Lily’s Guide to Releasing Antique Spirits

BOOK 1

Lily’s Diary pg 5

 

Happy Sunday Readers!

~Grab a cup of coffee and a window front view. Get comfy for some good reading~

We enter into the Diary of Lily Shels, a 9th grader who, as we are about to find out, is struggling with many different challenges. One of the biggest is opening up to her best friend Doris about everything she is struggling with. Being vulnerable is harder than some of us let on.

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Doris picked up her cellphone, opened up her text messages to Lily.

“Hey Lily, I’m reading the 3rd diary and I was wondering…is this still a problem for you? Feeling like you can’t trust your friends and family?”

Doris deleted the message, tossing the phone onto the soft pillow on her bed. “Duuuh Lily still doesn’t trust everyone. Sheeesh Doris use your head! If this wasn’t a problem she would be telling her Mom, Dad and me everything.” Doris squeezed her eyes shut, reading these diary’s always makes her emotional. “But, she must trust me more now. She does trust me now because she’s giving me these diary’s.” The end of the third diary was better the the past two diary’s.

Rubbing her eyes to the point of pain, Doris wondered Why did I think reading Lily’s Diary’s would be relaxing? Knowing what was going on in her mind seemed like a good idea at first…until I started reading what she thought about me. I guess we all have problems, things that annoy us about our friends.

Doris grabbed the nearest pillow to squeeze her stress out, ignoring the clatter of her phone falling to the floor. Maybe I should ask Mina how to handle these diary’s. I’m supposed to be learning about Lily and her struggles but I can’t seem to get over the things she said about me.

 

Lily’s Diary

 

Dear Diary,

Let’s talk about your feelings:

Dare I say it? I’m feeling actually pretty ok today. Pardon me while I knock on some wood real quick. Might have also been that brownie I ate for dessert…brownies are my weakness and chocolate is life.

What happened today:

After Mina’s outing with me, we’ve been talking more. It must be something about talking with someone that helps the chaos feel less overwhelming.

Mina will get home from work and on her way to her room, she’ll top**stop over at my room and talk for a few minutes. She said something about life is hard enough with normal stress, so talking with her should help me de-stress better. She must be right because I feel better after we talk.

Today we talked brief;y 🙁 (Stuipd spelling GAHHHHHH) **briefly…WE TALKED BRIEFLY about her college exams coming up and Isaac.

I learned that college is sounding less like my path in life…

And that Mina actually likes talking about Isaac and his problems. Not because he’s messed up and has a ton of problems for a spirit. But, because she’s getting some practice in for her therapy classes. Phy…chy… psychology and therapy classes have been coming in handy with helping me understand Isaac’s actions.

Mina thinks he’s suffering with depression, major anxiety, loneliness, fear of abandonment and a few other things. Of course she was using some fancy long words that I’d rather not try spelling.  She also pointed out how God is never mentioned or brought up in Isaac’s life. I was confused, like ok, so what? Some people don’t believe in God and other’s like us do. But, Mina said something along the lines of, I’ll explain how having God in our lives is so important to mental and physical well-being. Just not tonight cuz she was tired.

I hope Mom never reads this because the thing is, sometimes I wonder how much more fun I would have if I wasn’t a Catholic. It seems like we are the ones missing out sometimes. I’m just being honest here, I’ll ask Mina what her thoughts are about that too. Mina won’t get upset at comments like that, Mom might get slightly irked. Say something like “Lily, you need to pay better attention during Religion class if you think that.” To which I would think but not say “That doesn’t answer my question.”

Anyway, shockingly I don’t have a whole lot of writing tonight. Isaac likes it when I talk things over with Mina, almost like her diagnosing his struggles is helping him feel heard and understood for once. I’m hoping we get his story solved soon.

I am grateful for: Mina, My life and brownies.

Night and maybe no dreams tonight, it would be nice for once.~

~Lily

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Over the next few weeks Lily will share a few of her diary’s with us. Each Diary is a sneak peek into book 1 of Lily’s Guide to Releasing Antique Spirits. Little clues in each diary entry that will prepare you for the adventure that Lily will be going on.

My new book will be released hopefully as soon as August!!! How exciting is this? I hope you all enjoy reading all the sneak peeks that are coming out each Sunday for the next 3 months! Tell your friends, family members and most importantly any of your Catholic teen girls. My goal for this book is to share some fun, supernatural adventures from the perspective of a Catholic.

 

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Write on~

Cecilia