Eastbourne

Kayleigh Slovenia

April 2004

Why my parents bought the family a new dog, I don't know. The house was pretty much full up with the seven of us living there and having a dog made it worse. I wasn't too keen on Dakota; he was always jumping on my bed, licking my face to wake me up. Fortunately, being grounded meant that one of my siblings had to take him on a walk every day. He was only a small Pekingese with very long, soft white fur. He looked up at me with his big black eyes and his pink tongue would be hanging out of his mouth, panting heavily.

It was only five weeks till my sixteenth birthday and mum and dad had grounded me for six weeks because I was silly enough to disobey their orders.

It's crazy what your heart makes you do. After trying to get over heartbreak from James, I found myself slowing falling for Danny Jones, a lead guitarist and singer from the new boy band, McFly. However, Jess Wells, my twin sister's best friend, claims that she had been getting it 'on' with him and flirting, yet after Danny kissed me that Saturday afternoon at the Lido, I wasn't too sure if she was telling the truth or not …