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Authors: Rae Earl
OMG! I'm in Love with a Geek! (13 page)
EVERY adult in my life TOTALLY stops me from experiencing full-on PASH! It's like one of the conspiracies that Jen talks about!
Every adult except the US President and the big lizards disguised as humans that Jen thinks really run the world â they are NOT involved!
OMG â unless Freak is in on it! He could be a gecko spy. Perhaps he is hunger-striking to stop me and Goose getting together!
UNDAY
24
TH
J
ANUARY
8.39 a.m.
After 10 hours' sleep I can see that Freak is just a gecko.
UNBELIEVABLE!
Keith has decided he is going home in a few days as HE HAS A LONG-TERM PARTNER. Er ⦠WHY DID HE NOT MENTION THAT BEFORE?! I NOW SORT OF HAVE A STEPMOTHER TOO.
Then he started going on again about how he wants all his kids to go to Australia. It's the worst idea ever! 24 hours on a plane with MGK would be THE WORST! But then, I know she'll get upgraded anyway because she looks like a model.
A dad who was meant to make everything better has just made everything MORE COMPLICATED â and tomorrow it's ART. That means MY CLAY PROJECT. At the moment it really is a massive craptacular triangle display of poo macarons!
Or something.
Mum has just been up and has been UNBELIEVABLE in an UNBELIEVABLY UNBELIEVABLE way.
| MUM: | Hattie â I just want to say how proud I am of you. |
| ME: | If this is going to be you actually having a go at me, do it â because, you know, I probably deserve it andâ |
| MUM: | NO! This has been hard for you. But you've thought of other people and that is a ⦠well it's a lovely thing. I heard what you said to Nathan and ⦠look, I don't like what Keith's done to the 2 most amazing and special people in my life BUT you've shown a lot of ⦠thinking about us. |
| ME: | I didn't think of you. I was a cow bag. |
| MUM: | You were a bit selfish â BUT that was your right⦠We should have been more honest. |
| ME: | But Mum â Keith just doesn't get me like I thought he would. Heâ |
| MUM: | He DOES love you. He's learning to be a parent. Give him a chance. I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M SAYING THIS AFTER WHAT THAT BASTâ MAN DID TO ME, BUT he's trying. And don't forget, me and Rob are so PROUD of you. |
| ME: | Have I really upset Rob? |
| MUM: | Rob is your dad, Hattie. He loves you. He gets you. Don't you worry about that. |
| ME: | Thanks, Mum. |
| MUM: | Now, do your homework. |
I love my mum. Even though she ends every conversation NAGGING ABOUT HOMEWORK.
No â I love her.
ONDAY
25
TH
J
ANUARY
5.34 p.m.
At school I tried to turn my clay-model penguin into something else as I couldn't do a proper beak. According to Nicky “bad boy” Bainton it looked like something else.
Yes, Nicky â it DID look TOTALLY like a willy SO I changed it to a fish.
I've never bonded with a fish.
Jen says I probably bonded with them in another aquatic lifetime. I don't think that's true. I've basically made a lemon with a face.
UESDAY
26
TH
J
ANUARY
5.26 p.m.
Goose has been sensationally dumped by text after 1 cinema date as Anna Sharples said he couldn't kiss properly! This is school romance reputation DEATH. Anna rates ALL the men she goes out with â and she understands full-on kissing more than ANYONE! The weird thing is, he's not even bothered that he is currently filed under “Slurper Snog”. He's more scared that Freak the gecko is now not eating anything at all.
I love the way Goose doesn't care what other people think of him and is more worried about his gecko. I wish I could be like that.
I wish I could teach Goose how to kiss.
I've googled it. Geckos can live for 30 years! Bet Goose hopes he stays on hunger strike. His LOVE LIFE is RUINED. He can't go out when he wants to in case Freak gets hungry. Basically he's a teenage father who can't even claim any government benefits.
Good. Don't want him to go out with anyone else.
EDNESDAY
27
TH
J
ANUARY
3.58 p.m.
It's OFFICIAL! I can't even make a clay fish. Matfield said my gills had made it look more like “a loaf of bread”.
So I just rolled it into a long tube and said it was a snake. Matfield wanted to know when I'd EVER had a specialist pet. I told her that I have a massive python who swallows anyone I don't like. This python only exists in my head but it's VERY REAL to ME!
At that point Matfield backed off. YES! DON'T MESS with a girl who has been through what I have been through. Weirdo Jen says I'm still in my emotional chrysalis. This is a nice way of saying I'm completely confused.
HURSDAY
28
TH
J
ANUARY
5.32 p.m.
Keith is leaving on Sunday!
WHAT HAVEN'T I SAID OR DONE YET?! What do I need to do? What should I do?
Dimple says I'm thinking too deeply and may be torturing myself.
RIDAY
29
TH
J
ANUARY
7.24 p.m.
Keith took me aside tonight for a “quiet word”.
He said, “Look, I know it hasn't been easy but I've realized being a parent takes so much more than I ever thought. You will soon learn, Hattie, that adults make mistakes (I know that, Keith â I've got MASSIVE METAL BRACES because of Mum!) and I'm going to try to make it up to both you and Ruby. And even Nathan if he'll let me.”
ATURDAY
30
TH
J
ANUARY
8.12 p.m.
Keith went round to MGK's to say goodbye. He was gone for ages.
OMG â I was bouncing a tennis ball against my wall and Nathan STORMED into my room and shouted, “Any chance you could STOP taking your mood out on the house?! I'm trying to watch
The Walking Dead
in my room. It's not the wall's fault you invited a New Age dork-head into the house.”
I threw my ball at him. It missed.
Then Nathan started to tear up and shout, “It's OK for you, Hattie. You haven't seen Mum SOBBING and SOBBING night after night. Hiding in the bathroom. Don't YOU EVER EXPECT ME TO TALK TO THAT MAN!”
I've just had a massive quiet cry. I don't think Goose is in his room but I think Freak must have heard me sniffing.
I miss everything and I WANT everyone to stop hiding the truth from me. I CAN HANDLE IT! I CAN COPE!
The only thing that did hear me cry was a gecko. They can't even pass you a tissue!
Just gave Mum a big hug goodnight and told her I loved her. I hate the thought of her crying over this. I am now even going to eat one of her floppy bacon sandwiches to prove my love.