December 31

Today was fun! It started off very boring. I had to go to bed early because we had guests. Mom had all her boring friends over for dinner and Dad showed slides of our holiday to the ski slope. Sarah couldn't ski on the first day, but could do it very well on the second. I asked Hoggle if there were places to ski in the Labyrinth but he says it's a semi-desert so no. He says it is suspicious. Maddy, Tulby and I agreed that Jareth cheated and helped her with his sparkly magic.

I got to ride down the toboggan slope which was awesome. It was even better when Tulby joined me and we went even faster.

Everyone was downstairs being grown up and talking and laughing. I couldn't sleep. They were too noisy. I went to Sarah's room and called Tulby. He was on guard duty at the Castle, so I went and found my mask and costume from last year and joined him. We were throwing rocks at the guards on the other side of the gate when Jareth appeared in glitter. All the goblins jumped back to their places. I moved too slow. He leaned over and gave me that look. That look with that eye. The one that makes you feel the size of a brownie. He wanted to know what I was doing guarding his gate. I saluted 'cause he looked mad. Only it was the sort of mad that you can get out of if you're clever. So, I said if Sarah was a Queen, I was a prince and he should not ask what I was doing guarding my own gate. He went all strange and still. Then he laughed. He yelled at the goblins to laugh also.

We all stood there laughing.

He then snapped his fingers for quiet and we all were. He gave me another sort of look, with the other eye. The kind of look that if Mom gave it to me, I would have to pull weeds in the yard.

He said I could be a guard this time, but next time if I was a prince, I needed to be in the throne room. I was just so relieved he let me stay with Tulby. We still had to beat the other guards at the gate in rock throwing.

The runner came through an hour later, a red-faced girl with her long blond hair filled with leaves and glitter. We tripped her up but she dodged around us and made it through. We tried to chase her with rocks, but she was too quick. Tulby and I sneaked into the upside-down stairs room to see her win against Jareth, but she didn't as she was half an hour too late. Jareth held a little goblin baby and the girl cried. Jareth looked sort of tired and sad. He gave her a glittery glass ball and she vanished. He then saw me and gave me the goblin baby. I didn't want to change the stinky diaper so I found Tulby. He didn't want to either so we found this girl goblin Linny that he kind of likes and gave the baby to her. I had to leave 'cause Linny and Tulby got like Sarah and Jareth when they think I'm not around. Kissing is yuk.

I went back to the throne room and Jareth asked where the baby was. I told him about the gross kisses and Linny. Jareth let me sit on the throne. Said I had done my first duty as Goblin Prince. I like that. Goblin Prince. It is way fancier than Mr Williams.

He let me stay up till midnight to see the new year in. Sarah found us singing new years songs with the goblins. She joined in the dancing. There were fireworks over the Labyrinth. It was awesome. Jareth and Sarah kissed, eew. We counted in the new year. The fiery's threw their heads and I threw my shoes. I never saw where they went. Jareth had to magic me new ones. I have new boots with glitter on just like Jareth.