Hidden Shadows

IV. DRAWINGS

Peter wakes up late at that Saturday afternoon, after lunch, peter tries to sneak up again into the cabinet and look for the notebook that he read last night. But suddenly he can't find it, peter panics while looking for the other parts of the room where possibly the notebook went. But he failed. Then he went to the dining area where he sees the the twins and notebook itself. They scratching it with their colorful pencils and crayons. Peter rushed to get it. "Hey you guys, what is that? Can i have that notebook? Where do you find it?" Peter asks.
"No, we are making a rainbow." The twins replied.
The writings on the notebook is starting to get fade because of colors covering it. Peter must get it before it become unreadable,
Peter grabs the notebook from the twins "hey let me have this first."
The twins cried, then susan rushed. "Hey peter, that's so rude of you. Leave that notebook to your brothers." But peter ignores and continue to grab the notebook from the twins. Susan stared at peter very strange.

As peter opens again the notebook, the pages is nearly to become a drawing notebook. But most of the writings is barely readable. He goes to the bathroom and opens the water and lets it flow from the bathtub while he sat on the toilet while reads the notebook again.

"January 25th

        Good thing i do my files early so i can catch up with the gang, i left my laundry to my assistant Lucy and gives a little tip for her. Her family was weird i guess she is too because of her gestures. But she is kind to me, kind to my co-workers. She works shifts, here in the office and i think she also works at a fast food restaurant at downtown. Her family lives very far from here, well her family story is still very strange. I don't really have an idea what happened to her husband but, other says he committed suicide. Well that's her story, better go to the restaurant now. The "gang" is waiting for me. "

The words bother him, everything went far on his mind when he saw the name lucy.
"lucy"? A very weird thing. And She is living very far from here?". Peter had doubts when he first wake up from this what he called "mess". And now he discovers this notebook of what supposedly contains something weirder. Maybe contains so much dipper about his allegedly "true life". So he continues reading.

" January 30th

            Wow, got my new "mercedez" car the company bought for me. Well i guess i got to pay those someday, well what happened for the last five days? Well, I discovered that my childhood friend is at town so i meet him up, we eat lunch and had fun together............... "

Then peter noticed that the tub was full and put it off and puts the shower on and continue reading.

"Well, yesterday i was invited in Lucy's house. Very far from here, about 2 hours drive, she invited me for a dinner with her family. Lucy had been working for almost 5 years in my office so she was attached to me now. Well i saw her parents. Their house was very cool, they live in a......."

And then the other parts of the page where covered by colorful drawing. He can't read the remaining sentences. He tried to scratch the color from the page but the result is it's getting worse. He destroys the whole thing. So it's impossible now for him to read the last remaining sentences of the page.

"Well i guess I'll continue to the next one"
then he proceeds to the next page when this time  The whole page is full of drawings, and the writings in now impossible to read. He finds a better way to read the writings even though it's covered with these drawings. He really wants to know more about this notebook that he knows belongs to him. Even though he can't read the remaining sentences, he is now well informed that there is something fishy going around the family and his. Peter thinks he can read the writings underneath the drawings by putting a light into the pages of the diary with drawings covering it, so he finds the flashlight that he used last night but failed to find it.
"Peter! Its lunch time! Come here let's eat!" Lucy shouted while finding peter. She finds him at the back of the house at the tool room,
"Hey, what in the hell are you looking for?"

"A flashlight. Uhhhh, do we have one?"

"Of course silly. It's in the room. Come, let's eat just leave it, I'll give it to you later"

Both of them went inside. And then eats lunch.

When

"What are doing in the bathroom with that notebook peter? Susan asks.

At this time peter looks susan. He was so nervous to tell what he reads in the notebook.

"Don't bother what you read on that diary peter." Lucy says.