The Secret’s Out! A New Diary!

For my good friend Erika, or ERi21 as we call. This is for you and you're believing that I am a great writer. Thank you so much for your belief in me and my writing. (Just so you know everyone, Erika was the first person ever ever review my FIRST story!)

The long awaited sequel to ‘The Secret Diary of Meiling Li’. It’s taken me ages to get the story lines the way I want it. I’ve been tossing around of thing’s stories, but here it finally is. The next story in the ‘Meiling’ life!

As some of you know, ‘The Secret Diary of Meiling Li’ is my masterpiece (and the only story I have ever completed that was in chapters) and many of you have been waiting forever for me to get started on the next one. Now I know I said this story would not be a diary, but things change and we just have to live with that, don’t we? I decided that it helps me to get into Meiling’s mind better if it was another diary.

Review: Over a year since Meiling ran away to get away from her father and Tyler, Meiling and her younger sister Meiquing are living in Hawaii. After getting sacked at her last job for protecting herself a little too violently, she’s moved to the beach for a new job at an Ice Cream Parlour.

That job’s fine, but her boss is planning to sell the business! Meiling can’t lose another job, or lose the place she’s living. Now, Meiling knows what to do and so does her friends… And that’s to play dirty!

Praise for ‘The Secret Diary of Meiling Li’

“A fantastic ending to a fantastic story”
Amazonian Anime Queen

“It’s Great!”
Eri21

“A great way to get a good light on Meiling”
Sakura Willow

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When I started life out here in the U.S, I expected them to be so harsh on the beliefs that if a punter attacks you, the waitress has a right to protect herself! It’s only fair that they be fair! That guy was twice as big as me and he smelt terrible! Still, my experience with fat slobs and troublesome guys have been well learnt and matched. When I was fourteen, I was attacked two guys on my way home from school…

Eriol saved me from them…

Eriol… What are you doing now? Why haven’t you written for a while? He used to write all the time to me. Every week it seemed I got a letter, him telling me everything that was going on in Japan, England and Hong-Kong… Oh my sweet China, my sweet home. How I have deeply missed you. And my sweet Eriol, why has it been so long since I’ve heard from you.

If you are in love with another and you no longer wish to write, why can’t you at least write me to tell me that? Is it my father? Has he caught up to me again? Well, he won’t find me, we’re moving again.

I’ve been sacked from my job, so I have to move out. I’m lucky that I’ve already been branched out to an ice cream place near to the beach. When I showed the manager my list of past jobs, and why I got sacked from my last job he just laughed.

“Them drunks are a real bitch!” he joked, he then said that he was happy to put me up. “Despite the fact you beat up over keen customers, you seem to have a good heart and a good worker. Plus, I can’t say no to a young woman who looks after her little sister and gives up a lot to do so”.

And that was it, from now on, I’ll be working a ‘Big Bob’s Ice Cream’ and I can hardly wait. Big Bob’s workers get a flat to live in too, though you have to put up with a roommate. I hope mine is going to be nice!

I better get going because I need to help Meiquing with the packing. I really can’t wait; I’m getting excited about almost nothing. Mind you, it is quite big… It maybe yet another beginning for Meiquing and I!

Just in case, I send the new address to Auntie Yelan, she’ll give it to everyone else and Eriol… I can’t help but think that father was catching up to us.

Yours forever,

Meiling Li

Dear Diary,

This is the best place I have ever lived. The neighbour hood is so beautiful and I can barely believe how nice the people are. I really can’t wait to start my new work next week. The only downer was for Meiquing; she had to leave her school for a new one closer to our new home.

My new roommate is called Daphne. As soon as Meiquing and I were greeted by her, as soon as we entered the flat and she showed us where everything was and where our rooms were… I knew I’d like her. She was one of those friendly girls who you off sight that she was a sweetheart. Her nose and under her eyes was covered in little freckles and her hair was an even brighter ginger then Sakura’s. The brightest strawberry blond I had ever seen, I was almost jealous because her hair was clearly natural. I knew this because the colours I just said were her roots. She’d dyed her hair pink at some point. I can’t imagine why any redhead would cover her hair up.

Meiquing had tugged at my sleeves at one point to say; “I like her. She’s so nice!”

At that point Daphne turned around to us with a huge smile. It was one of those smiles that are so big that the sides of her mouth seemed to stretch. “Well, this is it! Do you have any questions?”

“Just one!” Meiquing chirped.

“Anything”

“Where’s the bathroom, you didn’t show us!” she said, I’d not noticed her dancing about like that. I thought she was just excited like me. Daphne just smiled and pointed to the door behind us and just like a scared cat, Meiquing danced towards it and locked the door.

