The Secret of the Lost Diary by Yonit Oved

Author:Yonit Oved [Oved, Yonit]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-03-17T00:00:00+00:00

I turned the page and froze. It was blank! There was nothing written on it. I turned a few more pages and… nothing. Blank, blank, blank! Not one word was written, not a single letter. I couldn’t believe it. What’s going on here? Why did she stop writing? I sat on my bed and lit a cigarette restlessly. What am I supposed to do now? I was almost tempted to go down and ask Hannah what had happened next. I just needed her to tell me where Ann and Emmanuelle were.

Then suddenly it hit me; the painting in Ms Baum’s room! It wasn’t just “a painting”. It was a painting of Ann and Emmanuelle. I really hope nothing horrible has happened to them I mumbled to myself. I really hope… no, no, it can’t be! I tried imagining a very optimistic chain of events. Maybe they had just split up? I tried thinking of various possibilities, but I’d be lying if I said that this helped. The awful thought that something dreadful had happened to them wouldn’t leave me. I was in a terrible mood, and despite my curiosity, I decided to stay in my room and not go down for dinner. Actually, I was afraid I would see Ms Baum. I was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to control myself and would start crying.

I wrapped myself in my blanket and tried to process what had happened. How could it be that just when everything was about to come together, it all became complicated instead? In the course of one day, everything had turned from an imaginary story into a complicated reality. A reality which forced me to face real emotions and real people who I really wanted to get to know, and as a result – I felt I was caving under the emotional burden. Did I really want to find out it was a true story, about real people? And in three days’ time, I was facing the opening of my adoption file; another fantasy was about to become a reality. Would I be able to cope with the truth of it all? Or was it better to leave things as they are? As my mother always said, “You must be ready to face what you choose to look at.” I had mixed feelings about the whole thing but I was somewhat comforted by the knowledge that curiosity is natural and it was useless to try and fight it. Besides, this was probably what life was all about – surprises, surprises and more surprises. Actually, it made life more interesting.

That day I asked myself what would have happened if I had known that things would turn out the way they did. Would I have opened the diary and read it? The answer was obvious – yes! For all the confusion and hardship I was experiencing right now, I know that I have learnt invaluable lessons.

Bit by bit I felt my body relax. I knew that the day

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