AN: the entire story isn't going to be diary extracts but i will be using them occasionally and the rest of it will be from the point of the of the camera (how we as the audience would watch the show)

Dear diary,

Wow! Look at you so new and beautiful - there is seriously not a better feeling then writing in a BRAND NEW BOOK!

Mum got it for me this morning before she left. I think it's a guilt present for having to leave me for two weeks to go to her "mum yums" which is her 'silly' word for a meeting of the best small home businesses (mainly ran by mums) across the country. It's actually pretty cool when you write it down… However this does mean that dad is looking after me - DAD! He can barely look after himself and now he is solely in charge of two girls although as mum puts it " you are a child and hannah is a grown woman now and she can make her own decisions and when your her age it will be the same for you" UGH! She is so patronising sometimes but she does make up for it because she's going to be in a newspaper!

Talking of newa when i went to go looking for Mr snuggles downstairs the other night mum and dad were watching the news and mum of course pounced like a tiger,as fast a cheater to cover my innocent eyes from the HORRIFIC NEWS! Mum says it's "grown up stuff" and dad says he doesn't want me to "get any ideas"- sometimes i think they forget that i'm not 8 anymore (even if i do look like it) im 3 months older than carl but he gets to ride round in uncle Ricks police car… well not anymore… i miss uncle Rick , he used to always tell me that i was going to be the first woman president because i got an A on my english test, i wonder if he'll ever wake up. Shane said it's not likely and i think auntie Lori is agreeing with but me and carl will never lose hope . always the optimist as uncle Rick used to say.

Anyway school was quite boring since all of my friends were of sick; apparently there is some sort of bug going round … and that's my dad shouting at me to go to bed when its not even 9:00 pm yet , i've still got another 15 mins. I mean hannah has only just left to go to jeremy fisher's house - i think there BOYFRIEND and GIRLFRIEND! although every time i say this she tells me it's impossible , i don't quite know what she means though.

I really should probably go now because dad might arrest me for being up too late since he says thats what happened to jessica layton down the street.

Sincerely yours,

You (Lea)xx