While she was cleaning…

VERONICA comes home to find MUM in the kitchen quietly giggling to herself.

VERONICA: Hi Mum.

MUM: Hello.  How was your outing?

VERONICA: Yeah, good.

MUM stifles another giggle. 

VERONICA: What’s going on?

MUM: It’s a shame you couldn’t help me clear out the basement today.

VERONICA: Why?

MUM: (putting large pink box on the kitchen table) Because you could have stopped me finding these.

VERONICA: (looking at the box in horror) Mum! NO!

MUM: I didn’t know you had kept so many diaries when you were younger.

VERONICA: (Trying to grab the box off her) Mum, come on, that’s not for people to read.

MUM: But it was down in the basement.

VERONICA: That doesn’t make it reading for the public!

MUM: I’m not the public, I’m your mother. (takes a diary out of the box) I thought this entry was really cute (reads) “Dear Diary–

VERONICA: Oh god.

MUM: (reads) ”We didn’t go camping today.  We might go camping tomorrow.  I asked Mum if we could go tomorrow and she said yes.”

VERONICA: Please stop.

MUM: (reads) “I’m so excited.  I can’t wait to go camping and go to the beach.”

VERONICA: Mum!

MUM: This is so sweet.

VERONICA: I don’t care.  Can I have the diary back please?

MUM: You can, but on one condition.

VERONICA: Ok, I will help you clean the basement next week.  I promise.

MUM: That’s not the condition.

VERONICA: What is it then?

MUM: I want to keep this (holds up a piece of paper with a decorative border around it).

VERONICA: (not recognising it) What is it?

MUM: It’s a letter you wrote.

VERONICA: (reads the letter to herself) Shit.  I can’t even remember writing this.

MUM: You did.  It’s addressed to a boy and you wrote your name on the bottom, see: “Love Veron–”

VERONICA: I see it, I see it.

MUM: Who was the boy?

VERONICA: Honestly, I can’t remember.

MUM: Well then, you won’t mind me keeping it.

VERONICA: Why do you want it so much?

MUM: I think it’s beautiful.

VERONICA: You’re not going to show it to anyone are you?

MUM: No. (pause) No one you know anyway.

VERONICA: MUM!

MUM: Ok, ok, I won’t show anyone.

VERONICA: Alright, you can have it.  Just don’t ever look in this box again.

MUM: Are their more letters like this in there?

VERONICA: Don’t push it mum.

MUM: Ok. Ok.  Don’t take it so personally.

THE END. 

 

 

 

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