Diane D Is Back In The Mental Institution
The following week, Alex is walking down the organization hallway. He goes to the right and heads towards Margarita’s office door. He approaches the door and knocks on it. “Comein!”Margarita’s voicesays.
Alex opens the office door. He heads into the office and sees Margarita right at her desk. “Hey Miss Margarita!” he says.
“Hey Alex,” Margarita says.
Alex shuts the door behind himself. He heads right towards Margarita’s desk and says, “Hi Miss Margarita! How’ve you been?”
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“Yeah everything is okay so far Alex,” Margarita says. “I was staying at the mental institution with Diane all week.”
“You were?”
“Yes I was.”
“That’s good! How’s she doing?”
“She’s doing okay so far.”
“She is?”
“Yes.”
“Wow, I’m so glad to hear that Miss Margarita. I’m glad to hear that Diane’s okay.
So if you’re here at the organization, who’s at the mental institution with Diane now?”
“Her grandma Gracy and her grandpa Mike are there with her.”
“They are?”
“Yeah, so are her aunt Jean, her aunt Laura and her aunt Celeste.”
“Oh her aunt Jean, her aunt Laura and her aunt Celeste are there too?”
“Yeah.”
“Wow, that’s good Miss Margarita! That is so good! I’m so happy that Diane has a lot of family by her side, and again Miss Margarita, the staff and I are very sorry if we have hurt Diane’s feelings. We didn’t mean to hurt her feelings.”
“I understand Alex.”
“Thanks. So anyway, I hear that you and your family are planning to do a Fundraiser for the victims’ families.”
“We are. I mean we can’t bring those authority figures back, but it’s the least we can do for their families.”
“Wow I think that’s wonderful Miss Margarita! What kind of fundraising are you all planning to do?”
“Well we’re going to put on a concert and sell tickets to raise money for the victims and their families.”
“Oh yeah? You’re going to put on a concert?”
“Yes. We’re going to have all the talent from the organization do performances.”
“Really? When?”
“I guess whenever Diane comes back out the mental institution.”
“What! Whenever Diane comes back out the mental institution?! Wait a minute Miss Margarita! Don’t tell me that Diane is going to be in the show, is she?”
“Yes she’s going to be in the show Alex.”
“She is?!”
“Yes.”
“How come?!”
“She wants to perform.”
“She wants to perform?!”
“Yeah. Plus she feels real bad about what happened to the authority figures.”
“She feels real bad about what happened to them?!”
“Yeah and wants to help out.”
“She wants to help out?!”
“Yes she does. She wants to show support for what happened to the victims.”
“She wants to show support for what happened to the victims? You mean she wants to help out and show support for what SHE did to them?”
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“Well she doesn’t think she did anything to them Alex! She still doesn’t remember anything about it! Try to look at it from HER point of view. She doesn’t remember doing anything to them! She heard about what happened to them, but she doesn’t remember being involved in it because her ORIGINAL soul, spirit or personality was not there! So therefore, she doesn’t believe she was ever involved because it was actually her OTHER personality involved, not her ORIGINAL personality.”
“Wow, that is so sad! I really feel for Diane Miss Margarita! I really do!”
“Thanks.”
“So what kind of performance is she going to do?”
“She’s going to sing and dance like she always do.”
“She’s going to sing and dance? Where? Where is she going to perform? Is the show or concert going to be at the mental institution?”
“No, we’re going to have it at a theater.”
“At a theater?! You’re going to have the show or concert at a theater?!”
“Yes we are.”
“Wouldn’t Diane still be on house arrest?!”
“Yes she’ll still be on house arrest.”
“So how is she going to perform at a theater while she’s on house arrest?!”
“She’s going to have ankle monitors strapped back on her ankles while she’s performing at the theater.”
“What! She’s going to have ankle monitors strapped around her ankles while she’s performing?!”
“Yes.”
“I don’t get it! How can she perform in front of ALL those people in the audience with ankle monitors strapped around her ankles? Won’t she be afraid that the people in the audience will see those ankle monitors and judge her for what she did?!”
“No she won’t be afraid Alex, because she still doesn’t believe she did anything wrong!”
“Whether she believes she did anything wrong or not, those ankle monitors will still be there! They will be exposed! The audience members are going to see them and judge her for it! They might be distracted by it and not enjoy the show! Would Diane really want to put herself out there while her ankle monitors are exposed? How does she feel about that? Does she have any thoughts about that at all?”
“Yeah she thought about that Alex, but she says she’s not going to worry about it.
She says all she knows, is that she wants to perform so she can show support for the victims and their families. She says it’s the least she can do.”
“I see. Well I’m glad she wants to do something for the victims and their families, even though she doesn’t believe she’s the cause of their suffering. So what are you all planning to do about the ankle monitors? Are you planning to have them covered up while Diane performs?”
“Yes we’re planning to cover up her ankle monitors.”
“You are?”
“Yes, because we certainly don’t need those monitors being a distraction from the performance.”
“I think Diane’s presence alone will be a distraction from the performance. So who is she going to perform with? Is she going to perform by herself?”
“No, with the girls again.”
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“With the girls?! You mean Nancy, Charlotte, Miranda, Bernice, Lonna and Kelly?
Diane is going to perform with them?!”
“Yeah, as a matter of fact, Diane and the girls are all planning to rehearse their performance at the mental institution.”
“They’re planning to rehearse there?”
“Yes.”
“Wow, do they have space at the mental institution to rehearse at?”
“Yes, they have an exercise and dance studio there. Diane and the girls will rehearse in that room.”
“They will? That’s nice. Wow, Diane is lucky to still have the girls and her family still by her side, but aren’t the girls afraid to perform with her?! Aren’t they afraid to even be around her?!”
“They’re afraid of her OTHER personality, not her original personality. They say as long as her OTHER personality stays away, they will still be with Diane and be there for her because they still love her original personality. They know that her original personality wouldn’t have done what her OTHER personality did.”
“Even though it’s the same body, they’re still not afraid to be around her.”
“Of course they’re afraid, but what can they do? What can any of us do? We still want to be there for Diane. The girls all come to the mental institution to visit her and stay with her sometimes.”
“They do?”
“Yes they do.”
“Have any of the other girls ever met Diane’s other personality or encounter her other personality besides Nancy?”
“No, just Nancy so far.”
“Still just Nancy?”
“Yes.”
“Wow, but how would the girls know whether they’ve ever encountered Diane’s other personality or not?”
“Well Nancy says from the experience she had encountering Diane’s other personality inside my family’s home that night and the experience I had encountering Diane’s other personality inside her hospital room bathroom is, if Diane’s eyes appear puffy or swollen, or if her face looks like she just got beat up like she was in a fight or something and her skin tone appears sort of ghostly pale, that’s her other personality.”
“Wooow. That must have been real scary for you and Nancy, wasn’t it?”
“It sure was! It’s still scary for us!”
“Wooow. So far Charlotte still hasn’t encountered Diane’s other personality face to face, has she?”
“No, she just heard Diane’s other personality and Nancy talking in the hallway outside the bedrooms that night.”
“Wooow, that is something! Well, anyway, I’m willing to help out with the fundraising anyway I can.”
“Oh thanks Alex.”
“No problem Miss Margarita. It’s the least I can do.”
“Thanks. Let’s go into the meeting room and talk about it more.”
“Okay.”
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heads back towards the door. Alex approaches the door and opens it. He turns his head towards Margarita and holds the door open for her as she heads towards the doorway.
A week later, staff members Harvey, Stephanie, Evette and Maurice are at the organization chit-chatting in the hallway. They turn to the side and see Diane D’s mom Mary coming down the hallway. They then shout, “Mary!”
“Wow Mary!” Harvey shouts. “What a surprise to see you!”
Mary approaches Harvey, Stephanie, Evette and Maurice as Harvey says, “We haven’t seen you in a while! How’ve you been?!”
“Not so good,” Mary says.
“We know,” Stephanie says. “You’ve been going through a lot from what happened with Diane last year, haven’t you?”
“I sure have.”
“We’re so sorry for you Mary. So you’ve been going to the therapist office back and forth, that’s why we haven’t seen you much, huh?”
“Yep, that’s why. Not every mother goes through this, their own child killing six people, especially taking down six authority figures and injuring plenty others and gets to witness it. I mean who can live with seeing their own child doing that?”
“Wow Mary!” Harvey says. “We’re so sorry you’re going through this! How long will you have to keep going through therapy?”
“Probably for the rest of my life.”
“Oh God.”
“We hear you and the rest of your family who were inside that hypnosis room are still traumatized by what happened in there,” Maurice says. “We hear you all still get nightmares from what you all witnessed.”
“We do,” Mary says. “That’s why we’re all still going through therapy. That therapist office became our second home.”
“Wow, I’m so sorry Mary.”
“So are you planning to participate in the fundraising concert for the victims Mary?”
Evette asks.
“Sure,” Mary says, “if I’m up to it. It’s the least I can do for what my child did to all those people.”
“Wow Mary,” Stephanie says. “I know you and your family are sorry that you all ever agreed to have Diane hypnotized!”
“Well what else were we supposed to do after Nancy told us about Diane’s strange behavior inside my family’s upstairs hallway that night?”
“You mean when Diane said to Nancy that ‘Diane isn’t here right now’ and that
‘she’s not Diane’ then telling Nancy that Diane is somewhere wandering the universe, speaking of herself in the third person as if she was someone else?”
“Yes, exactly.”
“Wow.”
“Nancy thought that Diane was joking at first when Diane was saying all that strange stuff to her.”
“She thought Diane was joking?”
“Yes, then Nancy said she could see right in Diane’s eyes that Diane was not joking.”
“She could see it in her eyes?”
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“My God Mary!” Harvey shouts, “that would freak anybody out! I know I would be freaked out if any of my family members said that to me ‘that they’re not here right now’ that ‘they’re not their self’! I would be freaked out! How is Nancy still handling that experience she went through with Diane that night?”
“She’s still creeped out by it.”
“I bet she is, realizing now it was not Diane’s original personality she was encountering with, but her ‘OTHER’ personality! Wow that is scaaary! Diane still doesn’t remember any of that? She still doesn’t remember running into Nancy in the upstairs hallway that night saying all that stuff to her?”
“No, to this day, she still does not remember it.”
“My God!”
“What about what she said to your mom inside her hospital bathroom that night?”
Evette asks. “She still doesn’t remember that either, huh?”
“No she still doesn’t remember that either,” Mary says, “just like she doesn’t remember the bloodshed she did inside that hypnosis room.”
“My God! But you remember it, huh Mary.”
“That’s why I’m going to therapy because I wish I not remember it! I wish I can forget it!”
“Wooow. So sorry Mary. How is Michael by the way? We don’t see him much either. Where’s he been?”
“He’s been going back and forth to therapy like the rest of my family. Everyone who was inside that hypnosis room who witnessed the whole entire thing is going back and forth to therapy.”
“My God.”
“Plus Michael has been going back and forth between staying with Diane at the mental institution and going to stay at his parents’ house in Virginia.”
“Oh Michael stays in Virginia now?” Stephanie asks.
“Sometimes. Sometimes he stays over at the mental institution with Diane, other times he’s in therapy.”
“My God Mary, how does he handle being married to Diane after what she did?!”
“That’s why he’s going through therapy, to help him handle and cope with what she did. It hasn’t been easy for him. He’s been stressed out by this whole thing. It hasn’t been easy for any of us!”
“Well of course not! I can imagine!”
“Wow Mary,” Harvey says. “I feel so sorry for your whole family.”
“Thanks. Well, I’m gonna help my family plan for the fundraising concert.”
“Okay. Is there anything we can do to help?”
“Yes. You all can help plan with the concert after the meeting I have with my family.”
“Okay no problem Mary.”
“I’ll see you all later.”
“Okay Mary,” Harvey, Stephanie, Evette and Maurice say. Mary then goes pass the staff members and walk down towards the other end of the hallway as Harvey, Stephanie, Evette and Maurice turn and sadly look at her.
“Just hang in there Mary!” Stephanie says.
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Mary turns her head towards Stephanie and says, “I’ll try.” She turns her head back forward as she continues to walk down the hallway.
Harvey, Stephanie, Evette and Maurice sadly look at Mary.
The following day, Margarita is sitting inside her office behind her desk doing paper work. The phone rings. Margarita picks up the phone receiver. She speaks into the phone receiver and says, “Hello, Diaz Davidson Organization.”
“Hello Miss Margarita?” a white nun around her mid-60’s wearing glasses says.
“Speaking.”
“Hi Miss Margarita. This is Sister Rose from the convent. We met a few times before.”
“Oh yes, hi Sister Rose! How you doing?!”
“I’m doing okay, and yourself?”
“I’m doing okay too! Nice to hear from you.”
“Nice to hear you too Miss Margarita! How is everything?”
