Alex Russo's Diary
I'm worried about Justin. He's been acting weird – weird even for him. Two nights ago, he came into my room in the middle of the night. I was kind of half asleep, just on the verge of drifting off, and I figured he was going to try to play some kind of prank on me, like Max and I do to him sometimes, so I pretended I was still asleep so I could watch what he did.
But he didn't do anything. Or at least, nothing that made any sense. He just pulled out my desk chair, sat in it, and watched me. I kept pretending I was asleep, thinking he was waiting to see if I really was or not – and after a little while, I really did fall asleep. When I woke up, he wasn't there any more. I checked all over to see if he'd pranked me, but I couldn't find anything.
So the next night, I got up and peeked in on him. Not the stupid way, coming into his room, like he had – I went to the lair, got one of the crystal balls, and used that to watch him.
What he did then was just plain strange. He spent like, an hour and a half writing something – crappy crystal ball wasn't good enough for me to read it. Then he took it into the bathroom, put it in the sink, burned it, and washed the ashes down the sink!
Yeah – totally crazy. But now that I think about it, he's been acting strange a lot lately. Like, not fighting back when I argue with him, and doing extra chores, and staying late at school, saying he was working on papers and stuff.
I'm thinking he's still not over the whole Juliet thing. That girl he dated after Harper and I tried to get him to let go didn't last – they broke up two weeks later. And writing letters and burning them… yeah, that's not normal at all. He needs someone to talk to him, and I guess that's going to have to be me.
Well, hell. He's not in his room, not in the bathroom, and definitely not in my room. Unless he's using some kind of invisibility spell, which would actually give him a hat trick for weird for the week. Guess I'm going to have to break out the crystal ball again to see where he is.