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"Are you always this forward?" He asked teasingly since it would be a very short thread if he just ignored her entirely. — Tobin Cartwright in Take A Peek
Did you know? Churchgoers and worshippers had to endure a foul stench during prayers due to the amount of bodies often stored within the vaults of churches and chapels.
Someone suggested that I write down my experiences, good and bad. The thing is, I don't want everyone to know whatever dark, deep, secrets that they think i may have; being a half-vampire and all. I still can't believe my father didn't tell us about our heritage until a month or two before Acacia started Hogwarts. And then didn't tell Orinda or Dunston. Sorry, I shouldn't bring up the past like that. It's just... it just still makes me so frustrated!
Okay, so I guess I shouldn't try to write like I don't want to get my thoughts out. Maybe I could pretend that whomever is reading this (who isn't me in the near future) is either a decent looking to learn more about their half-breed ancestor or maybe it's me, when i'm old and can't remember what the times where like when I was four-teen or in 1886 and on. Hopefully, if that's the case, then I still remember what I did yesterday.
So, Future me or Descendant, last month, my sister (Acacia) and I had a chat. We really haven't had a chat like it since then. I mean, we both avoid, rather clearly, talking about what we didn't want to talk about. I finally got her to talk about what she was worried about, after telling her about... my own experiences... And I'm worried about her – probably just as much as she is about me, but I don't want her to worry about me; she's the one who keeps seeing her 'lover' at school – she tries to go through everything alone, when she knows I'm here for her, even if I wasn't there for her over the summer. It's something I regret profusely.
If you're me, and you don't remember, shame on you. Forgetting something you and your sister spoke about? If you aren't me, then you'll have to ask someone who knows, because I'm not putting it in this diary for some snoop at school to read and start a rumor about her.
Last month, I also met my mother for the first time since I was four years old – which, if you didn't know, was in 1876 – and I haven't decided how I feel about her. Do I hate her for leaving us? Do I forgive her? Do I hold a grudge against her like I do my father, even if she made the choice to leave because she almost killed him? I don't know. Its been almost a month, and I don't know what to say to her in our next meeting. Did you know she made a vampire on accident? Don't ask me how. Obviously is was before she and my father met again... But do I want to talk with her when she was willing to kill someone who made her mad? Someone who was a new mother?
As you can see, I'm very confused about it all. Writing it all down didn't help me get my thoughts in order... if anything it made me feel even more confused. Maybe it helps after daily writing? Who knows.
515 words – not counting the date; according to this 522 words – according to document References: Sisterly Chat
Crystal is half-vampire, your character is most certainly aware of this.
I don't think I need to write down such trivial events. Seriously, nothing interesting happened today – besides being sneaked up on by someone – I didn't talk to my sister, I didn't meet a boggart... and I went to all my classes. Not that I normally skip out on my courses, but I just thought I'd throw that out there, since I listed what I didn't do, I may as well add something positive that I did do. Not that it's something that I find particularly interesting.
Especially Earth Magic. I don't know what my sister was thinking when she convinced me to join her in that class. I hope Orinda doesn't follow in our footsteps. Who wants to talk about earth? Not that Professor Zakai makes it boring, she really does try to make it interesting. But there's not many of us in the OWL course... Actually, I think there's only a few in the NEWT courses as well. Oh, well, at least I can drop it after next year. What a waste of two years. I could have been taking something like Ghoul Studies or something of equal interest.
I think I might not be that interested in school. It's fun and all, but I don't think it's for me. I wish I knew what the future hold; it seems so scary when you thinking about it. What will I be doing next year? What will my family be doing? I don't want to think about all of that. Luckily, I don't have to worry about (much of) my future until Seventh Year. If I could leave the worrying to my father, I would, but I don't think he worries about the future as much since he just... seems to know everything about life. I don't think he really does, but he does act like it.
Will I, when I'm older, know as much about life as he does? As much about life as everyone out of school seems to know? I don't know if I want to know everything that adults seem to know.
I still don't think this writing thing is helping me sort out my thoughts on my day-to-day experiences, but I'll keep trying. At least for the remainder of the year. After that, if I'm still confused about my reactions or thoughts, I don't think I'll be writing anymore in this stupid thing.
