The Clockwork Diary

The God Of Memories: Chapter 1: The Clockwork Diary

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My name is Kanna Accelia, I was a super normal Second Year High School girl until I found a diary near the old clock tower near the school I was going to. All I wanted to do was to live a normal live like everyone, like Meiko and Kyouko. But when I found that Diary, I never wanted to live that normal life again. Because of the story I witnessed through the diary. It was about a life of a normal high school boy, he was one year older than me. He went through some events of life that where the only way out was to die. He was put in to many situations where he could do nothing, where everything was impossible but despite all of that, he didn't give up, he found a way out and did the impossible. Now, I will tell you my story and the owner of the diary's story.

April 21,2014, Wednesday. Kinokawa City, Tokeichouten High School.
「Celia! Good Morning!」
「Morning, Celia」 Meiko and Kyouko greeted me while I was about to enter the Entrance Gate of the school,
「Good Morning, Meiko, Kyouko」 I greeted them back and we head to the classroom together.

My Day went past like everyday until today.
「Celia! I heard from the rumor that there are ghosts in the clock tower near here」 Meiko energetically told me about the rumor she heard. Meiko is the type of person who likes rumors and occult stuff but she doesn't like gossip that makes people's reputation in to a bad state, to be honest, she rages everytime she hears a gossip talking bad about someone. Everytime she hears something related to occult, she turns in to her energetic mode and she drags me and Kyouko to her
plan of searching for her occult stuff just like now where she heard about a ghost in the clock tower,
「I heard that someone witnessed a someone moving inside the clock tower」 She started to tell us the full detail of what she heard,
「It's just probably someone from the maintenance group of that tower」 Kyouko tried to reason with Meiko just like always. Kyouko is the cool and beauty type, she is the complete opposite of Meiko. She always tries to scientifically answer all Meiko's occult stories.
「I thought that at first but here is the part where the things get really creepy. If that was really a maintenance person, how was that person able to go through the forest?」 Meiko gave us a question. The forest she was talking about was the small forest that surrounds the clock tower. Meiko told us a story about the forest once, if I remember it correctly, The forest was haunted. Everyone who tries to go through the forest never actually reach the middle part nor the clock tower.
Everyone who tries to go through the forest always ends up at the beginning, as if the end of the forest was the place where you started. we never tried going through the forest since the principal of the school prohibits the student from trying to enter the forest.
「That forest story is just a lie too」 Kyouko replied to Meiko.
「How about we try it out」 Meiko suggested that we sneak in the forest and then to the clock tower,
「i'm in」 Kyouko probably felt some competition between Meiko so she agreed to go and of course, I am bit curious too so I decided to go with them.

A few hours after the sun had set, we easily sneaked since for some reason there is no guard in a prohibited place.
「That was easy」 Meiko looked surprised but she was did a fist pump to show that she had succeeded in her plans.
「Let's hurry」 Kyouko started to walk in the forest,
「Wait for us」 Meiko chased Kyouko and so did I. After a while of walking towards the clock tower, we finally reach the thing we were expecting to happen,
「Eh?」 We were dumbfounded from what we discovered. We were at the same spot we started,
「One more time!」 Meiko ran towards the forest, leaving us behind,
「Wait」 Kyouko chased Meiko, leaving me behind...alone.

I was scared, alone, I was afraid to go after them but I gathered up my courage and ran as fast as I could towards the way Meiko and Kyouko went in. The forest was really dark, all I know was I need to go after the two but when I saw the moonlight hit a certain part of the forest, I instinctively went to the light and I found what we came for, The Clock Tower. I immediately forgot about the two and decided to look inside the clock tower but there was no entrance. When I walked around the clock tower but I still couldn't find the entrance, instead I found something different. I found a book with a really fancy cover. The cover was made out of what seems to be like a case less pocket watch, the gears was spinning telling me that it somehow still works. When I tried to open the book, it wouldn't let me. It felt like as if the book was preventing from opening it, despite it not opening, I tried to forcibly open it which resulted to be not successful. While I was still trying to forcibly open, Meiko and Kyouko called out to me,
「Celia!」 Then I saw the two running towards me. I was surprised and I immediately hid the book behind me, away from their sight. I don't know why I hid the book but for some reason, I wanted to hide it away from them,
「Did you find anything cool?」 Meiko asked me,
「I couldn't, it seem like that we just got lost in the forest」 I answered Meiko,
「I told you, that it might be just the maintenance person」 Kyouko nagged at Meiko and Meiko gave up,
「tsk, I thought we might actually find a ghost」 She then started to walk straight back to where we came from, me and Kyouko followed her. We got back to the place we started faster than expected and at that time where we part way.When I got back home, I dashed to my room and again tried to forcibly open the book. I know that it can be opened since there is no keyhole or the page showing evidences that it was glued together shut. After two hours of trying, I finally gave up and went to sleep.

I woke up in the middle of the night because my stomach was empty since I did not eat dinner so I went to the kitchen and made a quick snack then immediately went back to my room. When I opened the door of my room, I saw the book opened to the first page, I was surprised and excited at the same time. I ran towards it and tried to read it,
「My name is Kaname, if you found this book and it opened to you, you're life will change to the way it suppose to be. You seem confuse, if you want to know why, sit till the end. Everything will be clear by the end, please do enjoy this ridiculous story」
For some reason, after reading the first page, I felt that I wanted to read more so I flipped the page not knowing that the moment that I flipped that page the change had already begun.

To be continued in Chapter 2: The Always Late Kaname Duo

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The First Chapter of this 5-8 Chapters?

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Shawn

It's a cool story so far. Lots of grammar mistakes, but I won't list them, and you don't need to fix them if you don't want to. The plot is set up well, but sometimes it was a bit hard to understand because of, again, the grammar. But overall, good job!