I'm Not Daria
Anna's secret

My eyes turned to Devan. He'll be gone after a few days?

"Yes, sir."

"I'll talk to him about this. I just got together with him and now he's leaving"

"How many days?" I asked

"Just until the day of the company's new launch party dad's friend's daughter" said the father

"When that?"

"In less than two weeks. Now I want to have a one-on-one talk with Devan."

I received the cue and walked out of his office, then took a walk to talk to Devan afterwards.

...

After ten minutes, he walked out of the room and I stood up to approach him

"What did he say? And what did you say?"

"She told me I could date you". Devan said with a smile. "He still doesn't trust us. He was confused as to how this could happen when we hated each other so much".

"Oh that, he doesn't need to know." I put my arm around his arm. "It's important he agrees."

"Yes, I finally asked him."

"And are you really going to leave after a few days?"

He sighed, the cheerful mood quickly disappearing into the air. "Yes." Yeah."

"Damn, I wasted a lot of time."

"I've learned everything I can from him. There is no better teacher to gain experience. But now it's time to go back to my own home. To my mom and dad. He said softly".

"Can I see you as often as possible?"

He pressed his lips in a thin line. "It's gonna be hard, but I'm gonna try. We'll go on dates every Saturday and Sunday and I'll try to meet you during the weekday as much as I can"

"You don't have to do that. Don't let me interrupt your work. At least not to the point where the company will suffer because of me".

"I'm not gonna let that happen."

"So what are you going to do after work tonight?"

"Gio decided to stop by, hasn't seen each other for a long time and he misses me. He remembers being there only when he felt lonely" Devan joked.

"I haven't seen Gio in a long time either, I hope he's okay".

"Alright then I won't interfere." My speech

"It's okay. You can join us."

I shook my head. "No, I don't think it's necessary. I have something to do anyway."

"You sure?"

"Of course"

And I didn't lie when I said that. I'm gonna find out what's wrong with Anna. Actually I chose to ignore it but now I can't anymore. After what happened last night, it sounded serious. I need to do some recon.

So I called Bella when I was alone in my room. I can only trust him to help me

He immediately lifted it.

"Hey, Bella"

"Oh hey Daria, what's wrong?"

"Is there anyone around you?"

"No, I'm alone, why?"

"You called me Daria."

"Ah, it just becomes a habit. You two are very similar but very different. I think I'm really starting to see you as Daria. By the way, why are you calling?"

"Listen, I need your help. I'm gonna find out what Anna's hiding from me"

"Can you take Anna out to do something? Just busying it for about an hour?"

"What are you planning?"

"I need to check his room. At home he kept a diary and often wrote in it. He can't go long without having a book to write about himself. I'm sure he has kept a diary here. From there, we can know what really happened. He wrote everything about himself in it. That diary is my only hope"

"That's a good idea." He said, laughing nervously, "But shouldn't we be violating his privacy?"

"Anna didn't tell me and I need to know. We can't keep a secret if we have to stay here for some time that's somehow longer. And if he won't tell me, then I have no other choice. What if it gets worse over time? We need to find out and solve the problem"

"OK, but if it's something serious, don't do it right away. First tell me and then we'll figure something out with Luna"

I shook 'em, if I tell Luna, free . My plan won't work.

"No, this secret involves Luna as well. Did you forget that he took Anna somewhere and told you to keep me busy while we went for a walk? They are together in this and Luna will most likely deny everything and try to cover for Anna"

"Oh, okay. I completely forgot about that. I can't believe Luna kept a secret from me. We tell each other everything."

That's why this scares me. I just hope Anna doesn't screw it up that bad

"That's why it's so serious.need to find out."

"If you know, don't forget to tell me."

"OKAY. When can you come and take her somewhere?

"I can't right now but I'm free after six today."

"Okay, it worked. Send me a short message when you get here and you're ready to go."

"All right."

We hung up the phone and now I just have to wait until six tonight to know everything there is to know.

Bella doesn't need to text me that she's here to take Anna because she's honking her car loud and continuously as if she wants everyone in the mansion to know that he has arrived.

I peeked out of the window at his sleek black car parked in the driveway as he exited and went inside.

I waited and counted the minutes. It took twenty minutes for the two of them to get back to the car and immediately they left. I imagine it's not easy to coax Anna out of the guest room where she locked herself away for weeks.

My phone buzzed with a message from Anna. I don't know how he could have messaged me when he was driving.

Okay, you have an hour. He's hard to hold on any longer.

After their car disappeared out the gate and in the corner of the road, I quickly ran to Anna's room.

I immediately sneaked inside, unbeknownst to others and glanced around. It looks normal, nothing suggests that she's hiding something from me, but I know better

I got to the bedside drawer and started looking for her diary. There was nothing in the three drawers except for some insignificant items such as textbooks and some notebooks that he used to take notes.

I know Anna can hide it anywhere. He always chose the most unexpected place to hide something. Even I searched under his bed foam mattress but found nothing.

Next I searched his little closet. The closet doesn't have as many clothes as mine. In fact, his closet looked even emptier than mine. My wardrobe is full of branded clothes.

There was nothing hidden behind or under her clothes and I started to think I would find nothing

The bottom of the closet has a small drawer and thankfully does not need a key

A big empty bag was put in it and I had a bit of trouble getting it out because it got stuck somewhere in it. When he finally pulled it out. I found what I was looking for, Hidden behind the bag was his old cell phone, the clothes he was wearing on the night of the party where we were kidnapped and all the accessories he was wearing back then. But that's not what caught my attention.

I found the pill bottles. A great deal. There are different types of pills. Among the chaos I found his diary. The diary was a new diary he had asked from Luna when we started living here. I vaguely remember she asked Luna if she could have a diary and she found no problems in it, so she gave it to her.

I took it out and almost half of it was full of diaries. The book opens until the last page. There were some papers folded in half and put into that diary.

Right at that moment my phone started buzzing madly. I took it out, wanting to know who sent me so many messages

I have to turn the car around.

Something's wrong with Anna.

He came to his room.

Bella had sent me three separate short messages and her words scared me. I don't want to get caught peeping. But I'm so close to knowing what it is, I can't just let it go.

So I ignored the messages and opened the folded papers.