Through The Dark

Chapter 8

    Meghan's POV

               I sit on the couch and turn on the t.v to the local news Channel. Politics and sports were at the top for today. I blankly stare at the t.v not accepting any of the words into my mind. I hadn't slept a wink the previous night. All the thoughts just danced around in me. I did not say it to my friends. I know they would be shocked. But there's a better way to find out. Finding out myself.

                 Stan came around with a diary in his hand. He sat on the couch next to me without taking his eyes off the pages. I bent my head down to see the cover. It was empty. Just brown sheet covered around it. He noticed  me confused and handed the diary over to me.

       "It's Donggeon' diary".

      I looked at him in shock.
    
       "Did Donggeon give this to you?"

  Stan stared at the ceiling and laughed.
    
        "Do you think she would even allow me to touch it?", he asked turning over to me.

        I blinked my eyes several times before I asked him,
   
     "Then.....did you steal it?"

"Mm...not really. You could just say that I found it by chance. But guess what."

     "what?", I asked rolling my eyes.

   "I found out all her secrets."

My eyes went wide as I turned so swiftly, I would've broken a bone.

     I went closer to Stan and whispered in his ears.

      "...........What.......secrets...?"

      Stan let out a laugh and said,
  
" It's not like what you think dumbhead. I meant the naughty secrets".

        I frowned at him as he frowned at me back.

     "You know what I mean."

    I kept frowning.

  "You know.....the things a teenager does in high school. I mean.....wait...no.....oh God this is just getting stupid. Just read it for yourself."

        I turned over the pages and read through the horribly written handwriting. She had mentioned about how she had been late to class and her teacher gave her a punishment which she repayed a while later by putting ketchup at the place the teacher keeps her nearly thousand dollar handbag at. Those kind of naughty things. I smiled as I went from page to page. She had also written about the Michael guy Stan had said. But that was less compared to the amount of moments she had written with Stan. Nearly 1 of every two pages would have the name 'Stan' in it.
        
           I came to the last page and found that the writing was stopped midway. It was the day we first met the masked man at the crowded streets. She described all that had happened that day including how Stan surprised her. The next thing came as a shock to me.

       "He was my first love but...."

...that was where she'd stopped.

       I looked at Stan and then at the diary  and back at Stan.
 
   "what?", he asked.

            I closed the diary and returned it back to Stan.

     " Nothing. You must keep it back from where you got it. It's actually not a very good thing reading someone's diary, you know". I didn't wanna tell him the last part. I wanted him to hear it through Donggeon's mouth.

     "Says the one who completed it without leaving an inch", Stan said grabbing it from me.

        "I didn't read it. I was just staring at the words. Hehe".