Dear Diary

"Talia Is My Diary"

Dear Dairy 12 - 03 - 1984
Hey Talia , my name is Andy , I'm 16 and I go to Westler High . My English teacher gave me this crappy journal of some sort for me to write all my thoughts and emotions , I guess it's to keep me company or something , since my dad had just died last moth and let me tell you since then everything has went south for me .
Well Good night .
Andy Rooks

                                                           06:43 am , Monday

" Andy , wake up !" shouts my sister from the bathroom . I silently sigh as I get up from bed . I sat on my bed and my eyes faced directly to the window in which I could see my neighbor , Tate's house , he is a weird kid from school , he is really quiet and always keeps to himself , I wonder if his English teacher also gave him a dairy to write in too .
He lives in a very wealthy family, but I suspect a lot of domestic violence goes on there , just two weeks ago I heard a woman's voice screaming and glass shattering from his house at 2 in the morning , he also has a lot of bruises around his legs , it worries me a lot , but anyway he is not priority right now.

"Come eat your breakfast honey !" says my mom from the pantry , looking for peanut butter. I slowly walk to the kitchen, trying to not believe that it's beginning of the week again . "Woah , what's up with you ?" says my sister ,while giving me the stink eye . I guess it was because ate her packet of chips yesterday.

"Anne , that is not how we talk in this house !" my mom snaps back at my sister  . Anne simply carries on and ignores mom , " I mean honestly, talk about the walking dead" she says as she continues to chuckle . " JESUS CHRIST ANNE , CAN'T WE HAVE A SMOOTH BREAKFAST WITHOUT YOU HAVING TO BE SO SASSY !" shouts my mother , at that point my mom was out of her seat ready to slap the living hell out of Anne . My sister was just staring at mom , speechless but as for me I saw it coming , since my father died my mom has been bottling up her emotions and keeping everything in and sooner or later she was going to explode and I guess it was today .

After eating breakfast I go back upstairs to shower and quickly change into my uniform for school , there was not enough time left it was currently 07:37 , after changing into my uniform I go downstairs to go say bye to my mom and sister , even though my sister didn't say bye back .

As soon as I am about to leave , my sister stops me . "hey kid , what's that in your hand , " I look to left hand to see me gripping tightly to my dairy ! I look up and tell her it's Talia , "Who's Talia ?" my mom asks . " Talia is my diary ." I race to the door and leave so I don't arrive to school late .

I get on my bike and start riding and to my surprise Tate walks up to me . " Uhh hey Andy" he says as he tries to catch up with me . " Oh hi Tate , what's up ?" I say trying to start a conversation " Nothing much really , I just wanted to ask if you would like to come to my art club after school today in room 68 ?" he says nervously , tightly gripping his backpack straps . " Uh Tate I would love to but I have volleyball practice after school today , I say to him , feeling really terrible. " No don't worry , it's rad ." he says with an awkward giggle . " I can come on Friday, I'm free ." I snapped back at him happily."Yeah cool that would be great ! " he says while he runs off to the bus "I gotta bounce ." "Ok that's cool , bye then" I reply to him . " Bye ." he says back .

Dear Diary                                                                                          13 - 03 - 1984

Hey there Talia , school is finally over and I'm at the newly built cafe a few blocks from school .I'm sitting with my two friends Jeannette and Claire . After this I'm gonna go back to school for volleyball practice at 15:00 until 18:00 . Ugh I honestly don't want to go , because our Volleyball captain this year is Candice Florelle , thinking about her makes me want to throw up , she is the rudest person I've ever met , she fat shames kids at school and is known as the bully around here and she always has her legs , rumor says she lost her virginity at 12 years old . Funny enough her Dad is a church pastor at the local church and her mother is an evangelist . If only someone could murder that child , my life would be so much better . Do not judge me Talia , my teacher said I must write my thoughts and emotions here , ugh what am I saying you're a diary. Anyways got to go .

Bye Talia
Andy Rooks

"Guys I gotta roll now, I have volleyball practice unfortunately  ." I silently sigh and roll my eyes . "Okay then , bye An ! " says Claire waving at me . " Love the new nickname Claire , " replies Jeanette " Me too ," I add . " Bye Andy , good luck with the Candice the Hoe " says Jeanette loudly . All three of us laugh , I then leave the cafe and ride my bike back to school.  I arrive to school and it's currently 14: 53 pm .

"Hey guys ," I say to my team . They greet me back .  " Where is Candice guys ? " I ask as I put my bag on the gym floor . " Not sure . " says my teammate Sally . " Yeah , she is always early to practice , I wonder where she is ." adds Margaret. An hour passes and she still didn't arrive so we decided to do practice without her . "Ok guys as the vice captain , I think we should carry on with practice today without Candice ." said Caroline . We all agreed .

After three hours , practice was done , I leave the school gate and realise that my bike was gone and my pad lock was lying on the floor . I picked up my pad lock "Shoot" I silently said to myself and then carried on walking back home and it was currently 18:03 and it was getting dark really quick , quicker than usual actually .

After twenty minutes of walking I finally got home as soon as I walk into yard I saw a policeman talking to my mom and sister on the porch , they looked like they were in distress and my sister was in tears . After my mom and sister finally realise I was back they come running to me , my sister starts hugging me so hard I went blue in the face . My mom held my face with a tight grip and she looked me dead in the eye and asked me " Where have you been Andy, you took so long ! " said my mom frustrated wiping her tears away . " I only took long because I had to walk because someone stole my bike , you didn't need to call the police .

My mom and sister froze for a moment. The police officer walks up to me . "Hey kiddo."
said the police after a long sigh . "Your friend , Candice Florelle has been confirmed dead ." My jaw dropped from disbelief . "What do you mean dead ? I ask . "Well she was murdered at the Houdeville park near your school at around 14:30 ." he said with his hands in his pockets . "I came here to inform neighbors near the park who could have possibly seen anything." he said " Have you happen to have seen anything off today or know anyone who would do something like this ?" "Uhm no Sir ." I reply trying to swallow something . The police thanks me and leaves the yard and gets into his car.

As soon as I get into my room to think about what just happened and then I suddenly remember what I wrote in my diary . No , no , no maybe it was just a coincidence or ....