show. Also, they were arrested just outside the local police station? That seems strange. And why didn't the news report say what they were arrested for? I was really not fazed and did not think much of it; I just wanted Rodger rabbit back on. Start a new paragraph here. Then the phone rang “ Hi honey could you just come down to the station for a bit”.-- what station? Gas? Service? Television? Police? And where would be nice, at least a street name since you specified 'local' earlier, and that implies more than one in the city. Nothing was really worrying me I thought she was just drunk but I decided to have some Panadol to help me cope -- commas after 'me' and 'drunk'. Now, if nothing is worrying him, why does he need Panadol to cope? Is she so violently drunk he can't deal with her normally? And why are we only now finding out she is a drunk? Both characters need some serious development to let the reader get to know them and the situation you are talking about. with whatever she had done. I hopped on my when suddenly my jaw clamped down, I don’t remember -- change the comma to a period. Also, I don't know a lot about overdose reactions, but this does not seem like the reaction I've seen portrayed on TV when someone has taken too much ecstasy. Would sweating and dizziness result in him landing in the hospital and be more consistent with an actual reaction? much after that.
The next time I opened my eyes there was a policeman asking my mother, where her stash was. -- delete the comma He began to talk about ecstasy, and then I heard doctors saying stuff about overdosing. Then it hit me so hard I nearly fell off of the bed,-- delete 'of' The Panadol were not Panadol at all. That’s why Mum was going out so much and was were all the money was coming from. -- change 'were' to 'where'. If there was extra money, as this implies, why did he never have any? Why was a few cents change so surprising to him? And why did she give him only two dollars for both bread and milk when she had to know milk was that much by itself? There is nothing in the earlier part of the story to support the statement about money or her going out all the time. I did not want Mum to know that I knew about this. So I rolled over and set to Mum,
“That’s was strong Panadol, Don’t you think”
She smiled at me. -- change 'set' to 'said', and change the period after 'this' to a comma. First, you say he doesn't want her to know he knows, yet then you mention the Panadol, so she has to know he knows or he wouldn't be covering for her by trying to say the Panadol did this to him. Second, the cops already know he took ecstasy, so mentioning the Panadol tells them where she keeps her stash. Third, what kind of a mental case puts their illegal pills in a regular pill bottle in the medicine cabinet? She would have hidden them. Fourth, how did she get out of jail? Fifth, why would she smile at him when she knows he knows and has just told the cops everything? That line of dialogue needs serious work, and you need to bring the action up to date to explain how she got there. You are telling this story looking back on it, so by this time you know what happened out of his sight. Tell us!
It has been about three years since that day and Mum has changed heaps, -- change the comma to a period, and tell us what she has done to bring about this change. tonight we are going to go for a meal and movie.
Which should be fun. -- change 'Which' to 'That'. I have no problem with a kid going to a movie with his mother, but this line seems ambiguous since we don't know his age either before or after these changes. If, after the changes, he is 10 or so, he was too young to do the earlier part, but still young enough to enjoy the him and mum time. On the other hand, if he is now in his teens, I can't imagine him thinking a movie with mum is going to be fun. There needs to be more background development on the characters. Where is his father? Why are they alone? Does she work? How old are they both before and after---indicate the difference by telling us how long this change took? All these details make the story more believable for the reader. If the reader leaves confused rather than feeling the story was all wrapped up, they will not relish reading your work again.
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