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 THE GRASS GROWS GREENER:F
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January – New Year’s Day J
ACK 
Well, it’s the New Year and yet again I have no memory of the last. That’s why I’ve decided to start a diary. I know it sounds stupid, butit’s just so that, at the end of the year, I can look back and see justhow crappy my life really is.... and if the next year will be worthliving.My mum and dad were fighting again last night… I don’t know whythey’ve been together for so long when all they do is argue. I thinkthat they know it’s pathetic, staying with the same person for 15years just ‘cos ya have a kid with ‘em.Dad spends most of his time down the strip club, wasting money heknows we don’t have. Mum’s always taking pills; she can’t fallasleep by herself, she can’t wake up by herself... Hell, she can’t doanything without medical help these days! …Not since Lindaanyway. It still upsets me to think about her and how ever since she,well… Ever since that event, our lives changed so, so much. That’s why, ya know… That’s the reason I can’t ever rememberanything. I’m too bloody busy forgetting all the bad memories, orliving my parents’ lives for them. If it weren’t for my paper round,we’d basically have no income, all we got is benefits and that’s whythe others hate “our kind”.I can’t blame the ‘rents, though… Mum, well she’s depressed, so shecan’t actually work, but dad… he claims that he’s still grieving… Truth is he’s still pretty screwed in the head. Well, a suicide case isnever easy for a parent, is it? It’s not easy for their family either… ortheir friends… Or for anyone they’ve ever talked to, really.Only thing to report so far, is that last night I tried to get some extracash together, we really need it. I spent my New Year celebrationfreezin’ my ass off, going from door to door uptown – that’s whereall the posh lot live. But, of course, none of them have time in theirbusy lives to give a little bit of spare change, do they?
Laurenna Wreiss
 
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LIZABETH
 That was a marvellous year! Yet again I have academically excelledand reached all the goals I had made for myself. For some I did evenbetter than I’d previously hoped!I’ve been awarded with the title of prefect and I’m on the schoolcommittee again – I had tremendous amounts of fun being an activemember of the student government, last year.I’ve submitted an idea for a new programme, which I hope will beput to practice within the next school term. It’s where an assortmentof students teach public school kids, free of charge. The parents areworried that they aren’t mentally able to understand any subjectsthat we’d teach them, but I’m more worried about them beingunwilling, after all, their parents obviously aren’t otherwise theywouldn’t be living from the governments’ handouts or thieving fromdecent, hard-working citizens, like Mother or Father. The celebration of the New Year was so delightful, as always a largeselection of my relatives arrived at ours for the finest food and drinkmoney could buy. Oh, and Mother allowed me to have somechampagne, I was pleasantly surprised to find that she now trustsme to be a responsible young lady and consume alcoholicbeverages within my limits. The only thing that ruined our gathering was when we were rudelyinterrupted, just past midnight. It was that little estate boy, James or Jack or something, I’m not entirely sure… To be honest, I don’texactly care. I vaguely remember that my family used to be friendswith his family, then something happened… and it seems as thoughthey just, disappeared? Never mind though, it was practically alifetime ago!
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February - Valentine’s DayE
LIZABETH
I haven’t the foggiest of ideas how this happened! I’m a respectablefifteen year old girl; I had absolutely no intention of anything likethis happening… I’m ruined! How could it be? I refuse to accept it… I
Laurenna Wreiss
 
 just refuse to believe that someone as, socially established as me,may possibly be in love with a boy, whose status is so low that hisparents don’t even work.I’ve been tutoring Jack for a couple of weeks now, and I don’t knowwhat it is but he just makes me feel so special; it might be the wayhe shortens my name to ‘Lizzy’ or that he just really cares abouteveryone around him, even though he tries to hide it... All my lifeI’ve thought about my grades and earning a decent living. I guessI’ve never really thought about how people connect beyond financialagreements.Oh no, Mother will be outraged… I can just see her now, locking meinto my bedroom. “You know that people like us don’t mix withpeople like them!”She’s always separating people into categories due to the moneythey make or the car they drive. I do hate it when she does that. It’sher typical behaviour though. I suppose that she can’t control herfeelings about others… just like I’m not going to be able to controlmy feelings for Jack. J
ACK 
It’s weird, ya know? It’s like someone’s put her inside my head sothat I have to think about her all the time. It feels like I’ve finallycome back to life after all those bad memories… I can kindaremember Lizzy… when we were younger. I can picture us playing inher garden and getting told off by her parents ‘cos we ruined theflower beds.She’s so smart and funny and totally different to all the chicks atschool! She’s just awesome… and amazing… and anything elsebeginning with the letter a – that’s her favourite letter, I forget why,but it is!Sometimes I wonder if she’s too smart for me… Like, earlier, shemade a joke about pies and, erm, 3 point something or other. Ididn’t understand what it was but she laughed, which made mesmile.I’ve tried to tell mum about her but she was out of it again… Dadnever came home last night… I hate it when he does that. He knowsI worry about him. It doesn’t matter too much, though. This time,not even dad can put a downer on my mood. This time, no one can.
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