Dear Diary,

Zayda and I went to the Spice Festival and most of the tables were taken. We saw a purple-haired girl sitting by herself, so we asked her if we could join her. The first thing out of her mouth was, “Of course. But please tell me one thing. How did you find me so quickly?” It took me a moment to figure out what the heck she was talking about. After a few seconds, it suddenly dawned on me that she is the person who was sending those weird messages! I tried to play it cool like it wasn’t just a coincidence that I found her, but I’m not completely sure that I had her fooled.

The girl’s name is Alejandra Sombra. She goes to my high school but we’re not in any of the same classes. I never noticed her in the halls, but she certainly noticed me. She told me that all she had to do was find out my log in for the computers at school and the rest was easy as pie.

Dear Diary,

There’s an on-going community project at the market of the Arts Quarter I’ve been participating in. One artist starts a mural and then people can contribute throughout the day however they wish. The one I’m working on was drawn by a very talented artist. I hope they enjoy the pops of colour I’ve been spraying in to liven it up.

Dear Diary,

Zay returned to school today. I am so happy to have her back! We went straight to the library before classes started so that we could look up what happened to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas. I’m still shocked by what we found out!

Issac Thomas was a professional comedian, albeit not a very good one. When problems in the marriage arose, Rochelle Grey-Thomas really enjoyed going to Mr. Thomas’ shows and heckling him. On the day of their deaths, Mr. Thomas was having a particularly bad night and became so anxious he wet his pants right on stage. He suddenly fell to the floor and passed away from the embarrassment. Mrs. Grey-Thomas passed away shortly after from hysterical laughter at the sight.

This has got to be the strangest story that has ever been published in the Willow Creek Times.

Dear Diary,

Dad and I moved into Medina Studios Apartments in San Myshuno’s Arts Quarter over the weekend. Dad is renting a three bedroom apartment and he surprised me by converting one of the bedrooms into my own little art studio. Both my studio and my new bedroom overlook a small market place and I love looking out the windows to watching the people come and go.

All of that stuff is really cool, but I haven’t even mentioned the best part yet! Medina Studios is also where Yuki and her mother live! In fact, they’re on the same floor!

Dear Diary,

We had an extremely awkward family meeting today. My parents are going to live separately for a little while. They’re not getting a divorce (not yet, at least), but they’re not sure they want to be together any more either.

Mom is going to keep living at the house with grandma and grandpa, but my dad is moving to San Myshuno. Both of my parents said it would be okay for me to live with Dad because I’d be closer to school, but they said it’s my choice to make. However, How exactly am I supposed to decide between my parents?

Dear Diary,

I just got off the phone with Zayda, who was very upset. She told me that she just found out her parents passed away while they were out at The Blue Velvet. Her grandparents won’t give her any details about what happened. They just keep saying there was an accident and leave it at that. Zayda also told me she has to move to San Myshuno to live with her grandparents. I’m going to miss being able to just walk down the street to visit her.

Naturally, Zayda won’t be at school for a little while. However, once she’s back she wants me to help her find out what happened. She is determined to get to the real story, no matter what.