Cuckoo (aka Claire, Darling)

Chapter Fifty-Two

Chapter Fifty-Two

15 June 2025

Dear Diary,

Noah and I have put the Sukhi argument behind us. He’s promised to schedule another time to meet her and Fateh, and said he’ll set an entire day aside in case we want to do something fun like go to the zoo. I think he knows that seeing cute animals is my weakness and I won’t be able to say no.

At breakfast yesterday I found he’d made me a little zoo of paper animals, all with apologies written on them.

Sorry I’m shit!

Sorry I am flaky and rubbish

Sorry I work too much

Sorry I didn’t get to meet your friend

Sorry! Sorry! Sorry!

Sorry! Let’s go to the zoo? Sukhi can come?? (A better zoo than this one…)

He’d made them a pen out of five forks and had put the origami animals inside.

He makes it so difficult for me to stay annoyed with him.

Claire