“Everything is good, and yourself?”
“I’m doing okay.”
“That’s good.”
‘How’s your granddaughter Diane D? How’s she doing?”
“Oh Diane? She’s doing okay so far.”
“She is?”
“Yes she is.”
“That’s good. Is she back in the mental institution?”
“Yes she’s back in the mental institution.”
“She is?”
“Yes.”
“Oh okay. I just wanted to let you know, that us nuns at the convent know your granddaughter Diane D and the rest of your family have been going through a lot from what happened last year with the authority figures that your granddaughter Diane D
killed. A few of us nuns would like to come to the mental institution to meet your granddaughter Diane D and have a sit down talk with her, if it’s okay.”
“What?”
“A few of us nuns would like to come to the mental institution to meet your granddaughter Diane D and have a sit down talk with her.”
“Meet Diane and have a sit down talk with her? Are you serious?”
“Of course I’m serious Miss Margarita! We would like to talk to your granddaughter and try to see if we can help her with her problem.”
“But mostly everyone is afraid to come near Diane or even be in the same room with her after what happened last year!”
“I know. We just want to let your granddaughter know that some of us do want to help her and let her know that God still loves her. We’re nuns and that’s what we do.
So if it’s okay, can a few of us nuns come to the mental institution and have a sit down talk with your granddaughter Diane D and try to help her?”
“Well sure I don’t mind. If it’s okay with Diane, then it’s okay with me, as long as you’re not coming to the mental institution to exploit her.”
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“Coming to the mental institution to exploit her? What do you mean by that Miss Margarita?”
“I just want to make sure that you’re not bringing any hidden recording devices to exploit my granddaughter while you’re talking with her!”
“Bring any hidden recording devices?”
“Yes! So if you you’re saying that you want to come help Diane, I want you to mean it, not say it just so you can come to the mental institution to be nosy and see how she’s living!”
“To be nosy and see how’s she living? You don’t have to worry about that Miss Margarita, we’re not trying to be nosy! When I say us nuns want to try to talk to your granddaughter to see if we can help her, I mean it!”
“Alright then, because the minute I feel that my grandchild is being exploited, I’m going to end your talk with her pronto!”
“No problem! You got it Miss Margarita!”
“Okay. So when would you like to have a sit down talk with Diane?”
“Oh as soon as possible.”
“As soon as possible?”
“Yes.”
“Okay. I’ll speak to Diane about it and see if it’s okay with her. If she says that it’s okay, then I’ll let you know when you can come to the mental institution and have a sit down talk with her.”
“Thanks Miss Margarita, but us nuns would only come to have a sit down talk with your granddaughter Diane D on one condition.”
“What? You would only come to have a sit down talk with Diane on one condition?”
“Yes.”
“And what condition is that Sister Rose?”
“Is that you and your other family members be in the room with Diane D while us nuns are having a sit down talk with her.”
“What? You want me and my other family members to be in the room with Diane while you’re having a sit down talk with her?”
“Well yes.”
“Why?”
“Because we don’t want to be alone inside the room with her!”
“You don’t want to be alone inside the room with Diane?”
“No.”
“Well why not? You don’t trust her?”
“Well, it’s not that we don’t trust her.”
“It’s not that you don’t trust her? So what’s the problem then?”
“The problem is, we don’t trust her ‘other’ personality.”
“What? You don’t trust her ‘other’ personality?”
“No we don’t trust it and we want to keep that ‘other’ personality of hers at bay, because we heard that ‘other’ personality don’t come into Diane D if her family members are around her! That’s why us nuns would rather have you and your other family members be in the room with her!”
“Oh yeah? Is that right?”
“Well yeah! You didn’t think us nuns would want to risk being alone inside the room with Diane D and encounter her ‘other’ personality if her family members aren’t 59
“I thought you weren’t afraid of Diane Sister Rose, since you’re the one who wanted to have a sit down talk with her!”
“I never said we weren’t afraid of your granddaughter Miss Margarita. I said us nuns would like to come to the mental institution to talk to your granddaughter and try to see if we can help her with her problem because that’s what we do, I never said we weren’t afraid of her. The truth is, we ARE afraid of your granddaughter Miss Margarita, I mean we’re afraid of her ‘other’ personality, that’s why we would rather have you and your other family members be inside the room with your granddaughter while us nuns are having a sit down talk with her.”
“Well I wasn’t going to allow Diane to be alone inside the room with you anyway.”
“You weren’t?”
“No, of course not! My family and I have to keep our eyes on Diane at all times!”
“You do?”
“Yes we do!”
“Oh that’s good! Oh, I didn’t mean to say it like that Miss Margarita.”
“I understand Sister Rose.”
“Thanks. Another condition that us nuns would like to have, is that while you and your other family members are inside the room with Diane D, we would like to know if you all can surround her while us nuns are having a sit down talk with her.”
“Surround her?! Now wait a minute! You want me and my family members to surround Diane while you nuns are having a sit down talk with her?”
“Yes, if it’s okay.”
“Now why do you want Diane surrounded by us Sister Rose?”
“In case that ‘other’ personality suddenly appears inside of her and goes berserk, it would have to go through your family members on all sides before it can get to us nuns!”
“Go through my family members on all sides before it can get to you?”
“Well yeah, that way us nuns will have time to escape while that ‘other’ personality of hers is busy trying to go through all your family members!”
“Is that right?”
“Well of course! You didn’t think us nuns would want to take the risk of that ‘other’
personality attacking us if your other family members aren’t in the room surrounding Diane D, did you?”
“Well in order for my other family members to surround Diane, it would take a lot of family members to do that! Wouldn’t you find a lot of family members surrounding Diane be a distraction while you’re trying to talk with her helping her?”
“We’d rather have the distraction than risk being alone inside the room with that
‘other’ personality of hers!”
“Sister Rose, if you’re THAT afraid of Diane or her ‘other’ personality, do you nuns really want to try to have a sit down talk with her?”
“Of course we want to try to have a sit down talk with your granddaughter Miss Margarita, because that’s what we do, but we don’t want to take the chance or risk of encountering or coming across that ‘other’ personality of hers unless her family members are there inside the room with her surrounding her on all sides!”
“I’m sorry Sister Rose, that’s not gonna happen.”
“What’s not going to happen Miss Margarita?”
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“I’m not going to have my family members surround Diane while you’re trying to have a sit down talk with her!”
“You’re not?!”
“No way! Don’t you think that it will hurt Diane’s feelings if she sees and knows that you’d rather have her surrounded by her family members because you have doubts about her and don’t trust her? She’s not gonna want to have a sit down talk that way knowing in the back of her mind that you nuns have doubts about her and don’t trust her, knowing that you nuns will see her as a monster the same way everyone else sees her as! She’s already hurt by everyone treating her like she’s some type of monster, I can’t have you nuns adding to that!”
“Oh I’m sorry Miss Margarita! I guess we didn’t see it that way. I don’t want to have Diane D’s feelings be hurt. But you said you weren’t going to have Diane alone inside the room with us anyway because you and your family members have to keep your eyes on her at all times! So if you weren’t planning to have Diane D be alone inside the room with us nuns, who in your family were you planning to have inside the room with her?”
“I was planning to have just her mom and myself be inside the room with her while you nuns have a sit down talk with her.”
“You and her mom?”
“Yes, just us two. Diane does not need to be surrounded while you’re having a sit down talk with her.”
“I understand Miss Margarita. Okay, I’ll settle for just having you and her mom inside the room with her while us nuns are having a sit down talk with her.”
“You will?”
“Yes we will.”
“Okay Sister Rose. I’ll talk to Diane and her mom about it. If it’s okay with them, then you got yourself a sit down talk with Diane, okay?”
“Oh thank you Miss Margarita!”
“You’re welcome, and don’t be afraid. Talk to you soon.”
“Bye Miss Margarita. Thanks again. Bye.”
“Goodbye.” Margarita hangs up the phone.
A few days later, two Latino men and two Latino women are on a park bench sitting at tables chit-chatting as one of the women looks at an internet article on a smartphone with a headline that reads: THE DIAZ-DAVIDSON ORGANIZATION PLANS TO HAVE A FUNDRAISING CONCERT FOR THE VICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILIES! TICKETS ON
SALE NOW! “Wow,” one of the women says. “The Diaz-Davidson Organization is planning to have a fundraising concert for the victims and their families!”
“What?” one of the men says. “The Diaz-Davidson Organization is planning to have a fundraising concert for the victims and their families?”
“Yeah.”
“What victims and their families?”
“You know, all those authority figures who were killed by Diane D’s other personality last year, that’s what victims!”
“Oh yeah?! The Diaz-Davidson Organization is planning to have a fundraising concert for them?!”
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“Yeah. I wonder why they’re giving a fundraising concert for the victims and their families.”
“Probably to help with that civil lawsuit that the victims’ families sued the doctors for!” the second man shouts.
“To help with that civil lawsuit? You think so?”
“I believe so.”
“Oh wow. And it says right here that Diane D is supposed to perform in the show!”
“What!” everyone else shouts.
“Diane D is supposed to perform in the show!” the first man shouts. “You mean that killer is supposed to perform in the fundraising concert?!”
“That’s what it says!” the first woman shouts.
“Isn’t she locked back up in the mental institution?! I heard she was let out temporarily on house arrest, then she was sent back! Now she’s gonna be let out again!”
“I think so, on house arrest again.”
“On house arrest again?!”
“Yeah.”
“Where is the fundraising concert going to be held at?” the second woman asks.
“It says at a theater.”
“At a theater?!”
“That’s what it says.”
“How in the world is Diane D supposed to perform at a theater if she’s on house arrest?!” the second man shouts.
“I think she’s going to have ankle monitors strapped around her ankles.”
“What!” everyone else shouts. “Ankle monitors?!”
“She’s going to have ankle monitors strapped around her ankles while she’s performing on stage?!” the first man shouts.
“I think so,” the first woman says.
“How can she go out there and perform with ankle monitors strapped around her ankles in front of all those people?! I mean, doesn’t she have any shame performing in front of hundreds or thousands of people wearing ankle monitors?! Doesn’t she have any shame at all from what she did?! Did she at least say ‘sorry’ for what she did to all those victims and their families?! I mean did she ever say ‘sorry’?! I wouldn’t go to that fundraising concert. I would like to see it, but as long as Diane D is gonna perform in it, I’m not stepping foot in there!”
“Me neither,” the second man says.
“What?” the second woman says. “Y’all wouldn’t see the fundraising concert if Diane D is in it?”
“Hell no!” the first man shouts. “I’m still traumatized and afraid from just hearing what she did to all those authority figures last year! I’m still traumatized just knowing about it! What if she goes off and gets out-of-control again while she’s up there on that stage! I don’t want to be her next victim!”
“Me neither!” the second man shouts. “I’d rather be on the safe side and stay away from that concert, just in case Diane D DOES go off and gets out-of-control again!”
“But wouldn’t it be security there at the fundraising concert?” the second woman asks. “Wouldn’t security be around the stage just in case Diane D’s other personality DOES come out to the surface and goes on the attack?”
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“Security?” the first man shouts.
“Yeah!”
“What’s that gonna do?! I mean if those police officers with guns and those swat team members with shotguns couldn’t save their own lives from Diane D or her ‘other’
personality’s wrath, you think OTHER police officers with guns, OTHER swat team members with shotguns and security at the stage could save their own lives and other people’s lives from Diane D or her ‘other’ personality’s wrath? Her ‘other’ personality took down five authority figures who had guns and shotguns and her ‘other’ personality took down a priest right along with them! You think OTHER police officers with guns and OTHER swat team members with shotguns could challenge Diane D’s ‘other’
personality?!
Would they even challenge her ‘other’ personality?!
Her ‘other’
personality is just too powerful! They would probably all run away like everybody else!
I’m not going to that fundraising concert! The only way I would go to that concert, is if Diane D is not in the show and is locked back up in the mental institution! Her family shouldn’t even allow her to be in the show! They should just ban her from performing in it!”
“Ban her from performing in it?” the first woman asks.
“Yeah!”
“No, that would be a bad move!”
“A bad move? How come?”
“Because the last time Diane D’s family banned her from performing in one of their shows, I heard she went crazy! She blamed that little boy Marcus for having her banned then she tried to go after him for it!”
“I heard!” the second man shouts. “I heard her family tried to hold her back, but didn’t succeed because she overpowered them by literally dragging them all at once right down the hallway with her trying to get to that little boy! The organization staff members who witnessed all of that said it wasn’t a pretty sight!”
“See what I mean?!” the first man shouts. “When that ‘other’ personality of Diane D’s or that beast personality kicks in and gets into Diane D, she gets this superhuman strength and is able to overpower everybody else! I’m telling you, Diane D’s other personality is a dangerous entity! It killed five authority figures using her physical body and it killed a priest and Diane D doesn’t even know it! To this day, I hear she still doesn’t believe she killed anybody!”
