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Chapter Two: The Diary
Jesse quickly gets out of the creek and put on his socks and sneakers and ran past the bridge and straight into the tree house. The tree house looks different know. Jesse and May Belle fixed their castle about five years ago, after a strong storm hits the state and break the tree house on the ground. Though both don't have the magic to see Terabithia, they want to keep the tree house and the bridge as a reminder of what they used to be.
Jesse climbed up the tree house and sat on the porch and examines the box. The box seems sealed, with the lid closed tightly, he knew that not much water enters the box and the keyhole is just a design. He looks at the both sides of the box, there's two identical circular button like thing that sticks out on the both side, he pushed them simultaneously and the box opened. There was two things inside, a little note written on a faded white piece of paper and the black leather bound book, a bit thick, and was labeled as September 2006 – April 2007.
He first took out the little note and read it; the hand writing looks familiar to him.
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Dear Jess,
By the time you'll be reading this, I'm probably at Arlington by now. I'm here for two days visiting my aunt, so I'll not be seeing for two days. I saw you leave your house this morning with Miss Edmunds so I'm just going to say goodbye here, goodbye :).
So on to business. This box will be our time capsule! I think you already know what a time capsule is right? So I want you to put something here, something that symbolizes our friendship. For me, I put my diary here (I know you're not going to read my diary Jess cause that just how I trust you :p ) and after you put something here I want you to bury this somewhere in our kingdom, and yes, you're going to tell me where'd you bury this after I come back. And then, will dig this up after 15 or 20 years or so, if you're still my friend haha! But I know you'll still be.
See you Monday, Jess.
Love lots,
Leslie
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After reading the note, Jesse hesitated for a moment to reading the diary, but he needs to know, he needs to know how Leslie feels towards him. This question had been his head ever since that day, the day where he and Leslie were running in the rain, when Leslie gave him a wave goodbye and a little giggle. Besides, it's already 17 years; I think I can open up this thing. Jesse knew that if Leslie feels the same way as him, he knew that it would just hurt him more. But he don't care, he really wants to know.
So he picked up the diary and opens it on the first page. The date was the first day of school and the first time he met Leslie. He gave a little smile after reading a little comment on the middle of the entry that says 'I BEAT all the boys in the race, they are so slow! Hahaha!' Jesse had to admit, Leslie is really fast and he never beaten her on a single race. He flip some pages and reads again and reads some of the lines 'I finally made a friend today, Jesse Aarons, I really like him and today we have a little race, and then we found a rope swing which is really fun. Then we decided that we need a place just for the two of us, where we can be strong and nothing can crush us, across the creek we found it, our own kingdom, I'm the Queen and Jesse is the King, there we found our castle, a really weathered tree house but still usable, tomorrow we decided that we'll fix it with some old lumber that I found in our backyard' the word 'I really like him' wasn't enough for Jesse, so again he flip some pages
This is endless!! Jesse thought this book, everything's that written in here, its like our story he still flipping pages the pages, cramming everything when he finally give up and put the book down, still open. I want to know Leslie, I just want to know. Then a strong wind came suddenly, blowing some pages of the book and turned itself to the very last page
Jesse looks the page, it has to entry, one entry was a bit long and the other one really short. He looks at the date of the second entry; it has the same date of today. He then read the previous entry
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April 6, 2007
Dear diary,
I had a great time today with Jess; we fought some squogers and hairy vultures today and made friends with the giant troll. He was trying to get back his dad's keys that May Belle handed me yesterday while we were making some bells made out of some clinking metal junk.
All the time I'm been with Jess today I feel something…different, every time I look at him…I just smiled, and when that time he fell out of the tree…I was so scared, I thought I'm gonna lose him, and when the rain came, we started running. By the time we reach our house we bid goodbye. I thought he was already gone but when I looked back…I saw him staring at me. So I waved to him one more goodbye and kept running with a little giggle. I'm not sure but, I know he was smiling back at me.
The time I came back to the house, I quickly took a shower and rest on my bed. I just realized that…I love him, I love Jesse Aarons. I don't know what love truly is, but I know that I DO love him. I love Jesse Aarons, I love him.
When I felt that he was smiling back at me back then, I feel like I want to run towards him and gave him a big hug, I want to at his side, but a little bad news, I'm going to Arlington tomorrow, and I will not be seeing Jess for two days, I'm gonna miss him sooooo much
Well I'll have to rest for tomorrow, and need to wake up a bit early for a little surprise for Jess
Jesse continues on reading.
April 7, 2007
Dear Diary,
I just saw Jesse leave with Miss Edmunds, I wonder where are they going and why Jesse didn't tell me?
I guess I'll just have to leave my little surprise to him at the tree house, and I'll be putting a note on what he's going to do with it. Well this diary is about to be filled in completely and I need to get a new one so my last words will be; this diary ends……HERE!
There was a little scribble on the bottom a the page that said 'I love you Jesse Aarons and I'm going to miss you for two days!!'
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After reading the entry, Jesse was staring at the sky. She loves me…she loves me… he's now more angry to himself for being so selfish, he don't know what he's going to do, he felt like his world has crashed down in front of him, everything that made him strong all over the years were suddenly out of his head and he's emotions are running high now. He wants to cry but the tears were no where to be found. The truth seems to be to powerful that he has lost his head somewhere. He climbed down the treehouse and stared at the ground for a moment, he felt so helpless... Next thing he knew he was running.
He was running so fast, he didn't know where he's going. Tears were know coming down on his cheek. Everything was a blur to his eyes, everything he see is just blurred green and brown. He saw some flashbacks of his life with Leslie, We could have been more, he thought. And then he was falling
Jesse tripped on a root of a tree sticking out on the ground. And fell head first. Last thing he saw was a flash of light and very painful blow on his head. He hit his head with something very sharp. And then he felt swirling into an endless vortex
Jesse Aarons, The ruler of the beautiful place of Terabithia, The king of a once mighty kingdom, is now…dead.
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A/N: heres the second chapter, I really hope that you read my story...
I followed IHateSnake's date of the death of Leslie. And he also inspired me so much to write a fanfic of B.t.T :)