As the minutes stretched into what felt like hours, Marisol almost felt her patience drain in a literal sense. She hadn’t even been here long enough, but she already felt stir-crazy. The desire to seek answers to the questions making rounds in her head remained an unscratched itch, but the promise she made to Caleb held her back. She should trust him and do as he says.
That, and she’d grown a bit afraid of possibly getting on the nerves of the members of this pack who were never the nicest, to begin with.
Reluctantly, she remained within the pale confines of the four walls of her assigned room and later resorted to unpacking as an outlet for the boredom that started to creep in. In the process of doing this, she found something she did not remember packing.
There was a journal... Two of them. Her mother had probably slipped those in discreetly before she had to leave. Marisol picked them up, fingers tracing over the worn covers of the journal that had been tucked carefully into her traveling bag. It brought back so many memories of her mother.
Slowly, she flipped through the pages. The scent of the familiar ink filled her with a flood of emotions. She hadn’t used these journals in a long while now. One was old, dripping with nostalgia, while the other was completely new and untainted.
Marisol remembered communicating with her mother using these when she was of a younger age. Because she tended to bottle up her feelings, her mother taught her to write it all down instead of struggling and stumbling through spoken words. And sometimes, on going through her journals again, she would find that her mother had scribbled tiny replies between her own words, words of advice, affirmation, or just praising Marisol for doing so well in writing down what she felt.
It happened time and time again until it slowly grew into a routine. One Marisol began to look forward to sometime along the line.
Suddenly, she got an idea. Rummaging through her clothes, she quickly found a pen and flipped open a fresh page, ready to write her experiences within the Redwood pack.