OMG! I'm in Love with a Geek! (16 page)

Dimple can't meet Bhavin tonight. Her dance class has been cancelled because practically the entire roof of the community centre has been stolen by people nicking building materials.

14 people saw them doing it but just assumed they were taking the roof off and putting it in the back of a white van for “maintenance”.

I asked Dimple why she just didn't tell her dad about Bhavin. He's a lovely boy – completely sweet and polite. Mrs Rathod would LOVE him. Dimple said, “Hattie, last night Dad told me he was really, really worried about humanity and society. When I asked him what had caused this he said,
Come Dine with Me
. He can't handle me snogging!”

I hope the roof thieves realize the misery they have caused. I hope they all end up lonely with just plumbing pipes for company.

I have agreed to lie to Mum and Rob about meeting Dimple at the cinema tomorrow. Rob will ring Dimple's dad, tell him he's dropping us off and picking us up. Bhavin will meet us outside Screen 4.

Went to the cinema. Bhavin and Dimple just snogged during the entire film. Then he took her to McDonald's and bought her a Beauty and the Beast happy meal. Then they snogged more and more till Rob arrived and Bhavin hid in Maccy D's toilets.

I got a milkshake.

Other people's love is lovely but it's getting on my nerves.

I told Goose about Bhavin today. The truth is it's making me feel EVEN MORE lonely and GOOSE-needy. He said Dimple should tell her parents and that “true love shouldn't be hidden”. I shouted back, “I think you fancy Dimple and you want it to be over so YOU can go after her!”

I have absolutely NO IDEA why I said that. NO IDEA. Goose looked at me like I was a total mental. At that moment I was.

I'm being driven mad by love. I always do the WRONG thing when I'm with him these days. I'm like a fire extinguisher that's completely putting out ANY Hattie love fire that's left in him.

Think I might get a gecko. They keep you sane. And we'll have something in common.

Mum says I can't have a gecko as they stink.

Why is my brother allowed to stay then?! LOL!

Mum, JUST WEARING A BRA ON TOP, barged in whilst I was on Skype to Weirdo Jen and started telling me that if I shave my legs I need to clean the bath afterwards. Then she had a go AT ME for not telling her Jen was there and embarrassing HER! MUM!!! Jen now knows I am unhygienic AND hairy!

I could not have a secret ANYTHING.

It's my birthday tomorrow. As far as I can see no baking has been done and there have been no suspicious trips to retail parks. I predict I will get money, which I will be forced to use on things that I should get as part of the whole deal – like my mobile.

I am 15 today. The following happened:

1.   I got £52.56. The odd amount is due to the fact that Gran had been collecting some of her winter fuel payment for my birthday as she realized Botox was pointless. This is actually a very sweet thing.

2.   Keith left me a fake “I'm glad I'm not a plastic bag” cloth bag with a handmade card of a mouse holding some flowers. For a first birthday present EVER it was a tiny bit crap but it was a nice thought.

3.   Mum revealed that Keith forgot her 21st birthday – “He thought I'd just put balloons on the gate to make it look pretty.” BUT then she said things would be different now. SO she does admit HE HAS changed.

4.   Bhavin sent Dimple's Valentine's flowers and balloons to me. Now everyone thinks I have a secret lover when all I actually have is a secret that belongs to someone else.

5.   Dimple came round to collect her flowers and balloons so I had to give someone else a present on Valentine's Day.

6.   Dimple said she thinks her parents might have found out about her and Bhavin because they seem a bit preoccupied and keep having “chats”.

7.   I looked REALLY guilty (what if me telling Goose has made it spread?!) but I hid it by turning round and saying how amazing her bunch of lilies were.

8.   I went next door to see Goose. He assured me he hadn't rung Dimple's parents to tell them about Bhavin and how could I EVER think that he would DO THAT?! Then he said, “JUST GO, HATTIE.”

9.   It's my birthday and Goose yelled at me. Great.

10. My birthday surprise meal was fajitas with Gran's special non-alcoholic tequila (aka watered-down lime juice).

11. It pays to go out with a slightly older 16-year-old who has a decent part-time job – Dimple's flowers cost £30!

12. The best present on my 15th birthday was someone else's Valentine's.

13. I have fallen out with someone I love.

14. I am going to bed. Goodnight. Sod off.