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28TH AUGUST 2006, Well these past four days have been surprisingly - or unsurprisingly - eventful. Even it I have been grounded where supposedly I'm meant to stay in my room I manage to get out yesterday to see kalona. I could teach inmates a thing or two about escaping! I thought about going to a mates party but I decided against it after last time. I like to party and all and I can usually get away with it pretty easily but what happened the other night has shaken me. Sure I don't care to admit it to someone else but to this journal thing I guess I can. I'm always afraid. Under the jokes, the bravado I'm terrified that something I'll do will get one o my siblings killed. I just want to escape and it's the only way I know how - Logan has Luke, lily has a horse she shares with a friend or work and so why can't I have something without bein do scared? Maybe I should learn to lighten up, besides I take my phone everywhere with me and if lily or Logan needed me then I'd be there. No matter what.
Still I'm being gloomy, so unlike me. Kalona was pretty good the other day and I'm really looking forward to this show. I heard that its actually a qualifier for a hickstead class! Not the major derby but still it's a pretty big deal.. If we can qualify for it. I really hope so. I'm goin to get practising more as soon as I can get out of this stupid grounded thing. It's not like they really enforce it, they'll just smack or scream whenever they fancy it, they don't get the concept of grounding a kid. Besides they think it'll keep me in? Give over. Luckily mum and dad have been busy getting ready for the cousins, who actually got here today but I'll get to that in a moment. Oh I had great fun winding the rents up! Whenever mum put something down I'd sneak in and move it. It was driving her nuts but she deserved it. Course she blamed dad who just lazed about all day which was even more of a bonus. Still me, lily and Logan have pretty muh kept out of the way aside from my little mind game with mum yesterday. It's even been quite nice - the peace.
Right so. The cousins. Well they arrived this afternoon and though I've already had a tussle with Chris they're pretty cool. He tried to grab this journal when he came to put his stuff in my room and we had a bit of a scuffle but that aside he's pretty cool. He was talking pranks with me earlier and we've got a couple planned out actually. James seems alright but he's a bit quieter actually. Made me wonder if he's a bit like Logan. But actually he's lightens up quite a bit, and I think they're going to be a good laugh. Our dads seem to be the same though. Assholes. Which kinda make me feel for then and all, means we have at least one thing in common right? Still I haven't had much of a chance to get to know them yet but they seem alright. Haven't seen muh I Ashley - lily and her hugged said something about shopping and dissappeared to her room since. Probably talking about girl things like fashion or boys. Urgh girl talk.
I decided I'd take James and Chris to meet kalona tomorrow, they like horses apparently. Lily and Ashley can come if they want, I'm not fussed. At some point we'll have to show them the town and all, and I plan on getting them invited to a party before they go.. A bit of fun before they leave. I wouldn't be Leo if I didn't!
Dinner time, I'll update on events later tomorrow or something, we shall see ... I don't want them to catch me writing in here or they'll snag it and read it. Peace out!
24TH AUGUST 2006, so perhaps you're wondering why i havn't written in here for a few days. the answer is .. quite long and complicated but i guess i can take the time to explain it to you seeing as i'm GROUNDED and so i have nothing but time right now. okay well three days ago i met this girl. well i'd seen her around in school before, and hell i've eyed her up - who hasn't - but i've never really tried talking to her. i don't fancy it in front of those vultures she calls her friends that cling to her like frickin' leaches at all times. seriously why do girls always hang out in gangs!? anyway going off topic..
..so anyway i was walking into town to grab coffee, and well .. okay i admit i was skiving off my last lesson alright?! i do it every so often but come on, who needs a pass grade in P.S.E?! and i kind of bumped into her and well.. we got talking and she invited me to her party she was having the next day - which was two days ago see. so i said sure, and that i'd try and drag logan with me. that boy needs to get out more and meet some girls, it's obvious why he's so quiet and cranky half the time.
so the next night i knew my parents would never let me go, but hell this isn't the first time i've gone out without their permission, so i got ready and all then climbed out the window and down the tree in the front garden. it's not too hard - one of the thickest branches hangs right by the window and i've done it that way before. logan refused to come, even after i said i was going to put salt in his tea from now on if he didn't. his loss. drunk hot girls and alcohol.. what more could you want? i may be fifteen but i'm still a guy.
