Caroline's Diary

by I AM NOT A MORON

An old, tattered book hiding in the dark, unknown depths of Black Mesa, with faded writing printed on the cover; Diary 1907. What story lives within those ripped pages, behind that damp, fraying spine? A/N; This story includes spoilers. Also, all spelling mistakes from the original diary have been corrected for the sake of the reader.

1. 1907

Diary 1907

To my dear daughter, Caroline. I made this book for you when you were born, and I think you are old enough to have it now. It's a book where you can write all your secrets in. I hope it comes in useful to you. Lots of love from mummy xxx

13th August 1907

My name is Caroline Taylor. I am 9 years old and I have brown hair and brown eyes. My mummy is called Michelle and my daddy is called Scott. I don't have any brothers or sisters and it's quite lonely at home! I am in class 5 at my school. My best friend is called Greg but everyone laughs at me because he's a boy. I don't care though, we're best friends anyway so there.

18th August 1907

Mummy says I'm meant to write secrets in here but I don't really have any secrets. I'm going to do some science instead because I don't like writing. Science is my favourite subject at school. Mr. Johnson is my Science teacher, his boy is called Cave and he is in class 6. I think he's a bit scary because he shouts a lot.

27th August 1907

I'm doing some Science at home because Mr. Johnson doesn't let us make up our own experiments, he says it's too dangerous. So I'm going to do it at home instead.

SCIENCE EXPERIMENT 1 - WATER AND SALT AND SOAP

What I am going to use

Some water and some salt and some honey soap. Mummy said I couldn't use it because it costs lots of money but I'm going to use it anyway for Science.

What I am going to do

I'm going to mix it all up in one big bowl and put it in a freezer and then take it out in a few hours and see what happens. I think the waters going to freeze and the salt will probably dissolve like it did at school and the soap will probably make the water all soapy.

What happened

When I took it out of the fridge it was all frozen and really cold. It smelt a bit like honey but mummy wouldn't let me eat it. It's only a bit of ice with salt and soap so I did it anyway. It tasted really horrible though and I feel a bit poorly now. I hope it wasn't poison.

28th August 1907

I have to stay at home today and I'm not aloud out of my bed because I am a bit ill from the icy water stuff. Mummy says it's the salt that made me sick and I'll probably be okay to go to school tomorrow. I hope Gregs not wondering where I am.