Dear Diary,
What a day! It would take hours to explain it all, so I'm not going to try. Okay, maybe I will. Here's the short version: In literally no time at all, I was chased twice by an actual T-Rex, went for seventy-two hours with nothing to eat but berries and lived through an earth-splitting earthquake. How, you ask? Well, whose fault is it whenever something weird happens? Neutron's, of course. One of his inventions went screwy again (so what else is new?) and transported us back in time, while freezing time here. Then it sent us back home after seventy-two hours because of some automatic time unfreezer thingy. Don't ask me, Jimmy explained it but I didn't exactly follow (quote me on that and I'll deny it, though). I swear, Neutron can be quite the handful sometimes! I wonder how his parents handle him. Then again, he can be sweet sometimes, too. He worried about me when I went out to get firewood and food, and he even told me to be careful and everything. Could the voice be right? Could he possibly… have a crush on me? No, no, of course not! What am I thinking? Still, all the same, sometimes I wonder…. Anyway, all for now. Goodnight, diary.
~Cindy
Cindy set her diary and pencil down on the desk, then walked over and looked out the window. Across the street she could see Jimmy's silhouette in the window. He was moving back and forth across the room, probably getting ready for bed. She smiled, remembering how she had watched him sleep in the cave, and how cute he had looked – wait a minute, did she just think what she thought she did? Oh well, it couldn't hurt to let it slip just this once. But no more slipping. She might start to actually get a crush on Jimmy.
What do you mean, start to? Don't you already?
Oh, go away! I'm tired and not in the mood to argue.
Eesh, fine. You're grouchy when you're tired.
Cindy sighed and shut the curtains, then changed into her nightgown. As she slid into her bed she turned off the light, then put her head on her pillow and was soon asleep.