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    Jenny tried to explain his mean, bossy behaviour away. Apparently, his grandfather is sick and he (Jackson) told Jenny that yesterday he had to get me to leave the courtyard because his grandfather was coming, and that his grandfather would have shouted at me and been really horrible and banned me from the place forever, because since his illness he does things like that. I told her that Jacksonhimself had done a good enough job of being rude and horrible, and was the biggest mistake of a person I had ever met. She tried to stick up for him, but I know that’s just because she is nice about everyone. She stayed for lunch and then had to go.
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HOLD TIGHT FOR THE FREAKY WEIRD BIT:
    Some time during the afternoon, without me or Aunt Maisie noticing, a big bunch of lavender with a note attached was left on the front doorstep. The note said,
    Dear Tia,
     
    Although it was not the best start, I am really looking for ward to getting to know you this summer.
     
    Yours, Jackson F.
    Aunt Maisie always thinks that something is more of a big deal than it is because she is a bit dramatic, and sure enough her eyebrows were way up around the top of her head.
    ‘Must have made an impression!’ she said in a mysterious voice.
    I know exactly what sort of impression I made, so I think that he must have a thing for Jenny and aftertheir conversation he wants to keep her happy by staying on my good side. Or else he thinks I am properly crazy and wants to make sure I don’t throw bricks through his windows. He can forget about meeting me again, I’m not going to let some bully from the Big House tell me what to do.
    We went grocery shopping and I cooked a vegetarian lasagne all by myself out of a recipe book and it turned out really well. I can’t wait to tell Aidan. I wonder does he even know where I am?
    I called Dee, but she didn’t ask about me, she just talked about her stuff like as if I wouldn’t be doing anything. So after ten minutes I said I had to go. She said that Daniel, the guy from the party was asking about where I had got to. I think she’s making it up to make it sound like I’m missing something.

DAY 18
    I have decided I need a goal. I can’t think of one yet, but I know it will have nothing whatsoever to do with hockey or maths.
    I bet if I had a goal people would like me more and think I was doing something important. Then I could talk about what I was doing and not just about how crap everything is. I know I say that I don’t like most people, and it’s a bit true because everyone annoys me, but I would love some friends to be happy with. Jenny is so happy already that I don’t think I could ever catch up, but I will ask her to help me get a goal.
    First I will read ten pages of Jane Eyre in case there is some inspiration in there. I am loving reading it, but reading classic books isn’t really agoal because I’m already doing it
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    OK, done the ten pages. I now know that my goal will not involve sketching or governessing.
LATER
    Went to Jenny’s and Jackson was there. It was like when a well-behaved dog and a cat meet. Me and Jackson hated each other straight away.
    He looked at me for a long time and said, ‘Do you always wear black?’
    ‘Do you always ask stupid questions?’ I fired back
    Then Jenny got all bright and breezy and told us we all had to get along or we’d end up having to hang out with old people all summer.
    She was right, so we pretended to be friendly. He offered to make me a cup of chamomile tea, and I said that the lavender he left me is very nice. I didn’t tell him how amazing it looks in the pink glass bowl I put it in, or how it makes the whole room smell delicious. I didn’t want him thinking I thought he was great or anything just for picking some flowers that were obviously meant to impress Jenny and not me.
    I accepted his apology about the other day in the courtyard, because apparently his grandfather really has good and lost it, and might have done anything