“Because it was her OTHER PERSONALITY who did all that killing?!” the first woman shouts.
“Different personality, same body as far as I’m concerned! It’s the same body! We all just need to stay away from that crazy dangerous woman!”
The following day, a male hospital staff member is standing in the lobby of the mental institution with Sister Rose and two other nuns Sister Ellen, a white female around her mid 40’s and Sister Erica, a black nun around her mid 30’s. The hospital staff member turns his head and sees Barry walking in the lobby towards them and shouts, “Hey Mr. Barry!”
“Hey!” Barry says as approaches the male staff member. He looks at Sister Rose and says, “Hi Sister Rose.”
“Hello there Mr. Barry,” Sister Rose says.
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Barry then looks at Sister Ellen and Sister Erica and says, “Hi Ladies. So, are you all ready to see Diane?”
“I guess so,” Sister Rose says.
“You guess so? What do you mean ‘you guess so’ Sister Rose? You’re not sure now?”
“Well, are you sure Miss Margarita and Diane D’s mom are going to be in the room with Diane D while we’re having a sit down talk with her?”
“Yes I’m sure. Why? Are you having second thoughts about the sit down talk with Diane?”
“At first we were.”
“Oh really?”
“Yes, but us nuns decided to try and stick it out and try to get through this.”
“Oh yeah?”
“Yes.”
“Okay. Are you sure you want to have a sit down talk with Diane? Because if you’re not really sure about it, it’s not too late to change your mind. We not only want Diane to be comfortable, we want you ladies to be comfortable as well.”
“Oh thanks Mr. Barry.”
“You’re welcome. So do you still want to have the sit down talk with Diane?”
“I guess so, as long as someone in her family will be in the room with her.”
“Don’t worry, there’s gonna be. If mom says that she and Mary are going to be in the room with Diane while you’re having a sit down talk with her, she meant it.”
“Okay.”
“Come right this way.”
“Okay.”
Barry turns to the staff and says, “Thanks.”
“Okay Mr. Barry,” the staff member says. Barry turns and walks towards another hallway as Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica turn and nervously follow him.
Barry opens the door to a meeting room. He walks into the meeting room as Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica nervously follow in behind him. Barry turns to Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica and tells them, “Just have a seat right there on this side,” as he points to a small row of seats. “Diane, Mary and Mom will sit on this side,”
as he points to another small row of seats on the opposite side of the room.
“Okay,” Sister Rose says.
“Now you ladies make yourselves comfortable. I’ll go get Mom, Mary and Diane.”
Barry turns to the door. He walks out the door and leaves the room as Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica nervously stare at him. The door then closes behind Barry.
Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica nervously stare at the door. Sister Ellen nervously turns to Sister Rose and Sister Erica and whispers, “Oh my God, he’s going to get Diane D now! Do we still have time to change our minds? I’m having second thoughts about this!”
“You are?” Sister Rose asks.
“Well yeah! I’m not too sure if I want to be in the same room with Diane D, knowing that she killed six people last year!”
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whispers. “Maybe we should leave!”
“You want to leave?!” Sister Rose asks.
“Yeah, because I’m having second thoughts about this too! I mean what were we thinking trying to have a sit down talk with this killer?!”
“That’s true!” Sister Ellen says, “Maybe we can try to sneak out the back door before Miss Margarita, Diane D and her mom get here.”
“Yeah let’s go! Come on Sister Rose!” Suddenly the front door opens. Sister Erica, Sister Ellen and Sister Rose nervously gasp and look towards the front door. They suddenly see Barry stepping back into the room.
“Heeere they are,” Barry says as he opens the front door wider. Mary suddenly walks into the doorway into the room. She turns her head to her left and looks right towards Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica as Diane D walks into the doorway behind Mary wearing a cream colored long sleeved body shirt with matching colored pants and a matching colored cap facing backward with her long black hair hanging down her back and shoulders. Diane D turns her head to her left and looks towards Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica as Margarita walks into the doorway behind Diane D. Margarita turns her head to her left and looks towards Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica. “They were already heading right to this room when I saw them,”
Barry says. Mary, Diane D and Margarita go to the opposite side of the room where the other group of chairs are. They turn and face Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica then sit down on the chairs with Diane D sitting in the middle between Mary and Margarita. Mary, Diane D and Margarita look at Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica as Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica nervously look at Mary, Diane D and Margarita. Barry says to Sister Rose, “Okay Sister Rose, I’m going to leave right now.”
Barry turns to Mary and Margarita and says to them, “Mary, Mom, you got this?”
“Yeah we got it Barry,” Margarita says.
“Okay. Bye Diane. I’ll see you all later.”
“Okay Barry,” Margarita and Mary say. Barry turns and leaves the room as the door closes behind him.
Margarita turns back to Sister Rose. She then says, “Okay Sister Rose this is my daughter Mary,” as she points her hand to Mary, “and this is my granddaughter Diane known to you as Diane D,” as she points her hand to Diane D.
“Hi Mary,” Sister Rose says. “Hi Diane D. And this is Sister Ellen,” Sister Rose says as she points her hand to Sister Ellen.
“Nice to meet you,” Sister Ellen nervously says.
“And this is Sister Erica,” Sister Rose says as she points her hand to Sister Erica.
“Nice to meet you,” Sister Erica nervously says.
“Nice to meet you too,” Margarita says. “So now that you nuns are meeting Diane, what do you want to say to her?”
“Wow” Sister Rose nervously says. “What I want to say is, how are you Diane D?”
“I’m doing okay,” Diane D says.
“You are? That’s good. We know that you are a great performer and that you do your performances very well while you’re performing on stage. I understand that you’re very skilled in meditation, right?”
“Yeah.”
“Where did you get that talent from?”
“I learned it when my family’s organization traveled to Asia.”
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“You learned meditation when your family traveled to Asia?”
“Yeah.”
“That’s good! Can I ask which Asian country did you learn your meditation skills and your martial arts skills from?”
“All over Asia.”
“All over Asia?”
“Yeah. I learned some of my meditation skills when my family traveled to Tibet.”
“Oh you learned some of your meditation skills when your family’s organization traveled to Tibet?”
“Yeah.”
“That’s good!”
“Hi Diane D,” Sister Ellen says. “I understand that you’re very skilled in the martial arts too, right?”
“Yeah,” Diane D says.
“Where did you get that talent from?”
“I learned it in Asia too.”
“You did?”
“Yeah.”
“That’s good! Can I ask which Asian country did you learn your martial arts skills from?”
“I learned that from all over Asia too.”
“You did?”
“Yeah.”
“Wow! It seems like the martial arts taught you good fighting skills! That’s good!”
“Um Diane D,” Sister Erica says, “we know that you have been locked up here inside this mental institution back and forth. We understand what you and your family have been going through with what happened last year with the authority figures. I just want to know, you still don’t remember anything that happened that day with the authority figures?”
“No I still don’t remember what happened after I woke up from being hypnotized,”
Diane D says.
“You still don’t remember?”
“No. Doctor Stone and my family are trying their best to get me to remember what happened that day. I try very hard to remember what happened that day, but I still don’t remember what happened.”
“Wow, we understand Diane D, that’s why us nuns would like to know is there anything we can do for you.”
“Yeah is there anything you need us to do for you?” Sister Rose says.
“No,” Diane D says. “I can’t think of anything right now.”
“You can’t?”
“No.”
“Okay no problem. Well we are gonna get ready to leave now. And remember Diane D, if there is anything you need us nuns to do for you, just tell your mom and your grandma for us and we’ll try our best to get it done.”
“Thank you.”
Margarita turns to Diane D and says, “You ready baby?”
“Yeah I’m ready Grandma.”
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“Okay.” Margarita, Diane D and Mary stand up from the chairs. Margarita turns to Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica and says, “Okay Sisters, we’re going to take Diane back now.”
“Okay Miss Margarita,” Sister Rose says. “Thanks for letting us try to help her. Bye Diane D.” Diane D gives Sister Rose a luke warm wave as she, Margarita and Mary turn towards the front door and head towards it.
Margarita turns her head towards Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica and says,
“I’ll send Barry back in here, then he’ll lead you out the building.”
“Okay Miss Margarita, thanks again.”
Margarita turns back forward and walks out the front door as Diane D goes out the front door behind her and Mary goes out the front door behind Diane D. The door closes behind Mary.
Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica stare at the front door. They then turn and nervously look at each other.
Several minutes later, Barry is walking back in the lobby of the mental institution as Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica follow him. He leads them to the front door of the lobby.
Barry, Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica reach the front door. Barry opens the front door. He turns to Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica and says to them,
“Thanks for coming.”
“Okay Mr. Barry,” Sister Rose says. “Goodbye.”
“Goodbye.”
Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica walk out the front door.
Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica step out of the building as the front door closes behind them. Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica turn around and nervously look at the front door. They then turn and nervously look at each other. “Wow,” Sister Ellen whispers. “That was close! That ‘other’ personality didn’t come into Diane D and try to attack us!”
“Well not with her mom and her grandma sitting right there!” Sister Erica whispers,
“that’s why we were able to make it out of there alive!”
“Yeah that’s true!”
“Come on,” Sister Rose says, “let’s go.” Sister Rose, Sister Ellen and Sister Erica turn their heads and take one last look at the front door. They then turn forward and leave the area.
The following week, Margarita, Tomas, Mary, Barry and Dr. Stone are surrounding Diane D who is sitting in a chair sadly looking at photos of the police officers, swat team members and the priest who were killed by her ‘other’ personality last year. “You don’t remember any of these people Diane?” Dr. Stone asks.
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killed outside the hypnosis room when they tried to enter inside there with guns and shotguns!”
“Yes they are the people Diane,” Margarita says. “And you still don’t remember what happened inside the hypnosis room?”
“No Grandma. Sorry, I still don’t remember what happened in there!”
“Not at all?”
“No, not at all. I still don’t understand, why the priest was there.”
“You don’t understand why the priest was there?”
“No I don’t. What did he had to do with what happened inside the hypnosis room?
Why was he even there in the first place?”
“We wanted to make sure nothing went wrong inside the hypnosis room Diane,” Dr.
Stone says.
“You wanted to make sure nothing went wrong inside the hypnosis room?”
“That’s right.”
“And you needed a priest to stop it? What makes you think that a priest was gonna be able to stop what was going to happen inside the hypnosis room Dr. Stone? Did having a priest inside that room help?”
“Well obviously it didn’t. We all see where he’s at now. We see where they’re all at now.”
“Yeah that’s true,” Mary says. “But anyway, do you still want to do the fundraising concert for their families Diane? Do you still want to be part of the show?”
“Of course I want to be part of the show Mom,” Diane D says. “Why shouldn’t I be part of the show? I mean none of us can bring these people back, but the least we can do for their families is put on a fundraising concert and help raise money for them and have me be part of the show.”
“But are you sure you want to be part of the show Diane?” Barry asks. “I mean are you sure you want to put yourself out in front of everyone after what happened last year?”
“Of course I do Dad. Let’s do it.”
“Are you sure Diane?” Tomas asks.
“Of course I’m sure Grandpa. I want to show support for the victims and their family members. At least the people can appreciate that.” Diane D looks back at the photos of the police officers, swat team members and the priest as Margarita, Tomas, Mary, Barry and Dr. Stone sadly look at her.
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The Case Of The Low Ticket Sales
Three weeks later, Barry is standing inside the office at the mental institution looking down at some invoices he’s holding. Mary and Diane D walk into the office.
They walk towards Barry as Mary says, “So how are the ticket sales Barry?”
“Yeah Dad,” Diane D says. “Are they sold out yet?”
“Almost,” Barry says.
“Almost?” Diane D says as she and Mary approach Barry. “What do you mean
‘almost’ Dad? Whenever we do a show, the tickets always get sold out fast. Why aren’t they sold out so fast this time?”
“I don’t know Diane. For some strange reason, they’re not being sold out fast this time.”
“Oh oh.”
Barry and Mary puzzledly look at Diane D as Mary says, “Oh oh? Oh oh what Diane?”
“I hope the reason those ticket sales aren’t being sold fast enough is not because of me.”“You hopeit’snotbecauseofyou? Whatdo youmean?”
“The tickets probably aren’t being sold out because people are probably afraid to come to the show!”
“They’re probably afraid to come to the show?”
“Yes!”
“Why would people be afraid to come to the show Diane?!” Barry asks.
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“Because I’m sure they see me as some type of monster Dad!”
“See you as some type of monster?”
“Yeah! I mean why wouldn’t they? That little boy Marcus saw me as some type of monster! We all heard him shouting that all over the speaker phone at the police precinct last year! Some of the staff members saw me as a monster while I was visiting the organization on house arrest!”
