Diary entries from the perspective of the main characters in Face.

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“Face” Diary entries.. June 2009.

Natalie’s Diary.

I can’t believe that the boys were so stupid as to look into the front window tonight! I was so scared

that dad would see them; thankfully, he didn’t. I told mum and dad that I’m going out with Louise and

Emma from school. I was so worried that they wouldn’t believe me that I bit my nails right down to

the quick.

Later on in the evening when we were out by the chicken shop, so scary-looking girls came up to me,

 they were wearing Jamaican t-shirts- well two of them were- the other girl was wearing a west ham t-

shirt. But they all had yellow, black and green jewellery on. Anyway, they then started talking about

this club- Dance Mania- and then I realised that they wanted to see if I really was an East-London

girl! That got me thinking, do people have to always be smiling to seem friendly?

After walking around the streets for ages, Martin wanted to know what the girls had been talking to

me about. He then said that he didn’t know that I had black friends. I could have slapped him for

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being such a racist git! And after convincing him to come with me to the club, he really impressed me.

He was dancing like I’ve never seen him dance before! All gymnastic moves, back handsprings and

cartwheels! I’ve never been more proud of him and he knew it! At times I wonder why I love him,

and times like this remind me why, he loves me and will anything to make me happy.

Later on he got into a bit of an argument with some guy in the club. As soon as I saw them, ...

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