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  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

We made LOADS of money. 46 pounds 35p (minus 10 pounds because Josh and his smelly friends came by and said theyd snitch on us).

Anyway when we got back to Pollys Ness and Leah were having a row. We could hear Leah shouting from outside the house. At first we thought it was because of us and our shop but it wasnt. They didn’t even hear us when we came in. So we tiptoed up the stairs and they carried on argewing.

Polly says she thinks they are going to devorce and then she would get two summer holidays instead of one. And more Christmas presents and two Christmas dinners. And maybe go and live in Jamaica. I said why Jamaica. She said thats just what people do when they get devorced. I dont think shes right. Mum says Polly has a very active imagination which means she lies. For example Polly once told me that when her aunt was in hospital, she suddenly pulled out all her tubes and got out of bed, peeled an orange ate it and died on the floor. I hope she is not going to live in Jamaica. I hope they dont devorce.

I hope my mum and dad are not going to devorce. I feel sorry for all those people in our class whose parents are devorced. I try and pretend its OK to them but I would hate it. Alice says you have no idea at all that its coming but Phoebe P says you can tell its coming because first of all you notice that your mum and dad are never in the same room (mine are). Then you notice that they are never holding hands (mine still do sometimes) and then they are always banging things (mine do that) and the big clue is that they dont sleep in the same bed (mine do!!!). Polly says she doesnt think mine will devorce because everyone is always laughing in our house. It is full of jokes so we are OK, pleeeease. Polly says Ness and Leah are never laughing only when they are with other people. She says Ness is nicer when Leah is away otherwise Leah just sits on the sofa watching golf and tennis. Polly likes to climb up to the biscuit cubbard to make her shout at her.

These are things we hear Leah say to Ness in the row.

1) That she cant bare her stupid family and that she should try climbing out of her own arse some time. ???

2) That they have NOTHING in common. (Wrong. Polly and Evie and two hamsters.)

3) Why doesnt Ness ever show any emotion?? She called her a fuking robot. (Polly and me like robots.)

Ness didnt shout back at Leah at all. I would of done. I would of said get off the sofa you lazy poo. Actually I would of said the BBC news is rubbish. She cares about that shes always on twitter swearing at her phone.