Chapter 14

Shawn looked around to see if anyone was watching and slipped into Mia's dressing room.

"Shawn! What are you doing?" Gus said trying to get Shawn out of the small room.

"Just checking," Shawn said pulling Mia's drawers open slowly.

"Checking for what?" Gus asked.

"Making sure the handwriting on that note wasn't Mia's," Shawn said.

"AHA!" Shawn exclaimed pulling a stack of papers from a drawer.

"Let's see. Typed, typed, typed, drawing, sketch, typed…here we go! Diary," Shawn said taking a small leather book from the pile and holding it up proudly.

"Shawn don't you dare think about it!" Gus warned pointing his finger at Shawn.

"Dear Diary," Shawn began

"Shawn," Gus warned again.

"Today I met some really strange people, one of them says he's a psychic...I've dealt with people like that a lot haven't I? He seems harmless though, his friend's nice too. There are these two detectives too. The girl seems really…perky, and I love that! She reminds me a lot of my old friend Martha in a way. The other detective was…hard to describe, I'll go more into detail later. The strange thing is, I'm feeling almost the same way I felt when I was with you-know-who…almost!" Shawn read.

"Shawn, that was an invasion of Mia's privacy!" Gus scolded.

"No, this is! Let's go further back! TO the beginning of her diary," Shawn smiled flipping the cover over.

"Dear Diary, Today he left me here…I have no idea where I am to be honest. The only question I have is why after all we've been through would he just dump me on the side of the road like that? He's a good man…so why? I already miss him so much and I've made a decision. I'm going to keep fighting every day; he promised one day he'd be back for me. I've decided to write down the details of my life here in case one day someone cares enough to hear my story. I've lived a life of danger, and I've seen things no one could even imagine…but here I am…doing what he could never do, but what he longed to have…a normal, boring life," Shawn whispered the last lines.

"Who was this guy?" Gus questioned.

"I'm not sure. But now we know that it wasn't Mia's handwriting!" Shawn brightened.

Shawn eased back out the door after he slipped the diary back in its place.

"You know that was a stupid trick Shawn. And that wasn't very fair to Mia!" Gus scolded once again.

"Gus, it's only unfair if Mia finds out," Shawn whispered, "besides…I just narrowed down my list of suspects".