OMG! I'm in Love with a Geek! (53 page)
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Authors: Rae Earl
EDNESDAY
27
TH
O
CTOBER
5.23 p.m.
Nicky has had a meeting with the police. They say next time they catch him they are not going to hold back. They are going to tag him. Tags for taggers. They are suggesting his parents give him a curfew, which they've done. His dad turned up to the station IN SLIPPERS and promised that Nicky was going to stay in at night from now on.
Nicky said, “I'm not. I might go to Manchester when I'm 16 and start squatting. Hattie, you can come. My mate is already there! We can find an empty place in Moss Side. You can get a job in Maccy D's and I'll sell my art.”
No.
No.
This isn't what I want. I don't want to end up in a craptacular flat. I like electricity and running water.
Told Dimple. She says I have to finish it. I do.
HURSDAY
28
TH
O
CTOBER
5.45 p.m.
Horrific craptacular day.
I finished with Nicky.
| NICKY: | Hi, Shorty. Missed ya. |
| ME: | Nicky â it's not⦠|
| NICKY: | I totally know what you are going to say. I know I shouldn't have tagged a police car. It was a stupid dare thing. |
| ME: | I think we should sort of finish because I sort of need to concentrate on my school and stuff. And Princess â my gran's dog â has got emotional issues and needs my help. She bit the Dog Whisperer. I'm the only one left who can brush her without getting savaged to actual death. (WHY DID I SAY THAT?) |
| NICKY: | Princess is about the size of a cat. Don't make crap excuses, Hattie. Whatever. I get it. First sign of trouble and you're gone. Like everybody else in my life! |
| ME: | No â it's just that I'm ⦠I've gotâ |
| NICKY: | Bye, Shorty. I know what this is really about. You have totally USED me! Don't think I don't know. I've seen the way you look at HIM. I've seen the way you look at his girlfriend! I've heard the way you talk about him! IT'S OBVIOUS YOU LIKE HIM, HATTIE. You've treated me like CRAP. You're a USER! (Then he started to cry a bit.) A really nasty USING ⦠USER! AND by the way, you look REALLY stupid when you smoke. AND you can't kiss properly. |
Then he just stormed off.
Crying.
Why are men so nasty?
Jen says men can't handle rejection. Apparently Nicky has let his inner woman die.
Dimple says Nicky is a pig and it's got nothing to do with his inner woman. Just his outer TOTAL idiot.
RIDAY
29
TH
O
CTOBER
7.38 a.m.
Just told Gran. She said, “I'm sad for you, Hattie. He's got a lot of growing up to do.”
Gran ALWAYS says this about everyone who disagrees with her or does something wrong. She said her friend Ron had to “mature” after he decided to stop watching
Emmerdale
. Ron is 78. How much more mature can you be?
Gran had to go. She was somewhere near Belgium and her croissant was going limp. “I can't speak to you and eat a pastry, Hattie. It could flake in my phone and I'd lose my high score on Candy Crush.”
Cakes and apps. More important than my actual heart in pieces. Even though I'm the one who did it.
I hope Nicky is OK.
I really do. I shouldn't have done ⦠what I did.
I don't mean dump him. I mean ⦠what he said.
Saw Goose tonight and said, “Could you ACTUALLY keep out of my business?”
When he went to say something I just shouted, “Leave it, OK! And by the way MEGAN IS HORRIBLE TO PEOPLE WITH ZITS. So if I were you I wouldn't eat any chocolate or have hormones!”
Goose didn't say anything.
There are now no boys I get on with. In my ENTIRE life.
Well done, Hattie.
ATURDAY
30
TH
O
CTOBER
12.38 p.m.
OMG! Florence Morse â ULTIMATE REBEL AND COOLEST GIRL IN SCHOOL EVER â has invited me to her house for Halloween. We are going to watch the film
Friday the 13th
. I'm not nervous about it â even though it's my full first 18 film. It can't be that bad.
I am worried â what if it is that bad?
UNDAY
31
ST
O
CTOBER
Nicky is spreading it that HE dumped me. He posted on Facebook:
Facebook:
If my shorty gives me trouble I say BYE. If she can't kiss properly I say BYE BYE.
Whatever, Nicky. WHATEVER.
Seeing a scary film tonight. At least that will take my mind off my totally scary life.
OMG â it was SCARY bad. Basically there's a man called Jason. He wears a mask and murders people. I can tell why it was an 18. It's really ⦠I didn't like it. I don't think I like horror. I think I like Disney.
ONDAY
1
ST
N
OVEMBER
5.32 a.m.
Didn't sleep much last night.
Dimple told me something UNBELIEVABLE today. Apparently Florence Morse invited me round to watch the film because:
1. She is good friends with Nicky and they all agreed I needed to be taught a lesson. It was a horror-film revenge attack.
2. I am now known as a “user”. I suppose I deserve it.
3. I'm a well-known total nerd wimp and everyone in HER gang wanted a laugh. Apparently there's a video of me screaming doing the rounds.
And a video of me covering my eyes with the remote control.
And a video of me biting a cushion in terror.