When I woke up this morning I couldn’t wait to get to school. I knew that school was going to be SOOOOO MUCH COOLER now I was Fincredible! I hopped out of bed and rushed downstairs for breakfast.
While I was sitting at the table Mum put her hand on my forehead and asked if I was feeling all right.
I told her I’d never felt better and then both my mum and dad shared a worried look. Apparently they’d never seen me looking so cheerful in the morning and they thought I might be coming down with something. 
Yesterday I spent all morning trying to convince them that I was ill and today, when I was feeling fine, they thought I’d got pneumonia or something. PARENTS! How do they get it so wrong? You’d think they’d be better at it by now; they’ve had TWELVE YEARS of practice!
Anyway, nothing was going to spoil my mood, not even Mum telling me she’d decided to stop buying Coco Snaps. She thought we should all eat her disgusting Keep Fit cereal every day instead. ‘It will keep you regular,’ she said. That’s mum-speak for ‘Make you poo lots’. Mums are obsessed with things like that. Don’t ask me why. You’d think they’d have better things to do with their time – like BUYING COCO SNAPS! 
Anyway, as I said, I wasn’t going to let it get me down. Today was going to be awesome.
As I was walking through the school gates I waved to all my new friends (or should that be fans?). Then I spotted CLAUDIA RONSON and strolled over to say hello. I was trying to be cool, to make up for yesterday, but she just acted like I was 
or something.
That was weird. I know I couldn’t think of anything to say to her yesterday, but surely that didn’t mean she’d ignore me COMPLETELY today?
I told JOSH what had happened with CLAUDIA when we were lining up for registration. He said he had overheard CLAUDIA tell her mates that she thought I was a bighead because yesterday I’d told her I was FINCREDIBLE FIN and then I’d winked and given her this really creepy smile, like I was farting or something. 
What was JOSH talking about? I’ve barely forgiven him for not letting me stunt-jump over him at the talent show and now he’s saying CLAUDIA thinks I’m creepy? He needs to watch out – there are other people to be friends with. Anyway, I didn’t smile at her at all, I just walked off embarrassed.
It was then that I knew for sure just how amazing this diary is. It DOES make things happen – it IS magic!
Last night I definitely wrote that I wished I’d said something cool to CLAUDIA and given her a cheeky smile. And now it seems like that’s what I did! Well, it may have backfired a bit – CLAUDIA wasn’t impressed by me calling myself fincredible, and she thought my cheeky smile was creepy – but that’s not the point. The point is,
Now that I was sure, I knew the rest of the day was going to be a breeze.
I practically skipped into Mrs Johnson’s class. She looked me up and down and asked if I was feeling all right. Honestly! A grown-up wouldn’t know a sick kid if they coughed up a lung in their face.
Once everyone was sitting down Mrs Johnson handed back the tests from yesterday. At first I was a bit scared to look at it. But then I remembered that if I was right about the diary, I had nothing to worry about! I flipped over the paper and, sure enough, I’d done brilliantly! It was the first time that had ever happened! It was so rare, Mrs Johnson asked me to stand up while the whole class gave me a round of applause. OKAY, THAT WAS SLIGHTLY EMBARRASSING, BUT I COULD COPE WITH IT. Then she gave me three merits and said she’d send an email home to my parents.
The rest of the morning sailed by. As I was going off to lunch I gave Mrs Johnson my cheeky smile. She asked me if I needed to go to the toilet …
After lunch BRAD RADLEY came over to me and JOSH in the playground and showed us some really cool videos on his phone. BRAD and me were laughing like drains but JOSH wasn’t. He just looked at us and said,
JOSH has never been the smartest meerkat in the burrow, and now he’s starting to be EMBARRASSING too. JOSH has been my best friend forever, but recently he’s been a bit dweeby. He ruined my idea for the best talent show stunt ever, he told me that my smile is creepy and now he won’t laugh at videos that are really funny. I’m starting to think that he might be the dweeby best friend that dweeby Fin deserved. But I’m not dweeby Fin any more, I’m FINCREDIBLE FIN, and FINCREDIBLE FIN deserves a fincredible best mate. Someone like BRAD RADLEY.
BRAD can be mean and rude, but if the joke’s not on you he can also be really funny. Truth be told, I’ve always kind of wished BRAD was on my side, and that we were mates. BRAD RADLEY might be a dweeb’s arch-enemy, but he’s a fincredible kid’s best friend!
When the bell rang for the end of lunch, JOSH ran into school, like the dweeb he is, while BRAD and I took our time. As we were walking, BRAD asked me what I was doing for the talent show. I told him what JOSH and I had decided – I was going to jump over a shark tank on a bike while JOSH played a guitar solo.
When BRAD heard my plans he said it sounded like the coolest stunt in the history of cool stunts and I told him he wasn’t wrong. I can nearly do it, too. I can ride a bike, I’ve got a wind-up shark, I can even jump over stuff. Now I just need to pull it all together. HOW HARD CAN IT BE?
As we walked across the playground, BRAD said he had just one question: could I trust JOSH not to muck everything up? And as we were making our way into class that question started to play in my head. I knew I’d be fine – but JOSH was a liability. JOSH was ALWAYS a liability, especially in front of hundreds of people. I have to make sure JOSH isn’t going to let me down. We are going to practise like we’ve never practised before.
When I got home Mum was waiting for me in the hall with a printout of Mrs Johnson’s email. She gave me a big hug and told me how proud she was and that there was a surprise for me on the kitchen table.
I ran to take a look and there I saw … A BIG BOX OF COCO SNAPS!
Okay, it wasn’t the ticket to the X-WING concert I was hoping for, but it was a start. And that gave me an idea …
The paper was still on the table so I opened it at the page of adverts and said, ‘THAT is going to be a great concert.’
Mum actually looked at the page, raised an eyebrow and said, ‘We’ll see.’ Which everybody knows is mum-speak for ‘I’ll call up the band and get backstage passes!’
Those tickets are in the bag!
After dinner I rushed upstairs, and just before I started writing, I gave the diary a kiss. I might kiss it again when I’ve finished! It deserves all the love I can give it. That batty old lady at the funfair was right. This diary can get me anything I want! Sure, things aren’t great with CLAUDIA, but that’s not the diary’s fault – that was mine for not thinking it through properly. I’ll get it right next time.
This diary lets me change history. I can do or say anything I want and it doesn’t matter – I can just use the diary to make it better! I’M UNTOUCHABLE!