I don't know where our conversation ended last night, but I only know that when I woke up, I was lying alone in front of the bathroom, still covered with a blanket that reached up to my neck. I looked around and see the shadow of someone sitting next to the bed in the bedroom area, doing something suspicious. So, I quietly get up to take a look.
"What are you doing?"
Sigh!
Miriam, upon hearing my voice, quickly hid the box of secrets behind her, like a child caught by her mother stealing a Chanel lipstick to play with.
"N... Nothing."
Her sweet eyes looked at me in shock before she quickly turned her face away, as if she's embarrassed. Her behavior different from last night, so I could imagine that she had sobered up. But I wasn't sure if she remembered what we talked about last night.
"Nothing? I can clearly see you rummaging through someone else's secret box."
"I wasn't looking at someone else's secrets! I'm looking at mine!"
I almost burst out laughing when the little girl replied. She must have been shocked, realizing what she had written there.
"But that also means you peeked into someone else's secrets."
"Even if it was written by someone else's, you wouldn't know who wrote it."
"So, how was it?"
"What do you mean by how was it?"
"Did you find your paper?"
Miriam looked like she's about to cry, and I had to turn away, afraid she would find out that I was the one who took all those secrets. The fact that Miriam couldn't find her paper meant that someone had already taken it and destroyed it. Now it's just a matter of guessing who among the three of them had taken their own paper.
"Well... I found some."
"That means no one else knows your secret. Congratulations."
"What are you guys talking about so early... Oh! Mi! You sneaky cheat! You peeked into someone else's secrets!"
Jupjang, who had just wake up, run over when she sees the box of secrets in Miriam’s hands and snatched it from her in shock.
"You witch! According to the rules, we have to destroy the secrets when the game ends! Whose secrets did you read… Oh my God, you opened almost every page!"
"I wasn’t looking at anyone else’s secrets! I was looking at my own!"
"That’s still looking at someone else’s secrets, you demon! Alright, then I’ll read them too, to be fair."
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Thud!
Before Jupjang could do anything, the box is snatches away by Oa, who has wake up just in time to hear everything. She grabbed the papers from the box and stuffed them into her mouth.
"What are you doing?"
Miriam looked horrified when she sees her friend doing this, before receiving a muffled reply from a mouthful of paper.
"Destroying secrets."
"Wouldn’t it be easier to flush them down the toilet?"
"Yeah, you’re right."
"You guys are hilarious,”
I said, hugging myself as I couldn’t hold back my laughter. The scene in front of me like three wild-haired people from a jungle tribe, half asleep, arguing and chewing on paper instead of breakfast.