398 words; not including date – according to this
402 – according to document References
Crystal is half-vampire, your character is most certainly aware of this.
There is nothing to report, not really. I guess I could write about what is happening right now... but who wants to hear about that? I wouldn't want to; and I'm sure that whomever is reading this also doesn't want to hear about it.
References Notes something else could happen! I can always write in new event that happened on this day on future dates>
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Is it odd that I feel closer to Joanna this year than I have any year before? Of course we're best friends, so it isn't that odd, but ...
With everything that's happened in the past few months – between Father mentioning that Lisa was living our house again and Acacia and I fighting.. It doesn't help that this is the first year Orinda is at Hogwarts. I feel like such a bad influence...
Perhaps I'm such a bad influence because I do just wish to be a normal kid. Not half-breed. I don't think anyone who isn't one knows the looks people give them. Even when they claim to be my friend, whenever I do something out of the ordinary, it isn't just other students that give me strange looks. It's Acacia too.
Do you think she'd be happier if she didn't have me as a sister? If I had died as a child instead of surviving until now?
Crystal is half-vampire, your character is most certainly aware of this.
How dare they decide my siblings and I aren't "human" enough to return to Hogwarts in the fall! We're just like they are. It isn't like we begged God to make us born to a Vampire Mother instead of a Human one.!
Crystal is half-vampire, your character is most certainly aware of this.
I think I hurt Acacia's feelings. I told her I didn't know how to open up to her. I'd be hurt, too, if Orinda said the same thing to me.
I feel like everytime I want to get close to Acacia again, I say something- something true - and it damages our relationship even more. I wish I could not talk. That would be so much better than what I say. I don't try to hurt people, I really don't. I just... I haven't overthought in a while. I still don't know if Acacia would be happier or more miserable if I weren't here. If I just... died.
Would that be better? Would everything be better if I weren't here?
Crystal is half-vampire, your character is most certainly aware of this.
I stormed out of dinner tonight. After snapping at both Lisa and Father. Acacia had stayed quiet throughout the exchange, as had Father.
The look my sister gave me later that night said everything: Acacia obviously thinks i'm more like the parent who hadn't been there for a decade. How does that even happen? I was four when Lisa abandoned us. How can I ever forgive her for leaving four kids and a husband? I remember the weeks – years – after.
Father was miserable, and he tried to not show it for us. He tried to protect us, even thought Acacia and I had taken on more responsibility.
Crystal is half-vampire, your character is most certainly aware of this.
I leave for Joanna's for then next two weeks. Hopefully this will give me the break I need to not have such bad headaches everyday for the better part of the day.
Crystal is half-vampire, your character is most certainly aware of this.
Today is Joan's birthday today. Something... unexpected happened. I don't feel comfortable writing what exactly happened down. But let's just say that she wasn't the only one who got a present today.
Crystal is half-vampire, your character is most certainly aware of this.
Dunstan is... he was... flying tigers ate my baby brother. And no one besides his family is going to remember him. Nobody is going to remember what he looks like. We're never going to know what he would have looked like, what his personality would have turned into. What kind of person would he have been, given a few more years to find himself?
Crystal was crying when she wrote this. Tear marks are apparent. Anything after what is written is to smudged to read
Crystal is half-vampire, your character is most certainly aware of this.
My mother comforted me. A little. Maybe I was to hard on her at the beginning of the summer, but I was so upset over not being able to return to Hogwarts. That none of us were able to finish our schooling.
What house would Dunstan have been in? I wish it had been me who was eaten, instead of him.
Crystal started crying half way through writing this. Some of the last words are smudged, but the whole entary is still legible
Crystal is half-vampire, your character is most certainly aware of this.
Joan wrote me today. I don't know how to write her back. I'd barely been able to write Sweetie, but we don't have such an intense emotional connection. If i ignore it to long, she'll probably think something is completely wrong. And it is; I feel like something bad is coming. And I hope it hits me the hardest, not Acaica or Orinda.
Crystal is half-vampire, your character is most certainly aware of this.
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