Diary Of My Life 💋👏

Growing Up

A police car took Marcus and Ellie to the police station. The policemen were nice really. Ellie had explained that she wasn't a troublemaker or on drugs; she was angry because the owner of the music shop was making money out of Kurt Cobain's death.

The policemen thought this was funny and laughed, which made Ellie even more angry.
When they got to the police station, they were taken into a little room and a policewoman came in and started talking to them.
She asked them their ages and addresses, and what they were doing in Royston. Marcus tried to explain about his dad and the big think and Kurt Cobain and the vodka.
But the policewoman couldn't understand the connection between his dad's accident and Ellie and the shop window.
'He didn't do anything,' Ellie suddenly said. 'I got off the train and he followed. I broke the window. Let him go.'
'Let him go where?' asked the policewoman. 'We've got to phone one of his parents. We've got to phone yours too.'
The police telephoned Marcus's dad and Ellie's mum.

Then Marcus rang Fiona, but she wasn't in so he left a message on her answer machine.
They sat and waited in silence until Marcus's dad and Lindsey arrived.
Neither of them was in a very good mood. Lindsey had had to drive, because of Clive's broken arm, and she hated driving. His dad was in pain. He didn't look like a man who had had a big think or wanted to see his only son.
The policewoman left them alone and Clive sat down on a seat that ran along one side of the room. Lindsey sat down next to him. Marcus looked at his dad unhappily.
'He didn't do anything,' said Ellie impatiently. 'He was trying to help me.'
'And who exactly are you?'
'Who exactly? I'm Eleanor Toyah McCrae, aged fifteen years seven months. I live at 23 ...'
'What are you doing with Marcus?'
'He's my friend.' This was news to Marcus. He hadn't felt that Ellie was his friend since they got on the train. 'He asked me to come with him to Cambridge because he wasn't looking forward to talking to you.'
Marcus put his head in his hands. He was suddenly very, very tired. He didn't want to be with any of these people.
'I suppose you think all this is my fault,' said Clive. 'If I had stayed with your mother, you wouldn't be in trouble.'
'What are you talking about?' said Marcus. 'What's happened? I just got off a train.' He wasn't tired now, but he was beginning to feel angry. 'What's wrong with getting off a train? Ellie's crazy.

She broke a window with her boot because it had a picture of a pop star in it. But I haven't done anything. And I don't care if you left home or not. It doesn't make any difference to me. I just wanted to try and look after my friend.'
Ellie laughed. 'Cool speech, Marcus! Can we go now?'
'We have to wait for your mother,' Clive told her. 'She's coming with Fiona. Will's driving them up from London.' 'Oh, no,' said Marcus.
The four of them sat there staring at each other, like characters in a play without an ending.
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After the police had called Ellie's mum, she had called Fiona. Then Fiona spoke to Clive, then she called Ellie's mum and offered her a lift up to Royston with her and Will. Ellie's mum was an attractive woman in her early forties. She didn't seem surprised or upset about her daughter's problems.
When Will, Fiona and Ellie's mum arrived at the police station in Royston, Clive and Lindsey were staring angrily at Marcus, Marcus was staring angrily at the wall, and Ellie was staring angrily at everyone.
'Can we go now?' Will asked the policewoman.
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'Not yet. We're waiting for the shop owner to come. It' something we're trying here. Criminals meet the victims of their crimes, so they understand the effects of their actions.' 'Good,' said Ellie. 'I want to see what this person's like.' A nervous-looking young woman in her twenties was shown into the room. She was wearing a Kurt Cobain sweatshirt and lots of black eye make-up and she looked like Ellie's older sister.
'This is Ruth, who owns the shop. This is the young lady who broke your window,' said the policewoman.
Ellie looked at Ruth, very surprised. 'Did they tell you to look like me?' she said.

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'Do I look like you?' Ruth asked.
Everyone in the room laughed, including the police officers. 'You put that picture in the window to make money,' said Ellie, but she didn't sound as confident as before.
'Which picture? The picture of Kurt? That's always been there. I think he's great. Is that why you broke the window? Because you thought I was trying to make money out of Kurt's death?'
'Yes.'
'Today has been the saddest day of my life. And then a stupid little girl breaks my window because she thinks I'm trying to get money out of people. Just ... grow up.'