As Sara sat under the weeping willow, gazing out at the lake, she wondered how it went so terribly wrong, so fast. The weeping willow was a rather appropriate place to be sitting, as Sara realized she had tears in her eyes.
She looked down and saw the diary. The diary of the dearest person she had ever known and more than likely, would ever know. Sara opened the diary and read the words that she had
memorized by heart. The pages were stained with her own tears, as well as the author's.
How could it go so terribly wrong?
April 15th
Dear Diary,
I met John today and how wonderful he is. He's everything I have dreamed of and more. He truly is my knight in shining amour. I know it sounds silly, but I know I love him and I'm hoping he feels the same about me, as well.
Julie
April 17th
Dear Diary,
Believe it or not, John feels the same about me! We shared our first kiss and I'm just on cloud nine. He's all I think and dream about. He's so caring, warm and sensative, not like the other men I've known. I know he'll make me so happy!
Julie
April 25th
Dear Diary,
Sorry I haven't been around much Diary, but I see John every day and when I'm not with him, I want to be with him. He's like my other half, the missing piece that fills my heart. He makes me feel beautiful and with him, I am. When he looks at me, it's like he can see into the deepest part of my heart. He is the one I want!
Julie
May 15th
Diary,
I'm sorry I haven't been around. John and I have gotten into a routine and I am with him as much as possible. I don't want to be with anyone else.
June 20th
Dear Diary,
I know I haven't know John that long, but he has asked me to marry him and I have accepted. We want to be married as soon as we can so that we can start on happily ever after as soon
as possible. We have decided the end of June so that I can be a June bride. I just can't wait!
August 30th
Well we have been married for 2 months now and I'm starting to notice little changes in John. He starts questioning me when I'm not home when I say I'm going to be and he even has started
telling me how to dress. Maybe I never noticed these things before.
September 15th
Now John is starting to question me whenever I get a phone call. I never knew how jealous he could be. Even when I say it's just a girlfriend, he seems to linger in the background, listening
to my conversation. At first, I thought it was cute, but I'm not liking this too much.
October 10th
Geez, I can't even go to lunch with my sister without John getting all upset. When I got home, he questioned me for a half hour asking what we talked about. What happen to the kind and caring
man I met?
December 12th
It's getting worse Diary. I have even taken to hiding you so he doesn't read what I write about and I can only write in you when he's not home. He's becoming totally controlling of everything
I do and it's like I'm a prisioner in my own home and he's the warden.
January 12th
I can't take this anymore Diary. I have decided to ask John for a divorce. He's become overbearing, controlling and just plain mean. He's not the man I met and fell in love with. That was a totally different person.
February 23rd
He's totally crazy!
That was the last entry Julie had written. After the small burial service, Sara went to the lake that Julie loved so much. Her sister was gone and even though they never really knew what happen
to Julie on the final day of her life, she knew that whether John killed her directly or Julie took her own life, he basically killed her before she died. He killed her heart long before it stopped beating. Sara wept as she had never wept before.
How could it go so terribly wrong?
Written by Katherine M. Parisse
Copyrighted � 2004 Katherine M. Parisse |
