Chapter 1

Jan 07

I met with Gratel yesterday.

To plan the murder.

I know ,I know- it sounds crazy. Aunt will probably say that it's just a phase -that I would grow out of it.

But I hope, it takes a lot of time before I actually grow out of my this particular phase . Atleast so I can successfully killed my Sister's groom.

My Sister Isabella.

O so perfect beautiful swan. Everyone is always like how Isa is just like our mother-

Mature ,graceful & blah, blah, blah.

You know what ? Isabella is just eighteen, not even a full adult.

She just pretends to be it.

I don't know why aunt likes it, but to me she looks so cringey. Why the hell are you acting like a retired grandpa?

I don't understand!

Anyway. enough about that Isabella snot.

I knew that Isabella did not have the heart.. She even once puked seeing me dissecting a frog .

Thanks to the frog, & the snob - I was taken to the church & they performed a exorcism .

So dear diary , if you are asking me how come my benevolent heart has found the kindness to murder for my Sister ,well, the answer is

simple .

Isabella ,even though you shaved my head twice , was the culprit behind "my diarrhoea episode " and sole nemesis of my life- I could do this one favour for you!

We are sisters afterall !

I could definitely kill your would be -husband for you.

Say thanks to me for the rest of you life .

haha.

Anyway-

To commit murder I had to know the pros & cones.

That started with trying to find a expert.

Aunt is strict. Leave any Murder related book, she even burnt the ' Bones And Digestive System ' book that I had stolen from the public library last year. The only thing I was allowed to read was the Bible.

Yes. Bible has enough murders. But they skipped all the gorey details.I know , right ? What a Bunch of snots.

That brought me back to finding an expert .And I know just the perfect person for that.

The Great Gratel Flowersby, who is 14 years - my age. Not a school friend. We met at the church .

A fellow who knew the pain of of humiliation of getting exorcism infront of the whole town.

I admire Gratel.

Gratel was the best girl in town.

Well, a boy, actually.

But he pretends that he is possessed by a teenage widow so he could wear funeral clothes of women.

Dear diary , don't judge him . He looks betters in women funeral clothes than any old hag.

Great Gratel Flowersby- that is the name he has bestowed after his second birth ( or so he calls his transition )

While the whole exorcism thing tormented me , Gratel has owned that shit in his own style .

Also, he teaches me the bad words .

So I met Gratel after the sundown, the time they say that Gratel is possessed the most .

Since he would be alone then.

Of course. I had to bribe him.

the silken hat Isabella has been gifted by her would-be-in-laws.

Well , Isabella can spare atleast one nice hat .

"So how do you kill someone?," I have asked Gratel.

He was too busy examining the hat," How about putting laxatives in Isabella's drink on her wedding day? humiliation is worse than death ."

"What? no, I am not killing Isabel."I was surprised that Gratel could not be serious on the matter," Look ,I really need to know how to commit a murder"

"That is easy ."

Gatel crawled ou his bed so he could come near the window, I was standing outside of it. "You just need to unalive them and make sure they don't breath afterwards"

I rolled my eyes.

"So who earned your wrath?", Gratel asked me.

"It is a secret, but I can tell you."

I am sure there was no harm in

telling Gratel, who will trust him if he spills the beans , anyway?

Besides there was already a rumour that his father is looking for an asylum.

"It's my sister's groom , I need to kill him ," I confessed.

"What did he do to earn you, my minion?"

I swallowed in my day throat.I was nervous to talk about it.

"Wait, is this going to be a Ghost Story?" Gratel looked scared," Then don't tell me about it, now ."

"So are your going to share your wisdom?,"I asked,"Common, you gotta know about one or two things about murder."

"Honey, the point is, it takes a lot to be a murderer," Gratel told me,"If you think you need to commit a murder- you need art, you need brain, you need the WILL- most of all determination, the hard part is you can't even practice till you have already committed your long it first murder, only thing you can do is imagine. But people get killed everyday and some of them are someone's first murder . Someone out there is already very good at it even in first try and someone is struggling with it . So my minion what kind of murderer do you want to become ?"

I do not understand everything he was saying and I had a feeling that he was making stuffs up to sound wiser , but that does mean he agreed to help , right ?

Well , one step closed to commit a murder !

July 07 ( Midnight )

It is twelve o' clock & I am supposed to be sleeping. Aunt has always said staying up late at night will make the ghosts eat me.

We actually have one ghost living in our attic.

For one thing, I have my own rule about the attic ghost

Rule 1 :As long as I am under the blanket ,he can not hurt me.

Since he has been staying inside in our house, the least he can do is follow 'Our' rule about eating Children.

Anyway, attic ghost has never hurt me. I told Gratel about once about it

Gratel has laughed it off.

But the ghost is real.

Even Isabel does not go to the attic except when she leaves plates with food as an offering just outside the door.

We are not supposed to make loud noises upstairs.

I had asked Isabel once if she had ever seen the attic ghost, at all.

"Yes, once in a midnight," she had answered," It came down for some peanut butter."

Dear diary, even though I am risking my life to write about my one O' one first class with the murder expert Great Gratel Flowersby. I can not help but put down the notes about his lecture dare I forget some of them later.

First, he had asked if I had been interviewed on how much I could understand the subject.

"So, take a guess,"Gratel has asked me, "Go through your tiny brain & think & answer, that any way you think you can commit a murder?"

"Poke a hole," I haved answered

"Poke a hole,"he has agreed.

True. I know the basics of murder. I mean, who does not? We have all read about enough stabbing in the holy book. People stab each other all the time.

"Now this is important, you need to stab somewhere a lot of lot of blood can gush out ," Gatel drew a stick figure and put three circles on what looks like its neck, armpit & groin.

" So Since there is its heart," he pointed out at the circle near the armpits, "Stabbing here can give fruits, but ribcage is the hard part."

"I would recommend you stab here,"he pointed the groin circle, "The ribcage is not guarding here ,damage the vitals & you can do more damage , the point is to harm a larger vein , right ?"

"What about the neck?: I asked, since groin is ew.

I am at the edge where I am Sensitive about such stuffs .

"You can't," Gratel shook his head.

"Why not?"

"You are short-"

I wanted to point out that we can use trampoline to make me jump higher, but Gratel has shut me up after giving me 'A' for creativity.

" Take a test & practice at home by stabbing rice bags," Gratel told me,"Think of them as your brother-in-law, you will get there"

"He is not!," I have protested, "Nobody is my brother-in-law, Isabella is not married yet. she is infact never going get married"

Gratel was quiet for a while.

"My minion , why are you so against this marriage?" he had asked me.

I could not tell him. I was nervous if I tell him about it.

That Isabella might die if she gets married.