THE MOON CHILD

Chapter 18 - The Box

We informed my mother about the information we could gather about my father, and also the fact that there was no written record available of him working there which surprised her. She said she would inform sam's father about the situation and ask him if he has any lead in this matter.

" mom do you have the diary dad always wrote in?" I asked her remembering about him sometimes writing something in his diary.

"I tried to find it but I couldn't, I have no idea where he kept his diary because I went through his library completely, I found a lot of things there but not the diary, I doubt we will be able to find it ".

That sentence disappointed me but to be honest, luck has not been on our side for a few days.

 I decided to go up to his library, my mother kept his library as it was when dad was with us, not even a book was removed from its place. I wanted to spend some time with him, I felt so unprepared for whatever was coming for us, even though we found a lot of answers but not what I was desperately looking for.

I sat down on his chair and took out the book adam sneaked out from the library and started going through it, there was a line that caught my attention,

" round and round around the tree, 

up, up above and beneath we see, 

round and round around the tree,

look at the butterfly before it flees,"

 FLASHBACK

 " Daddy where are we going ? ". I was running behind him, curious about where he was taking me.

" We are going to the swing sweetie," he said smiling at me.

" But daddy is am tired, I don't want to walk, I want daddy to carry me," I said making a tired face.

 He laughed and took me into his arms, and took me to our usual place. he made me a treehouse near the lake we had about half a kilometer away from our outhouse, and there was a swing that he especially tied to the tree for me,  and I could spend hours and hours in that treehouse and on that swing.

when we reached their daddy and I sat down near the lake for some time and chatted while leaving back for the outhouse dad said " let me show you something", and he took me around the treehouse and said " daddy has hidden a box under here, if someday you need daddy and daddy is not with you, you come here and dig out the box, you will find me beside you " and with that, he took me into his arms and started back for the outhouse.

 PRESENT

That paragraph reminded me of the place daddy told me about, so I immediately jumped out of my chair and decided to leave for the outhouse, it was 3 kilometers from our place, so I thought I would just take a run. But I knew I left this time not telling Sam about it, he would be furious with me, hence I decided to inform him first.

Sam was in the secondary seating with Adam, Max, Jasper, and Alex discussing something.

" Sam, can I talk to you?" I said to him. He nodded to others and then got up to come to me.

" what happened, what is it ?" he said.

" First tell me why are you all here, and why am I not included in this?" I gave Sam a hurtful look.

he kissed my forehead and said " don't worry its nothing you can't miss on, I was just asking jasper about the warriors in your group and told him about our pack, we were just figuring out how we can use our warriors and their strengths and if we needed a special training program for it, besides, I would have reported everything to you Alpha, " he gave me a smirk with that sentence.

" that's not funny, anyways I came here to tell you that I am going to visit our outhouse, and I will be back in 2 hours maybe". 

Sams expressions changed " why are you doing this, why can't you be here till all of this gets over?" he snapped over me.

"It's important for me, and I knew you will be worried and hence I came to you first," I emphasized.

"I will go with you," Sam murmured.

" No, it's ok, I know you are busy here, I will take Jasper and Cara with me, if you are ok with it " I insisted.

  he came closer to me and said " everything I am doing here is to keep you safe, leaving you alone is not some I am ready for, I will let Jasper and Adam handle everything here, but I am coming with you, where ever you go," 

"I am sorry to trouble you, Sam, I didn't want to cause you any problem but when I was reading the book adam sneaked out, I remembered a conversation that I had with my father and about the place he told me to look into when I missed him and he would not be around there for me," I recounted telling him about the flashback I had.

Sam listened to me patiently and then said: " you know I will always support you, you are my mate, and as per I know you you will not let this go until you find an answer and no one can change your mind, but even I cannot leave you alone, and hence I am coming with you, and that is final".

I knew there was no point in further discussion. He was right I will be restless till I find out about my father and he was not going to let me leave alone, so I agreed to his decision of coming with me.

 He decided against my idea of running there and took his car, we both left for the farmhouse in half an hour in his Mercedes.

 " you are the most stubborn person I have met in my life," he said while driving the car.

I smiled at him, even though this thing was necessary for me I understood what pain in the ass I was being for him.

We reached the outhouse and parked our vehicle right in front not bothering to park in the garage.

I got down with sam and lead our way to the treehouse. Sam took my hands into his and followed me till the treehouse not uttering even a single word during the walk.

I saw the space I remembered in my memory, about which my father told me behind the tree and started to dig it with the shovel which kept in the treehouse.

I started digging until my shovel hit something hard and made a king sound.

that sound even distracted Sam from his thought who was standing cross-handed there, looking at me with an irritated expression.

I kept the shovel aside and dug out the box with my bare hands, it was a wooden box with brass stips around it and had a lock on it. I looked around the box and evens shared it to see if there was a key to the lock somewhere attach to the box, I even looked around in the pit and dug it further for a key but found nothing. 

it was then sam took the box out of my hand and pulled the lock putting a lot of force on the lock which led to the breaking of the wall of the box.

"it's there " I gushed taking the diary into my hands and throwing the box on the ground. it was the brown leather diary that I remember my dad using a lot.

I was so happy I could find something that will help me know about him.

I browsed through the book and found it filled with a lot of werewolves sketches and other details that I remember him writing in the diary but then I came across the note he wrote for me.

 " Dear Hope,

If you are reading this, that means I am no more with you,

and you somehow have a recollection of the conversation we had or maybe you are racing back your fathers past, 

perhaps the time has arrived that you know about your father, his ideologies, and his past, but not as a child I remember but as the grownup girl that you have become".

 I read the note and showed it to sam.

"let's get home first and there you can sit down and complete reading his entire book", he said pulling me out of the tiny pit.

I smiled back at him and walked along with him to the car, smiling on the fact that I finally got my fathers diary and now, will be able to know further about him

I couldn't help but smile about it.