well anyway, i made it to her house easy, and i think i had a good time. i did drink rather a lot so the events are a bit on the hazy side, plus i don't want to give away too much but hell... i did more than talk to stacy Paunter that night... she was one gracious host... but yeah, and then i think i staggered home about 3..4am? i don't remember. but obviously, bein that drunk i wasn't too smart on the whole sneaking in thing. i tried climbing up the tree and well.. okay i failed i'll admit. and the noise got mum and dad up - and they were..furious. very very furious.
things got out of hand very quickly. dad was yelling at me about being irresponsible and stupid and he grabbed me. i was drunk and stupid and rather than being able to do what i'd usually do and protect the others and get out of these things. but instead i just kept being smart mouthed..and then.. he started hitting me. it was worse than usual because i was so .. out of it i couldn't defend myself and i couldn't hit back. the drink was starting to wear off a bit and i was getting angry too .. and mum was yelling and dad was trying to drag me inside.. and then lily and logan ran out. oh god lily ... she tried to stop dad. i've told her time and time again never to get in the way! and dad.. he wasn't thinking...thats what i tell myself. he wouldn't really hurt her like that otherwise surely... he let go of me for a second and backhanded her so hard she went flying into the wall of the house..
..it was...it was horrible. and stll the worse thing was i couldn't quite work things out in my head or move how i wanted..the alcohol had truly screwed with my head. i saw logan go to grab her and pick her up .. i think she lost conciousness. and then i remember yelling at him to take her away.. and logan ran for luke's. he used to do that once him and luke became close and luke knew the truth.. well most of the truth.. about our family. i ran after him, i knew if i'd stayed i'd just have been made dad's punching bag for the rest of the morning.
so yeah... we fled to luke's and by the time i got there logan had already set lily down in luke's room and she was coming round. i don't remember after that. i just about got to his room before i slid down the wall and lost concious myself. the drink did it mostly, but i couldn't feel how bad the beating had been then so i dunno..could've been that too? anyway... i woke up roughly around midday. i hate hangovers. with a passion. i made sure lily was okay .. luke didn't seem very happy at all... i think he blamed me but the thing is, he was right to. it was my fault.
i went home shortly after i woke up. i knew i had to face the music, it'd be bad enough. they didn't want me to go alone but i didn't want lily or logan to get hurt if dad flipped again so i went back by myself. dad was out, but mum took one pissed off look at me and told me i was grounded, and that if i ever did that again i'd get worse than just dad's fists. i pretty much ignored her, i don't hold her in high respect since she left us all those years ago, and pretty much holed myself up in my room wishing i could kind of forget what happened... but i can't, and lily getting hurt was my fault. which just proves how bad a big brother i am.
but yeah, that was yesterday - the coming back. i pretty much stayed in my room since then, i wanted to sneak out to see kalona but i havn't dared in case i got caught again... logan and lily came back some time last night and immediatly went to their rooms too after checking on me - probably to see if i was alive - and then it's been quiet since. mum and dad have left me be, and since i didn't go down for breakfast or dinner lily and logan snuck some up. i don't really want to see my parents right now. i'm too ... disgusted with them. especially with the way dad just..hit lily like that..and he didn't even care..the fact that they try to act parental as if they think they have a right. they don't, and one day i'm going to give them what's coming to them...
20TH AUGUST 2006, well i did survive, even if kalona wqas a little on the wild side earlier. he gets like that sometimes - edgy, difficult to control and unfocused - but usually after working him for a little while, he'll calm down and relax. thing was yesteray he wouldn't, and i got this bad feeling that something was wrong. he even tried taking off in a bucking spree when i asked him to canter, but i managed to yank his head up which stopped him. it's made me re-think that show in two weeks, but i don't want to pull out now. he'll be fine, it was just one of those days...
apparently our cousins are coming over from dublin or whatever next week. i'm not really that bothered about it - i havn't seen them since god knows when, mum said it was something about their dad being a tight ass but i wasn't really listening. the annoying thing is there's going to be a lot of room switching and the worse thing is i have to share my room with logan and the two guys - chris and james. i don't care about sharing with logan, but i don't know these dudes. they'd better not be annoying or snore. oh god if they snore i'm going to hit them on the head with a blunt object i swear. i like my sleep.
logan said he was just going to go off to luke's for a week - but mum and dad wouldn't let him. they were .. very clear on that. particulary dad. i had to drag logan out the room before the shouting became a fist fight. i might know how to throw a punch but logan doesn't, he'll just take it. i wonder what the cousin's will be like. i know there's ashley too, and she's rooming with lily - logan's room is going to be for the aunt and uncle i think. but at the very least, i'm so going to pull some pranks on the three of them...
