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Tuesday, 9th August 2016 - They have discovered us

Tuesday, 9th August 2016 - They have discovered us

Dear Diary

Biscuit woke me up today, he seemed particularly happy, deciding to barge into my room at a time which was significantly earlier than most morning. I wonder what had made him so happy? I quickly got ready for school. The days were certainly getting warmer, so I dressed in appropriate clothing.

The school day mostly passed as normal. That is, until lunch time. Bear found me. She had something that she seemed desperate to tell me. Before she exploded, I allowed her to share her news.

She very quickly explained that, while she had been going through the audio logs from My Secret Admirer's house, he had revealed a few keys things. She played a short section of the audio log for me. It was the Admirer, talking about these listening devices that he had placed. While this did not initially reveal anything, it did make me a little nervous. Bear skipped forward to where he said the listening devices had been positioned. At my house. They were at my house. My house had been bugged. How did he do that? Not only was I sure that I had taken every precaution to stop something like that from happening to me, but how did he get the idea to do that? I had been doing this sort of thing for ages, and he had only seemed to start a week ago. This was his first time doing this, I was supposed to be better at him in every part of this. Unless... this wasn't his first time doing something like this. If he knew how to pull off an operation such as the one I was trying to do, his help could be invaluable.

But that wasn't the only piece of news that Bear had to share with me. She played another section of audio. This time, My Secret Admirer was explaining to somebody that we had given everybody codenames. Bear and I had not even talked about that at my house, we had discussed that at school, which must mean that not only has he bugged my house, but me as well!

Bear agreed to come to my house this afternoon to try and deal with whatever bugs that we could find, both on the house and on each other.

With this grim news, I went to the final council meeting at lunch, It was finally time for everybody there to find out who was on the council. It had taken literally a week to get to this point, and I had had just about enough of this waiting. Finally, after everybody had arrived, they started calling out who would be on the council. I was disappointed that most of the people who were picked for the council in the grades below mine were not the people which the more amusing names. The person picked for my grade was Him, Prey. My target. The person who had been voted in from the year above was one of the people with a funny name. At least they had that.

Finally, the last two positions were chairperson and secretary. The chairperson was some person that I had never heard of before, while the secretary was me. I was quite pleased, I had not spent the past week of lunch times completely wasting my time.

We were informed that the first meeting would be next Wednesday, and that we all had to attend. I soon left, and told Bear of this new happening.

The rest of the day of school went on with no more troubles.

When school was over, however, Bear and I raced over to my house. We had to see if what My Secret Admirer had said was true.

We changed into suitable clothing for crawling under a house, and began crawling through it, trying to find anything which might be out of place. It took almost half an hour, but we finally found one. It had been lodged into a piece of wood under the house, in a manner that would make it all but impossible to find for any person who wasn't looking for such a device. We both got out from under the house and went to my room to inspect it. We turned on all of the fans, and turned the music all of the way up, so as to drown out any noises we made. Hopefully, this way the listening devices that we certainly missed would not be able to overhear us.

It was a very small device, far more sophisticated than any such device that either of us had used. We attempted to locate a docking port, so that we could connect it to the computer and try to find some information from it, such as the technical statistics and what information of us that it had picked up. Unfortunately, we could not.

We reasoned that this was not the only device on the house, but it was the only one that we could find. Next we went through every article of clothing that I owned, searching for any sort of listening device. What we found shocked us. We found a bug on almost every single article of clothing. We had no idea how they got there, but we both knew that My Secret Admirer was far better at this game that even I was. Bear and I knew that we both had to choose what to do next. We figured that our options were to continue following who we were following now, to give up entirely or to both start following my secret admirer. Giving up was certainly not an option, and, while both of us following the Admirer might give us a chance, his supply of resources was just too great. We risked him finding out everything.

After much debate, we decided that the best option was to go into shut down mode. That is, appear to stop following anybody, and do it at a significantly lower level. We would retrieve all of our bugs and webcams, and delete most of our content. The next step of the plan was to see what My Secret Admirer does next. Of course, Secret Admirer did not seem to be an appropriate name anymore, however, we kept it. After all, changing it might make it seem like we were onto him. 

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