“Some of the staff members saw you as a monster while you were visiting the organization?”
“Yeah! They’ve been speaking bad about me behind my back also!”
“They were speaking bad about you behind your back?” Mary asks.
“Yeah!”
“How do you know they were speaking bad about you if it was behind your back Diane?”
“Because I can feel it Mom!”
“You can feel it?”
“Yes, I can sense they were speaking bad about me!”
“You sensed they were speaking bad about you?” Barry asks.
“Yes!”
“How?!”
“A strong intuition and feeling came over me and told me that the staff members were speaking bad about me!”
“A strong intuition and feeling came over you and told you that the staff members were speaking bad about you?”
“Yeah Dad! Then they got the nerve to want to come into the organization office to see me while I was sitting beside Grandma’s desk after they were bad mouthing me behind my back?! Behind my back they had a lot to say about me! Then when they came into the office to see me, I was sitting there just waiting for them to say something bad about me to my face!”
“You were waiting for them to say something bad about you to your face?”
“Exactly, but they didn’t say anything, even though I was waiting!”
“Even though you were waiting?! Ah come on now Diane, of course they’re not going to say anything bad about you to your face! You really think the staff members would stoop that low and say their true feelings right to your face?”
“No they wouldn’t say their true feelings to my face Dad because I can feel that they were all afraid of me! They seem to have been avoiding me like the plague while I was at the organization, and I’m not even thinking about harming them, just like that little boy Marcus became afraid of me and avoided me like the plague and I wasn’t thinking about harming him either!”
“But you DID harm Marcus Diane!”
“I don’t remember harming him Dad!”
“There are a lot of things you don’t remember Diane, just like you DON’T remember beating up Marcus inside that school hallway then chasing him down the back stairwell of that school building! Just like you don’t remember what you said to Nancy inside the upstairs hallway outside our bedrooms that night! Just like you don’t remember what happened inside that hypnosis room last year, even though your mother and I, your grandparents, your brother, your aunt, your uncle and your husband all witnessed it first-hand! Has your memory came back on any of those incidents yet?”
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“No it didn’t Dad. I still don’t remember any of it!”
“Not at all?”
“No, sorry I don’t.”
“Okay then. But all of those incidents have nothing to do with the ticket sales not being sold out yet.”
“It doesn’t?”
“No.”
“So why aren’t they sold out then?”
“Because we still have time for the tickets to be sold. It’s still early, it’s not too late.
I’m sure they will be sold out soon.”
“You think so Dad.”
“I know so Diane.”
“Okay. I feel a little better now.”
“You do?”
“Yeah. Well I guess the girls and I can go do some more rehearsing for the show.”
“Okay.”
The Dianettes which includes Nancy, Charlotte, Miranda, Bernice, Lonna and Kelly suddenly enter the office. They approach Diane D, Barry and Mary as Nancy asks, “So how are the ticket sales Uncle Barry?”
“It’s getting there Nancy. It’s getting there.”
“Oh good.”
Diane D turns to the Dianettes and says, “Come on girls. We got a show to rehearse for.”“Okay Diane,” the Dianettes say as Diane D turns and hurries towards the doorway.
The Dianettes turn and follow Diane D towards the doorway and leave the office behind her as Barry and Mary look at them.
Mary then turns to Barry and says, “Okay Barry, what’s really going on? Why aren’t these tickets being sold out fast?”
“Well,” Barry says. “I’m afraid to say it Mary.”
“Afraid to say it? Afraid to say what?”
“That Diane’s instincts are right.”
“Diane’s instincts are right? What are you talking about? What do you mean ‘her instincts are right’?”
“The tickets aren’t being sold out fast because people are still afraid of her after what happened to all those authority figures last year!”
“What! Oh no! Are you sure?!”
“Yes, I’m sure!”
“How do you know that’s the reason Barry?!”
“Because that’s what the people said when they called on the phone about the tickets!
Believe me Mary, a lot of people DO want to see the fundraising concert and support it, but said they’re still traumatized and afraid of hearing what Diane did to all those authority figures last year!”
“Oh no!”
“Yeah! They’re saying ‘what if she goes off and gets out-of-control again while she’s on stage’! They said they don’t want to be her next victims!”
“They don’t want to be her next victims?! That’s what they said?!”
“Yes!”
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“They said they would rather be on the safe side and stay away from the concert, just in case Diane goes off and gets out-of-control again while she’s on stage!”
“Oh my God!”
“Even though Diane’s suspicions are right about why the ticket sales aren’t selling, I just didn’t have the heart to tell her the truth about it.”
“Oh boy.” Mary and Barry worriedly look at each other.
Around an hour later, the Dianettes are rehearsing their stretch dance steps inside an empty studio room at the mental institution. Diane D stands in the front of the room facing the Dianettes watching their dance steps. She is wearing no ankle monitors. She then shouts to the Dianettes, “Okay girls we’re gonna try to do this step again, we got to get it right before the fundraising concert starts! Ready?! One, two, three and go!” The Dianettes continue to do the stretch dance as Diane D turns and walks around them watching their steps and moves. Diane D then looks at Bernice, points to her and says,
“Hold your head a little higher Bernice.”
“Okay Diane,” Bernice says as she holds her head up higher.
Kelly then turns to Diane D and says, “Diane, we’ve been rehearsing for over three hours already. Can we get a break soon?”
“You’ll get a break in twenty minutes Kelly,” Diane D says. “Now let’s get those arms stretching, one two three stretch!” Kelly and the rest of the Dianettes continue to do stretch dance steps as Diane D continues to circle them watching their every step.
Miranda stretches so hard that she almost slips. The rest of the Dianettes quickly catch her as Diane D stops circling them and says, “Come on you got this Miranda. You got this!”
“Okay Diane,” Miranda says as she continues to stretch along with the rest of the Dianettes. Diane D then walks away from the Dianettes and goes to a podium on the side of the room.
Diane D stands behind the podium and looks down at some papers on the podium then looks back at the Dianettes watching their step and movements as they continue to practice.
A few days later, the same two Latino men and the same two Latino women are in a living room inside one of their apartment as the second woman reads a flyer with a headline that reads: ‘TICKET SALES FOR THE DIAZ-DAVIDSON FUNDRAISING
CONCERT!’ “You know what guys?” the second woman says. “I might buy tickets for the Diaz-Davidson fundraising concert.”
“What!” everyone else shouts.
“You are?” the second guy asks.
“Yeah,” the second woman says.
“How come?”
“Because I want to see their fundraising concert.”
“You want to see their fundraising concert, even though Diane D is going to be in it?”“That’s right,even though she’s goingtobe in it.”
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“After everything you heard she did, you still want to go to the concert?”
“Yep, even after everything I heard she did.”
“But why?”
“Because I want to see the fundraising concert and support it! Plus I want to see Diane D perform.”
“You want to see Diane D perform?”
“Yeah, I think she’s a great performer.”
“I agree with you on that part,” the first man says. “I think she’s a fantastic performer! But that psycho personality of hers has got to go! I’m still traumatized and afraid by hearing what Diane did to all those authority figures last year!
I don’t blame you, I agree with you there.”
“So what are you going to do?” the first woman asks.
“Purchase a ticket and go see the concert, after all, it’s for the victims of Diane D’s other personality’s wrath and their families. I think I want to support the fundraising concert for them.”
“You do?” the first man asks. “You mean you would risk your safety being in the same room with Diane D? I still wouldn’t want to get too close to her while she’s on stage, just in case she goes off and gets out-of-control while she’s up there!”
“I’ll be safe, as long as I’m far away from her.”
“As long as you’re far away from her?”
“Yeah.”
“And just how are you planning to do that?” the second man asks. “How are you planning to be far away from Diane D?”
“By purchasing tickets for seats all the way in the back of the theater.”
“What! By purchasing tickets for seats all the way in the back of the theater? You mean in God’s country?”
“That’s right, in God’s country. I’m gonna purchase tickets for seats all the way in the back of the theater so I won’t be too close to Diane D, because if her ‘other’
personality happens to come out to the surface while she’s on stage and everybody panics and start to get out of their seats and run towards the back of the theater, I’ll be the first one out the back of the theater, that way I won’t fall and get run over and crushed to death, just in case there’s a stampede.”
“Just in case there’s a stampede?!”
“Yeah!”
“Wow, that’ll be another death that Diane D will have on her hands!”
“Didn’t she cause a stampede when she did that levitation performance in Germany a few years ago?” the first man asks.
“Yep, she sure did.”
“And she might cause another stampede if her ‘other’ personality comes out to the surface while she’s on stage.”
“Wow! Well I guess in that case, I’ll probably purchase tickets for seats all the way in the back of the theater too so I won’t get crushed to death either, in case there’s a stampede.”
“Why don’t we all purchase tickets for seats all the way in the back of the theater to see the show,” the second woman says.
“Okay,” the second man says. “Sounds cool to me!”
“Me too,” the first woman says as they all look at the flyer.
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Diane D Is Out On House Arrest Again: The Revenge Plots!
There is a white sports car speeding down the service road of a highway. The driver suddenly loses control of the car! The car speeds right on the sidewalk and starts to spin! It then crashes slamming right into a tree sort of wrapping itself around the tree!
Several minutes later, the police arrive at the scene. They see that the driver of the vehicle, a young white male with dark hair, is dead. There are no other passengers inside the vehicle. Two police officers look at the victim’s wallet. “Did you discover the victim’s identity?” one of the officers, a white male around his late-40’s with dark hair, asks.“Yeah I discovered his identity,” the second officer, another white male around his late-40’s with light brown hair, says. “Wow, this is so sad.”
“It is. We’re gonna have to contact his family.” The officers sadly look at the dead victim.
A couple of hours later, the police are at the victim’s family’s home. The victim’s family is all hysterical as they are all crying and screaming. The victim’s mother Mrs.
Stevens, a white female around her late-40’s with light shoulder length hair cries and shouts, “My son hasn’t been the same since his father’s death last year!”
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“His father’s death?” the first police officers asks. “What happened to his father?”
“His father is one of the victim’s that Diane D killed!”
“What!” the officers shout.
“His father is one of the victim’s that Diane D killed?!” the second officer asks.
“Yes!” Mrs. Stevens shouts. “When his father got killed, he couldn’t handle it! After a while, he wanted revenge on Diane D! Just before he sped off in his car, he shouted to us that he was going to go after Diane D!”
“What! He shouted that he was going to go after Diane D?!”
“Yes! He started shouting ‘I’m going to kill that Diane D, I’m going to kill her for what she did to my father!’ We tried to stop him and calm him down, but he got away from us and hopped into his car and sped off! Then we called nine one one for help!
Now we know he never made it to Diane D because he lost control of his car and got killed! Now another life in my family is lost in this case! First I lose my husband last year, now I lose my son! I lost two people within a year!” Mrs. Stevens starts to cry uncontrollably. The officers sadly look at her.
Several hours later, the police are at the organization speaking to Margarita, Tomas, Mary, Barry and Michael about the tragic accident as the first police officer says, “His family said that the young man was angry about Diane D for what she did to his father last year. Diane D didn’t have anything to do with that crash, did she?”
“No!” Mary, Barry, Margarita, Tomas and Michael shout.
“Of course she didn’t!” Tomas shouts.
“How can she have anything to do with the crash if she was locked up on house arrest when it happened?!” Margarita shouts. “She’s been locked up inside the mental institution and on house arrest ever since her other personality killed those authority figures last year, so she was nowhere around that crash when it happened! She was nowhere near this guy’s vehicle before he got in it and crashed! The crash was totally beyond her control!”
“Okay, I’m just asking to make sure, that’s all.”
A month later, Diane D and her family are sitting inside a waiting room outside Dr.
Stone’s office as Diane D continues to wear ankle monitors. Michael has his arm wrapped around Diane D as she has her head laid on Michael’s shoulder with her eyes closed. Suddenly there are police sirens being heard out in the street. The police sirens become louder and approach the building of Dr. Stone’s office. Diane D’s family and Michael look towards the window as Margarita says, “I wonder what’s going on.”
“I’ll take a look,” Barry says. Barry gets up from his seat and goes to the window.
Barry approaches the window and looks outside. He then says, “Hey, there are police cars and ambulances outside.”
“There is?” Margarita asks.
“Yeah, and the police and paramedics are coming inside this building!”
“They’re coming in here?” Tomas asks.
“Yeah.”
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Tomas, Margarita and Mary approach the window and look out the window. They see police officers and paramedics rush into the building. “Damn,” Mary says. “I wonder what happened.”
“I wonder too,” Tomas says.
“I hope no one had a heart attack in this building,” Barry says.
“I hope not either,” Margarita says, “But they’re coming in here for a reason.”
Margarita turns to Barry and says, “Barry, you think you can go downstairs and try to find out what happened?”
