The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime

Dear Diary,

Today I went with Christopher to the bookstore and bought new math books

for him. I have not seen him for two years. That’s because I didn’t want to live

with Ed anymore. Ed and I had a lot of arguments about Christopher and me

getting cross. I got cross with him really fast when he screamed in shops and

wouldn’t stop. Ed was always very patient, much more than me, and, even though he

got cross sometimes, he didn’t show it. After a while, Ed and I didn’t talk a lot

anymore, because we knew it is going to end up in a huge argument. We met

Mr. and Ms. Shears a lot and I realized that I felt different for him than before. So that

I started meeting Roger on my own and he told me that he didn’t love Ms. Shears

anymore either. We met more often after a while and I didn’t talk much to Ed

anymore. I felt very lonely so that I decided to move to London together with Roger.

A few days later, I left Christopher and Ed back on their own and moved to London.

When I lived in Swindon I had a very hard life together with Christopher. He was

a very difficult person and I got cross with him a lot. When we went shopping and I

was talking to someone else and he sat in the middle of the shop in the way of

everyone. So that I tried to pick him up and move him but, as soon as I touched

him, he stared screaming and didn’t stop. He knocked over the mixers in the shop

and they fell down. I got even more cross with him because two of them broke and I

had to pay for them. After that I tried to get him out of the shop, and I noticed that he

had wet his self. And after that happened I also had to walk two hours home because

I knew he didn’t want to take the bus. At home, I told everything what had happened

to Ed but he said that it’s okay. But I said I couldn’t take anymore and eventually Ed

got really cross and told me I was being stupid.

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