She had had enough of this; she still had some things to take care of before she left this place. She couldn’t keep standing there and listen to the flimsy excuses Andrew was giving her. It was time to do the right thing, something she ought to have done long ago; be true to her feelings. She knew the person she had loved since the first day she set her eyes on him, but because of this bastard standing in front of her who clearly didn’t deserve her, she pushed him away. She pushed away Derick and now because of Andrew, he probably wasn’t going to speak to her again. She had never felt this stupid in her life. Andrew getting married to someone else was the last thing she expected to happen, but like Dana had said, things happen in life that you can’t control. She didn’t wait for Andrew to finish speaking before she walked out on him. He might have been able to humiliate her, but she would never let him see her tears, ever. She went

Joana waited for him in the center for hours to see and hope if he would come down, or at least, if she could see any sign of him. But no, after waiting for so long, it was now time to accept the truth. Derick was gone forever, and it was all because of her. She got up and began to leave, of all the bad news she had been hearing since yesterday, this turned out to be the worst, and the one that hurt her the most. She held her hand to her heart and mourned him for a few minutes. “Goodbye Derick, I’m sorry for what I did, and I love you,” she said before returning to the castle. She met Dana along with the others in the study, they were all waiting for her. She hoped that Derick might have returned here, maybe might have changed his mind and come back home instead, but she knew it was just wishful thinking. “Did you find him?” Dana asked. She knew the answer already but still hoped it wouldn’t be true.&nbs

Marylin’s POV…Father Jacob helped me bury the dead worker’s body and helped me leave town. He would have followed me, but he had to ensure that things were ok back at home and that no one ever found out how that poor worker died. So, I was all on my own. I journeyed into the wilderness for days, the canopies from the trees formed a shade that protected me from the blazing sun, as father Jacob had told me that I could never see the sunlight again. At first, I was scared, being all alone in those dark woods and with the wild animals that lived there. It was not until I realized that I could feed on animals, a very useful piece of information father Jacob ought to have given me before he left, that I found it easier to adjust to this strange new life of mine. A wolf that wanted to attack me on one of such nights I was resting, I was sitting by the small fire I had created and singing one of the hopeful songs Gerome used to sing to me, how I missed

Derick and I began a relationship not long after he moved in with us, he confessed his feelings for me and I felt the same way about him too, so we became a couple. Dana was happy for us, and gave us her full support. Our relationship didn’t get in the way of me and Dana’s friendship, sometimes she would even steal me away from Derick to take me on a new adventure. One of such days, she took me to the enchanted forest. The forest was a sight to behold, and if you would have told me before that a forest could live on a river, I would have thought you were crazy. But there it was, surrounded by the full beauty of nature, and illuminated by the glowing pixies that lived in it. The forest was home to many mystical creatures Dana had told me about before, she brought me here to see things for myself. We walked a bit into the forest, and that was when I heard a little pixie crying in the distance. “Do you hear that? Someo

Back to the present…Joana dropped the diary she had been reading. She didn’t even realize that she had been reading for more than twenty-four hours. She never thought that reading about Marylin would turn out to be this exciting, even better than how it was when she read the first one. It was the hunger in her stomach that made her stop. The time she told herself she would go hunting had already passed and it was daylight again. She would just have to make do with vamscren so she could get a good meal. As she climbed down the stairs to enter the kitchen, she thought about this new diary she had found. She noticed that Marylin didn’t write the same way she did in the former one. In this diary, she talked more about herself like she was telling a story, and Joana couldn’t help but relate to every single thing she had been through. She didn’t want to rush her reading by skipping to the final pages to see what happened, but something tol