CHAPTER TEN
The Maisie Diaries
I’ve got a dress for the school show!
This afternoon I was in Sunnybrook with Emma.
She walks home from school through the village and I normally wait for Dad to collect me in our usual spot on the high street.
So I went into the charity shop with Emma and had a look around and I found this dress that the assistant said was ‘midnight blue.’
It’s made of this lovely velvety material but it’s for an adult so it’s a bit big for me.
(Big as in saggy on top and trailing on the ground and likely to trip me up big.) But Emma said I’d look really grown-up in it so I bought it straight away with my saved-up pocket money.
She said I should ask Mum to cut the bottom off it and sew up the hem just like her mum did with her dress.
But I’ve decided I’m going to ask Rosie if she’ll help me do it.
Mum’s always busy either lying on the sofa or jiggling Isla about, trying to shush her, so she definitely won’t have the time.
I try to help her with Isla but I usually end up making her more cross and tired than she was to start with so I’ve sort of given up.
I’ve got everything crossed that we can get the dress to fit. Because when I tried it on later at home, honestly, I felt embarrassed because I’ve got nothing to fill the top bit. Like, ZERO.
I decided to ask Mum about chicken fillets. I’ve heard they can be a real bonus if your boobs aren’t that big. But she just said, ‘Your dad’s bringing fish and chips back tonight’ so I think she thought I was asking what we were having for dinner.
I’m going to ask Rosie. She’s a bit younger than Mum so she probably knows more about these things.
My boobs aren’t very big at all, sadly. Jessica Madeley has MASSIVE boobs and she’s a lot shorter than I am.
I guess if it depended on how tall you are, mine would be most impressive.
As it is they’re like a couple of fried eggs.
(I was doing some exercises I saw on YouTube but I felt a bit silly and they didn’t work anyway.)
I’d like to look ‘girly’ and not like a tomboy which is what Granny Rose is always saying about me.
She smiles when she says it so she must think it’s quite a good thing but it certainly is not!
Who on earth wants to look like a boy? Yuk!
I love my Granny Rose very much but really what can you expect from someone who’s about a hundred years old?
It’s not her fault she has no idea how hard it is sometimes to be young.
Actually, Granny Rose is really cool for a granny.
When Dad and I were visiting, her lovely husband Archie told us he found her in the woods the other day with her skirt tucked into her knickers because it was too tight and she was trying to climb a tree!
She’d reached the first lot of branches which is amazing considering her hair is now completely white.
She and Archie have rooms in a big house in the country, which has all these trees in the garden and an amazing tree-house in one of them.
A lot of their friends are living there as well (how sick is that?
To be able to see your friends all the time without having to ask permission and organise lifts and all that nonsense!)
So anyway, Archie said Granny Rose wouldn’t come down when he called and waved. So then he shouted that if she was wanting to spend time in the tree-house, she was climbing up the wrong tree!
She came down after that and Archie said they were laughing so much, tears were running down my granny’s face. Archie had tears in his eyes as well when he was telling us about it but I thought he looked a bit sad as well.
Anyway, back to the dress. Even if Reuben gives me a look as if he thinks I’m weird which he sometimes does I don’t care. Because I’m going to feel like a million dollars wearing it.
I think this dress is going to do A LOT of good things for me!