Nick and Pat's diary Chapter 1

Chapter 1

A CAR

Hi! My name is Nick. We are a family of four: Mum, Dad, my sister Pat and me. I'm thirteen years old, and my parents have got a lot of problems with me. But when I was younger, they had even more problems.

The first problem appeared when I went to the kindergarten. I was three years old then.

On my first day there I met a boy. His name was Bob. Bob liked toy cars. There were some small toy cars in the kindergarten, but Bob always brought his cars from home. They were bigger and more beautiful.

You must know that he never played with his cars. He didn't ride them on the floor like other boys. He liked hitting other child- dren with them. Usually he hit us on the heads. I don't know why, but he liked my head most of all.

At that time I was very quiet.

I couldn't fight or hit people. But I liked my head too. So, when he hit me, I usually started crying like a girl.

One day Dad saw a big bump on my forehead and asked: 'How did you get this??

I told him about Bob. Suddenly

Dad's kind eyes became serious and he said:

'You mustn't cry! You must fight back!'

'But I can't hit people,' I said and started crying again.

'You are a man! You must learn how to fight!' Dad cried.

The next day I went to the kindergarten again. When I came into our playroom, Bob ran up to me and hit me again with his car.

I looked around. All the toy cars in the room were smaller than his, and I needed a bigger one.

I looked and looked and saw Annie. She was the cutest girl in our group. Annie was in the big car.

You know, we all loved that car.

You could drive it. There was usually a big queue next to that car because everyone wanted to drive around the playroom. But it was too early, and Annie was alone.

Now I knew what to do. I went up to Annie and said: 'Please, Annie, please! I want to be a man.

And a real man needs a big car.

Give the car to me.'

I don't know why, but Annie started crying and got out of the car. But I didn't get in the car.

I lifted it. It was very difficult because the car was very heavy. But

I lifted it, went up to Bob and said:

'I'm a man. I'm here to fight you back!'

When Bob saw me, he dropped his toy car and started running aroand the room and calling his mummy. I looked around, but there was no Bob's mummy. So I asked him: