Introduction

I was not very excited to go on the trip to the cathedral, as I had been having a bad week and would have preferred to stay home. I was feeling lost in who I was and what kind of person I wanted to be. The deadlines for college applications were soon and I was beyond stressed. I found myself not paying attention to the tour, even though I found the cathedral beautiful. I would daze off into day dreams, imagining myself somewhere else.

The group was going all together to the next room, but I decided to stay a few steps back. While we were leaving the back halls of the cathedral, I saw a small, wooden door with a gold doorknob. I walked to this door and turned the knob. To my surprise, it was open! I felt terrible for wandering off because we were instructed to stay with the group at all times, but I wanted to do my own exploring. I took one last peek at the group to make sure that nobody was watching me. I then went inside the room and closed the door very quietly. The room was dark, so I looked for the light switch and flicked it on. I could hear the faint buzzing of the light bulb and my steps as the creaked on the old wood floor. After my eyes adjusted to the light, the first thing laid my eyes on was a large, square structure in the middle of the room that had a tan sheet over it.

Curiosity took the best of me, and I took off the sheet and put it on the floor. There, in a glass box, were three journals that looked very old. I hesitantly opened the box and took a look at the journals. I was amazed by the journals' excellent quality, but I was scared to open them and turn each page in fear of possibly ruining it. The journals each had a different color cover of red, blue, and yellow. I read the names of St. Lucy, St. Therese, and St. Joan of Arc branded on each cover. What a fantastic find this was! I took the red journal in my hands with the name of "St. Lucy" on it. I checked my watch and saw that we only had an hour until we left the cathedral. I began to read immediately in fear that someone would come into the room and find me.