I'd thought of that too. I'd thought about telling about Robert before, and him saying he was going to go into Peppa's room and him hitting Maw and being drunk and stoned all the time. But I knew the first thing that would happen would be he'd get arrested and we'd get taken and split up because that was what always happened. Plus nobody would believe Maw didn't know and she might get charged with abuse or neglecting us and go to jail. I had read stories about it on news websites, where the mother got charged and went to jail and the stepdad went for longer because he was the one who did all the bad stuff like killing a baby or starving a little girl, but they said the mother let it happen and she got done too. They always blame the mother of any kid who gets abused or hurt, but it is always the man who does it.