OMG! I'm in Love with a Geek! (44 page)

DAD IS MARRIED!!!

It was a pagan ceremony. Jen would have loved it! Butterfly came in covered in flowers. She didn't carry them – they were ALL over her dress. She actually looked really beautiful. The wedding ceremony was WEIRD though! They mentioned “emotionally and physically honouring each other” (VOM!!!).

Dad looked OK. He had mad hair but his purple velvet suit looked quite cool. He gave a speech at the reception and said the most special thanks goes to Hattie and Ruby for travelling all this way. He said, “I am so proud of my 2 daughters, who are so different yet so special in their own way.” Everyone applauded this.

Basically we got a clap for sitting on a plane for a long time and being born.

MASSIVE SURPRISE!!! Wayne actually arrived in his car to see me. He found somewhere secure to park and was even really apologetic that he missed the wedding.

We kissed but I'm not bothered – the person I have missed most on this holiday is Goose. That's the truth.

Just realized Lachlan didn't turn up yesterday either. Perhaps he was working.

Dad and Butterfly slept under the stars last night. They're still out there looking at the sky and pointing at nothing and laughing. It's half sweet and half VOM!

Oh, it's sweet. They are really in love.

OMG – just went into the bedroom to find Ruby sobbing.

I said, “What's up?” She couldn't talk for a while as she was crying so hard and then she said, “Oh, Hattie. I've been dumped!”

OMG – RUBY HAS BEEN DUMPED. SERIOUSLY THIS IS MAHOOSIVE!

She cried for another hour then she managed to say, “I really liked him. We … we …. did stuff. Stuff I've never done with anyone before. Stuff.”

OMG TO THE MAX! Does she mean what I think she means?

I didn't ask. I gave her a cuddle.

She is my sister. And she lent me the loveliest belt ever to save my felt dress from fashion doom.

I know what it's like to be dumped.

Dad and Butterfly are still laughing at clouds. Ruby is still crying.

I don't want to spoil Dad and Butterfly's camping honeymoon so I am looking after her. She has gone through 4 toilet rolls already!

I am actually quite lovely in a crisis.

OK, I am officially not lovely in a crisis. Ruby has now been crying all night and I am sick of it. It's not like she was married to Lachlan!

OMG, OMG, OMG!

Just had this conversation with Ruby:

Then we had a massive hug for about 10 minutes. Then I said, “What happened?!”

Ruby told me! OMG!

I shouted at her, “YOU CAN'T GET PREGNANT DOING THAT! URGH! TMI – but you definitely can't get pregnant doing that!”

Then she said, “People think I know a lot about boys and stuff, Hattie, but I don't know everything.”

No, Ruby – you actually know less than I do.

Then she made me swear that WHATEVER happened I would never tell anyone that she was mixed up about the actual act of doing it.

I have sworn.

Is it wrong to keep information like this from your best friends though? Isn't it like lying to them?

No. I am never going to tell anyone ever.

Except perhaps Dimple in 2 years' time when it doesn't matter any more.

No – not even then. Ruby is family.

Dad and Butterfly just came in to have some dinner. They thought Ruby looked a bit “red around the eyes”. I said, “She's got hay fever.” At EXACTLY the same time Ruby said, “I got flies in them.” We looked slightly suspicious but I think they fell for it!

Ruby just said, “Thanks for yesterday, Hattie. I just wanted Lachlan to like me. I want people to like me.”

I said, “Don't be such a stuck-up cow then. You're actually all right really.”

Ruby snapped back, “It's all right for you. People LIKE YOU LOADS!”

All right for me?! ALL RIGHT for me?! Ruby has got a REAL Miu Miu handbag! THAT'S all right!!!

Text from Wayne:

I replied:

LOL!

Dad wants to have a goodbye dinner. He says him and Butterfly want to give us a proper send-off. Dad and Butterfly came inside for some lunch then went and sat in the garden again all afternoon and sang songs by this bloke called Van Morrison!

I've realized they are not having a proper honeymoon because every day of their lives is actually already like a honeymoon!

Dad just said how much closer he feels to the both of us.

I DO feel closer to him. I get him more, I think. And I can see how this place could change him. It is totally OFF IT … in I think a good way.

Mum just rang my mob. She said, “Keith and I made a mess and perhaps you didn't have the easiest start but you can't blame us any more. Rob has done a great job, Hattie. The BEST. We aren't the reason why you are rubbish with boys!” Typical out-of-the-blue Mum randomness.

When I said, “What made you say that?” Mum told me that “Ruby's mum told me you'd been dumped by a boy called Wayne. I just want you to know we love you and we want you back here, HAPPY!”

UNBELIEVABLE!

Bet Ruby hasn't told HER mum what SHE has been up to!

Just asked Ruby. She said, “Sorry, Hattie. I just didn't want to talk about myself so I told Mum about you – I was in a panic.”

I will let her off.