Records Of Barton's Fantastical Events - Chapter 110
Chapter 110: Chapter 11 Diary
“Next page.” Ryan’s voice sounded. Every few minutes, this earthbound spirit would say this. Then the banshee Alice would put down the old diary of Spell Gale in her hand, and turn a page for the Earthbound Spirit.
They were not reading the same book.
What Alice was reading was ten years ago, while Ryan was reading the recent years. Spell’s letter was placed by the bed, and it had already been opened. There was nothing in the letter. There was only one sentence, ‘My son, read my diary, you will understand.’
In fact, Ryan didn’t understand. Before he became an earthbound spirit, this box was never a secret. Even if he read the diary before, he still didn’t understand. He didn’t understand why his brother Revenge left home; he didn’t understand why his parents agreed to adopt Alice, and then Later, kicked her out; as for now, it was even more difficult for him to understand why his parents had never contacted him for three years, and even now, they even left Barton and directly abandon him.
Alice had already turned a few pages. The banshee realized that Ryan hadn’t asked herself to turn the page for a while. She raised her head and looked at Ryan who was floating in the air.
Ryan looked up, seemingly to have lost in thoughts.
“Don’t you want to read the next page?” Alice asked.
“No need. It’s useless to read it.” Ryan’s body floated around in the air.
Alice put down her diary and asked: “Have you read all these old diaries?”
“Yeah.” He answered.
Alice pointed to a line: “‘It’s already winter. I am very satisfied with the newly bought woolen yarn. I want to knit new sweaters for everyone before Thanksgiving. Last year’s sweaters seem to be useless…'”
“Why are you reading these!” Ryan glared at Alice. He had seen these things when he was still a young boy, and they were all trivial things. Compared to the memo of the potion formula in the box that recorded the spell, it was too boring.
Ryan’s mother, Spell’s diary style has not changed in any way, even in the past three years.
Alice ignored Ryan’s complaints and continued to read: “‘Last year’s sweaters seem to be useless, especially Ryan’s. He grew very quickly. Last year’s sweaters are a bit small. I plan to throw away those tomorrow. It is a pity that I missed the church donation.'”
“What! She never donated anything to the church! And she even said that she had missed!” Ryan snorted coldly.
Alice glanced at Ryan, and continued to read the diary, “‘A very sad thing happened today. When I went to Ogier Street to throw away my old stuff, I lost my wallet. There were more than four hundred Dors in it. Enough for one person to live for a month. Sigh, forget it. It’s Thanksgiving. I hope the person who found my wallet can be grateful.'”
“Huh! She has always been like this, very forgetful…”
Ryan was interrupted by Alice.
“I remember that winter. Your mother was wrong. That four hundred dors helped me to get through the entire winter.” Alice looked at Ryan and said so. The banshee has never been so calm.
The edge of the transparent body of Ryan was moving like waves in the air, and he didn’t turn around, his brows frowned and twitched as the smoke scattered and gathered.
“Of course, there are those sweaters. I remember that my favorite one was the one with red stripes because it fits best.” Alice thought for a while, got up from her bed, and walked to her wardrobe, “Do you want to see it?” Alice opened the closet, pulled out a cardboard box on the bottom, opened it, and pushed it in front of Ryan.
“This is my old stuff.” Alice took out the old clothes one by one, “Although all I could wear were boys’ clothes, I didn’t have much choice. After all, I was sleeping on the street. It was very lucky for me to find these in the trash can, especially the wallet.”
Alice was silent for a while, repacked the box, pushed it back to its original position, walked to the diary that Ryan had read before, and turned a few pages.
“‘Spring is here. At this time of the year, Ryan was always very emotional because the Barton High School League is about to start. I’ve always told him that being emotional is not a good thing, and it is easy to lose himself, but he was just a teenager, and he never listened to what I said.'”
Ryan’s body began to flicker, and the boundary of his transparent body was fusing with the air. As Spell said, being emotional was not a good thing.
“‘I should remind this kid, um, let me think, what should I bring when I go to see him? How about the flower of Soul-Guiding Grass? I remember that before he left us, he seemed to be very interested in the soul-guiding grass, which was really a troublesome interest. Sigh, It’s decided then. Fortunately, I planted a large amount of Soul-Guiding Grass last year, otherwise, it will not be enough this year.'”
“Enough!” Ryan yelled, “I don’t want to hear it! Put these away! I don’t want to see it!”
Alice looked at Ryan, whose body had completely merged with the air, and stopped reading. She put away the letter and the diary that Ryan was reading, leaving the one she was reading and continued to read.