“Sure Mom.” Barry turns from the window and says to Mary, “I’ll be back Mary.”
“Okay Barry,” Mary says as she continues to look out the window. Barry turns away and leaves the window.
Barry heads towards Michael and Diane D as Michael says to him, “What’s going on Dad?”
“I’m just gonna go downstairs real quick to find out what’s going on,” Barry says as he approaches Diane D and Michael. Barry stops and bends a little to check on Diane D
as her eyes remain closed. He holds Diane D’s head up a little as he and Michael check on her face.
“Don’t worry Dad,” Michael whispers, “she’s not secretly meditating, she’s actually sleeping.”
“Okay,” Barry says as he lets go of Diane D’s head, “just making sure. Let me hurry and get downstairs. I’ll be back.”
“Okay Dad.”
Barry turns away and starts to head towards the door. Suddenly a hospital security guard and a police officer enter the waiting room area as the hospital security guard says to Barry, “You can’t leave the room right now Sir.”
Barry stops right in his tracks.
Margarita, Tomas and Mary turn from the window and look towards the security guard. They rush right towards the security guard.
Barry then says to the security guard, “I can’t leave the room?”
“No, no one can leave the room,” the security guard says.
“What’s going on Officer?” Tomas asks. “Why can’t anybody leave the room?”
“It’s for your safety?”
“Safety?” Margarita asks. “What safety? What happened?”
“A young man was just found stabbed multiple times in a stairwell!”
“What!” Diane D’s family shout.
“A man was found stabbed in the stairwell?!” Barry shouts.
“Yes,” the police officer says, “we don’t know who the perpetrator is, but they’re still somewhere, that’s why we have to lock this place down temporary!”
“Lock this place down?!” Margarita shouts. “Oh my God!”
“Is the man still alive?” Barry asks.
“Yeah he’s still alive right now,” the police officer says, “but unconscious.”
“Oh no!” Diane D’s family shout.
“That’s we’re trying to get him to the hospital fast before we lose him!”
“Do you know who the victim is?” Mary asks.
“Yes, we found his I. D. Now we have to contact his family.”
“Oh God,” Margarita says.
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A couple hours later, the police are at the hospital where the victim’s family is. The victim’s family are all hysterical as a male white police officer says to the victim’s mother Mrs. Muer, a white female around her mid-50’s with a short dirty blonde haircut, “I’m sorry Mrs. Muer, your son died on his way to the hospital.”
“Oh no!” Mrs. Muer and the rest of her family shout.
“He just lost his father last year!” Mrs. Muer cries and shouts.
“He lost his father?” the police officer asks, “What happened to his father?”
“His father was one of the victim’s that Diane D killed!”
“What!” the police officers shout.
“His father is one of the victim’s that Diane D killed?!” a second officer shouts.
“Yes!” Mrs. Muer shouts.
“Oh no not again!”
“Not again?! What do you mean ‘not again’?!”
“That’s the same thing that other victim’s family told police!”
“That’s the same thing that other victim’s family told police?! What other victim?!
What are you talking about?!”
“Remember the story of the victim who got killed last month when his car slammed into a tree?”
“Yes I remember that story! His family told police that his father was one of the victims who got killed by Diane D also!”
“Right, and it appears that the same thing is happening with your son! How was your son’s behavior after his father got killed?”
“He hasn’t been the same since his father’s death!”
“That’s the same thing the other family said that the victim hasn’t been the same since HIS father’s death. What else was happening with your son’s behavior?”
“He kept saying that he wanted revenge on Diane D!”
“He wanted revenge on Diane D too?!”
“Yes! When he ran out the house this morning, he was shouting ‘I’m going to kill that Diane D, I’m going to kill that bitch for what she did to my father!”
“That’s what he said?!”
“Yep! He sure did!”
“That’s the same thing that other victim’s family said, that he was shouting that he was going to get Diane D! What did you all do when your son was shouting what he was gonna do?”
“We tried to stop him of course, but he manage to make it in his car and speed off!
We got scared and called nine one one so the police can stop him because we didn’t want him to wind up being a murderer himself!”
“But your son somehow came into the clinic building where Diane D and her family were,” the first police officer says. “He got as far as the stairwell, but he never made it to where Diane D and her family were because someone came out of the blue and stabbed him right inside the stairwell and ran off!”
“My God, who did this?! Does anyone know who did this to my son?!”
“No Mrs. Muer, no one knows.”
“My God! Now another death happens because of Diane D! Damn that woman seems to be surrounded by death!”
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“Mrs. Muer when your son was shouting ‘I’m going to kill that Diane D, I’m going to kill that B for what she did to my father’ did anybody outside the family hear him say that?”
“Did anybody outside the family hear him say that?!”
“Yeah.”
“Not that I know of! Why?!”
“Because maybe a person who really admires Diane D could have heard him shouting that he was going to harm her and might have wanted to put a stop to it by killing HIM!”
“Oh no! Don’t tell me that Diane D might still have admires out there after what she did!”“Anythingis possible Mrs. Muer.”
“Oh God!” Mrs. Muer starts to cry uncontrollably.
Several hours later, the police are at the organization again speaking to Margarita, Tomas, Mary, Barry, Tonio, Marilyn, Gracy, Grandpa Mike, Aunt Celeste and Michael about the incident. The first police officer says, “This young man’s family said that he was also angry about Diane D for what she did to his father last year!”
“My God!” Michael shouts. “This is the second time someone was out to get Diane then dies trying!”
“I know! Diane D didn’t have anything to do with this recent tragedy either, did she?”
“No!” Diane D’s entire family shouts.
“Of course she didn’t have anything to do with that tragedy!” Mary shouts.
“I was just asking,” the officer says. “I’m just trying to find out who stabbed this victim!”
“Well it wasn’t Diane!” Margarita shouts. “She was inside the clinic room waiting area with my entire family when that stabbing in the stairwell took place, she was never out of my family’s sight, so she had nothing to do with the stabbing! She had no idea anybody was even after her that time either!”
“She didn’t?”
“No!”
“None of us knew anything about someone coming after Diane until you just came in here and told us what this latest victim said about her!” Barry shouts. “Now I’m scared!
I’m so scared who else might want to come after my daughter!”
“I’m scared too!” Tomas shouts.
“So am I!” Margarita shouts. “From now on, we are going to have to watch over Diane like a hawk even more!” Margarita turns to the police officer and says, “Okay Officer. We’re going to try to find out what happened. We are going to try to get to the bottom of this.”
“Thank you Miss Margarita,” the officer says as he turns around. He then leaves out of the office.
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and forth and shouts to himself, “That goddamn Diane D! She killed my father! How dare she kill my father, especially so brutal like that, and all she gets is being sent to the mental institution?! It is not right! It’s not right that she killed my father and gets to come out of the mental institution temporarily on house arrest?! She should be in prison for life, especially after killing my dad and all the other authority figures the way she did! She should never step foot outside of the mental institution at all! She gets to still see her family and her family still gets to see her! I will never get to see my dad again, thanks to you Diane D! Wait until I get my gun on you, you just wait!” Kurt stops pacing. He then turns around and stares in the air and shouts, “Wait a minute! If my father’s own gun didn’t save him from your ‘other’ personality’s violent wrath, then I’m not sure if my gun will save me from that beast or monster inside you either! What I will have to do, is sneak up on you Diane D and not let you know I’m coming! Once I sneak up on you, then I am going to shoot and kill you for taking my dad away!” Kurt quickly turns to the side and bends down. He grabs a gun then bends back up. He looks at the gun and says, “Well Diane D. I’m on my way to your family’s organization, to kill you! You are going to pay for what you did to my dad and all the other authority figures!
You are going to meet your maker, today!” Kurt tucks his gun inside his pocket. He then heads out the bedroom doorway.
A few hours later, Margarita is sitting behind her desk fixing some papers on her desk. A serious looking Diane D is calmly sitting down on the chair besides Margarita’s desk again with ankle monitors still strapped around both her ankles holding a smart phone in one hand as she firmly looks down at the smartphone sending text messages.
Margarita turns to Diane D and says, “Diane?” Diane D stops texting and looks at Margarita as Margarita says to her, “Voy a ir a la sala de descanso muy rápido. Volveré enseguida, de acuerdo?”
“Bien Grandma,” Diane D says.
“Y mientras me haya ido, quiero que te quedes en esta silla, no salgas de esta silla,
¿me oyes? Cuando vuelva, espero verte en esta silla, ¿entiendes?”
“Entiendo Grandma.”
“Bueno. Volveré enseguida.” Margarita turns her chair and gets up from it. She then walk towards the back hallway as Diane D turns her head and looks at her. Diane D then turns her head back forward. She looks back down on her smartphone and continues to text on it.
Kurt is quietly sneaking up a back stairwell inside the organization. He secretly pulls his gun out and holds the gun as he continues to sneak up the stairwell.
Kurt reaches the top landing of the steps where a door is. He looks towards the door.
There is another flight of steps going up. He quietly sneaks up those stairs.
Kurt reaches the top landing of the flight where another door is. He looks towards the door. He is about to head towards the door. Suddenly the stairwell door swings open! Kurt becomes nervous and looks towards the stairwell door. To his shock, he sees a serious looking pale faced, puffy-eyed Diane D coming right out the stairwell door 79
from the other side heading straight towards him! Kurt quickly pulls his gun out on Diane D and shouts, “Wait! Just hold it right there!” Diane D stops right in her tracks as Kurt points the gun at her! Diane D glares at the gun. She then glares at Kurt with those daring puffy eyes. She starts to head towards Kurt again as he shouts, “I said hold it!” Diane D stops in her tracks again as Kurt continues to point the gun at her! Kurt then shouts to her, “You! You killed my father!” Diane D does not say a word. She continues to glare at Kurt. Kurt then shouts to her, “How dare you kill my father! How dare you kill all those authority figures!” Diane D turns her body to her left and starts to circle Kurt in a clockwise direction as he continues to point the gun at her following her. He then cries, “You don’t deserve to live after what you did to my father, after what you did to my family!” Diane D suddenly stops in her tracks and continues to glare at Kurt. Kurt then shouts to her, “For what you did to my father and what you did to my family, I’m going to have your family go through the same thing you put my family through!” Diane D turns to her right and starts to circle Kurt in a counterclockwise direction as he continues to point the gun at her following her. He then shouts to her,
“As a matter of fact, how did you even know I was here?” Diane D stops in her tracks again and continues to glare at Kurt. Kurt then shouts to her, “You came busting right into this stairwell like you were expecting me, like you already knew I was here! How did you know I was here? How did you know I was coming?!” Diane D turns to her left again and starts to circle Kurt in a clockwise direction again as he continues to point the gun at her shouting, “How did you know that I was coming for your ass Diane D?! How did you know?!” Diane D stops in her tracks again and continues to glare at Kurt. Kurt then shouts, “What’s the matter Diane D? The cat got your tongue? You have nothing to say?” Diane D turns to her right again and starts to circle Kurt in a counterclockwise direction again as he continues to point the gun at her shouting, “Well since you have nothing to say and all you can do is circle me casing me out like you’re about to jump me and my gun, let’s see if you have nothing to say when I shoot your ass!” Diane D stops in her tracks again and continues to glare at Kurt. Kurt then shouts to her, “Just for taking my dad’s life and messing up my family’s life, I’m going to kill you right here, right now!” Kurt is about to pull the trigger and shoot Diane D as Diane D just stands there glaring at him showing no fear! Suddenly a gunshot is heard as Kurt’s gun drops and he falls backward! “Aaaahh!” he screams as he lands on the stairwell floor! He holds his arm in pain! “Aaaaahh” Kurt screams as he holds his arm and hand in pain!
He looks at his arm and hand. He sees blood all over his arm and hand and part of his fingers missing! He shockingly looks up at Diane D. He sees Diane D just standing there glaring down at him showing no emotion as he lays on the floor helpless, injured and bleeding, not knowing what happened! Kurt then looks up at the stairwell and sees a white male security guard pointing a gun at him! He then screams at the security guard, “Oh my God! It’s you!” He realize that the security guard had shot him! He shouts to the security guard, “You shot me!” Kurt quickly looks back at Diane D! He sees her still standing there glaring down at him still showing no emotions. He shockingly looks back at the security guard. He sees the security guard slowly coming down the stairs towards him and Diane D as the security guard continues to point the gun at him.
The security guard then reach the landing still pointing the gun at Kurt staring at him.“Aaaaahh!”Kurtshouts again as heholds hisarm andhandin agony.
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The security guard then heads right towards Diane D as he continues to point the gun at Kurt.
