Even though Micky has a girlfriend, Marigold is still in love with him and obsessed with trying to win his heart again.

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Elsa in The Bed and Breakfast Star, Ruby in Double Act, and Tracy Beaker all become friends with groups of boys this way. As well as winning a truckload of awards, she was the Children's Laureate between 2005 and 2007, and was named in the 2008 Honours List.In The Illustrated Mum, Marigold obsesses over Mickey, who was at best a summer fling and doesn't show any interest in Marigold when they are reunited, only sticking around long enough to take her oldest child away from her and then disappear, leaving Marigold devastated and Dolphin forced to deal with the fallout. I try to have reasonably happy endings because I would hate any child to be cast down in gloom and despair; I want to show them you can find a way out of it.

Buncrana pier tragedy still echoing five years on Pain of Buncrana pier tragedy still echoing five years on

It is hinted he may have a crush on Pearl as he says that she is the prettiest girl in the whole school and at one one point, the two hold hands. Harriet, Sheba, Freya, and Clarissa - Pearl's friends, though Clarissa is sometimes mean about Jodie.The show however, gives a small introduction in the first episode before focusing entirely on her current life in the hospital. Sometimes the protagonists only see them as this because they are often made to look after them on their own. In The Suitcase Kid, Andy's stepfather Bill is likened to a baboon, with his hairy body and squashed, monkey-like face; Andy even thinks he has a large, red posterior like a baboon.