Chapter 25: Power Book

Alexa got home without really noticing the photos on the electricity pole, so she went home safely without worrying if she ever saw it. But when she lowered her groceries in the kitchen, she felt something unexplained. "Why do I feel weird now? I feel like something would happen to me, but I don't know what," I said, wondering, so I just erased it from my mind and fixed the groceries I bought.

Meanwhile, at Victor's house, he was just looking out the window and seemed to be deep in thought. Lucas noticed it, so he stopped and stood beside his grandfather and asked, "Grandpa, are you okay?"

Victor turned to Lucas and smiled slightly. "Yes, why?"

 "I just wondered because you look so far away and deep in thought."

 Victor sighed and looked out the window again. "Until now, we didn't know where the book of destiny was."

 Lucas' face was sad. "I'm sorry again, grandpa," he said softly.

 Victor grabbed his head and messed up his hair a little. "Don't worry, Grandpa isn't mad at you anymore, but next time take a good look at the things you're holding so we don't end up in this situation again. Is it clear?"  

Lucas nodded but asked again about the book. "I have one question, Grandpa. What happens when you write in the book?"

 Victor looked up at the clouds in the sky. "What I'm writing in the book is destined to really happen to anyone—a fairy, a vampire, a werewolf, or even a human being—as long as the mysterious creature that has come here has given a statement. You saw him in the past few days, but only in pure light. He knows everything that can happen in the future, even to those who are destined. I will write it like a story in a book, but it really happens to them. There is a word or event that occurs in the book for whoever the characters are. But that doesn't mean I'm in control of their lives. What I write in the book is the only thing that can happen between two people, but only for their own lives. I have no control over it because they do it for themselves."

 "But why do you have to write down what should happen to them, grandfather?" Lucas innocently asked.

 "Because it is not possible all the time, the superior is socialized to humans, so he made a magical book and wrote everything in it; every time it disappeared, every word in the book happened. And I am the chosen guardian of the sacred book, and I'm the only author of that book, not because I'm a writer; it doesn't come from me what happens to the people in the book. I don't dictate everything. In other words, I'm the hand, and he's the brain. Did you understand?"

 "Yes."

 Victor saw two birds perched on the tree outside the window. "So I really needed to find out who got it because of a word I didn't finish, and it might lead to a bad scenario."

"You didn't finish your story?"

 "Yes, and I feel like I need to finish it." And Victor turned his gaze again to the two birds.  Lucas just left his grandfather alone. He thought of helping his grandfather when he was not at school. He would go to church in case the person who got the book went there again.

 Meanwhile, Alexa is tidying up her drawer, which has been messy for a long time without being cleaned; her old things from high school are still there. She saw an old English notebook of hers. She picked it up and opened it, but a folded piece of paper fell to the floor. She opened it and saw a word, "Mushroom?" She said it in wonder, but at the top of the paper there was a word that was intentionally erased. The exact word was written in black ink, and the excessive thickness of the ink made it no longer readable. She just pinned it back to the notebook and put it back in the drawer.

 The piece of paper that Alexa saw was Jack's; he pinned the paper to Alexa's notebook back when they were in high school.

 They were already in the classroom and listening to their teacher, except for one, Jack. He had been writing on a crumpled piece of paper earlier, so he took another one and wrote even though they had class. "Okay, class is dismissed," their teacher suddenly said.

 Other students put their notebooks in their bags except for Alexa, who still had hers on top of her desk.  Lexie approached her. "Come on, let's eat. I'm starving," she asked Alexa.

 "All right, I'll just fix this for a moment." Alexa was about to put her notebook back in the bag when Lexie stopped her.

 "I'm really hungry. You can put it later. It won't go away."

 "Okay." Alexa put the notebook down on the desk again, and then they went out of the room.

 Jack's gaze followed Alexa, and after Alexa and Lexie finally got outside the room, his gaze shifted to Alexa's notebook and the paper he was holding that was now folded. He simply pinned it to the notebook at the back of its pages. Graduation was also approaching when Jack did it. 

"I'll just say the word I used too much ink on in graduation," he said as he exited the room. That's why Alexa didn't see the paper right away because it was close to graduation when Jack did that, and she didn't even use a notebook to write before because everyone was busy rehearsing what they were going to sing and marching for graduation. But the word that Jack intentionally erased was not even said to Alexa on graduation day, so the word that was erased will only be revealed if the two meet again.

 But the mushroom written on the paper, Jack meant not to erase, because by the time Alexa read it, she already knew who wrote on the paper pinned into her notebook, and it was Jack because Alexa always called Jack a mushroom whenever it appeared without Alexa knowing it. So he just made that word seem special so that if Alexa could read what was written on the paper, she would remember Jack, but during the time it was stuck in Alexa's notebook, Jack's memory of her seemed to have been swept away by time because she didn’t know that Jack was the mushroom in the paper she was reading.