FCPX - Animation - Transform Position

I am trying to learn to do basic animation in FCPX. Here's what I did:
I am working with still images put to music. At a certain point in my video I brought in a small square image and put it on top of another larger image in the timeline. Then I clicked on the smaller image and chose Transform Position, made a keyframe by doing Option K, moved alone one second and did another keyframe and at that point moved the image from the center to the upper left corner. It works fine EXCEPT that immediately after the second keyframe it bounces back to the middle.
What did I do wrong?

just had a quick look and under the RMB when over the keyframe - select delete point
BUT you have to wait for the cursor to become a cross hair...

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