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CHAPTER 1: The Journal
As the Baudelaires and Quagmires walked down the corridor towards the library, they are happy, something that is rare, in their lives, and wretched school. They lunged heavy backpacks, full of papers with useless information, about what stains are on which piece of clothing, or how long each book is, or something, impossibly even more boring, and useless, something that they will never use once in their lives, other than on a test, that marks how well they can remember useless information. With that piece of information, along with the fact that they loved to read, write, and invent, you can guess that they love the library, and you can come to the conclusion, that their 10 minutes a day, are not enough, but they will take what they can get.
As they reach the door, they don't just walk in, they wait for a minute or two, due to the fact, that the 10 minutes did not start yet.
"Hey Klaus, I fell asleep while the teacher was talking about what animals are a total disgrace, is there any chance that not only you didn't fall asleep, but that I can also borrow your notes? Please," Isadora explained.
"Yeah, no, totally, I have the notes, somewhere, in this heap of junk," Klaus said, earning a chukle from the group. Duncan is particular, seemed joyful.
"Duncan, where is the time machine," giggled Isadora, seeing how happy he was. (Time machine, to save their parents)
He was somehow in a trace, and she knew why. He had the biggest crush on Klaus, and Isadora loved to tease him. Earlier on in the year, when they had first met, and became friends.
"But what if he doesn't like me in that way," he had asked.
"The only way, that that is possible is that he doesn't play for your team," she said.
"That is exactly what I am afraid of," he stated, a little red in the face.
The signs that Isadora looked into, Duncan was able to shoot down.
He would glance at him, more than any other, 'well, we sit close, he could be looking at you.'
He would laugh at his jokes, 'I am funny.'
He would help him with work, 'We are friends."
He would touch his shoulder, 'we are friends."
He sat close, 'we all do, you and Violet sit close, does that mean anything?'
There were more, always more, but these were the most brought up. Duncan had new ways to shoot them down.
Those were the only true signs, they were clueless, and when Violet was brought into it, even she couldn't help, Klaus's feelings, were in a trunk, that was superglued shut, and locked, and wrapped up in ducktape, and put in the ocean, well buried in a hole at the bottom the the ocean, under an under water cave, under an island, on a different planet, in a different galaxy, in a different universe, in a different timeline, well you get it, he was not at all open about his emotions, in this department, in the romance department.
The trance broken when he heard the library door open.
"Hi! Let me know if you need any help," Oliva said as she welcomed them to the library.
Klaus went for the books, Violet to the tables, Sunny to the textbooks, (That she could bite) Isadora, went with Violet, and Duncan did too.
When Sunny found a good book, she dragged in to the table, they always sat far away from the librarian, so that she couldn't see Sunny biting the book, but even if she did, she knew that books with information about different colored stains, were a disgrace, because of the way that they were being used, and that Sunny had a better need for them.
When Klaus found a book that was fit his current intrest, he sat down with the others, next to Duncan, who took a deep breath. He had out his notebook, but when Klaus sat down he shut it, and Klaus noticed that it wasn't his normal Green notebook.
"What is that, Duncan," Klaus asked, and Isadora looked up, surprised that he would dare write in that notebook, while Klaus was in the same room as him, no matter how big the room.
He gulps, knowing that there may be no way around this.
"Oh, that is a book that he found, siting here when he arrived, he was looking to see if he reconized the handwritting, but it looks like his, and he doesn't know who else writes like that, and there is no name," Isadora rushes out, then looks at her brother for confirmation. He nods, silently. Klaus just opens his book and starts to read, knowing that there is only five minutes at most left.
Later that night, Isadora finds Duncan crying, "What's wrong, Duncan?"
"He almost," he studders, "he almost, he almost, he almost," he sighs, "found out," he said the last part in a whisper. She seen him in real tears, because of this? He really did like him, huh? What she didn't know is that he liked him more than she would even believe, he liked him more than he cared to admit, for him, this wasn't a silly school boy crush, it was the real deal, but neither knew that.
"I got some paint, we can paint the cover, and he won't even remember that that this was for you," she tells Duncan.
"Thanks," he sniffles, "but how did you get paint?"
"I asked Oliva, and she stole it from Vice Principal Nero's office."
"He had paint in there? For what? Why could he possibly need paint?"
"To mark the 'F' that kids get on tests, to make it bigger, and brigter, to mock them," Isadora said.
They spent some time painting the covers, and everything seemed fine for a bit, then Duncan had an amazing idea, they should hide his handwritting, change it up a bit, so that if Klaus ever did see it, he wouldn't think that it was for him. They spent the rest of the night, tracing over the letter 't' making it curvy, and putting lines through the 'z' and the 's' and dotting the 'i' with a line and doing other things to mask it, but still make it readable, and somehow neat.
The next day, Duncan proudly told Klaus that he found out who the notebook was for and returned it.
"Who was it for," Klaus asked.
"It was for, Henry," Isadora said, knowing that there are about 50, Henry's at the school.
"Okay," Klaus said, not wanting to pry.
That day, when they went to go to the library, Duncan went to look for a book on Journalism, and what he did not notice, is that his notebook, somehow, fell out of his backpack, and he didn't notice. How did it fall? His backpack wasn't zipped all the way, because a bully unzipped it, in hope that something would fall out, and all of them walked side by side, so they didn't notice, and he went straight for the books, without placing his bag down, and so his book fell out, and he didn't notice, so he lost it, but don't worry, because Klaus found it, and with the new cover, and the story that it was returned, he didn't notice that it was the same notebook, and what he doesn't know is that inside the note book, are pages, and pages, about himself, written by, Duncan, everything in there is about Klaus, and his crush, and now Klaus has it.