Chapter 104

The corners of the diary scraped against the unhealed wound on her face and instantly, there was a sudden sharp burst of pain from skin and flesh tearing before blood began oozing again. Jeremy did not notice, however. He brushed past her, causing his broad and powerful shoulders to hit Madeline's thin body. In an instant, she fell down beside the bed. In front of her was the open diary that Jeremy had dropped. Madeline looked at the words written in the diary and laughed at herself. "Jez, finally I get to see you again..." Madeline looked at the words written on the diary page and laughed mockingly at herself. She continued laughing until unbidden tears welled up in her eyes and began to fall. The warm water dripped past the bleeding wound, along the curve of the chin, and finally mingled into a drop of blood and tears, dripping onto the sentence in the diary. Jez... In her heart, the boy she had formerly called Jez was now dead. That gentle sunshine, the boy who had said he ha