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Chapters (28)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Epigraph
  4. Prologue
  5. Chapter 1
  6. Chapter 2
  7. Chapter 3
  8. Chapter 4
  9. Chapter 5
  10. Chapter 6
  11. Chapter 7
  12. Chapter 8
  13. Chapter 9
  14. Chapter 10
  15. Chapter 11
  16. Chapter 12
  17. Chapter 13
  18. Chapter 14
  19. Chapter 15
  20. Chapter 16
  21. Chapter 17
  22. Chapter 18
  23. Chapter 19
  24. Chapter 20
  25. Epilogue
  26. Acknowledgements
  27. About the Author
  28. About the Publisher

It was a cruel thing to say. She didn’t turn but she heard him make a strange sound, an audible exhalation, like a punctured ball slowly releasing its air. As usual, she felt the distance between them.

Chapter 8

Feb 10

Leah was going out to play tennis and told me and Polly to be good for a few hours. Polly asked her for some money but she told Polly to stop being so bloody cheeky which was good because there is a swear box that Leah has to put money into. She put 10p in then we both did begging noises and got on our knees and tried to make her swear again. I like it when Leah laughs. She said Polly had no understanding of the valew of money (because she had given her 20 quid last week and she dropped it out of her pocket. It must of been when we were doing chalk circles round the dog poos in the park). Leah said if we wanted money we would have to work for it and told us to tidy the house while she was out. She looked silly going off down the street in white nappy nickers tennis costume. We collected all the money we could find in the house. Down the sofa. In the pencil pot. In the desk. By the bed. We found LOTS of interesting stuff in the draw by the bed. They have an ENORMOUS plastic toy willy on a short lead thing that buzzes and dances on the floor!! Polly strapped it on her back and we put an egg cosy on its head and we pretended it was a baby.

Then we got bored and decided to make a shop. Polly said Ness has loads of things she never uses so we had a look in her cubbard and found lots of stuff. Some gold boots that she only wears at Christmas. And a whole see threw zip bag full of clothes. Then we found Leahs golf sticks, Polly said she will never notice if a couple of them went missing and some nice big books from the top shelf. Polly says no one EVER looks up there. And we took the dancing willy. ANYWAY we found so much that we ended up borrowing a trolley from Sainsburys and we put everything in it and pushed it to the park and we made a stall by the market. Some boys from year 7 bought the willy for 2 pounds!! And Sashas mum came by and bought Nesses leather jacket. She was modelling it all like a model and we were going yeah it looks really good on you, although to be honest it didnt because she is not the slimmest of people ahem ahem if you know what I mean, but you have to lie in shops if you want to be a seller.