Getting Jack Back by Maddy Warnes (robert munsch read aloud txt) 📖

stomach and they want to check it out. 

OR...

it could be something to do with the information I have. Jack told me that he saw weight loss leaflets in her bag. Also, she thinks she heard us talking to her when we weren't. and that means...


From:

Bethany Wilson
To:

Jack Marshall, Aimee Scott
Subject:

RE: (No Subject)

She's a bulimic nutcase?????


(Jack)

Olivia Dean, 

when we were best friends, I swear we were telepathic. Please say you can hear me now. You are not fat. You are not fat. Stop doing this to yourself. You are not fat!!!

I know, I shouldn't have dumped you but it wasn't your fault and you don't need to punish yourself.

Please.


Stop.

16th March

(Olivia)

Weight: 7 stone 9 and a half

Calories: 490

Things eaten: Sushi, lemonade.

Emergancy call to the doctors today. Apparently there is something they urgently need to check up on. 

We were in the doctors waiting lounge and as soon as I sat down, everyone was whispering about me, calling me names. I tried not to listen but it just blurted out of me.

SHUT UP, ALL OF YOU SHUT UP!!!!!!

The doctor quickly rushed out and took us into his room.

"I got a call from a miss Aimee Scott today. She's worried about you, Olivia."
"what's she got to say for herself then?"
"Olivia! Don't talk to Dr. Clarkson like that!" Mum interrupted.
"Miss Scott claims you have been acting strangely  lately, just like you were out there. She told me that your friend Jack found some weight loss leaflets in your bag."
"little pikie. what was he doing going through my bag?"
"apparently you were being sick in the bushes."
"I was ill that day"
"yes, but since you came to me, apparently there has been more vomiting. and apparently you sent Miss Scott a note saying 'you don't have to tell me twice, I'm going'. Olivia, she didn't even speak to you."
"Yes she did! I'm not insane!"

Apparently I am insane.

Apparently I have scizophrenia.

Great.


[FACEBOOK]

From:

Lewis Reynolds
To:

Jessica Whitely
Subject:

Secret

I can't keep it a secret anymore. I have to tell someone. It's not fair on Jack


From:

Jessica Whitely
To:

Lewis Reynolds
Subject:

RE: Secret

No! Please, he'll kill me.

If you tell him anything I swear to god I will kill you.
 


(Jack)

What's up with Jess these days?

First Liv, now her. What is it with girls???

I need to call her.

Its creeping me out.

Hmm... text from Lewis...

'I need to talk to you'

hmmm... Later.

17th March

(Olivia)

Weight: 7 stone 9

Calories: 370

Things eaten: Tuna pasta, sycho medicine.

I'm insane. Quite literally insane.

I'm not going back to school. I'm going to stay at home like ordinary mentally ill people do. 

Jack says I'm beating myself up over something, but if I go back to school I'll end up beating someone else up. I know I will. I can just sense it. 

Mum wants me to get used to these tablets before I go back. I'll make sure that takes the rest of my life. I don't want to go back.

But I suppose with the medicine, I'm not insane.

There is method in this madness, though. If I be sick, then I'm releasing all the food I've eaten. Which means I'll get skinny and pretty just like Jess. Not that she's pretty.

I would never admit that.


[FACEBOOK]

Jessica Whitely

Told you she was a headcase!!!
Jack Marshall

That's not nice. She's been through a lot.
Jessica Whitely

Sorry Babe. Love you!!!


(Jack)

So thats what's up with her.

She's mentally ill.

Google: causes and preventions of scizophrenia

Ok so it can be caused by....

genes.

social isolation.

a bang on the head in childhood.

unwantedness.

oh no.

Her dad's gone away...

and she felt unwanted by me...

and jess's 'posse' didn't want to be around her.

Social isolation and unwantedness.

Oh no.

This is all my fault.

18th March

Weight: 7 stone 8 and a half

Calories: 1125

Things eaten: Coffee, soft chocolate chip cookie and 2 slices of meat lover's pizza.

The school and my mother have decided to put me on the dance commitee to keep me occupied and out of trouble.

I'm in year 10 for christ's sake! I don't need babysitting!

Oh well, Jack's on the commitee. He bought me a coffee from starbucks today. Caramel Cappuccino with non-fat milk. And, because it's jack, he had to get me a chocolate chip cookie, didn't he?

Oh well.

The dance is in 11 days on the 29th March and we still have to print tickets and stuff. I'm in charge of the design because I'm in the GCSE graphics group. Important job.

The theme is 'valley of the gods' and the hotel is going to look like a greek god's palace. You know, like hercules. Just, watch the film. 

Anyway, I thought I'd go as one of the muses in Hercules. That sort of look. It's not a costume party. 

Jack says that Jess is going in a skinny, mini, floaty purple dress which is supposed to look greek. Good luck with that one.

I'm going in an elegant white dress with a gold design on the waist. It's absolutely perfect.

