Season: Autumn
Weather: Overcast but warm
Day of the week: Saturday
Date: 30th March, 2024
I did it. It took almost all day and half the night, but I did it.
I'm still shaking. I don't know what to do. My writing is shaky because of my shaky hands.
Some time in the past few days, I don't even know when, I ended up in the hospital again. I don't know how I got there or who sent me. Maybe it was the dark shadow lord. Who knows?
But I saw the business cards that had been sticky taped into my journal and the letter people had left me yesterday after the strange few scattered diary entries with no head or tail to them. And I saw that Chef needed my help. So, I badgered someone, probably a nurse for a phone and called the police guy who had signed my book.
After I called him, he came with a female police officer, took me to a private meeting room with my doctors and psychologist and then... well... I guess I told them everything? I don't really remember, mind you. I'm not entirely sure what I said or what they asked. Everything is kind of blurry and fuzzy, but I did the impossible. I think I told them everything I knew about everything.
Maybe that evil guy will finally get his comeuppance? I hope they find my evidence stash and other evidence on him. I hope Bezel and my parents are ok. Will Bezel be able to escape being dragged into things? If she was a willing accomplice, there's no way for her to escape, right?
Chef will be able to come out on bail after everything is done, right? Chef's son will be put away for a long time, right?
They said I have to give witness in court. I'm so scared.
What if that guy runs away with Bezel? I wouldn't be surprised if he has caught wind of something, especially after Chef and the dark shadow lord must have looked him up. But with all this, my parents - my foster parents are going to hate me forever after. They'll think this is another of my dark elaborate schemes to set my foster siblings up. There's no way for me to ever explain myself and wash myself in front of them, so I'll have to hide and stay away from them.
Scared. So scared.
The lawyers and police will be talking to me further another day and preparing me to be a witness in multiple court cases. They said it might take years to get through everything until everything is over. There has to be time to collect evidence, a hearing and committal, and then trials, for each individual case. And because everything is so complex and interconnected. Even my foster parents might be brought in or tried, depending upon the evidence found.
Everything is just a big, big mess and I want to run away. I don't want to have anything to do with it.
They said it'd be good for me in the end though. Good for me to have everything dealt with and the law to do it's job and at the end of it all, I should be safe. Free.
And they want me to attend counselling properly. Regularly.
I'm scared. I don't want to.
What about work?
How do I go back to normal life during this and after all this?
I want Chef. I want him to hug me and tell me everything is alright. They said I'd be able to go visit him in a few days. That would be nice. I don't feel like I can properly trust anybody else right now.
My doctors are upset. My health is not good, they said. Having had so many things happen to me, one of my doctors pretty much broke down in tears during the meeting and had to be ushered out to try and get her to calm down. She said they don't know if they'll be able to help me properly recover and put me back together. It seems that Chef's son did quite the number on my body and the dark shadow lord getting involved not that long after... well... can I even blame such a powerful person?
Wait. Will the police use this chance to pull the dark shadow lord down? If they do, the underworld will be boil with opportunists coming out of the woodworks to pull the dark shadow lord off his throne. That sounds pretty bad. How many more people are going to get involved and in trouble with the police?
My head hurts.