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chapter three. (you made her like that )
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WHEN SALEM WAS TWELVE, she found a diary. It was nearing to her thirteenth birthday, a few days prior, when she had been roaming the library and stumbled across something that certainly didn't belong amongst the scrolls of text that were decades old, and that journal was not.
Salem wasn't the nicest child. Burned with indignance, Salem became cruel in her wrath. A part of her wondered if it was out spite, angry at the world and all its wickedness, or if it was a simple desperation to be noticed. If it wasn't through her parents, then it was from teachers, students, her friends. Salem was careless of it was positive or negative - she just yearned to be seen.
She'd tease people on the basis of it was a 'joke'. She'd brazenly laugh a the expense of someone else's embarrassment. She wasn't a nice child. Her First Year at Hogwarts was a majority of letters being sent home and detentions with her Head of House who fought painfully hard to decipher the inner workings of her mind. Salem never allowed him to.
But then she had found that journal and everything seemed to deteriorate around her. She'd been pleased at her discoveries at first, eyeing the initials inscribed onto it maliciously — hopeful to find some blackmail-worthy information. Yet the pages were bare of anything interesting, and if Salem hadn't filled her other journal to the brim with doodles and intricate pieces, she would've tossed it for someone else to find.
She ignored the engraving of the initials T.M.R on the cover of the journal. Whoever they were should've learnt not to leave their belongings in places where people could easily take them — like Salem was. Like said before, Salem was a cruel child. So be it if someone went looking for the journal; it was her's now, and the clean condition was only a pro of her findings.
