The
Gift
by
Eva Blake, Devon, England, Age 14
It was her
thirteenth birthday, when Laura got her diary. It was silver with
grey swirls all over it, with a padlock and right from the start
it seemed unusual. It was her Great Aunt Agnes who had given it
to her, the one Laura always thought was a witch. Laura's mother
said Laura was wrong of course, but then her mother always had doubts
about Great Aunt Agnes herself. Even though there was no key and
the diary was locked Laura had no problem opening it.
Inside there was a message:
Write
today what shall happen tomorrow,
Or tomorrow 'surprises' might be seen today.
Laura
showed this to her mum but all she could see was:
To
my dear Dear Niece Laura,
Love your Great Aunt Agnes.
Laura carefully
put the dairy away and carried on opening her gifts. Later on Laura
went up to her room and got out the diary. Again it was locked,
but she had no problem opening it, she wondered how the gift had
got to her, but it was one of those things that you just don't think
about. She looked inside and found the messages again:
Write
today what shall happen tomorrow,
Or tomorrow 'surprises' might be seen today.
She
puzzled over the meaning and turned the page. It was dated 3rd of
May 1968 and it had writing on it, but today was 2nd of May 1968 and
no one knows exactly what will happen tomorrow and as she thought
about it she noticed that writing was appearing on another page. She
read it and it was dated for today. It was written about what had
happened and what ' will happen', Laura thought that the light was
strange or maybe she was day dreaming, but as the day moved on Laura
realised that it was all coming true, so just before she went to bed
she wrote the bottom of tomorrow's 'prediction' - "I got an A*
in my French test."
The
next day Laura went to school, her first lesson was French and she
was dreading the result of her test, but as the teacher handed it
back she said
"Congratulations
you got top marks"
Laura
couldn't believe it. She rushed to her locker and got out her dairy
and it was there written in black and white:
I
got an A* in my French test
Laura was amazed she could write the future or so she thought.
A
month had' passed and all the people that she hated had soon had more
than their fair share of bad grades, detentions and missing books
and soon they all realised something was up. They turned to Laura,
their well known enemy and out of panic Laura wrote some thing she
would soon regret. After a day she realised her mistake and put the
diary away hidden in a box.
She had realised just how powerful it was and decided to live a normal
life, before she did herself or someone else harm and she put it to
the back of her mind until now...
4th
of June 1998
30 years later as Laura was moving house she saw it, the diary, and
the thing that she thought and hoped was only a dream soon became
a reality, once again. She opened it up and read:
You
have left me for too long now I shall get my own back,
Wait
and see what I shall make for your 'non-future'
Laura dropped
the book in surprise and then quickly picked it up to read:
5th
of June 1998:
Laura has gone missing and shall never be seen alive again, when
the police do find her she has drowned in a freak ice storm, she
has frozen to death.
20
years later a girl receive a diary from an unknown relative, it was
silver with grey swirls all over it, it had a padlock and no key and
on the inside it had a strange inscription.
The cycle was to start all over again...
The End
