Amber's Diary||ONC-2022||

I found her diary among the dirt. I opened it to find this on the very first page.

"I have my secrets. But, they are not only mine. Also yours. I'll find it hard to remember things without you. You're my other half, my dearest diary."

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My most favourite thing, my most favourite friend is my diary. It carries most of my secrets. I'd trust it with my life. But always remember that you're just a proxy.

Opening you was my first mistake, writing is the second. But, the greatest mistake is hiding you in the safest place.

All of this happened because we live in a not so nice world.

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On an unfortunate day, the lab door was left ajar that evening as we came out of the washroom. I felt dreaded seeing one of my best friends lying dead on the concrete floor of the school's zoology lab. No evidence of blood or weapon around her. She lays alone as we four moved inside.

"I'll call the lab assistant-or-or someone else nearby," Jensy went rushing along the corridor.

"Don't touch her until someone comes," Reilly warned.

"I sat there with tears flooding over my face along with other three of my friends."

They took her to the hospital as we waited at Jensy's home for the post-mortem report.

It was acrylonitrile. The report said.

The zoology professor and the friends were enquired and yet no confirmation on what might've happened. But, at last it was written as a suicide until a complaint was filed.

But the four friends took their way of molding out the truth about the death of their best friend.

Why? Who and what is hiding behind? Let's dig up!

This story is my entry for ONC2022.