Shimmy: I think this is the shortest chapter in the whole story...

Sheba: But it's good!

Shimmy: Whatever.

Disclaimer: If I owned Golden Sun, there would be a number 3 out by now.

He knew he shouldn't do it. It was his mother's diary after all, where she kept all her secrets. She had warned him time and time again not to go near it. But Jayden liked secrets. He liked finding out secrets and he liked telling secrets too. His mother's diary was full of secrets, he was sure. He was peeking through the door of his parent's bedroom, looking at the drawer where his mother's secrets were hidden. There was no one home, save for him and his twin sister. His mother and father had left to help out with the farming work. Jayden and his sister were only six, so they didn't have to help out at all. He was glad to get a rest from his boring lessons, taught by Mister Kraden, and he wasn't going to let this opportunity pass. He nudged the door open wider and crept inside. He reached out and opened the drawer. Inside was his mother's diary, a crimson leather book. He pulled it out of the drawer and undid the strings that kept it together, trembling in anticipation.

"What are you doing?"

Jayden flinched and swung around to meet his twin's hard, blue eyes. She shook her head, auburn hair swinging with the motion.

"Mother told you to stay away from her diary."

"I was staying away from it Sydney, honest I was," whined Jayden, "But mother and father are out. They'll never know."

Sydney held out a hand.

"Give it here." She said.

"No."

Sydney grabbed the diary and tried to tug it away from him.

"Give it here!"

"No!" Shouted Jayden but he lost his grip. Sydney, surprised, dropped the diary as she fell. The diary dropped and landed open on a page. Jadyen and Sydney scuttled over to it and started to fight. Finally they both made themselves comfortable and began to read.

Dear Diary,

It's been a week since Alchemy has been restored and still Vault celebrates. I was happy with the celebrations, but now, they become tedious. The party goes on, day and night. I have hope that the people of Vault will soon stop their parties and help us rebuild Vale. Speaking of that Mia, Piers, Ivan and Sheba have all agreed to stay and help us. It is great to know our friends will be there for us and will help to build us a home again. We have decided to build slightly south of the original Vale, in the hopes that this one will not be destroyed buy Mt Aleph. Because not much remains of the great mountain, I don't think we will have any problems with that. Alex still hasn't shown up. It seems he was on Mt Aleph when it sunk into the earth. It is good to think he is gone forever. But I don't think he is gone forever, neither does Sheba. We remain on the alert, in case Alex does return.

Ah yes… Sheba. Sheba has gone through an amazing change lately. I don't know what has caused it. But now all the men seem to stare at her. It amazes me that all the Vault and Vale men, even the married ones, will take to staring at a fourteen year old girl. Even though Sheba ignores their stares, their wives are getting jealous. Jealous wives lead to jealous talk. Jealous talk leads to wild rumours. Wild rumours lead to a bad reputation. Before now, Sheba was never noticed. It was always me and Mia. I was described as the 'sexy', or 'hot'(literally) one. Mia was always 'Miss beautiful'. Sheba barley got a mention of 'cute'. But now she draws all male attention. I tried to question Ivan about it, but with a glazed look in his eye he just muttered "Beautiful". I even heard him later in the evening telling her that he loved her, only to be told firmly that she wasn't interested in him. Needless to say, Sheba has had many dance partners lately. She is so tired by the end of each day that she goes to sleep as the sun sets. I know that the one she really wants to dance with is my brother, but he hangs back and is gone by the time she has exhausted all of her dancing partners, and she hasn't the energy to look for him. I have noticed she has taken to hiding and the rumours are flying around about what she has been doing when no one see her.

It's sad… The good news is that Isaac and I are dating. I got an "I told you so" comment from Sheba that I ignored. Isaac and I are happy together. I was mildly surprised that Felix approved our relationship and Isaac said nothing about Felix accosting him. Of course, it was Sheba who told me later that my brother slammed Isaac up against a wall and threatened him with phrases such as "If you break her heart, I'll break your neck" and "If you get her pregnant, you sure as hell better marry her". I told Sheba to stop at that but she said there was more. Sheesh. I wish he wasn't so protective.

I swear that girl watches my brother all the time. I know she likes him and I have a suspicion he likes her, but I don't think mother and father would approve of them having a relationship, least of all getting married. Sheba is four years younger than my brother. I think he's waiting for her to grow up. Even though she's mature enough, even more so than Ivan since girls mature faster than guys, she's just not old enough. It's a pity. She'll be heading back to Lalivero after we rebuild Vale, and they'll probably never let her leave again. The Laliverans will cling to her like the stains on my new bathing suit. (Damn Garet's clumsiness! P.S. He has no hair left!) Maybe Felix will confess his feelings to her in a few years. I'll have to wait and see.

Jenna

Jayden and Sydney looked at each other in shock.

"What does tedious mean?" asked Jayden.

"I don't know." Was the reply he got.

That's when they came out of their trance and heard the commotion outside. Jayden raced over to the window to see what was happening. Sydney grabbed him back.

"Idiot!" She snapped, "We're in our parents bedroom!"

She slammed the book shut, tied it quickly and stuffed it back in the drawer. They raced out of their parent's bedroom, closed the door behind them and ran outside. Everyone was running about in every which way and then they saw their uncle and mother run past.

"Jenna! Slow down! What is it?" They heard their uncle ask.

Jenna pointed to the sky and Jayden and Sydney looked up to see a massive dragon in the sky.

"What is that?" Sydney breathed to her twin.

"It's a dragon!" Jayden shouted.

They got their answer as their uncle cried out with obvious delight:

"That's Piers's ship!"

Shimmy: Sorry if it was a bit short.

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