Page 61 of The Bad Mother's Diary

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See you at the end, lovely lady.

Suzy K Quinn xx

Monday June 8th

Eeek!

Brandi Facebooked pictures of me dancing on tables at the hen night.

Nick went mad.

He said, ‘You need to grow up, Juliette. You’re not a teenager anymore.’

I told him to go fuck himself. HE didn’t roll in until 4am and spent the whole day in bed, while Helen brought him iced teas and Alka-Seltzer.

By mid-afternoon, I got sick of her mooning over her little prince, so I took Daisy to Mum and Dad’s.

When I got there, Mum and Brandi were still in their dressing gowns, drinking Monster Energy cans.

Laura was at the library.

Callum had covered himself in toilet roll and was running around shouting, ‘POO MONSTER! POO MONSTER!’

I asked Mum if it was okay for her to be drinking Monster Energy, what with her diabetes and everything.

She said, ‘What’s wrong with it?’

I told her it was full of sugar and caffeine.

She said, ‘That’s why it tastes nice. Do you want one?’

I said, ‘Yes please.’

Callum got more and more mental as the afternoon went on.

It turns out Brandi had put a bit of Monster Energy in his Incredible Hulk cup.

She said, ‘Who’d have thought he’d be so sensitive? He has Coca-Cola ALL the time and it hardly affects him.’

Hung out at the pub drinking Monster Energy.

Laura came over in the afternoon with a homemade wholemeal banana cake. She’d spent the day studyingandbaking. Even though she stayed out until 3am too.

I don’t know why she bothers making healthy stuff for Mum. If it doesn’t say ‘Birdseye’, Mum doesn’t want to know.

We started talking about the wedding and Dad got all misty-eyed, saying his wedding was the best day of his life.

Mum said it was her second best – Brandi being born was her best. She apologised for not liking the days Laura and I were born. But apparently painkillers weren’t as good back then.

Was a nice day in the end.

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