The Diary of Ayumi

THE WRITTEN DIARY part 1

“Look out, Ayumi!” A young girl’s voice shouted. Ayumi, a short haired girl turned her head around only to find a beach ball coming her way. BANG! Ayumi fell down on the sand.

“Ouch!” Ayumi said as she got up. A bunch of girls were playing beach volleyball with Ayumi.

“Ayumi... Next time, pay attention. We are losing 3-19 now”.

“I was! Until he came walking to the beach.” Ayumi told her friend pointing to a tall guy with his surfboard, buying ice-cream. Her friend laughed.

“You never change. Well, I guess Kira is a hottie", her friend said through her laughter.

“Don’t laugh Taila! It’s not because he’s a hottie”.

“Let me guess, since the day he saved you from the big bullies, when you were how old?” Taila, a tan teenager spoke Ayumi’s mind. She poked Ayumi on the nose as if she were a little kid.

“Ok! Ok! I get what you’re getting at”. Ayumi pushed Taila away from her face. Taila laughed harder this time.

“Ok! Enough talk. Let’s get back to the game.” Taila grabbed Ayumi’s hands and ran to their places. The game started and it seemed like the opponent gave no mercy.

On the other side, Kira finished his ice-cream in split seconds and picked up his surf board, wandering off into the sea. He surfed smoothly in the waves, until he hit something with his surfboard and toppled into the sea. He got up and shook the water away from his face and hair. As he was about to pick up this surfboard, he found something. A book. A red covered book. Curiosity getting the better of him, he took the book and opened in. The pages were all wet and some writings were slightly smudged. But it was amazing that all the pages were laminated, such that the book looked well kept.

“Ayumi’s Diary”. He read the words written on the first page. He thought for a while then quickly turned his head to the left and stared at Ayumi.

Ayumi on the other side just finished their game.

“I’m hungry!!!” Ayumi shouted.

“Last one to the hot dog stand is a pig!” Taila said and took off bare-footed in the warm sand.

“Wait up! Cheater! Hey!!”

Ayumi ran and almost caught up with Taila. BANG!

“Ouch….” Ayumi said when she fell face first into the sand. She picked herself up and wiped the sand away from her face.

“Ayumi! Sorry. I wanted to return this to you”, Kira said, handing over the diary he found as he swept some sand off Ayumi’s hair.

“Neat work in there huh. Laminating it.” He added in.

“Kira…?” Ayumi blushed. She had totally forgotten about the diary that Kira handed to her. Kira blinked a few times and took Ayumi’s hand.

“Here, your diary.” He said as he put the diary into her hands. Ayumi looked at the diary and opened it.

“Hey! Ayumi!” Taila called from the Hot Dog stand, holding two hot dogs in her hands.

“Sorry Kira. Taila is calling for me. Ciao!” She put two fingers forward and winked. She ran off to Taila.

“Taila… You wouldn’t believe it. I… Kira…”

“Chill. Breathe first. Breathe first. And what’s that?” Taila said nodding her head towards the diary.

“Oh, this? Kira said something about my diary…” Ayumi said as soon as she caught her breath. She paused and took another look at the diary in her hand.

“Wait… is that your diary? Don’t tell me, Kira found it… and he read it, about you being all gaga over him?” Taila guessed with a small grin on her face.

“No! That’s not it! I don’t even own a diary!” Ayumi said.

“Why not try opening the front part of the diary. The name should be written on it.” Taila said as she kept the two hot dogs in her hands. Ayumi stared at the diary and finally opened the cover.

“Ayumi’s Dia…..” Ayumi’s voice trailed off. Taila gave her a look and Ayumi shot back,

“I’m telling you. This is not mine. I mean, how many Ayumi's are there in the world?”

“So what are you gonna do 'bout it?”

“Find it's owner I guess. A diary is something important.”

“Good luck with that. Here’s your hot dog.” Taila stuffed the hot dog into her mouth, muffling Ayumi's next words.

“Sorry can’t hear ya.” Taila said and laughed at Ayumi’s pale face.