The security guard then approaches Diane D. He stops and stands right next to Diane D as he continues to look down at Kurt and point the gun at him. He and Diane D
continue to stare down at Kurt while Kurt is injured and in pain. “Aaaaahh!” Kurt screams again! He shockingly stares at the security guard and Diane D. He sees the security guard and Diane D just standing there together staring at him being injured as they show no emotions. “Aaaaahh!” Kurt screams again! The security guard and Diane D continue to stare at Kurt. Suddenly, they slowly turn their heads and look at each other. They slowly turn their heads and look back down at Kurt. “Diane!” Margarita’s voice suddenly calls out. Diane D and the security guard quickly look towards the stairwell door. “Diane!” Margarita’s voice shouts again. “Donde estas?!” Diane D
quickly turns her head and looks back at the security guard as the security guard looks back at her. “Diane, a donde fuiste?!” Margarita’s voice shouts. Diane D and the security guard quickly turn from each other. They quickly look down at Kurt then turn from Kurt and rush off the opposite direction from each other as Diane D rushes back to the stairwell door and the security guard rushes right back up the stairs! Diane D
rushes into the stairwell door as the stairwell door closes behind her disappearing out of sight. The security guard rushes up the stairs disappearing out of sight too. Kurt shockingly stares towards the stairwell door where Diane D ran off to, then looks up towards where the security guard ran up to. He is left lying there all alone in the stairwell injured and bleeding as he shouts, “Help! Somebody please help meeee!”
Diane D quickly heads back inside Margarita’s office. Her eyes are still puffy and her face is still pale as she stops and looks around. She does not see Margarita or anyone else in the room. She looks at Margarita’s desk and hurries towards Margarita’s desk.
She approaches the chair besides Margarita’s desk and sits right back down it. “Diane!”
Margarita’s voice calls out again. Diane D nervously looks to the side where Margarita’s voice is calling her from. She still doesn’t see Margarita. She then faces her head forward, holds her head back and closes her eyes. She quickly falls into a deep sleep.
Margarita comes from the back hallway and enter back into the office. She sees Diane D sitting in the chair near the desk with her head back. She stops and shouts,
“Diane!” She angrily walks towards Diane D.
Margarita approaches in front of Diane D and stands over her. She finds Diane D
sound asleep. She then shouts, “Diane!” Diane D hears Margarita’s voice and quickly awakens. The paleness in her face is practically gone and the puffiness in her eyes are practically gone too as her eyes appear to have just awaken from a deep sleep. She turns her head, looks up and sees Margarita standing right over her. She puzzled looks at Margarita with slight sleepy eyes as Margarita shouts to her, “Diane que paso?! He vuelto aquí y te habías ido! Where did you go?!” Diane D puzzled stares at Margarita.
Margarita then shouts to her, “I asked where did you go?”
“Where did I go?!” Diane D puzzled says.
“Si! Dónde estaban ustedes?” Diane D continues to puzzled look at Margarita. Then she puzzled looks around the office. She puzzled looks back at Margarita as Margarita shouts to her, “Pregunté dónde estabas!”
“Dónde estaba?” Diane D asks.
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“Sí, donde estaban ustedes?! Me fui al baño, vengo de nuevo y usted no estaba en la silla!”
“Yo no era?”
“No, no lo eras! Ahora te voy a preguntar una vez más jovencita! Dónde estabas?”
“Yo estaba aquí Grandma.”
“No, no lo eras! Cuando regresé del baño, no te vi!”
“Usted no me vio?”
“No, no lo hice! Dónde has ido? Pensé que te dije que no ir a ninguna parte!”
“No fui a ninguna parte Grandma.”
“Entonces, por qué no te vi sentado en esta silla cuando regresé antes?”
“No recuerdo dejado esta silla Grandma.”
“Usted no recuerde dejando la silla?”
“No.”
“Qué Recuerdas cuando salí de la oficina hasta que te desperté?”
“Recuerdo que me sentí un poco mareado.”
“Te sentiste mareado?”
“Sí.”
“Qué pasó después de eso?”
“Supongo que me quedé dormida.”
“Te parece? Estabas durmiendo, Diane. No estabas en esta silla antes. Fui a buscarte.
Cuando te encontré, estabas profundamente dormida en esta silla!”
“Yo era?”
“Sí, lo eras.”
“Cómo me dormí tan rápido? Si yo no estaba en esta silla, no recuerdo dejarlo.”
“Usted no?”
“No, no lo hago. Por lo que yo sé, nunca he dejado esta silla en absoluto.”
“En absoluto no?”
“No.”
“Oh no. Espero que esto no está sucediendo de nuevo.”
“Esperas que esto no vuelva a pasar? ¿de qué estás hablando, Grandma? Usted espera que lo que no está sucediendo de nuevo?”
“Diane, no recuerdas tu alma o espíritu vagando por el universo mientras dormías
¿verdad?”
“Recuerde mi alma o espíritu vagando por el universo mientras yo dormía?”
“Sí.”
“No, no recuerdo mi alma o espíritu vagando por el universo esta vez Grandma.”
“Usted no?”
“No es que yo recuerde.”
“Oh, muy bien,” Margarita sighs. “Supongo que no sucedió esta vez.”
“Adivinas lo que no pasó, Grandma?”
“Esa otra alma, espíritu o personalidad que se apodera de ti otra vez!”
“Esa otra alma, espíritu o personalidad que se apodera de mí?”
“Sí!”
“No creo que la Grandma.”
“Estás seguro? Lo siento, en realidad no sabrías si pasó algo o no porque tu alma o espíritu original no estaría aquí, así que no sabrías si pasó algo. God. Bueno, si no oímos nada extraño sucedió entre el momento en que salí de la oficina hasta el momento 82
en que volví y te desperté, supongo que no pasó nada probablemente. Si ocurriera algo, lo más probable es que lo escuchemos más tarde. Esperemos que no haya pasado nada.”
Margarita and Diane D worriedly look at each other. Margarita then turns to her desk.
She goes around Diane D then goes behind her desk. She starts to sit on the chair behind the desk as Diane D puzzledly looks around the office wondering what had just happened. Diane D then sees her smartphone on the desk. She takes the smartphone leans back on the chair and starts to surf the internet.
Twenty minutes later, police and paramedics are in the stairwell surrounding Kurt as he still lays on the stairwell floor injured. Kurt then shouts to the police, “I’m telling you that Diane D was here when that security guard shot me! The security guard and Diane D seemed to have been working together!”
“Seem to have been working together?” a male white police officers says. “What do you mean they seem to have been working together?”
“Working together to harm me!”
“Working together to harm you? Why would they want to harm you?”
“Because I told Diane D that I was going to get at her for what she did to my father!”
“You told Diane D that you were going to get at her for what she did to your father?”
“Yes!”
“What do you mean by ‘you told Diane D that you were going to get at her for what she did to your father’? Were you threatening her?”
“Well, no.”
“No? It sound like you were from what you just said. Then what happened after you told her that?”
“That’s when that security guard came out of nowhere and shot me!”
“That’s when the security guard shot you?”
“Yes!”
“Okay young man, hang in there. We’re going to get to the bottom of this.”
A half hour later, police are at the organization swarming around Diane D and her family as Diane D shouts, “I’ve never been in the stairwell! I don’t remember ever being in there!”
“You weren’t in the stairwell Diane?!” Barry shouts.
“No Dad, I wasn’t! If I was in the stairwell, I don’t remember being there!”
“You weren’t in the stairwell with that security guard?!” Tomas shouts.
“No Grandpa! Why would I be in the stairwell with him, I don’t know him!”
“You don’t know him Diane?!” Margarita shouts.
“No Grandma, I don’t! I’ve seen him around before, but I’ve never talked to him!”
“You’ve never?!”
“No!” Everyone puzzled looks at Diane D.
A half hour later, police are swarming around the security guard as one of the white male police officers shouts to him, “Were you in the stairwell with Diane D when that young man Kurt got shot?!”
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“No!” the security guard shouts. “I wasn’t in any stairwell today!”
“You weren’t in the stairwell today at all?!”
“No! I mean if I was in the stairwell, I don’t remember being there!”
“You don’t remember being in the stairwell with Diane D?!”
“No! Why would I be in the stairwell with Diane D, I don’t know her!”
“You don’t know her?”
“Not personally! I know who she is and everything and I know who her family is, but I don’t know her personally, I’ve never talked to her!”
“You’ve never talked to Diane D?!”
“No! I have always wanted to meet her before, but the chance just never came up.”
“The chance never came up?”
“No, but when I heard about that other personality of hers killing all those police officers, swat team members and a priest, I decided it’s best not to ever meet her or talk with her! I don’t want to be her next victim! I want to live to see my family again! So I decided it is best not to ever meet Diane D and to keep my distance away from her!”
“Oh really?”
“That’s ri-iight!”
“Sorry buddy, it’s too late! I think the chance of you ever meeting Diane D or her other personality already came, right inside that stairwell! Did you shoot that man Kurt?!”
“No, I didn’t shoot anybody!”
“Are you sure?!”
“Yes I’m sure, because I was never in that stairwell!” Everyone puzzled looks at the security guard.
A couple hours later, the police are at the hospital where Kurt’s family is. Kurt’s family are all hysterical as a male white police officer says to Kurt’s mother Mrs. Reid, a slim white female around her late-40’s with dark shoulder length hair, “I’m sorry, your son is injured real bad.”
“Oh no!” Mrs. Reid and the rest of her family shout.
“His father was just killed last year!” Mrs. Reid shouts.
“His father was killed?!” the police officer shouts. “Oh no! What happened to his father?!”
“His father was one of the victim’s that Diane D killed!”
“What! His father was one of the victim’s that Diane D killed too?!”
“Yes!”
“Oh no, not again! That’s the same thing the other two victim’s family told police, the victim who got killed when his car slammed into a tree and the victim who was found stabbed in the stairwell!”
“Yes I remember those two stories! Those two victims’ fathers got killed by Diane D
also!”
“Right, and now your son whose father also got killed by Diane D gets injured!”
“I’m just glad so far he’s still alive!”
“Yeah thank God! How was your son’s behavior after his father got killed?”
“He hasn’t been the same since his father’s death just like the other two guys whose fathers were killed by Diane D!”
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“What was happening with your son’s behavior after his father’s death?”
“He was very distraught and withdrawn! He kept saying that he wanted revenge against Diane D!”
“He wanted revenge against Diane D too?!”
“Yes! Can you blame him?!”
“No. I guess not. What happened when he left the house this morning?”
“He ran out the house shouting that Diane D killed his father and he was going to get her for it and make her pay!”
“That’s what he said?!”
“Yes!”
“That’s the same thing the other two victim’s family said, that the two victims ran out of their homes shouting that they were going to get Diane D! What did you all do when your son was shouting that statement?”
“We tried to stop him, but he ran to his car, got in his car and sped off! We called nine one one because we got scared! We didn’t want him to hurt Diane D then wind up in jail himself!”
“But your son made it to Diane D’s family’s organization and got as far as the stairwell then winds up getting shot in the stairwell!”
“My God, who shot him?! Did that witch Diane D have anything to do with my son being shot?!”
“Witch?! Why would you label Diane D a witch Mrs. Reid?”
“Because she is! Doesn’t she practice meditation, that meditation she learned when her family’s organization traveled to Asia, the meditation which causes these demons to enter into her body?! Didn’t her body levitate over a stage in Germany right after she meditated in front of a live audience, then doesn’t remember it?! She seems to welcome demons into her body whenever she meditates whether she knows it or not! Then whenever these demons be causing chaos using her body, she doesn’t remember any of it! Now every time someone in any of our families tries to harm Diane D, they get blocked from harming her by some strange tragedy and wind up getting hurt themselves!”
“Wow. It seems like every time someone in any of your families try to dig a hole for Diane D, they wind up falling into the hole themselves!”
“I know! It’s like there’s some protective barrier around her to keep anybody from harming her! As far as I’m concerned, that’s a witch! She’s a witch for sure!”
“Oh I don’t know about that Mrs. Reid. No one knows for sure if Diane D is a witch or not. Everybody’s heard that she practices meditation, but her family has banned her from doing anymore meditations! What happened to your son and the other two victims were probably just weird coincidences.”
“Weird coincidences my foot! She might not be able to practice meditation anymore, but I’m sure she still holds some kind of power with it! I don’t care what anybody says, she’s a freaken witch! Anybody that is surrounded by death like she is has got to be a witch!” Mrs. Reid starts to cry uncontrollably.
The next day, Kurt is laying in the hospital bed surrounded by the police and his family members as he shouts to them, “It WAS Diane D in the stairwell!”
“But Diane D told us and her family she was never in the stairwell young man!”
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Officer Kilpatrick, a stocky white male police officer shouts.
“I don’t care what she’s telling you Officer, she’s lying! She had something to do with me being shot! She might not have been the one who pulled the trigger, but she was there!”
“Even if she was there young man, what were you doing with a loaded gun beside you?!”
“A loaded gun?!”
