I went over to Joshua’s after school tonight. We were planning on doing some reading for English ’cos it was back to school this week, but it’s proper difficult studying when you’re on your own with Joshua in his room ’cos he is so choong that it is well distracting. I keep finding little bits of him I ain’t never noticed or kissed before. I like the bits behind his ears and the end of his nose.
I met Joshua’s mum properly today. She didn’t seem to remember me from New Year’s Eve. I only met her for five minutes in the kitchen tonight and I said hello and smiled at her but she just sort of looked at me a bit funny. She stared at my hoop earrings and my hoodie and my scrunchie and my rings like she’d never seen anything like it before, then Josh told her I was called Shiraz and she said, “How lovely.” Then she said, “Well, your friend will need to go now because we’re sitting down for supper as soon as Dad’s finished speaking to L.A.”
I came home and my mother was giving Penny a bath in the kitchen sink and my dad was clipping his toenails in front of the TV and Murphy was moaning ’cos the clippings kept nearly landing in his Coco Pops. I just spoke to Josh on the phone and he was asking when he can come to my house. I just laughed and said when hell freezes over mate.