Mummy made dad lock his door, while we were driving, and she made me to lock my door too.
It got more darker as we went.
This is what I saw while we drived through the center of the city, out of the window. I saw a beardy man who ran out when we stopped at the lights and ran a smeary cloth all over our windows.
He winked at me through the window, in the back of the car, with his old eyes.
Then he wasnt there anymore, and mummy and daddy had an arguement about who he was, and whether he was good luck or bad luck. But not a bad arguement.
Their were more signs that said DIVERSION, and they were yellow.
I saw a street where the prettiest men Id ever seen blew us kisses and sung songs, and a street where I saw a woman holding the side of her face under a blue light but her face was bleeding and wet, and a street where there were only cats who stared at us.
My sister went loo loo, which means look and she said kitty.
The baby is called Melicent, but I call her Daisydaisy. Its my secret name for her. Its from a song called Daisydaisy, which goes, Daisydaisy give me your answer do Im half crazy over the love of you it wont be a stylish marriage I cant afford a carriage but youll look sweet upon the seat of a bicicle made for two.
Then we were out of the city, into the hills.
Then there were houses that were like palaces on each side of the road, set far back.
My dad was born in one of those houses, and he and mummy had the arguement about money where he says what he threw away to be with her and she says oh, so your bringing that up again are you?
I looked at the houses. I asked my Daddy which one Grandmother lived in. He said he didnt know, which he was lying. I dont know why grownups fib so much, like when they say Ill tell you later or well see when they mean no or I wont tell you at all even when your older.
In one house there were people dancing in the garden. Then the road began to wind around, and daddy was driving us through the countryside through the dark.
Look! said my mother. A white deer ran across the road with people chasing it. My dad said they were a nuisance and they were a pest and like rats with antlers, and the worst bit of hitting a deer is when it comes through the glass into the car and he said he had a friend who was kicked to death by a deer who came through the glass with sharp hooves.
And mummy said oh god like we really needed to know that, and daddy said well it happened Tanya, and mummy said honestly your incorigible.
I wanted to ask who the people chasing the deer was, but I started to sing instead going lah lah lah lah lah lah.
My dad said stop that. My mum said for gods sake let the girl express herself, and Dad said I bet you like chewing tinfoil too and my mummy said so whats that supposed to mean and Daddy said nothing and I said arent we there yet?
On the side of the road there were bonfires, and sometimes piles of bones.
We stopped on one side of a hill. The end of the world was on the other side of the hill, said my dad.
I wondered what it looked like. We parked the car in the car park. We got out. Mummy carried Daisy. Daddy carried the picnic basket. We walked over the hill, in the light of the candles they set by the path. A unicorn came up to me on the way. It was white as snow, and it nuzzled me with its mouth.
I asked daddy if I could give it an apple and he said it probably has fleas, and Mummy said it didnt. and all the time its tail went swish swish swish.
I offered it my apple it looked at me with big silver eyes and then it snorted like this, hrrrmph, and ran away over the hill.
Baby Daisy said loo loo.
This is what it looks like at the end of the world, which is the best place in the world.
There is a hole in the ground, which looks like a very wide big hole and pretty people holding sticks and simatars that burn come up out of it. They have long golden hair. They look like princesses, only fierce. Some of them have wings and some of them dusnt.
And theres a big hole in the sky too and things are coming down from it, like the cat-heady man, and the snakes made out of stuff that looks like glitter-jel like I putted on my hair at Hallowmorn, and I saw something that looked like a big old buzzie fly, coming down from the sky. There were very many of them. As many as stars.
They dont move. They just hang there, not doing anything. I asked Daddy why they weren’t moving and he said they were moving just very very slowly but I dont think so.
We set up at a picnic table.
Daddy said the best thing about the end of the world was no wasps and no moskitos. And mummy said there werent alot of wasps in Johnsons Peculiar Garden of Lights either. I said there werent alot of wasps or moskitos at Ponydale and there were ponies too we could ride on and my Dad said hed brought us here to enjoy ourselves.
I said I wanted to go over to see if I could see the unicorn again and mummy and daddy said dont go too far.
At the next table to us were people with masks on. I went off with Daisydaisy to see them.
They sang Happy Birthday to you to
