9STUART
TUESDAY 9 JUNE – 11:14am
It ’ s tense in here. The claustrophobia, monotony and boredom of our incarceration over the last couple of weeks is getting to all of us. Mealtimes are the worst. I don ’ t know who ’ s being more difficult, Nathan or Sally. Reasoning with a fifteen year old is proving to be as hard as reasoning with a frightened three year old, but he usually sees sense in the end. Hannah ’ s not letting us forget she ’ s here either. Every time she screams for her bottle the noise cuts through me like fingernails scraping down a blackboard.
‘ I don ’ t like soup, ’ Sally says, shoving her bowl away. I push it back. ‘ Don ’ t want it. ’
‘ Try and eat it, sweetheart, ’ Gabby says.
‘ Don ’ t want it, ’ she says again.
‘ Try a little bit for Mummy. ’
‘ No. ’
‘ Come o
