I'm Not Daria

I'm Not Daria
What's up with them?


I rolled around all night, unable to sleep, because I slept all day.


Every time I repeat what has happened, I feel bad and feel guilty. I tried to distract myself by watching a few episodes of a show, but then got bored of not getting my attention.


It feels like a long night. It was strange how I could sleep for eight hours on average and still think that I had just taken a short nap, but when I was awake for the same eight hours at night, it feels long and endless.


...


After six o'clock in the morning, I trudged down and felt much better now. Although it was still a little cold, it was still better than what I felt a few days ago.


No one is awake right now, maybe except Devan. He must be getting ready to start the day.


As expected, the kitchen was empty. Everyone was sleeping and I was trying to be as calm as possible while trying to make a cup of hot coffee.


I brought a tray of coffee and some cookies to my room, set up a chair on the balcony.


I wrapped in a warm blanket and watched the sun rise on a cold morning in the silence with a cup of hot coffee and delicious pastries was the thing I liked the most.


After finishing eating, I didn't even notice when I fell asleep because of the amazing sun that shone on us with its warmth and assured us that there was still tomorrow despite having coffee that should have done the opposite.


I woke up when the warmth was unbearable. It was a gesture for me to take a shower and get dressed.


At the breakfast table, the atmosphere was quiet as usual. Anna, Devan and I don't talk at all. All the talk was done by my parents. It feels awkward like a few days.


My parents talked about my upcoming college plans. When Daria ran away, she had just graduated from high school and had applied to several colleges. It was a good college he had enrolled in and was accepted into several colleges, not an ivy league but definitely better than the current one.


To my surprise Daria was actually better at academics. She was also active in the sport, had captained the girls' basketball team in high school and had won several tournaments.


But then he ran away and two years later they found me. Now they decided to send me to college starting in January. I can't do anything because it means more questions.


I can't tell them that I've been to medical school in my second year because I'm sure they'll investigate and they'll most likely find a girl who looks like me and is about the same age with their beloved daughter, without knowing that the two are not the same person.


However, it's not too hard to guess. They can easily combine and then I'll get caught and that'll get me in big trouble.


I was tempted to leave my old life and live my new life here. That way I don't have to worry about money and I can go to a good college and start a new life.


I just built my own world in the air and nothing like that would happen because two people here already knew about me and when Daria came back, I also had to go back to my old life.


So all I could do when my dad was raving about college was nodding around and then trying to figure out what I should do about this, it's better with Luna and Bella so I don't panic and can make the right decision.


The thought of Luna making me feel very sad, not knowing how to deal with her when I betrayed her trust. Now he would definitely think that I was a gold digger and pursue his future fiancee. He himself might even reveal things about me to the family.


No matter how things go later. I can see that it will slowly become a problem. Everything from here on becomes a threat to my secret. Everything slowly began to fall apart. I can feel it.


After breakfast, two cars enter the house. They stopped at the entrance and two women got out of their cars. "Luna's? Bella ?" I asked in surprise, not expecting them to be in the mansion in the morning after breakfast.


"Hi" said Bella, grinning at me. Luna just gave me a small smile. We all went in and sat on the couch


"What are you doing here so early?"


"Quickly prepare. We'll go together." Bella answered


"What's? All of a sudden? Wh why? Is everything okay?" We just played in the stables a few days ago even without Luna.


"Of course, what's wrong? We're just gonna chase everything." Again, Bella spoke


Luna looks weird to me today. He looked impatient and a little agitated. He angrily sent a message to someone.


"Are you okay, Luna?" I was almost afraid to ask. Her behavior made my heart beat fast for fear that she might know about Devan and me.


He turned his eyes to me. "No I'm fine." He gave me a thin smile. It was not even a smile, just a small twitch on both sides of his lips. "Hurry to change your clothes."


"OK," I said in a small voice and got up to change clothes in the room.


By the time I changed clothes and went downstairs, the two girls were ready to leave.


"Didn't Anna come with us?" my many.


I could see Anna in the car. He lowered his head. He didn't look at me. She was wearing a loose hoodie, although it was a bit too warm.


After I finished talking to Bella, I walked towards the car where Anna was sitting. I was about to open the car door but Luna suddenly intercepted me.


He smiled broadly at me. "Go to the other car".


"Eh .. Can I sit down with Anna? Actually I want to talk to him about something."


"No." Luna said without hesitation


"Okay, but why?"


"Go with Bella"


He didn't give me a reason why I couldn't sit with Anna. He just turned around and snuck into the car. Anna was on the other side of him. I ducked down to see it. He wore sunglasses and a hoodie. He turned my back so I couldn't see his face.


Luna ordered the driver to leave and she did. I just stood there, staring at the car that drove away


What's up with them?


These are the times I mean the worst. It felt as if Anna had been taken away from me and would never see her again.


"Dara." Bella called out from behind me, I turned to look at her, looking for signs in her eyes that indicated something was wrong. But he just smiled at me, didn't give me anything, "Come on, come on in"


And I went in. Because I don't know what else to do. Maybe I'm thinking too much about this. Maybe Luna and Anna just want to sit together and I'll meet them again at the place Bella brought in.


......


After some time, we arrived at the beach. Actually not interested in doing this, but I still obey. We changed bikinis and had fun in the water. I thought Luna and Anna had arrived but they were nowhere to be seen, they might be stuck in traffic.


I waited for about twenty minutes when Bella taught me the basics of surfing and after that they still haven't shown up.


When I asked Bella, she just said that they were coming soon and then we went back to resume surfing lessons.


Bella is a pretty good surfer and she even teaches well. I had fun with him. He taught me how to surf and every time I tried, I always failed and fell into the water.


Time passed so quickly that by the time I said I didn't want to surf anymore, it had already been an hour since we came here. And I realized that Anna and Luna were still not coming.


"Bell, why aren't Luna and Anna here yet? Where are they?"


"I'll call Luna and ask." He pulled out his phone and pressed his number. After a few seconds, he kept the phone away from his ear.


"Call not connected. Don't worry he'll come. Let's not speculate anymore. Do you want to make a sand castle with the kids there?" He asked, pointing towards the group of little children who were trying to make it


"All right"


I'm a little worried about the two girls who still haven't come. We helped the little ones build the sand castle. Our palace is not big but looks cute and small. We had tried many times to make a bigger palace but we never succeeded especially since my efforts were half-hearted and my mind was always filled with Luna and Anna's thoughts.


After all the children went back to their parents, we decided to leave.


"Bell, tell me, what's up with those two girls? Why don't they go to the beach?"


Bella who was looking at her phone showed me the screen. "They don't want to go to the beach. They went to the amusement park." She shows her WhatsApp where she is chatting with Luna, Luna sends a message saying that she is not wanting to go to the beach. But the thing that caught my attention was that there was a series of messages that had been deleted before. Bella must have noticed when I noticed her because she quickly put the phone in her pocket.


"Why didn't they tell us?


"Come on, we're not kids. Let them do whatever they want."


"I want to go to the amusement park. The place where they are" I said, checking his pocket containing his mobile phone.


Bella groaned but it felt like she was pretending "I don't really want to go to the amusement park"


"Bella I want to go to the amusement park. Right now,"


He sighed. "All right, let's go!"