Hee, this has been in my head for a while now. As much as I like how My Own Worst Nightmare is coming along, I felt that there were many things that I wanted to elaborate on, but couldn't, due to the perspective of the story. This is also a first-person story, but it's Hinamori, so I am able to open up more doors of options.

Before you read this, I do suggest reading 'MOWN,' as you will understand the events better.

Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach.

Dear Diary

By Kouzumi93

Chapter 1: October 2

Dear Diary,

Today, we received a new student in school. His schedule is identical to mine, so the office had me be his guide to class. He seems like such a nice kid, and he gets along with Rangiku-san just fine. They even made a bet during lunch, but it's completely absurd. Whoever finds evidence (or a lack thereof) on the 'Tale of Two Lovers' rumour wins. I tried to stop them, but they just ignored me and went on with it anyway.

They didn't create a deadline for the bet, but when they call it over and the loser has to do what they agreed on, I'm going to make sure I'm not there. I don't want to see either of them singing on a table in their underwear. I might end up scarred for life.

Hitsugaya-kun...He seems to have been hurt sometime in the past. Not physically, but mentally. I'm not too sure what happened, but he said that he would tell me about it another time. Although, if it hurts him as much as it appears to, I don't think he'll be talking about it for a while. I asked him about it, and he acted as if he hadn't even heard me say anything. I'm assuming that he's trying to avoid the subject.

Poor kid.

But because of him, I began thinking of my mother again. I don't mean to say that I never think of her and keep her far from my mind, because she's always near my every thought. Actually, I was thinking of her death again. She had been sick with pneumonia, so it's not like I wasn't expecting it, but I wasn't even near prepared for it. It was one of those things that you know is coming but you just can't imagine it actually happening.

Right after she passed away is when my father began spending more and more time at work and less time here at the house. It's almost as if he's avoiding the place where she lived and died.

No, that's not it. He's not avoiding the house. It's me. What he's avoiding is me.

I look just like my mother, so it's understandable that he wouldn't want to be around me. It must be so painful for my father to have had a child that looks so much like the one he lost.

Ah! This is getting so depressing now! If I ever come back to read this another day, I'll get myself all upset again, so I'll add in some more pleasant thoughts to this to lighten the mood.

In gym class today, we were swimming laps, and I managed to come in second behind Kotetsu Isane, but that's only because she's one of the school's top lifeguards. But we had to swim more than usual because some of the girls tried to get out of swimming. Soifon-sensei doesn't allow anyone to get out of her class unless it is a verified, decent excuse. I'm glad that she's not as bad as Zaraki-sensei, though. I heard from someone that he makes everyone participate, no matter what. Today I even saw him kick a football into the back of Abarai-kun's head. He almost got Hitsugaya-kun as well.

Looking on the bright side, I'm sure there's never a dull moment in his classes.

I'm getting a little tired now. Father came home last night just after I went to sleep, but he left again this morning before I even awoke. It almost makes me wonder why he even bothered to stop in, but at least I know he was here. It does sadden me that he's never really around, but he's working and can't really do anything about it. Besides, it's not like I'm here alone all of the time. The servants can be good company, and Rangiku-san is allowed over whenever she wants. She lives in one of the poorest sections of the city, so she hangs out over here to escape the chaos that always surrounds her over there.

I wonder where Hitsugaya-kun lives. I know he lives just a few streets away on Broadway, but there are so many houses on that street and I don't even know which ones have been up for sale recently. It's probably a nice, spacious place, though. Broadway has some of the nicest places in the city. The most expensive, too. His parents must be rich.

Oh, there I go speculating again. It's getting late anyway, so I suppose I'll have to call this quits for the night. Life has been so uneventful lately that I'm not even able to find very much to put into these entries anymore. Maybe this new student will bring about some changes and whatnot around here.

Yours truly,

Hinamori Momo

I'm not sure if I'm going to do one of these for every day of the storyline, since there are some days that not much happens at all, but I'll see about that when I get to those parts in both stories.

Anyway, let me know if this is worth continuing. They shouldn't all be this short, especially not the next chapter, so don't think that they'll all be like this. This is more of a prologue than anything.

One final note: This and MOWN will be updated together, so the next chapter of this won't be posted until I post (finish) chapter three of that one. Can't give away events of one story in the other one, now can I? (Shh, I know this one is delayed a bit.)