Caramel's diary-Caranilla (M)

Dear Diary,

Hi, I'm Caramel. I know, it's a weird name but you are a diary, you're not supposed to laugh like the others do. Basically, this bit is about me:
-Me and my family and this other family share owning a sweet shop
-My family includes me(Caramel, 13), my older sister (Valerie(Val) 16), my dad and my mum
-I love baby blue
Ummm....I think that's it. Anyway, I need to go to the bakery now.

P.S. The sweet shop is shared ownership with a girl called Vanilla's family.

Thursday am

Ok, I'll carry on explaining quick. Basically, they opened the shop but then we asked to share ownership later. Oh yeah, just saying, Mum says I should make friends with Vanilla but, I'm not so sure. My best big sister, Val, has actually already made friends with Vanilla's older sister, Sugar! BooHoo! Anyway, bye!

Thursday, after school

Today, my BFFs weren't here. I miss Blaise and Xanthe! :( They are my absolute best friends! At least I can text them! I had to do my homework straight away and got a page full of ✔s! :) Oh, and we moved seats today. Guess what! I'm next to Vanilla! (Groan)

Hmmm.....

Friday, after school

What's going on?! Today I left my lunch at home so I thought I was going to starve. Then, Vanilla saw me and came over. She shared me some of her chocolate sandwiches and homemade marshmallows. I ate some and then thanked her. Vanilla then left. That was so awkward! Things are really weird which makes it really hard when we have to work together at making the sweets for the sweetshop. I've seriously got a cut on my lip because of my terrible lip-biting habit.

Saturday, am

We're helping out at the sweet shop today but I don't want to go. WHat should I say?...This is what happened:
Me: Oh! I just remembered! I've got this homework to do!
Vanilla: Have you? Ms Harris said you'd handed everything in.
Me: No. I have to edit the things I got wrong in my maths assessment.
Vanilla: But you didn't get any wrong.
Me (panic): No, I didn't. But there are these strategies I could have improved on. Anyway, whatever! I just can't go. Bye!

Actually, I had nothing to improve on so I stayed at home drawing. I took out a doggy-decorated notebook and baby-blue pen and started designing. I drew a polka dot dress, and then decided to add on a character. I was the best at art but for some reason, I drew a sad person. It looked a lot like...oh my gosh! It's Vanilla! I drew the hurt expression on her face when I said 'Anyway, whatever! I just can't go.'. She's haunting me!

Monday, after school

No, me and (V)Vanilla are definitely friends. Like, I played with my BFFs Xanthe and Blaise but then I saw V getting, what looked like it, bullied. By her so-called BFFs, by the so-called Miss Populars, Capri and Cassia! Willa, of course, was doing her best to stand up for V but wasn't doing very well. Therefore (note my choice of excellent words, heehee)I went in.

"Hi Populars!" I teased, because technically I was the most popular one in class. Brainy, pretty, perfect, popular, if I do say so myself (teehee). "Hi Caramel. I mean, Miss A+ and the 3 Ps!" they gushed in unison. I nodded my head curtly and answered, "Yes, now leave the poor girl alone. Yes?"
"Yes, Miss!" they exclaimed delightedly, completely not sarcastically. I looked at Vanilla and she looked at me. "Are you ok?" I asked. She nodded, picking herself up with the help of me and Willa. Vanilla had a few cuts and grazes from when the Populars pushed her but apart from that, it was inner pain. I led her home, which was next door to my house.

It was when she was in my room she cried it out. "I thought they were my friends!" she said between sobs "But they betrayed me! They pushed me when they knew I had a sprained ankle! They said those hurtful words when they knew I was upset. Why?! Why Cassia and Capri?!" she wailed on. She was stroking Saskia, her puppy, as she cried. Finally, she finished, thanked me and we shook hands. "Best friends." we formed the Caranilla. Caramel and Vanilla.