THURSDAY 2 JUNE

Woke up in a mad panic! My phone was ringing, and my cheek was attached to my diary by my own saliva. I must have fallen asleep face first in it. My Fort of Mortification was obviously WAY too comfortable for its own good.

I looked at the screen – Daniel was FaceTiming me.

OMG!!!!!!!

I had fallen asleep in my spit, my hair was a state, I was still wearing yesterday’s clothes and I was in a fort made out of blankets – could his timing be any worse?!

I quickly pulled the diary off my face and tried to smooth my hair down with my hands.

‘ARGH! HELLO,’ I said, answering the phone.

‘Er, hi, Lottie. Why are you shouting?’

‘Oh, I’m just a bit … confused. I’ve just woken up.’

‘Sorry I woke you. Where are you? It looks really dark.’

‘I’m … um … I’m … in a … cave?!’

OK, I know what you are thinking, but I panicked! I couldn’t tell him that I was in a blanket fort, could I? It would make me sound like a toddler.

‘A cave? But you said you’d just woken up.’

‘Correct.’

‘So … you slept in a cave?’

‘Erm … kind of.’

‘Why?’

Well, I don’t know, do I, Daniel? I can’t control the rubbish that comes out of my mouth … I mean, give a girl a break – I was asleep thirty seconds ago and my brain takes a while to warm up, OK!

I didn’t say that though.

Instead, I just said nothing and then there was about thirty seconds of silence where both of us pondered what on earth I was going on about.

Luckily Daniel decided to give up on his cave interrogation. Phew.

‘Anyway, I had a great time yesterday,’ he said.

‘Yeh, me too. It was lots of fun. Apart from the end bit. I’m so sorry about my dad and brother – they are so annoying!’

‘Yeh, it was a bit embarrassing, but it’s cool, honest. Plus, I was thinking – maybe they had a point …’

‘What do you mean?’

He started looking super nervous. ‘I mean … and you can say no, obviously, but … would you like me to be your boyfriend?’

‘WOULD I EVER!!! Err … err … um … I mean that might be OK, I suppose.’

‘Well … I suppose that makes you my girlfriend then?’

‘I suppose it does!’

I was so excited that I just hung up without even saying goodbye and ran around my room shouting, ‘OMG OMG OMG!’

I know I said I was trying to say OMG a lot less but TBH I’m finding it pretty hard. TBH I should probably start saying TBH less too. But TBH that’s pretty difficult as well. OMG – shut up, Lottie!

Right, where were we? Oh yeh, I was OMGing about Daniel.

And then I thought, CALM DOWN, LOTTIE. You’ve got to be casual about this or else everyone will think you are weird even weirder.

So I had a lie-down on my bed …

But TBH (argh, I’m doing it again) that didn’t really work either, so I decided to run downstairs and tell the fam the good news and apologize to Dad and Toby for being a bit mean yesterday because OMG (doh!), I have the best dad and brother in the world – FACT. (I know that’s a bit opposite to what I said yesterday.)

They were all so happy for me and we all whooped and hugged and then one thing led to another and, before you knew it, we were all doing a conga round the house singing …

THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

I’m starting to get quite concerned that my family is very, very odd. And yes, I do include myself in that.