{Red Roses} ~Rafe Cameron~

8. Diary

Ophelia was sitting on her bed. Going through her moms book boxes. Her mother loved reading. She would read books to Ophelia every night. She would write notations on the side of the books. She would separate the books up depending on the different categories.

Ophelia opened a box that said 'favourites' on it. She ran her hand through the books which made a wirl of dust appear everywhere. She grabbed a book that caught her eye.

'Diary' was written on the front cover. It had dust all over it. Ophelia opened the book up slowly and started reading.

The first couple of pages were talking about some boy she met in high school. She skipped most of that. She didn't want to get into her mothers love interests.

Something caught her eye. It was a page with an old rose stuck in it. And it looked like blood was pouring out of it. She opened the book wider to take a look and saw a note.

'Dear diary it's getting worse, he threatened to kill me. I don't have the gold. I don't have it. Big John does. He doesn't believe me'.

Ophelia's eyes widened. What was her mother talking about?.Who threatened to kill her?. What gold?. The questions were buzzing through her head.

She quickly flipped the pages over and started reading the pages she missed. A lot of them were named 'ward' but who's ward?

'Dear diary, I met this man. He treats me so well. He makes me happy.'

'Dear diary, he seems a bit off. I went over to his house today but he wasn't there. He had papers all over his office. Some of them were talking about the royal merchant.'

'Dear diary, he yelled at me today. He told me I was being too clingy. He told me I was useless. He also told me he found someone new.'

Who was Ophelia's mother talking about? And why was she being threatened?. Ophelia skipped some pages to get to the back of the book. Which was the most recent diary entries.

'Dear diary, big john is missing.'
'Ward said he would kill me if I didn't tel my him were the gold was. He Came into my house today and beat me'

Ophelia suddenly remembered the day she came back from school. She saw her mother cleaning a cut on her face.
"Mom?" She asked
"Yes honey" her mother smiled at her.
"What happened to your face?" She asked softly
"Oh nothing dear. Just a scratch" her mother waved it off.

Was that the day Ophelia saw her mother cleaning her wound? Who was this ward guy. Who was big John?. Ophelia didn't know what to do. She told Dean that she was heading out for a bit. And left the house.

She held her mothers diary in her hand tightly and walked along the road to find someone.