OMG! I'm in Love with a Geek! (54 page)

I fell asleep on the sofa today after school – it's safer to sleep in the day. I know that Jason doesn't exist but that's not the point.

Went to bed last night with Mum's vegetable peeler under the pillow. I didn't want to take a knife because that's too dangerous – I could stab myself in the actual face.

These are the times when I really miss Nicky. He could handle a psycho.

No, he couldn't. He'd probably just try to tag him.

ANYWAY he caused all this! Nicky the revenge craptacular attacker has made me scared of the one place I actually loved – my own bedroom.

I'm so jumpy that the FIREWORKS are making me feel TOTALLY LIKE I'M CRAZY this year. Went to Gran's. Princess was holding a sparkler. I felt like hiding under the table and whimpering. That is what the dog is meant to do.

Saw Ruby today. Her spots have cleared up so she's happy about everything in the world. I told her about Halloween and how I hadn't slept properly in days. She said I have to fill my head with lovely things every time I think about being butchered. It's how she got through having terrible zits. This is going to be hard but I am going to try.

•   Chickens.

•   Flowers.

•   Zebras.

•   Biscuits.

•   Jason riding a zebra eating a big biscuit … holding a big knife.

He is still in my head!

Ruby also said she is going to have a go at Florence Morse but then she said, “But you did mess Nicky about, Hattie. You don't play with man fire and not expect to get BADLY BURNED.”

Told Mum I need counselling. She said, “Don't talk nonsense, Hattie – try thinking about a nice Disney film instead. Like
Bambi
.” GOOD IDEA, MUM.

OMG – Bambi's mum dies! TRAUMA.

Any chance all these people could stop letting fireworks off?

Rob says I should have known after last year when I got worked up about murderers “that I do not handle violent crime well – even if it is just a film”. Then Rob said, “I think you need a little bit of help, lady. A perk-up.”

PLEASE, ROB – DO NOT MAKE ME A REGGAE REGGAE SAUCE SANDWICH.

OMG – GOOSE HAS JUST SENT ME A TEXT!

I have replied:

Goose has replied:

2 KISSES!!!

But he's still going out with Megan Fenton…

Goose was great.

He said, “I'm sorry to hear about what's been going on.”

I told him I was terrified of going to sleep. He said, “Why don't you have a sleep here and me and Freak will protect you. I can do some homework.”

So I did. Then I woke up and came home.

It was weird. But nice.

Barry and Gran have split. She told me, “There's only so much you can say about motorways. We had nothing in common, Hattie. It's difficult to deal with a man who wears a Texaco padded jacket to bed and pretends to honk his lorry hooter every time he wants you to move. I prefer an ‘Excuse me'. Plus, once I'd told people, some of the mystery had gone.”

I told her I was sleeping at Goose's house. She went MAD until I said, “No – actual sleeping – like SNORING, Gran.” She said that was fine.