I woke up this morning to a call. Its been a few days since the crash. I answered it and it was the school. They understood how close Andrea was to us and told us to have a day off. They also said how they were going to email us the school work. For the past three days they've called the same. I remembered about Delilah's room how it looked pulled apart. Did something happen?
Getting up, I walked downstairs and sat with Søren at the dining room table. He cradled a hot cup of tea in his hands. Did he even sleep last night? "Andrea's going to be okay. They called me this earlier to tell me they've stabilised her and she's in recovery now. She could even come home today." Søren said without me having to ask. So he's been up longer than I have.
"I'm going to check out Delilah's room," I blurted out. Søren lifted his head to look at me with confusion. "What's in Delilah's room?" he asked. That's a good point. What is in there? She was always in her room before she left this house. Always muttering under her breath and cutting herself off when she spotted one of us three. Then she'd act like nothing was wrong. The only person who has been in Delilah's room is Andrea but then nothing happened out of the unusual.
"It was a mess. It looked destroyed, so I want to find some answers. It's time to find out who Delilah really is," I said. He followed me up the stairs and we turned the light on in Delilah's room. The glint that reflect from the knife in the cork board brought notice to it. I pulled out the knife out of Andrea's picture. Why? What sort of person is Delilah? Why would she want this?
"Søren, I think Delilah was planning to kill Andrea," I remarked. Søren walked over to me, after he folded up the quilt on the floor, to look at the board. He read the notes on the board, followed the lines made of string to our photos. "She planned it all?" Søren asked. It was like everything was suddenly falling into place. Anders leaving, Andrea's attacks, the way Delilah acted when I said about the cork board. What it didn't explain was why was I her target?
She planned it all. "Hello?" Søren asked as he picked up the phone. It had disrupted our little investigation. He mouthed that it was the doctor we spoke to at the hospital before he stepped out of the room while I continued looking. There was a heart around Anders' face and then a big black cross from corner to corner of the photo.
There was notes on the board.
'I love Anders' 'Get Andrea and Søren to date' 'I love Adrian' 'Carrie at prom'
They were all attached to the photos. I turned my attention to her vanity. The mirror was smashed and the glass was all over the top of a diary. I flipped through the pages. At the beginning there was mentions of a girl back in New York that seemed to have suffered the same fate as Andrea. Not the same things happening but the same sort of torment. Only this other girl managed to move away.
There was also mentions of medication that a therapist had prescribed Delilah. There was a lot of pages full of Delilah complaining about the new school, about me, Søren and Andrea. I turned the page one more time and it was dated back to the first prom.
'Dear diary,
It's me again. Last night was amazing. I slept with Anders. Well I forced him to. He wasn't even conscious. It felt so wonderful. I left him in a classroom out of the way so no one suspected a thing. I also managed to watch as my plan to ruin Andrea's popularity happened. You should have seen as the blood fell all over her and the look on Adrian's face as everyone laughed at her. I think that'll teach her for being friends with Adrian. No one will suspect what happened to Anders either.'
She raped Anders? I felt sick but I needed to know more. If she planned that, I need to know what else she's planned. After that entry it just got worse and worse.
'Dear diary,
That stupid danish? or was he swedish? That blonde foreigner that's protective over Andrea asked me to help him in the kitchen last night. He was holding a knife and he looked way too calm. He asked me if I knew anything about Andrea's unfortunate prom event. I wasn't about to say yes so I dropped some names as to the people I manipulated into doing it for me. I could've sworn though his eyes were full of hatred and it looked like he really was going to murder someone. Maybe he was onto me after all and threatening me that he was going to kill me if I did stuff to Andrea. I need to deal with him.'
'Dear diary,
No one suspects a thing. Not even that foreigner that threatened me. Anders left and now Andrea's sad. Boo hoo Andrea's brother left. Good riddance. I'm sad too since he didn't even notice me. He kept saying to me how I was too young for him and that it would be inappropriate to date me. It angered me that he kept saying how he wasn't interested in me. Now that he's left, I'll never be able to be with him. At least now he's not here to protect his sister.'
'Dear diary,
I may have misunderstood Andrea's friends. The Australian and the other one, the blonde one, are getting on my nerves. They're never away from her. It's like they're attached at the him. I don't like that she's always with that Australian. He should be mine yet he doesn't even talk to me. I see him everyday but he doesn't even talk to me. On the note that they're always with Andrea, I should remove one of them from the equation and then I'll be able to do whatever I want.'
