OMG! I'm in Love with a Geek!

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Author: Rae Earl
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some furry dice for Rob’s car (Weirdo Jen says it’s an ironic take on the boy racer culture and he’ll appreciate it?) and NOTHING for my brother. It’s tradition!
4.55 p.m.
    I went to see Gran this afternoon. She called me into the bathroom. She’d been to the Christmas dinner at her pensioners’ club and “got a bit too much in the festive spirit”. She’d only put diamante vajazzles of Father Christmas’s face on her bum AND used superglue! She kept shouting, “I can’t get it off, Hattie!” I was telling her to go to hospital but Gran thought she couldn’t because Rob went yesterday! She didn’t want the doctors and nurses thinking we were “a family of nutters”. We ARE a family of nutters! Why deny it?! Then Gran said, “I’ll end up on the Internet or on
24 Hours in A&E
– even if they blur my face people will know my voice and my bum!”

5.36 p.m.
    How will people know Gran’s bum?!
6.05 p.m.
    Gran just rang my mob. The Father Christmas beard has partly come off. Gran is wearing rough cotton pants as punishment.
    Does she even realize what vajazzles are and where they SHOULD go? I’m not telling her!
6.55 p.m.
    Vajazzles. Geckos. Nut allergies. What on Earth is Keith coming into?! I’m confused about everything. Mum is angry with me and Gran is FURIOUS – partly at her itchy body art but mainly at Keith. Rob’s not said a lot but I know he’s worried. He’s spending a lot of time in his shed. I want to tell him he’ll always be THE BEST SORT OF NOT REAL DAD EVER … but that sounds craptacular.
7.37 p.m.
    I can tell you what Keith is coming into – he’s definitely coming into the most uncomfortable accommodation in history. I saw it earlier. It’s totally obvious that Gran really, REALLY hates Keith. The bed in the spare room has disappeared. She said the mattress had lost too many of its springs. She’s put the ancient fold-out camp thing out with the itchy blanket. Gran’s got a deluxe queen-size airbed! When I asked her where it was she snapped, “It’s got a puncture – Princess thought it was a cat.” Beds do not look like cats. I think she told Princess to attack it. I’m not arguing though. I’m NEVER going to argue with an OAP who’s had a vajazzle disaster.
8.14 p.m.
    OFFICIAL SERIOUS AND MAX AWFUL CONVERSATION WITH MY BROTHER.
    I asked Nathan how he felt about Keith. It’s because he keeps acting like nothing is happening and IT IS: OUR BIOLOGICAL ACTUAL REAL DAD is turning up TOMORROW. So I said, “Nath – how do you feel about it all?” And he said, “Hattie, I don’t know how I feel. I just wish that things were the way they used to be. They were fine. Rob’s the best dad ever. Who cares about anything else?” I said, “But don’t you want to know THE TRUTH? Like where we come from and who he is and why he’s never bothered?” Nathan just shrugged and grunted. Then he said, “And think what it’s like for Mum – she has to have all those bad memories back in her life again. AT CHRISTMAS. But you know what, Hattie? I’m over it.”
    SO IT’S ALL HATTIE’S FAULT AGAIN! FANTASTIC! All I wanted was what I actually deserve!
    I don’t get it. Why is THAT so bad and why isn’t Nathan even a tiny bit interested? HOW can he be all cool about it when I’m having a massive emotional earthquake that’s causing major structural damage?!
8.55 p.m.
    That last bit made no sense but I know what I mean. I’m in a mess.
    And now I feel like I’m letting Mum down and, even though I hate him, I’m letting Nathan down too. I actually don’t want to do that. I REALLY, REALLY don’t want to hurt anyone. I just want to meet Keith.
9.12 p.m.
    Just rang Dimple about Nathan. She said men are often “resistant to change”. When her mum swapped her

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