{"id":8336,"date":"2023-02-28T21:42:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T13:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/?p=8336"},"modified":"2023-02-28T21:42:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T13:42:09","slug":"a-diary-entry-2a-lai-zi-xi-zoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/8336","title":{"rendered":"A diary entry (2A Lai Zi Xi, Zoe)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>6th October 2022&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Uncertain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear Diary,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Horrible! I will never trust anyone again, never! I&#8217;ve been chased by the Guards for hours, and I deeply regret telling my secret to Sabrina!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This morning, I went to Sabrina&#8217;s place to walk to school with her. I saw her &#8216;panda&#8217; eyes and asked her what happened. Sabrina said that she couldn&#8217;t sleep well last night since she had a nightmare. She told me all about the nightmare, and I felt very sorry for her, so I decided to tell her my biggest secret. I explained to her that I was actually a witch, and that I could use my magic to heal her. Sabrina seemed surprised, but she calmed down very soon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later, at the first recess, I went to the tuck shop to buy some snacks. I saw many students looking at me strangely. It wasn&#8217;t good eye contact anyways. I ignored them and went to have my nice breakfast, but I felt very strange as everyone looked at me when I passed by, so I went to the bathroom to check how I looked. Huh- nothing special. I went back to my classroom and continued reading the novel called <em>Everyone&#8217;s Stuck in School and Cannot Come Out<\/em>. It&#8217;s quite interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the second recess, I decided to tell Sabrina the strange things that were happening around me. I went to look for her, but her classmates said that she wasn&#8217;t there. And &#8211; weird eye contact again \u2013 from everyone in the classroom. Some pupils were even trying to stay distanced from me, and I shrugged my shoulders. But my feelings told me that something was wrong &#8211; really really wrong &#8211; that couldn&#8217;t be changed or be removed. This was the second time I had had those feelings. The first time I felt that way was before my mother had an accident and died. I knew that was a sign &#8211; or to use a better word to describe it &#8211; an alarm. I didn&#8217;t like this word at all because every time this word appears, something bad happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the third recess, I went to the playground to get some sunshine, I was sick of the air conditioner and sitting. And guess what happened next! I saw Sabrina talking to a girl who had a ponytail. I walked stealthily toward her and wanted to surprise her, but what I heard the next second was, &#8220;Do you know that Matilda is a witch? She told me this secret this morning and even showed me her magic! You should be careful with her. Who knows what she will do with her nasty magic.&#8221; I saw Sabrina roll her eyes. I went away and went to the rooftop. No one was ever there, and I thought it was the best place to calm myself down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So everything was clear. Sabrina told everyone my secret and warned them to beware of me. Really, those are just my thoughts and I had no evidence to really prove that. Nevertheless, this was not the time to think how my secret was revealed. I had to think of how I could escape from the school instead. My Father had once told me to keep my identity a secret because humans would panic and the devils would start to control humans. The first thing I needed to do was to block the Internet, so that no one could send any messages out. I sneaked to the Computer Room and remembered that I know nothing about ICT, so I just smashed those machines into pieces with my bare hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The alarm rang so I had to get away from there, I ran back to the rooftop and jumped down onto the ground. I guess nobody saw me as it was rainy right then. I knew everyone would be in the classroom. It jump wasn&#8217;t as high as I expected, yet I felt that my bones were hurting; however, I had no time to waste. I flipped over the school wall and ran towards my home using all my strength. If you are asking why I didn&#8217;t use my magic to make a portal, then I will tell you that I didn&#8217;t know how to. Yes, I didn&#8217;t know how, I was just a young witch, okay? Don&#8217;t think that I was that super good. Doing homework and studying already made me exhausted. How could I even still have time to practice my skills?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately, Papa was at home. I told him all of the things which happened. I knew that he was very mad at me, but he couldn&#8217;t shout at me now because he had too much work to do. At least, that was the first nice thing which happened that day &#8211; for now I guessed. Papa pushed me onto a portal, and he went to another portal. I could see that the background was my school.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I opened my eyes &#8211; I saw I was lying in the woods. Then I started to remember what had happened. Ah yes, Sabrina \u2026 secret \u2026 escaping \u2026 . I remembered them all, and I started to concentrate and try to figure out where I was located. Ouch! My head hurt a lot. I guess it&#8217;s because I hit the ground very hard where the portal threw me out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suddenly, I heard many footsteps coming, so I hid myself behind some huge stones. I recognize those guys. They were the Guards. I had some interactions with them before and I didnt like them, I just didn&#8217;t. The Guards weren&#8217;t stupid. They knew someone was round them so they slowed down their pace. The leader saw me and he pointed, \u201dThere is the girl!\u201d What? I didn\u2019t react right in that second, and then I finally realised that it was me whom the Guards were finding.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I turned around and started running. I ran through the woods, swam across the lake and climbed over the mountain. I couldn&#8217;t even feel my pain. The only thing I was thinking was that if I stopped, I would been killed. \u201cOuch!\u201d I stumbled on a branch, and I realised that my bones were already broken and it was excruciating. I went to a river and tried to wash away my blood or any other trace of my location. After washing, I went to a cafe to rest. I tried to keep myself awake, but I was very tired and fell asleep after a moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve just woken up and it&#8217;s already midnight. I am starving right now as I haven\u2019t eaten anything since morning, only it is very dark and there is no light. If it was, I would go out and find some food. And now, I am writing this sentence, I guess I am going to sleep again. I really regret telling my secret to my best friend, Sabrina. She was the one who drove me into this \u201dperfect\u201d situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:paragraph --><p>6th October 2022         Uncertai<\/p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>Dear Diary<\/p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>Horrible! I will never trust anyone again, never! I've been chased by the Guards for hours, and I deeply regret telling my secret to Sabrina<\/p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>This morning, I went to Sabrina's place to walk to school with her. 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