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Author: Funmilayo
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Sylvia’s POV

I read the words again. And again.

"In the basement, the woman, old nanny, scrawny, I know sister. Mario keeping away."

The sentence was jagged, rushed, like whoever wrote it wasn’t sure if they should. And maybe they shouldn’t have.

Because now it was stuck in my head.

A basement? A woman? A sister?

I shut the diary and gripped it tight, my fingers pressing into the lavender cover. This was stupid. This had nothing to do with me.

But my gut was telling me otherwise.

Because Mario had been hiding this diary for a reason.

Because if this girl was right—if she did have a sister—then Mario had been lying to her. Keeping something from her.

And if he could lie to her, he could lie to me too. And there was one lingering question, who was she?

I exhaled slowly.

I needed to be smart about this. Rushing off to demand answers wasn’t an option. Not when I didn’t even know what I was looking for.

I slipped the diary under my pillow and pushed myself off the bed. My legs felt shaky,
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