Secret Girls' Stuff by Margaret Clark

Author:Margaret Clark
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Australia
Published: 1999-10-26T16:00:00+00:00

Well, Ally didn’t move in under my bed because Menzel went off to school camp and things calmed down. But worse. Parents can be an embarrassment too:

This is part of an email from Katie age fifteen:

>From: Katie

>To: Margaret

>Date:

hi margaret, this email will be quick, i love ur books especially the studleys and how the mother is sooooo i know that scene. like, it was sooooo bad last saturday. dad was making me help in the garden and i dropped this HUGE rock on my foot, i swear it was a BOULDER, and when i looked at my foot it had this massive indent in it as it was flat AS. and i was in so much pain and i started crying because it hurt.

bad move. dad said ‘get in the car’ and he was in his old shorts and singlet and these massive boots, looking like something out of The Castle, u know, the movie, so we drove to the dandenong medical centre.

i reckon we should have some sort of lifelong membership or bonus points like frequent flyers or something there because we go there so often as i’m always getting injured, not seriously, but dad or mum drag me there for just a splinter. only this time it WAS an emergency because my foot was, like, agony. anyway we waited the usual three hours till some lady wheeled me off to a tiny room and mum and my sister turned up. mum was in her old red trakky daks and her hair standing on end and my sister jessie was in her ballet gear, u know, the tutu. we looked like the family from hell. we sat there for another half hour playing … get this … i spy. i won most of the time, like they couldn’t guess my weird words like ‘ceiling sprinklers’ and ‘i need help’ button and ‘doctor’s thingo’. then finally this really fat irish dude came up and said to me, with ice on my foot, ‘so what seems to be the problem?’ i don’t get it.

doctors always say that. last time i went there when i ate something off. i looked like absolute shit, vomit on my t-shirt, bags under my eyes and a plastic container just in case, and the doctor goes, ‘ how are you today?’ – are doctors BLIND?

anyway this irish dude started poking at my foot going ‘does this hurt?’ and i yelled, ‘yesssss’, so this granny rolled up and wheeled me off for xrays and by then dad, mum and jessie had gone to stuff themselves at the canteen. eventually i was finished with xrays and she wheeled me back to the cubicle. mum and dad came back with jessie eating all eating icecreams and dad had slopped tomato sauce all down his front. i swear he looked like he’d had a date with a vampire. then the dude came back and said, ‘nothing’s broken in ur foot, put ice on it’ then pissed off. jessie started doing ballet stuff in the passage and i was like, ‘oh NO!’ when this creepy guy came in.

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