“Yes! A loaded gun was found beside you while you were injured in the stairwell.”
“Well I have a license to carry a gun!”
“You do?”
“Yes!”
“Is it your gun?”
“Of course it’s my gun! You never know when a monster like Diane D might come across you and you need protection! You have to do something about Diane D! She already killed my father and all the other authority figures! I mean who’s next?!”
“Okay hang in there.”
The same day, Margarita, Tomas, Barry and Nicolas are inside Dr. Stone’s office.
Tomas, Barry, Nicolas and Dr. Stone are surrounding Margarita as she paces back and forth. “Are you sure that Diane was gone from the chair when you came back to the desk Margarita?” Tomas asks.
“Yes!” Margarita shouts as she stops pacing. “She was gone from the chair! And that’s around the same time that young man Kurt got shot in the stairwell!”
“But Ma!” Barry shouts. “You said that Diane told you she never left that chair!
Even if Diane was gone from the chair, they said the bullet came from that security guard’s gun, so therefore Diane didn’t shoot that guy, it was the security guard who did it! That young man even admitted it was the security guard who shot him!”
“But that security guard told the police he was never in the stairwell either Barry!
He told the police that he doesn’t remember ever being in the stairwell!”
“Oh he’ll say anything to save his hide Grandma!” Nicolas shouts. “That way the police can blame everything on Diane!”
“I don’t think that’s the case Nicolas! Maybe that security guard actually doesn’t remember being in the stairwell, just like your sister doesn’t remember being in the stairwell!”
“Well one thing is for sure,” Dr. Stone says, “Diane and that security guard both do not remember being in that stairwell when that young man Kurt got shot, yet that young man Kurt claim both of them were in the stairwell. Now that’s strange. The only thing I can think probably happened, is that maybe it’s a possibility, that Diane’s ‘other’
personality came back.”
“What!” Margarita, Tomas, Barry and Nicolas shout. “Her other personality came back?!”
“You think it’s a possibility that Diane’s ‘other’ personality came back Doctor Stone?!” Margarita shouts.
“That’s what I think could have happened!” Dr. Stone shouts.
“What! You think it was Diane’s OTHER personality actually the one in the stairwell?!”
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“Oh no! I hope that beast didn’t come back into my grandchild!!”
“I think it did Miss Margarita, I think it did.”
“Oh no!”
“We thought you got rid of that other personality Dr. Stone!” Tomas shouts.
“I tried to get rid of it Mr. Tomas,” Dr. Stone shouts, “but nothing is guaranteed! I’m just saying I think maybe Diane’s other personality came back, took over her body and once it entered her body, it got up out of that chair, went out the office into the stairwell, and it was actually her ‘other’ personality who was the one that young man Kurt encountered in the stairwell, NOT her ‘original’ personality.”
“What!?” Margarita, Tomas, Barry and Nicolas shout.
“So her ‘other’ personality was actually the one in the stairwell when that young man got shot, not her original personality?!” Barry shouts.
“That could be a possibility Mr. Barry,” Dr. Stone says, “that’s why Diane doesn’t remember being there! Miss Margarita, you said Diane wasn’t there in that chair when you returned back to your desk that you had to call out to her and look for her when you didn’t see her, right?”
“Yeah it’s true!” Margarita shouts. “So are you saying, that while I was gone away from my desk and left Diane there alone, that’s when that ‘other’ personality snuck in her body and her ‘other’ personality wind up sneaking her body away from my desk?!”
“It could be a possibility Miss Margarita, it could be. When you found Diane back in the chair and asked her ‘where was she, where did she go’, you said she told you she was there the whole time. You said you told her ‘when you came back into the office and didn't see her’, she seemed sort of surprised, right?”
“Yeah she did! When I asked her ‘where did she go’, she told me she didn't go anywhere! When I asked her ‘why didn't I see her sitting in the chair when I came back inside the office before’, she told me she doesn't remember leaving the chair!”
“She doesn't remember leaving the chair?”
“That’s what she said! Then I asked her ‘what does she remember from when I left the office until I woke her up. She said she remembers feeling a little dizzy.”
“She claim she felt dizzy?”
“Yeah. Then I asked her what happened after that. Then she said she guess she fell asleep.”
“She guess she fell asleep? She had to guess she fell asleep?”
“Yes! I told her she WAS sleeping. I told her when I found her, she was sound asleep in the chair! She seemed shocked when I told her that.”
“She did?”
“Yes she did! Then she wondered how did she fall asleep so fast!”
“She wondered how she fell asleep so fast?”
“Yes! Then she said ‘if she wasn't in the chair before, she don't remember leaving it’.
She said as far as she knows, she never left the chair at all!”
“That’s what she said, that she never left the chair at all?”
“Yes! Then I said ‘Oh No. I hope this is not happening again’. Then I said to her
‘Diane, you don't remember your soul or spirit roaming the universe while you were sleeping?’”
“What? You asked her that Miss Margarita?”
“Yep, I sure did.”
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“She said ‘no, she doesn't remember her soul or spirit roaming the universe this time’.”
“This time?!” everyone else shouts.
“That’s what she said?” Dr. Stone asks.
“Yes that’s what she said,” Margarita says. “Then I told her ‘very well, I suppose it didn't happen this time’. Then she asked me ‘I guess what didn't happen?’ Then I told her ‘that other soul, spirit or personality taking over her’!’”
“That other soul, spirit, or personality taking over her?!” everyone else shouts.
“Oh no!” Barry shouts. “You said that to Diane Mom?”
“Yep!” Margarita shouts. “I sure did!”
“My God, what did she say to that?”
“She said she didn't think that happened.”
“She didn’t think that happened?”
“That’s what she said. Then I asked her ‘is she sure’. Then I apologized to her and told her she wouldn't really know if something happened or not because her original soul or spirit wouldn't be there, so her original soul or spirit wouldn't know if anything happened. Then I told her if we don't hear anything strange happened between the time I left the office until the moment I came back into the office and woke her up, I guess nothing probably happened. Then we hear about this young man Kurt getting shot in the stairwell at the exact same time Diane was missing from the chair, the same exact time he claim she was in the stairwell.”
“But I don’t understand! Why would Diane or this ‘other’ personality get up out of the chair and go into the stairwell in the first place?! What made her or the ‘other’
personality get up out of that chair and go into the stairwell and wind up running into that young man Kurt?!”
“Maybe to confront him Mr. Barry,” Dr. Stone says.
“To confront him?”
“Yes.”
“Why would Diane or this OTHER personality want to confront that young man Kurt in the first place Dr. Stone?!” Tomas asks.
“Well that young man Kurt was found with a loaded gun in his possession, right?”
“Right. What does that have to do with Diane or her ‘other’ personality?”
“I think maybe her ‘other’ personality knew something about that young man Kurt that her ‘original’ personality didn’t know.”
“What!” everyone else shouts.
“You think Diane’s ‘other’ personality knew something about that young man Kurt that her original personality didn’t know?” Margarita asks.
“I think,” Dr. Stone says.
“Well what did her ‘other’ personality know about that young man Kurt that her
‘original’ personality didn’t know?”
“That he might be holding some vendetta against Diane.”
“What!” everyone else shouts. “Holding some vendetta against Diane?!”
“You think this guy who was found shot in the stairwell with a loaded gun in his possession, might be holding some vendetta against Diane?!” Nicolas shouts.
“Maybe,” Dr. Stone says. “After all, he did accuse Diane of killing his father didn’t he? I think he might have been holding some vendetta against her.”
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“He might have been holding some vendetta against Diane too?! Damn! This is the third time we’re hearing one of those victim’s family member was trying to get my sister!”
“And I think maybe her ‘other’ personality knew that, but her ‘original’ personality might not have been aware of it.”
“What!” everyone else shouts.
“You think Diane’s ‘other’ personality probably knew that guy Kurt might have been holding some vendetta against her but her ‘original’ personality might not have been aware of it?” Margarita asks.
“I think so,” Dr. Stone says.
“Is that why you think her ‘other’ personality went out in the stairwell to confront him?” Barry asks.
“Well her other personality or this entity that takes over her body IS sort of protective of her. If anybody does Diane wrong or tries to harm her in any way, her
‘other’ personality will know about it, then kick in and come after that person!”
“What!” Barry, Margarita, Tomas and Nicolas shout.
“Diane’s ‘other’ personality will know if anybody tries to come after her to harm her then come after that person?!” Barry asks.
“I believe so,” Dr. Stone says. “We saw what happened to the other two guys who got killed! One was on his way to go after Diane, he gets killed in a car crash! The other one was on his way up the clinic stairs to get Diane, he gets stabbed in the stairwell right downstairs from the clinic room waiting area where you all and Diane were in!
Now this recent guy Kurt was on his way up the stairs to get Diane, he gets shot in the stairwell right down the hall from the office Diane was in.
“Yeah that’s true,” Margarita says. “When I had an encounter with Diane’s ‘other’
personality inside that hospital bathroom last year, her ‘other’ personality did say to me that they will always be protective of Diane no matter what.”
“Yeah I remember you telling me her ‘other’ personality said that you.”
“Yes it did!”
“Well, there you go.”
“But how would Diane’s ‘other’ personality even know if anybody would want to harm her?” Barry shouts.
“Because it’s an entity, it’s not human! I think it would know.”
“Really? Wow. So are you saying, that young man Kurt who was found injured in the stairwell with a gun in his possession was out to get revenge on Diane with that gun?!”
“I’m not saying that’s for sure Mr. Barry, because I don’t know and I don’t want to accuse anybody of the wrong thing! I’m just saying it could be a possibility that Diane’s
‘other’ personality knew that young man Kurt might be holding some vendetta against her and her ‘other’ personality knew he was coming in that stairwell, so her ‘other’
personality kicked in her, got up from the chair, went out the office, went into the hallway, went into the stairwell and ran into that young man Kurt there and he somehow gets shot while she or her ‘other’ personality was there! I sure hope her
‘other’ personality didn’t have anything to do with him getting shot!”
“And I hope he wasn’t planning to use that gun on my daughter to get revenge for what happened to his dad! The guy who passed away in a car accident was after Diane to get revenge for what happened to HIS dad, but he never made it to harm Diane 89
because he winds up getting killed in a car accident! The guy who was found stabbed in the stairwell was after Diane to get revenge for what happened to HIS dad too, but he never made it to harm Diane either because he winds up getting stabbed in the stairwell then dies on his way to the hospital! Now it’s a possibility that this guy Kurt was after Diane to get revenge for what happened to HIS dad too! After all, he WAS found in the stairwell with a loaded gun near him! It could have been a possibility that he was coming up the stairway with a loaded gun to come after Diane also, but he never made it to harm her either because he winds up getting shot in the stairwell and gets a couple of his fingers shot off and is now laying in the hospital!”
“Wow.”
“Well I hope this dude wasn’t planning to use that gun on my sister either!” Nicolas shouts, “because not only will he have to deal with Diane’s ‘other’ personality, he’ll have to deal with me as well if he tries to harm my sister!”
“I’m not saying that’s exactly what was about to happen. I’m just saying it could all be a possibility.” Dr. Stone turns to Margarita and says, “Miss Margarita, when Diane was missing from the chair at the time that young man Kurt got shot, did you tell any of this to the police?”
“No!” Margarita shouts. “I didn’t want to say anything about it to the police! I didn’t want them to accuse Diane of having anything to do with the shooting, so I didn’t say anything.” Everyone worriedly looks at Margarita.
The following day, Kurt is still laying in his hospital bed. His arm, hand and fingers are in a cast and sling as he shouts to his family, “I’m now having nightmares about Diane D coming after me!”
“What!” Kyle, Kurt’s older and stocky brother, shouts. “Are you serious Kurt?!”
“Yes I’m serious Kyle! She came into my dream and nightmare last night! I dreamt she was chasing after me in the same stairwell I was shot in! Now she’s coming into my dreams and nightmares just like she came into that kid Marcus’ dreams and nightmares!”
“But it wasn’t a dream or nightmare Kurt!” Mrs. Reid shouts. “You said you DID
actually see Diane D in the stairwell when that security guard shot you!”
“But it’s like I’m reliving that scene all over again in my dreams and nightmares Mom! My God, we have to do something about Diane D! She has the power to come into people’s dreams and nightmares terrorizing them!”
“Kurt Diane D doesn’t have the power to enter anybody’s dreams and nightmares!”
Kyle says. “She said it herself when she made that speech inside that hotel room a few years ago!”
“Then how come all of a sudden I’m having dreams and nightmares about her when I never had dreams or nightmares about her before?! Don’t let her fool you Kyle! Don’t believe what she said inside that hotel room a few years ago! She came into my dream and nightmare last night!”
“Kurt if you keep talking like this, the doctors are gonna want to put you away in a mental hospital and you’ll be sitting in the mental hospital right along with Diane D!
