A Ghost in my Suitcase by Gabrielle Wang

Author:Gabrielle Wang
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781742285078
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Published: 2009-07-06T04:00:00+00:00

I sit at the kitchen table looking out over the canal. Across the way, the black and grey spotty dog barks at a passing boat. I look towards Por Por’s room. She hasn’t come out since we got back. I’m guessing she’s reading her father’s diary. I’m writing in my diary, too. There’s heaps of stuff I want to write about and my hand flies over the page like a feather caught in a breeze. This is unusual for me because I’m not very good at writing. I usually write boring stuff. This is what I wrote three weeks ago:

‘I went to a movie called Peekaboo with Jess today. We shared a box of popcorn and wasted most of it when I jumped at a scary bit. Luckily I wasn’t holding the can of Coke …’ and ‘School was boring as usual, except for choir practice at lunchtime when Mrs Sillitoe asked me to sing a solo.’

I never write about my feelings. Well, I never used to before coming here. I was always scared that if someone knew my deepest thoughts they would have some kind of power over me. But being in the Isle of Clouds makes me want to write down everything. There’s just too much to keep inside my heart all at once.

At last Por Por comes out of her room. Her eyes are red from crying. I pretend not to notice. She takes her padded jacket off the doorknob. ‘Come, Little Cloud,’ she says, wiping her nose with her handkerchief. ‘I promised to show you Bao Mansion, and now is the time.’

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