Celwriter: this chap will probably be short cuz I'm at camp. Hope your summers are great! Here it is!
Chapter 29

Mort drove Cel home, not wanting to talk after his shock about Ricky's dad. Cel didn't want to talk either. Ricky had asked her to homecoming. They didn't talk much the rest of the night, both confined to their own thoughts.
The next day Cel told Mort about homecoming and asked for permission to go shopping that Saturday with her friend Mary.
"Sure, how much do you need for the dress?" he asked.
"Oh, my last royalty payment can take care of it," she told him. Mort really wanted to get close to his daughter, as he hadn't known her very long. He had practically just met her and already she was growing away from him.
"No, I can pay for it. This is your first homecoming and I want it to be special for you. I insist."
"Well," Cel began, but when she saw the look in Mort's eyes, it told her how much it meant to him, "If you insist."
Saturday afternoon Mort gave her $500 for homecoming and told her if she needed more just to call him and he'd bring it over. Cel was sure that she wouldn't need more, and surely not as much as he had given her. Besides, it had been a long time since Mort had gotten a story published and they wouldn't want to waste in case he wasn't published again for a long time.
Mary came around 2 to pick Cel up. Cel had been writing in a notebook and rusheds down the second she heard the car pull up. Mort smiled and waved until Cel was out of sight. Then he walked upstairs to work on his latest story. When he was about to sit down to his laptop, an open notebook caught his eye. It was lying on the window seat in front of Amy's favorite window. It was now Cel's favorite window and she often wrote in the light that came through to shine brilliantly on her paper and pen.
Mort was filled with curiosity and glanced at a page. It was interesting and he did not want to put the book back down.
After a while he realized it wasn't one of Cel's stories, it was her diary.
Celwriter: kinda short, I know, but I didn't have much time and I knooww how much you loovvee my cliffies.