My Bad Boy's Diary

~One~ the diary

My hands shook as I turned the oddly oily pages.

I couldn't believe what I had found.

In the cemetery, no less, as I was out on my Sunday morning walk with Styx.

It was lying right there in the path, clearly having dropped out of someone's backpack or coat pocket. It was a chilly fall day and the school was only a few blocks down the road, so teenagers like myself often haunted the peaceful wooded cemetery.

I'm a naturally curious person, to the point of being a little obsessive about secrets and mysteries, so I snatched the old book right up.

It was clearly a journal, bound in brown leather. It didn't have a lock or anything like that, so I opened it.

It was dated a few years back, I saw as I scanned the first page. Then my eyes widened as I read the inscription beneath the date.

'2009

If You read this

You will die.'

I had immediately slammed the book closed and stuffed it into my own jacket pocket. I glanced around but saw no one. Then I had run home with Styx as fast as my legs would carry me.

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"Brooklyn."

My mom called my name, but I went blazing by on my way up the stairs.

"Cant talk right now, Mom! Gotta study for a big test!" I prided myself in not being a liar, but right then I would have said anything to be left alone, just long enough to get the journal somewhere safe.

Slamming my bedroom door, I locked it then went to the window and drew down the blinds. That was key, considering who my neighbor was.

I tore off my jacket then sat down on the floor with my back to the side of my bed.

Here I was, holding the leather bound journal. The material reminded me of the leather jacket he often wore...

My hands were shaking so bad, I could barely open the darn thing.

Once I had managed the task, I stared down at the warning on the first page again.

I knew whose diary this was.

I knew that handwriting and the twisted mind behind it.

Dalton Patricelli.

My neighbor, my tormentor, the biggest, most clichéd jackass bad boy that you will EVER meet, and my life-long crush.

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