Time passed in the soft sound of flipping pages, and another girl appeared at the door of Alice’s room, “Alice! What are you reading?” Lola jumped onto Alice’s bed like she always did, leaning on the shoulders of her friend who was still reading an old book, “Inan text? Alice, you can actually understand the Inan characters! ”
Alice tilted her head, looked at her friend, and smiled helplessly, “I am an Inan.”
“But you were adopted…” As soon as Lola said it, she realized that she had uttered something very sensitive, and her voice immediately became quieter, “I didn’t mean that.”
“I know.” Alice patted Lola’s hand, indicating that she didn’t mind it.
Lola breathed a sigh of relief and looked curiously at the densely written notes, “What is this?”
“Diary. The family used to look after me, this diary belonged to the owner of that family.” Alice said honestly.
Lola blinked, took the diary, closed it, and threw it aside, “Why are you reading it? ! You told me that you used to live on stre-” Lola reacted quickly to avoid the sensitive part, “They are not good people!”
Alice smiled and took the diary, “I used to think so, but they are not that bad, at least they taught me the Inan script.”
Lola frowned. She felt that her friend was too kind. Seeing Alice opened her diary again, she asked: “What was written in it?”
“‘Today I met the two people that I had previously met again. But we just stared at each other. Such a situation was really ridiculous. But I don’t know which one was more ridiculous, the fact that those two people actually stood together, or I could have peaceful eye contact with them. But I had nothing to worry about. Today I changed to a new shawl, which was a little heavy, and it would make a slight noise when I walk, which attracted the attention of many passersby.'”
“What’s this?” Lola asked curiously.
Alice ignored her friend’s question, she was about to finish it. “‘Unfortunately, I had to get rid of the trash I was carrying. Ryan didn’t have asthma, and he didn’t know why I was buying all these asthma pills. I will never believe those buy-one-get-one-free. scams anymore.'”
“I heard Benjamin say that you used to have severe asthma!” Lola seemed to remember something.
Alice smiled, “‘I’ve thrown away the trash and looked at the two people behind me. This kind of situation needs to stop. I don’t want to wear such a heavy shawl to go out every day. I gestured to them to stay here, and they seemed to understand and remained there until I turned into a corner. Mhm, today was a strange day. I should not go to Ogier Street again.'”
Alice closed the diary, and it seemed like she didn’t need to read what was written after that.
Lola looked at Alice’s smiling face, blinked her eyes, and thought for a while, still insisting on her opinion, “Still, they are not good people! They shouldn’t have-” Lola found that there were too many sensitive words she had to avoid. Moreover, this was a very private matter, and Lola shouldn’t make any comment from the beginning. There was a faint of frustration on the girl’s face.
Alice didn’t talk, she had already read the first part in the morning, and Lola didn’t know about it. Alice just smiled and put the diary in the drawer, “Let’s go find Benjamin.”
Lola still frustrated, but the source of frustration has changed, “He is not here, Matthew said he and Zach went out.”
“Oh,” Alice said, not knowing how she should entertain her friend. The Grande Funeral Home was not an interesting place.
“Matthew is here?” Alice noticed the person in Lola’s words. At noon, when everyone was eating, Matthew’s mother rushed to the Grande Funeral Home to inform Matthew that his father was injured, and Benjamin gave him a day off. But he came back again?
“Mhm, he’s downstairs, waiting for the telecom people. Are you going to install a new phone?” Lola collected herself and asked.
“Yes, Zach said to separate work from personal calls.” Alice didn’t lie. Then she suddenly had an idea: “Let’s go to the kitchen and make something for Matthew’s father.”
“Oh.” Lola nodded, but still asked in confusion, “What happened to his father?”
“He was injured during worship. He was supposed to have a day off, but he still came back.” Alice explained as she walked.
“Ah? He got hurt too?” Lola seemed a little surprised.
“Huh?” Alice looked at Lola, “What’s the matter?”
“There were also people in the Western District who were injured during pray. Grandma told me when she came back that fortunately, I didn’t go to the church.”
“Is Mrs. Barton all right?” Alice asked worriedly.
“Mhm, she’s okay, but her friend was injured.” Lola thought and said, “There is one you should know, Mrs. Quinn.”
Alice’s footsteps stopped, “What happened to Mrs. Quinn?”
“Don’t worry.” Seeing Alice suddenly become agitated, Lola comforted, “Mrs. Quinn only had minor injuries, but her caregiver’s situation seemed to be very bad.”
Lola said in a low voice, “Grandma said that while praying, the priest’s podium suddenly fell, hitting the people in the front row. She happened to be standing near it. After pulling away Mrs. Quinn, it fell right on top of her.”