You might sit right next to her!”
“That’s right Kurt!” Mrs. Reid shouts. “We don’t want you anywhere near Diane D!
We already lost your father to Diane D’s ‘other’ personality’s wrath, we don’t want to 90
“Then the police have to do something about Diane D!” Kurt shouts. “They need to arrest her pronto!” Kurt’s family sadly looks at him.
A few days later, Alex is walking down the organization hallway. He sees Margarita and walks towards her.
He approaches Margarita and says, “Hey Miss Margarita. Where’s Diane? I heard she’s being sent back to the mental institution again.”
“She is,” Margarita says.
“How come?”
“Because the police and authorities have to investigate whether or not she or her
‘other personality’ had anything to do with that man Kurt getting shot in the stairwell.”
“What! The police and authorities have to investigate whether or not she or her other personality had anything to do with that man Kurt getting shot? That’s why she’s being sent back, because of that?”
“Yes.”
“My God.”
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Diane D Is Back In The Mental Institution: The Empty Seats Syndrome
Around two weeks later, Barry is standing inside the office at the mental institution looking down at some invoices again. Mary and Diane D walk into the office. They walk towards Barry as Mary says, “Hey Barry, what’s going on? Diane and I discovered that even though the ticket sales are practically sold out, none of the rows of seats near the stage are being sold!”
“Yeah Dad!” an upset Diane D shouts as she and Mary approach Barry. “How come people aren’t purchasing the rows of seats near the stage?”
“People aren’t purchasing the rows of seats near the stage?” Barry asks.
“No! Look at all these empty seats in the seating chart!” Diane D shouts as she shows Barry the seating chart with the empty rows of seats in the front of the theater.
“All the seats in the back of the theater and in the middle of the theater are sold out, but how come the seats closest to the stage aren’t sold out yet?!
“Wow that is strange,” Barry says as he looks at the charts. “I don’t know why the front seats aren’t being sold Diane. Maybe the price might be too high for the people.”
“The price might be too high? That haven’t stopped people before! What I want to know is ‘why aren’t people purchasing tickets for the front seats near the stage’!”
“I don’t know Diane! We might have to promote the fundraising more. I’ll see what we can do.”
“Yeah Diane,” Mary says. “We’ll try to take care of it.”
Diane D sighs. She then says, “Okay Mom, Dad. I’m gonna go finish rehearsing with the girls.”
“Okay Diane,” Mary and Barry say. Diane D turns around. She sadly holds her head down and heads towards the doorway as Mary and Barry turn and worriedly look at her.
Diane D then heads out into the hallway and leaves the room.
Margarita and Tomas suddenly enter the office through the back hallway. They walk towards Mary and Barry as Margarita says, “Hey you two.”
Mary and Barry turn towards Margarita and Tomas as Mary says, “Hey Mom, hey Dad.”
“So what’s going on?” Margarita says as she and Tomas approach Mary and Barry.
“What’s up with the ticket sales Barry?”
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“Yeah,” Tomas says. “How is it going? Are they sold out yet?”
“Well,” Barry says, “the problem is, I got good news and bad news.”
“You got good news and bad news?”
“Yeah.”
“Okay. What’s the good news?”
“The good news, is that the ticket sales for the fundraising are practically sold out.”
“They are?”
“Yep.”
“Wow that’s great!”
“That’s wonderful!” Margarita says. “What’s the bad news?”
“Well,” Barry says, “the bad news, is even though the ticket sales are practically sold out, we can’t get the first several rows of seats sold.”
“What!” Margarita and Tomas shout.
“We can’t get the first several rows of seats sold?!” Margarita shouts. “What do you mean ‘we can’t get the first several rows of seats sold’?!”
“Here look!” Barry says as he shows Margarita and Tomas a diagram of the theater seating arrangements. Margarita and Tomas look at the diagram. “See?” Barry says.
“Nobody wants to buy the first several rows of seats! Those seats will all be empty!”
“What!!” Margarita shouts. “My God, that’s the first ten rows of the theater! The first ten rows will be empty! That is a lot of empty rows which means a lot of empty seats!”
“It sure is!” Tomas shouts. “I don’t understand! How come no one is buying these seats?!”
“Because people are still afraid of Diane Dad!” Mary cries.
“What!” Tomas and Margarita shout.
“People are still afraid of Diane?!” Margarita shouts. “What are you talking about Mary?”
“Nobody wants to buy these seats because they don’t want to be too close to the stage!” Mary shouts. “They’re afraid to be close to Diane while she’s on stage after what happened to all those authority figures last year!”
“What! They don’t want these seats because they don’t want to be close to Diane after what happened?!”
“That’s ri-ight!” Barry says.
“Oh noo!”
“How do you know that’s reason these seats aren’t being sold Barry?!” Tomas says.
“Because people said that when they called on the phone Dad!” Barry shouts. “A lot of people still want to see the fundraising concert and support it, but said they’re still traumatized and afraid by hearing what Diane did to all those authority figures last year!
They said they don’t want to get too close to her while she’s on stage because they don’t want to be her next victims, just in case she goes off and gets out-of-control while she’s on stage!”
“Oh no!” Margarita shouts. “They’re afraid they might be Diane’s next victims if she goes off and gets out-of-control while she’s on stage?!”
“That’s what they said! That’s why they started purchasing tickets for seats all the way in the back of the theater so they won’t be too close to her!”
“Really?”
“Yes! When the seats in the back of the theater were all sold out, people started 93
purchasing tickets for seats in the middle of the theater! Then when the seats in the middle of the theater were all sold out, people started purchasing tickets for seats towards the front of the theater until we got to the first ten rows, that’s when the ticket sales stopped!”
“The ticket sales stopped at the first ten rows?” Tomas asks.
“That’s right! It’s not easy for people to hear that these authority figures that Diane’s other personality killed last year had their heads split wide open and were nearly decapitated.”
“My God! Did you tell any of this to Diane?”
“No I didn’t.”
“You didn’t tell her about what people said on the phone?”
“No because I didn’t want her feelings to be hurt! But she WAS suspicious before about the tickets sales not selling out at first because of her.”
“I know. Did she see this diagram yet?”
“Yeah she saw the diagram. She and Mary are the ones who brought it in here and showed it to me.”
“Oh yeah?”
“Yeah.”
“My God!” Margarita shouts, “what are we gonna do?! It would look ridiculous having all those front seats right near the stage empty, especially ten rows of it, that’s a lot of empty rows! If Diane comes out on stage and sees all those empty rows of seats near the stage, it’ll hurt her feelings! I don’t want Diane’s feelings to be hurt if she sees all those empty seats, especially being empty right at the stage!”
“Well what are we gonna do Mom?! Do you think maybe we could have the lights in the theater very dark and shine a bright light from the back of the theater right on Diane’s face while she’s performing, that way the bright light can blind her vision from the audience and she can’t see the audience or the empty seats that’s right there in front of her? When she looks out towards the audience, all she’ll see is darkness.”
“No Barry, absolutely not! I don’t want Diane to be tricked into thinking an audience is filled up when it’s not!”
“Me neither Mom, but it might be the only way to spare her feelings from being hurt from seeing all those empty seats in front of her! She’s already hurt just by looking at the empty seats on the seating chart!”
“Wait,” Mary says. “What if we give discounts on all those empty seats. We might have to give discounts on those empty seats if we want to get them filled up. Once we get those empty seats filled up, we won’t have to worry about blinding Diane with that bright light from the back of the theater.”
“You’re right Mary,” Margarita says. “We could give discounts on those empty seats.
The victims and their family members might just have to deal with receiving less money from the fundraising.” Everyone sadly looks at Margarita, then they sadly look back at the diagram of the seating chart showing all those empty seats in the first ten rows right in front of the stage.
A few days later, the same two Latino men and the same two Latino women are inside a living room in one of their apartment as the first woman reads a headline on social media that reads: ‘DISCOUNT TICKET SALES FOR THE DIAZ-DAVIDSON
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What?” the woman says.
“The Diaz-Davidson
Organization is selling discount tickets on their fundraising concert!”
“What?” everyone else says.
“The Diaz-Davidson Organization is selling discount tickets on their fundraising concert?” the second man asks.
“That’s what it says. I wonder why they’re selling discount tickets on their fundraising concert.”
“I know why,” the second woman says.
“You do?”
“Yeah.”
“Okay then, why? How come they’re selling discount tickets on their fundraising concert?”
“Because they want all the seats filled up, that’s why.”
“What!” everyone else shouts.
“They want all the seats filled up?!” the first man shouts. “The Diaz-Davidson Organization don’t have all the seats filled up yet?”
“No, not the first ten rows near the stage.”
“Not the first ten rows near the stage?” the second man asks. “How come?”
“Because a lot of people are still afraid to come to their show!”
“People are still afraid to come to their show?”
“Yes! The Diaz-Davidson Organization can’t sell out the seats in the first ten rows because everybody is thinking the same thing we’re thinking! They don’t want to be too close to the stage because they’re all afraid to be close to Diane D just like we are!
That’s why the Diaz-Davidson Organization can’t sell out seats near the stage because nobody wants to be too close to Diane D! They’re all afraid of her ‘other’ personality just like we are!”
“Well du-uuh can you blame them?!” the first man shouts. “From now on, whenever people look at or see Diane D, it is going to be in the back of their heads that she took down and injured several police officers who had guns and several swat team members who had shotguns, just like whenever that little boy Marcus looked at or saw Diane D, it was in the back of his head that she beat him up and injured him inside that school hallway then chased after him down the back stairwell of that school! It’s going to be in the back of people’s heads that she might have caused that man Kurt to get a couple of his fingers shot off in that stairwell! It’s going to be in the back of people’s heads that her ‘other’ personality might just pop up while she’s on stage! Nobody wants to be close to that!”
“Yeah that’s true.” The people continue to look at the article on social media.
Two weeks later, Diane D and Mary are standing inside the office at the mental institution looking down at the theater seating chart. Barry walks into the office and walk towards Mary and Diane D. Mary and Diane D turn to Barry as Mary says, “Hey Barry.”
“Hey,” Barry says. “What’s going on?”
“I’ll tell you what’s going on Dad!” Diane D shouts. “Mom and I discovered that tickets are finally being sold in the front seats of the theater, but only eleven seats in the tenth row are sold!”
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“Eleven seats in the tenth row?”
“Yeah! People are still not purchasing tickets for the other remaining seats in that row and all the other remaining seats near the stage! Here look!” Diane D shouts as she shows Barry the diagram of the seating arrangements of the theater. “Why are people still not buying tickets for the seats near the stage?! I don’t understand that! I thought you all decided to put discounts on the ticket prices near the stage!”
“We did Diane!”
“So why isn’t anybody still buying tickets for all the seats near the stage?!”
“I don’t know!”
“We did promote the concert again Diane,” Mary says. “I guess we’re gonna have to try to give more discounts on the ticket prices.”
“More discounts on the ticket prices?” Diane D asks.
“Yes.”
“How are more discounts on the ticket prices gonna help raise money for the victims?
If you keep giving out discounts, there won’t be enough money raised for them!”
“It might be the only way to try one more time to fill up all those seats near the stage,” Barry says.
“You think so Dad?”
“I’m not sure. We can only try.”
“Okay. I hope it works this time.”
“We hope so too Diane.”
“Okay. I’m gonna go back and rehearse with the girls.”
“Okay Diane,” Mary says. “We’ll be here.”
Diane D turns around and heads towards the doorway. Mary and Barry turn and look at her. Diane D then enters the hallway and leave the room. Mary and Barry then turn and worriedly look at each other.
A few days later, Margarita, Tomas, Mary and Barry are inside the office at the mental institution discussing the fundraising concert. An angry Diane D suddenly walks into the room with Michael, Nicolas and Mickey as she holds the seating chart.
Margarita, Tomas, Mary and Barry turn and look at them as Barry says, “My God, someone looks angry.”
“What’s the matter Diane?” Margarita asks.
“We just looked at this updated seating chart!” Diane D shouts. “Only nine more seats in the tenth row are sold! People are still not purchasing tickets for the remaining empty seats in that row and all the other remaining seats near the stage! Why are people still not purchasing tickets for the seats near the stage?! Why are people avoiding those seats?!”
“Yeah!” Nicolas shouts. “I don’t understand that!”
“Me neither!” Michael shouts.
“We thought giving out more discounts on the ticket prices would help!” Diane D
shouts. “It didn’t seem to help at all!”
“Calm down Diane!” Tomas shouts. “We’re going to get to the bottom of this!”
“How Grandpa?” Nicolas asks. “By giving more discounts on the ticket prices?”
“No not this time Nicolas.”
“So what are we gonna do then?”
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“We don’t know yet. We’ll have to figure something out.” They all worriedly look at the seating chart.