19TH AUGUST 2006, excellent day! woke up to a weirdly scorching summer day! yeah i know, heat in england - rather a miracle. the others were already up, and mum and dad were out somewhere, i'd say work but i can't remember if they've been sacked from these one's yet or not. but that aside, it was boiling so, i decided to wake logan up by throwing water in his face. dude's normally well up before me, summer hols or not summer hols - i'm the one who sleeps til midday, he's the idiot up at the crack of dawn. but for whatever reason he was still asleep so.. i decided to give him an early morning shower. i would have paid to have a picture of his face right then.
well of course it turned into a fully fledged water fight! logan was originally aiming for me, but he got lily in the face with a water bomb so of course she came after us - and i managed to snag her for my team. she's got one heck of a good shot for a girl, and hell logan called up luke so it was two on two. we tried hard to keep it out of the house but then again i wasn't that bothered; i figured, if we got in shit for it then we got in shit for it, i'd take the wraith of the idiot if i had to.
needless to say i totally won the water fight, even if lily did betray me and join luke and logan's naff team. i don't know what they managed to say to persuade her to change teams, she was adamant on kicking their ass. she dissapears for five minutes while i pound logan with some water balloons, and comes back and squirts me with the hose! i've already set something up to get her back .. fifty water ballooons, all in her bed. she's always jumping onto it or whatever, and tonight when she does 'BAM' they're all gonna burst. that should be any minute now... oh wait, yep, that's her screaming aaaand cursing my name. revenge.. gotta love it. hopefully i'll live to see tomorrow.. i'm supposed to be going to see kalona. there's an end of summer show coming up that i think we'll be ready for...oh shit lily's banging on the door. she sounds piiiiissed...
17TH AUGUST 2006, So Lily got me this lame journal for my birthday yesterday - well our birthday seeing as the whole 'triplet' thing means i share it with her and lil' logan. I figure i may as well use it right? I'd feel bad if i didn't, she seemed genuine about it helping with .. organising your thoughts or whatever. She's far too organised, she need's to loosen up. But anyway, that's not really a very interesting subject is it. I guess i should tell you about myself, isn't that what people do in journals? Or should i get right down and dirty in my life's story? yeeeeeeah right. Down and dirty it is..
Sucks that the summer hols are almost over, going back to school this september hardly sounds appealing at all. Year eleven's going to be interesting though - GCSE's and all. I don't really care about them, i'll wing it .. i always do. Lily'll probably moan at me though so i guess i'll get roped into a bit of revision some time or later. Logan's not looking forward to going back either.. i havn't seen him around much. He's been hanging out with Luke a lot. Swear those kids are attached at the hip, and as much as that lucas kid irritates the crap outta me, i'm glad Logan has someone else to look out for him. I can't keep an eye out for him all the time; Lil's needs me too. She likes to think she can take care of herself, but she has no idea... she doesn't know the extent of what someone could do to her.. someone like dad.
Still at least going back to school means we'll get away from the folk's more. Sure, since mum came back last year things settled, but they're starting to stir again. The night before last was a bit... well it all started off fine. We were having dinner - me, Lily, mum and dad..and Logan was late. Mum poured some wine for dinner... she thought dad could handle it seeing as it had been months since his last drink... but it didn't take long for him to down the bottle, and then he started to get mad that Logan didn't show up. Mum was trying to sedate him, saying he was at Luke's, but dad got worse and mum did too - she doesn't really care about us, i doubt she ever really wanted us...
So when they started really yelling i just grabbed Lily and took her upstairs. She doesn't need to hear it, the yelling, and they were sure to start smashing china. So i made her go upstairs. She pretends she's okay but she's not.. i can see the fear in her eyes. I waited at the top of the stairs for Logan to come back, i didn't want him to get involved, and he turned up eventually. Dad stumbled down the hall to try and get to him but i got in the way and managed to shove him up the stairs and lock them both in my room - it's the only room in the house with a lock... i installed it last year in secret .. and luckily dad left us alone and slept it all off. Least things seemed to go alright yesterday. We all sat down for tea, and got a few things from them. But it wasn't very interesting a day.
Better quit while i'm ahead i suppose. I told a few mates that i'd play baseball tomorrow with them in the park and it's getting late. Hopefully those girls from the other day will be there again, they seemed rather impressed with me last time... maybe i can impress them again....