line. “What’s the problem?” you ask. “You should be jumping for joy!” OK, try this – not getting fired from the show and being told you’re getting your own story line about Angel telling Caspian that she loves him! Still don’t get it? Story line culminates in Angel’s very first ever kiss – with Caspian!
Which is MY very first ever kiss with ANYONE and it’s NOT just anyone anyway, it’s JUSTIN, who I am so in love with that I nearly DIE when I look at him, never mind actually have to KISS him!
I mean, I’m glad I’m not getting fired from the show, of course I am. It’s just that when I was sure it was going to happen it seemed so important, as if it was linked up with the rest of my life. As if Mum and Dad being together and me being Angel were all somehow linked together. And so after Dad went I was ready for it – prepared.I was even a little bit relieved. In fact, the only reason I even went into work that morning was because I couldn’t stand the thought of being in the house.
“I didn’t see this coming,” I said after I’d filled Nydia in on the news. She looked as shocked as I felt.
“Hang on a minute, let me look at your stars,” Nydia said, pulling her mum’s copy of Cosmopolitan out from under the bed. I looked at the front cover as she flicked through the pages. ‘Teens who have plastic surgery!’ was one of the articles listed on the cover. I wondered if that was why Nydia had taken it; she was always going on about having liposuction and even if she was just joking, she read and watched anything she could find on the subject with dogged curiosity. It might have been that, or ‘101 ways to increase your cleavage’, although Nydia didn’t seem bothered about the size of her bust. What about decrease your cleavage? I thought. After all, how am I even going to be able to kiss Justin in the first place if I can’t get close enough to him to make lip contact, what with The Breasts getting in the way. And then there’s the whole nose and mouth placement and…and…and…
“Just as I thought,” Nydia said, distracting me just in time before I dissolved into a puddle of panic. She read from the magazine: “Aries – you’ll find yourself on a real roller coaster ride this week as your emotions are pulledin a hundred different directions. Just hold on and everything will be all right, maybe even better than you imagined.”
“Ha!” I said without much enthusiasm.
Nydia tracked her finger down the page to her own star sign. “Gemini, nothing ever happens to you, get over it.” She read deadpan, pulling down the corners of her mouth.
“It doesn’t say that!” I laughed despite my panic and grabbed the magazine out of her hand just to double-check.
“No, it doesn’t,” she agreed, with a sigh. She crossed her legs and propped her chin in her hands. “But it might as well do. Nothing ever happens to me.” I put Cosmo down and looked at her.
“Nydia,” I told her, “I’d do anything to swap your life for mine. At least you have a proper family that actually like each other. Your mum and dad even still hold hands when you go out…” Nydia rolled her eyes
“Yeugh, I know. It’s so disgusting…” she began, but then saw the look on my face and stopped. “I know, I’m sorry. I know you’re having a tough week. Like the toughest week ever in the history of your life.” She thought for a moment. “Actually, I’m surprised your mum even let you round here tonight. I didn’t expect tosee you all week. I thought you’d be ‘talking it through’.” Nydia made inverted comma signs with her fingers and did her Trisha impersonation.
I thought about the look on my mum’s face when I asked her to drop me round at Nydia’s instead of taking me home after I’d finished at the studio.
“But I’d thought that we could have something nice for dinner – a Chinese or something – what do you say?” She sounded sort of desperate and hopeful. Not how a
Which is MY very first ever kiss with ANYONE and it’s NOT just anyone anyway, it’s JUSTIN, who I am so in love with that I nearly DIE when I look at him, never mind actually have to KISS him!
I mean, I’m glad I’m not getting fired from the show, of course I am. It’s just that when I was sure it was going to happen it seemed so important, as if it was linked up with the rest of my life. As if Mum and Dad being together and me being Angel were all somehow linked together. And so after Dad went I was ready for it – prepared.I was even a little bit relieved. In fact, the only reason I even went into work that morning was because I couldn’t stand the thought of being in the house.
“I didn’t see this coming,” I said after I’d filled Nydia in on the news. She looked as shocked as I felt.
“Hang on a minute, let me look at your stars,” Nydia said, pulling her mum’s copy of Cosmopolitan out from under the bed. I looked at the front cover as she flicked through the pages. ‘Teens who have plastic surgery!’ was one of the articles listed on the cover. I wondered if that was why Nydia had taken it; she was always going on about having liposuction and even if she was just joking, she read and watched anything she could find on the subject with dogged curiosity. It might have been that, or ‘101 ways to increase your cleavage’, although Nydia didn’t seem bothered about the size of her bust. What about decrease your cleavage? I thought. After all, how am I even going to be able to kiss Justin in the first place if I can’t get close enough to him to make lip contact, what with The Breasts getting in the way. And then there’s the whole nose and mouth placement and…and…and…
“Just as I thought,” Nydia said, distracting me just in time before I dissolved into a puddle of panic. She read from the magazine: “Aries – you’ll find yourself on a real roller coaster ride this week as your emotions are pulledin a hundred different directions. Just hold on and everything will be all right, maybe even better than you imagined.”
“Ha!” I said without much enthusiasm.
Nydia tracked her finger down the page to her own star sign. “Gemini, nothing ever happens to you, get over it.” She read deadpan, pulling down the corners of her mouth.
“It doesn’t say that!” I laughed despite my panic and grabbed the magazine out of her hand just to double-check.
“No, it doesn’t,” she agreed, with a sigh. She crossed her legs and propped her chin in her hands. “But it might as well do. Nothing ever happens to me.” I put Cosmo down and looked at her.
“Nydia,” I told her, “I’d do anything to swap your life for mine. At least you have a proper family that actually like each other. Your mum and dad even still hold hands when you go out…” Nydia rolled her eyes
“Yeugh, I know. It’s so disgusting…” she began, but then saw the look on my face and stopped. “I know, I’m sorry. I know you’re having a tough week. Like the toughest week ever in the history of your life.” She thought for a moment. “Actually, I’m surprised your mum even let you round here tonight. I didn’t expect tosee you all week. I thought you’d be ‘talking it through’.” Nydia made inverted comma signs with her fingers and did her Trisha impersonation.
I thought about the look on my mum’s face when I asked her to drop me round at Nydia’s instead of taking me home after I’d finished at the studio.
“But I’d thought that we could have something nice for dinner – a Chinese or something – what do you say?” She sounded sort of desperate and hopeful. Not how a
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