Almost perfect. All I need is a man. 

And some shoes.


[FACEBOOK]

From:

Lewis Reynolds
To:

Jessica Whitely
Subject:

Dance

C'mon Jess!!!!

Please just dump him so we can go together. I really want to be with you, properly. For god's sake jess, you've been sleeping with another guy! You obviously don't like him!

Just dump the virgin. Please.

You know you want to.


(Jack)

That's good, she seems happy now. All she needed was a few tablets and something to distract her. She seems to be enjoying the creativity aspect of the whole thing. She always was like that.

She showed me the dress she's wearing. She told me she had to get down on her knees and beg for it. I laughed. It's a gorgeous dress, though. Sexy, but discretely sexy. Jess has gone for the more, LOOK AT ME, I'M A GREEK WHORE!!!! look. She'll still look fit, though. 

I wish Lewis would stop texting me, though. It's getting kind of creepy. He's all like, 'please text me Jack, there's something you should know.' 
Yeah, there is something that I should know. YOU'RE GAY that's what! well, that's what is sounds like. He hasn't got a girlfriend and he's been acting really strange around me these past few weeks. Honestly, bro, grow some.

19th March

(Olivia)

Weight: 7 stone 8 and a quarter.

Calories: 758

Things eaten: Prawn sushi, Tuna and Salmon sushi, wasabi, coffee, a LOT of grapes.

Dance commitee went out for some sushi for tea because we stayed back so late after the meeting. We are refined people, of ellegant taste and so we must eat sushi! and not those wubbish american dishes known as the mac of donalds!

Mum's really pleased about the whole thing of me not feeling ill anymore so she's decided to give me a big wod of cash to spend on this dance! Yaaaay! go me! So, How about shoes covered in diamontes worth £190?????

Nah, they won't go with my theme. I think I'll go for some gold coloured sandals. I've bought lily a little tiara online. I hope mum doesn't mind. I figured lily should look like a princess once in a while. We all should.

Jack has been really nice to me lately. It's nice, it's like we've gone back to how we were before we started going out. I can't help but want more, though...


[FACEBOOK]

From:

Lewis Reynolds
To:

Aimee Scott
Subject:

Help me

I know I haven't been the best of friends to you lately, but I really need your help. I've betrayed my best friend and I need help putting it right. Please help, please.


To:

Aimee Scott
From:

Lewis Reynolds
Subject:

RE: Help me

What did you do??????

I promise I'll help. no matter what it is.


From:

Lewis Reynolds
To:

Aimee Scott
Subject:

RE: RE: Help me

I slept with Jess Whitely


(Jack)

Things seem to be going better for everyone now. Liv is back to her old self, jess has laid back on the whole plan to make olivia's life a living hell. But that's probably because she's realised that Liv doesn't actually want to get me back.

Which is good.

We always were good as friends.

Liv as my friend was the girl I fell in love with.

Let's keep it like this.

and let's keep what I just said a secret.

20th March

Weight: 7 stone 8 and a quarter.

Calories: 110

Things eaten: coffee. I chucked all my other food away.

I don't need those sycho tablets. I'm not insane. I'm normal, I'm normal, I'm normal.

I got to the hall early for the commitee meeting. Bethany Wilson was in there. She saw me and smirked. 
"Look what the cat dragged in, crazy little liv"

"you're not on the commitee,"
"what's that in your bag? A box of sycho tablets? Poor liv."
"I'm not crazy!"
"Then why do you need to go and see the doctor then? Why do you need those tablets? Why have you made yourself sick? Because your insane,  That's why!"

And that's when I showed her. I don't need the tablets. I turned on the hot tap in Mr Logan's sink and sent those tablets down the drain.

"I don't need them." I smiled. She got the picture. "Now get out!"


[FACEBOOK]

Bethany Wilson

Olivia Dean is a psychopath do da, do da, Olivia Dean is a big fat skank, oh de do da day!


(Jack)

Olivia's been distracted today. She couldn't stop staring at the clock in Dance committee today. It's like she wanted to leave. I thought she liked being on the committee. 

She didn't come to dinner with us, either. Do you think it's me?

Have I done something wrong?

No, can't be.

I've been nothing but nice to her.

Ok, so jess has laid off the whole bullying thing.

So has Ryan. 

What about Aimee? Has something happened with them?

Maybe Liv was going to meet her afterwards.

Yes, that'll be it. You know what girls are like. Friends come first.

21st March

Weight: 7 stone 8 (FAT)

Calories: 69

Things eaten: some cheese. Which, of course, I chucked back up. Cheese is disgusting.

I went to the dress shop today to get a size. It turns out, a size 10 is too loose and an 8 is too skinny so I'm going to have to lose as much weight as possible in 8 days to be able to fit into it.

That shouldn't be too difficult. All I have to do is exercise a bit. And not eat much.

Method to the madness, method to