I flipped through the years until I got to one about New York and there was one before it about the bets. All the entries were either about me, about what I did, who I was with or she was complaining about Andrea and Søren.
'Dear diary,
I'll never understand what Adrian sees in Andrea. He needs to be with me. No other girl can have him. I made a bet with the girls at school about who could sleep with Adrian first. Brooke or Amy or whoever it was wasn't going to take part but she bet that I couldn't even get Adrian to look at me. He always had to pay attention to that stupid blonde and his stupid guy best friend.'
'Dear diary,
I was so scared for Adrian. He picked a fight against my ex, Dante. I've never been more attracted to Adrian my whole life. He's grown up a lot since I first saw him and oh my god he's so hot. He's got all these muscles and tanned skin. Anyway we went back to the hotel we were staying at and instead of me rooming with Andrea, both the guys insisted that we each stay with one of them. Adrian made sure I was safe and I cleaned up his wounds. I gave him a drink with some drugs in it before I did his wounds. I didn't want him to say no to me.'
I was appalled. So she did drug me but she didn't say what drugs. She practically raped him.
'Dear diary,
I'm pregnant with Adrian's baby. He'll just have to love me now. I made a bet with the girls again that I'll be able to get Adrian to date me until the end of school. I also bet that I can record him saying I love you to me. At least now no one can have him. They won't want him now that he's got a baby on the way.'
'Dear diary,
I had an argument with Adrian about how he's never there for me. He should grovel at my feet just for my forgiveness. I gave the go ahead to Ariana for her to do something to get back at Adrian. I don't care what happens, I'm not the one doing it.'
There was one from the other day before the crash.
'Dear diary,
That whore Andrea just couldn't leave well enough alone. Now everyone knows what I've done and it won't be long until everyone figures out all the other things I've done too. She needs to die so no one knows. I need to kill her.'
It all fell in to place. The reason why she was so obsessed with me. The reason why Anders left. The reason for all the attacks on Andrea. It was because she didn't want anyone to be with me. It was because she didn't like Andrea and because Andrea's brother didn't want her. She was the reason why Andrea got into a crash. Emma wasn't driving the car, Delilah was. Delilah caused everything.
I walked downstairs with the diary in hand. We need to turn this in to the police. We need to bring attention to what Delilah's done. I dropped the book as soon as I saw Andrea sitting on the sofa. "Andrea you're back, you're okay," I gushed and moved to sit by her side. Andrea gave my hand a squeeze.
Søren walked over and picked up Delilah's diary. "What's this?" he asked flipping in over in his hands. He peered inside and frowned. "This is Delilah's diary. She's responsible for it all." I stated. Andrea gasped from beside me. "You mean Delilah planned it all?" asked Andrea. I nodded.
I really didn't want to tell her about Anders but she was going to find out anyway. "Delilah was the reason for your brother leaving, she wrote something about raping him." Søren said as he flipped through the pages. Each one left it trace in his increasingly angered look. Andrea was angry but somehow she was calmer than both of us.
"We need to hand it in, she's crazy," Andrea simply stated. There was a knock at the door. It was hurried. "Who's that?" I asked. Søren left to the door and came back in with a baby carrier. "A baby? Says to Adrian on the letter attached." he spoke. How could this day get worse?
He set the carrier down in front of me and I read the letter.
'Dear Adrian,
I'm so sorry about everything I've done to you, Andrea and Søren. I've already cleared it up with the authorities, you just have to sign the birth certificate and declare that you're her father. I've relinquished all my parental rights.
I don't deserve this baby but you do. You deserve her so much more than I do. I've named her Naomi Lawson. It's only right that she has your name. I'm going to confess to what I've done. I'm going to confess to everything. I love you,
Delilah.'
I read the letter and behind it was the birth certificate. I picked up my baby daughter and cradled her in my arms. "What does the letter say?" asked Andrea. "It says Delilah has relinquished all parent rights onto me. This is my daughter, Naomi," I stammered. It was all surreal. Today was so much worse than I thought. I thought I'd be co-parenting. I didn't think I'd have to do it all myself.
I looked down at Naomi. She's barely hours old. She looks healthy but she looks so small. She started making a fuss and I gently rocked her. "Shhh shhh shhh it's okay. Daddy's here," I cooed. We had all the stuff apart from formula. If Delilah isn't here to breast feed, we'll need formula to take care of her.
"I'll run to the store and get some formula, you'll need to focus on the baby and Andrea." Søren said before leaving.
I stared down at the infant in my arms. Welcome to the family Naomi Lawson.