A Dangerous Secret Revealed

Chapter 14

"Okay, training is over! Go to your rooms. You have free time until 12:00. If you didn't finish 10 steps, tomorrow you can continue," Amira announced.
That's good. I was getting bored. I had actually walked 10 steps backwards.
"Hey, Lois. How much steps did you walk?" I asked her on the way to our bedrooms.
"Uh...5. You?"
"10. Steffi, how about you?"
"Whaaaat?? 10! How do you do that?" Lois exclaimed.
Shrugging, I replied,"Laughing helps."
"Yeah, Amira told me.... Steffi, how many steps?"
"7"
"Oh, I suck at this."
"Nah, Fire Eyes is pretty hard."
"Maybe."
I went to look for Joan. Maybe she's in the bedroom.
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"Joan. Hey," I saw her lying on the bed. She's not sleeping.
"Heyo, so how did training go?"
"Okay, it's normal....."
"Oh..okay... Hey, can I ask you something?"
"Sure. What?"
"Have you been having visions lately?" What a weird question.
"Um, no. Why?"
"Uh...I've been having them."
"Ohhh...what kind of visions?"
"Random. Sometimes, about Grazilda. Or a pig."
That's bad. "You wanna tell Amira?" I suggested.
She shook her head. "No way!"
"Okay... What do you want to do now? We've got free time until 12, and it's still 10:00 now."
"I don't know. I don't feel like exploring. I just wanna lie down on my bed. Why don't you call you mom?" Oh, yeah...
"Right, okay."
I contacted her, but she's not answering. I tried again. Still not.... Maybe she's just really busy.
"I can't contact her. Something's wrong."
"Nah, she's just probably not wearing it. Don't freak out. Call her another time."
Maybe. But I gotta bad feeling.
After a few minutes, I said to Joan,"Hey, do you want to...explore the mansion?"
"Uhh...not really... I just feel like..."
"Aww.. Come one, it will be fun!"
"Fine, let's go. If we get lost, AGAIN, this is your fault ths time."
"Yeah, sure. Let's go."
When we got outside, Joan asked me,"So, where do we go?"
"I dunno. Just roam, explore.....Get to know Mr.House..."
We walked and walked until we ended up in a library. There were so many books!
"Joan, this library is so cool!"
"I know... Let's see if they have the books that exist on earth."
Every book we saw was unfamiliar to both of us, and it doesn't exist on earth. The stories were interesting and unusual, though. I wonder if we are allowed to borrow them.
"Oh, hello. You can borrow books, if you want," Someone said. It was one of the men in black.
"Uh, okay Mr...?"
"Peterson. Just call me Ezra."
"Okay, Ezra."
"You know, Spunky books are different."
"How?"
He took one book from the shelf. "Read this."
"Okay...." Looking at the pages, I realized that there were no words in them. "But there's nothing inside!"
Ezra laughed. What's so funny?
"That's not the way to read Spunky books." Then how? "Here, let me show you." Ezra took the book from my hand and closed it. He turned it upside-down. So...they read books by turning it upside down? He opened them again. And closed it. Then open again. He gave it back to me.
"Oh, that's weird."
"No, we think that humans read in a weird way."
"What are you?" Okay, that's a rude question, if you ask a human, anyway.
"Half -Takinyo and half-human."
"Hey, do boys also use wands?" Joan came out of no where.
"Yeah. So weird, I know."
"What color is your wand?" Joan asked.
He hesitated... "You don't need to know," He said.
"Aww.. Come on. Tell us. What color?" Joan insisted.
"Ugh...Pink." Joan and I laughed. Pink? Who would give there son pink?!
"The wand store ran out of boy colors! And my mom had no choice but to buy me a pink one!" He walked away.
I raised an eyebrow at Joan.
"He'll get over it."
"Yeah...hey let's look at the last shelf. Maybe it has books from earth," I told her.

The last shelf had the least amount of books, but it has books from earth.
There was this book that kept getting my attention. I decided to check it out.
When I took the book from the shelf, I realized that it was a diary! Same, exact colors, exact size! Yes, Grazilda's! So there are two!
The moment I held the book, something wet was dripping in my foot. It's red! Blood? I turned around to look.
I was still in the library. A portal that was made of large pieces of French fries!! The thing that was dripping on my foot was tomato sauce!
I decided to try a piece. When I took one piece, everything vanished. My foot was no longer red and wet. Only the piece on my hand remained. I took a bite. It tasted good!
"Hey, where did you get that? Is there a small French fry store here somewhere?" I recognized the voice. It's Joan.
I looked around to see if anybody was here. Ezra wasn't here anymore. "I have to tell you something. Not here. "
Joan noticed the book I was holding. "Is that...?" She whispered. I nodded.
"Come on, I have to tell you something important. And I need to bring this book."
"Where will you hide it? I'm sure Amira won't let you borrow that if she sees it."
"I dunno. You have a jacket or something?"
"Never mind. Let's just walk very fast and go to our bedroom. Do you know that way?"
"Yeah, I finally got used to this place."

We checked if anyone was standing at the entrance. The path was clear. We tried our best to hide it.
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"What's so important?"
"Wait, shh." I locked the bedroom door and sat beside Joan.
"What is it??" Joan asked. I told her what happened.
"Wait, French fries?"
"Yes."
"I wish I was there when it happened so I could eat it."
"Joan, the problem is that we don't know who made the portal appear and disappear!"
"I don't know. Why don't we read the diary?"

I opened it the same way I opened Mom's diary.
It turns out that there were really no words inside. Except for the last page. The writing was in big, bold letters:
I WILL KILL YOU. ---Grazilda
Okay...
"Come to the dining hall now, please." It's Mr.Butterman
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