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wants to go out with me? Would you go out with me if you were him?”
    â€œOy don’t start that lezzie business again.”
    â€œJas, I am just asking you to imagine being him and what you would think about me if you were him. I mean, you wouldn’t pick Wet Lindsay over me, would you?”
    â€œShe’s got quite nice arms.”
    â€œJas, that is the wrong answer. The correct answer is, ‘Of course I would choose you every time, Georgia. You gorgey creature.’”
    â€œWell, if you already know the answer, what is the point of asking me the question?”
    â€œAnd, by the way, what do you mean she hasgot nice arms? She’s a stick insect, therefore she’s got stickey thin stupid arms. And unusually enough for a stick insect, it doesn’t stop there; she’s got a stupid forehead and stupid feet and…”
    â€œI’ve not seen her feet unclothed. Have you? When did you see her feet?”
    â€œJas, I don’t know that I have seen her feet, but I know that they are sad. Anyway, stop going on and on about her feet. I’m not interested in her bloody feet.”
    â€œWell, I didn’t start the feet business, I was only being polite.”
    I slammed down the phone. I may be having a nervy spaz.
    I’d better eat something sweet.
    in the kitchen
    Nothing to eat, of course.
    I must and shall have sugar.
    five minutes later
    Never have sugar on bread. It is disgusting.
    7:30 p.m.
    I had better plan what I am going to wear the day that he comes round to see me. It may be the decidingfactor between happinosity and sadnosity.
    I must make sure he doesn’t see me in my school uniform. It will only remind him that I go to school.
    I think I will practice smiling in the mirror.
    7:40 p.m.
    Oh what larks, I am developing a lurker on my chin. Perfect, it should just be nicely ripening into a massive red pus-filled second chin by Friday.
    five minutes later
    Typico, I have run out of spot cream. I could squirt some perfume on it, that sometimes works. What does it say in CosmoGIRL! vis-à-vis lurker alerts?
    five minutes later
    Apparently you are supposed to lure out the lurker by encouraging it to come to a head. You should steam the area. With a steaming thing.
    ten minutes later
    I’ve had my face over a boiling saucepan for the last year and a half and although my face is bright red and dripping with water, the lurker is still lurking there happily.
    In Cosmo ’s beauty hints it says you can use a poultice to draw it out.
    What can I use as a poulticey type thing? It says a muslin bag with herbs and stuff in it.
    in the bathroom
    I have just looked in the “medical chest” and it has got some moldy old oranges, a leg from Libby’s Pantalitzer doll, and some dried cat poo in it. How disgusting…
    in mutti and vati’s bedroom
    I’ve found some corn plasters in a drawer. Maybe they would do as a poultice?
    I’ll stick one over the lurker.
    one minute later
    Well, that is attractive, not.
    But who said that love was painless?
    one minute later
    And who said it involved corn plasters?
    8:10 p.m.
    God, the lurker is throbbing. I hope the corn plasterpoulticey thing isn’t drawing anything else out. I don’t want to wake up with no chin.
    8:15 p.m.
    I may as well be an orphan, for all the notice my family takes of me. They went out gaily laughing and singing years ago, leaving me with a measley fiver for a whole day. Just out scaring people for hours and hours.
    I hate them.
    It’s a bit spooky in the house by myself. Even the kittykats are nowhere around. What if an escaped prisoner came in out of the night and broke into the house to get food and so on?
    He wouldn’t stay long, I can tell you that.
    ten minutes later
    I never thought the day would come when I would be glad to hear the whine of Vati’s half-horsepower clown car, but it has.
    I scampered up to my bedroom.
    one minute later
    Loony