10am
I’m feeding my Tamagotchi a burger and getting
ready to go to a sleepover at my cousin Amy’s house.
The phone rings and Mum says it’s for me.
11am
Zoe from my school has rang! Nobody ever
rings me from school apart from Amy and she doesn’t count because she’s my
cousin. I’m in the school play with Zoe, Sammy and Lisa and they’ve started
letting me hang out with them a bit at lunch times. I’m so excited, this is the
first time I’ve actually been allowed to Zoe’s house!
I ring Amy and tell her I can’t come round,
she says it’s fine, but I feel a bit bad. We’ve been planning a sleepover all
week and were meant to meet at Londis in an hour to get supplies.
12.00pm
Zoe lives in a big house on the new estate,
she told me she has a bathroom in her bedroom and her mum and dad have a car
each! I’ve never been to her house before, but I know what it looks like. Nanny
Pam likes going round the show home on the estate with me every couple of weeks
to ‘see how the other half live’.
The doorbell plays a really long song and then
Zoe’s Dad, Ian, answers the door.
Ian say’s to Dad ‘This rain wasn’t forecast
‘
Dad
say’s ‘What’
‘This rain wasn’t forecast, I’ll have to
move the new motor into the garage’
Both Dad’s look at Ian’s new car.
‘Vauxhall Calibra, drove her straight of
the tarmac last week. It was a cheeky birthday pressie to meself. To Ian, happy
birthday mate, Love Ian’
Dad says, ‘Right, well erm, what time shall
I pick Holl up’
Ian says to me ‘You can stay for tea if you
want Holly Pop, so Dad can pick you up around five’
Dad looks at me and gives me a really stupid
smile, I know he can’t wait to take the mick out of Ian, but he just says ‘see
you later Holl’ and walks to his car.
1pm
Ian shows me to Zoe’s room and I go in. Zoe
and Lisa are sat on the carpet sticking stuff into their Fun Faxes. I sit down
next to them and they ask me about the people at school.
Zoe’s room is pink and she has a million
Sillvanian families everywhere. The hedgehog family is having a picnic on her
windowsill and a mummy rabbit is doing a food shop on the bedside table. If my
sister, Jenny, was here she would say Zoe’s room is babyish and sexist, but I
like it.
Zoe and Lisa start talking about Sammy who
isn’t here yet, they both say they don’t want Sammy to come round because they
don’t like her anymore and that they wish she wasn’t in the play. They say they
like me more and ask me if I like Sammy, I feel really hot and then I start to
lie. I say I don’t like Sammy either and that I think she’s rubbish in the
play, and then I get carried away and start saying her lines in a stupid voice.
They both start laughing. Then Zoe opens
the bathroom door. Sammy is stood by the sink and is crying because she has
been listening to everything.
Zoe and
Lisa said they lied to test if I was a true friend. I start shaking and tell
Sammy I’m sorry and that I didn’t mean it, but the other girls are hugging her
and tell me to leave her alone.
I run downstairs and ask Zoe’s dad if I can
use the phone. I ring home and Mum answers. I tell her what happened and that
when Dad gets home he needs to come back and get me.
1.30pm
I have to wait for ages for Dad to come. I
tell Ian and Zoe’s Mum Julie, that I have to go home because I feel really
hot. They give me some squash with ice in to try and cool me down, and I sit on
the sofa watching Sky TV with them for a bit.
Julie looks out of the living room window
into the garden and says ‘ There’s that squirrel again Ian’.
We all walk over to the window to look at
the squirrel, Julie asks ‘Whys it on the bird feeder eating those nuts’. I
think in my head that Julie’s a boring idiot.
1.45pm
Dad finally gets to Zoe’s and when Ian
answers the door I run out. Ian say’s to Dad ‘the sun’s still trying to come
out, Shifali said it was forecast for this afternoon on the weather last night,
but it’s going on two now and it looks like it might rain again’
Dad says ‘sorry, I’ve got no idea what you’re
on about, see ya later yeah’.
We get in the car and I start crying I tell
Dad about what happened, he said I shouldn’t have been nasty and that he didn’t
think I was like that, which makes me cry even more.
We drive out of Zoe’s horrible estate and Dad
starts to take the mick out of Ian to make me laugh ‘To Ian, happy birthday you
boring arsewipe! Hope a bird crap’s on yer car, love Ian’.
Dad says we can go through the car wash, to
cheer me up. I ask if we can pick Amy up on the way. Amy likes going
through the carwash too because you can pretend you’re on Funhouse.