Daphne turned to me straight away, “You’re not really from around here are you? You have an Asian accent and you look oriental, where do you come from? Japan, Korea…”

“China” I replied, “Most of my family lives in Hong-Kong. My mother is half Chinese while my… Her husband is full Chinese. So I’m…”

“Three quarters Chinese?” Daphne answered before smiling a little more. “I should have guessed you were from Hong-Kong, they learn English as a second language there”. She seemed to be very clever; she seemed to know quite a bit about the East of Asia. “Have you ever been to Japan? I don’t know why but you seem a little paler then what most Chinese people are. Also, though you don’t notice it… You use the Japanese way of going ‘Err’…”

I blushed a little bit and told her the fact that when I moved to Hawaii, I had just come from Japan. I told her a little bit about why I was out there, which was to stay with my cousin who had just got together with one of my best friends. I didn’t tell her anything about before that, but I did laugh when she exclaimed… “I thought the Chinese didn’t like the Japanese”…

We don’t really, but Sakura and Tomoyo are acceptors to me.

It was my turn to quiz her, “So what about you? You don’t look Hawaiian nor talk like one. You sound more… yank. Pardon my words”.

She just smiled and nodded her head. “Nope, none taken. I’m not even American; I really come from Canada, though some people can’t tell the difference between the North Americans and us. I hate the way that people always see us in Canada as ‘yanks’!” She then seemed to stop fuming and she said silently, “The Americans have no sense of culture!”

I knew what she meant; I always hated the way people think that all oriental people are the same. The Japanese and the Chinese may have the same alphabets (well, one) and look similar, but we are completely different cultures. I remember how Eriol said he hated how Americans stereotyped his beloved England. The Americans couldn’t believe the beauty of England and their culture. England is different from other European countries. They are the motherland of the English language, which the Americans are now battering.

It’s my dream to go to England. I hear it’s like wonderland, without that dancing cards and huge chessboards. The gardens are the same. Once, Eriol told me about Kent, a place on the other side of a river called the ‘River Themes’. He said that there is a castle called Hever castle, which was once, the home of a beautiful queen called Anne. She was witty, brave and would do anything to keep what she believed belonged to her.

History tell of how her husband, the greedy and selfish King Henry, executed her for not baring him a son. He wanted to many the chubby, ugly and shallow Jane Seymour, as her line of males was very strong. Anne had only given him a daughter. Queen Anne loved her daughter more then anything, and before her death, she made sure that, one-day, little Princess Elizabeth would be queen. And she was…

Queen Elizabeth, so Eriol says, was a wonderful queen. Everyone loved her. Many plots were made to get rid of her, but Elizabeth handled them with the same grace and power, not of her father but of her mother. Elizabeth was every inch, as good as a man and better when it came to so decisions. She was a daughter that did Anne Boleyn proud.

She was her mother’s daughter, with a sharp tongue and a fierce temper against those who wronged her! Eriol used to joke. I don’t care about the faults, I still believe that Queen Anne and Queen Elizabeth were very brave.

Daphne was a little wrong about the culture thing… Americans do have some sense of culture; they just take it from the people who immigrated there… Which reminds me.

Note to self: Must send off re-newel visa imitation board.

Meiquing then came back at that point smiling, I had not yet introduced Meiquing fully so I did so. “Daphne, this is my little sister, Meiquing Li”.

Daphne smiled and shook my sister’s hand, “My name is Daphne Olsen, and it’s nice to meet both of you”.

I seriously loved this time we’ve spent with him. She’s a friend I’ve been waiting for. She kind, she likes the same sort of movies as me and she loves Chinese food. I cooked tonight (Chinese food of course) and we all sat around the T.V watching chick-flicks all night! It was great, we watched ‘Ghost’, ‘Sleeping Bride’, ‘How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days’ and to top it all off, a great two hours before we went to bed, we watched ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’.

Daphne loves subtitles… And I understand both Mandarin and Cantonese, so I got to listen to the movie in my own darling Chinese language! Mequing loved it cause she just can’t sit through subtitles (Watching the other movies was a horror) and she isn’t good with her English and knows nothing about Japanese… So it was a treat for her.

I’m looking forward to my new work! Daphne says all the people are really nice! I can’t wait, and Meiquing is also looking forward to her new school. I’m glad, I was worried it would be too hard for her.

Anyway, I’d like to get some sleep before the big day. At least this time, I’ll only have to fight off huge, fat holiday makers and their kids, rather then ugly and perverted punters who take you for anything but a waitress.

Sweet dreams. All my love,

Meiling, xxx

I've been away for long! Now, if you haven't read 'The Secret Diary of Meiling Li', then you've pretty much ruined it. lol! Nevermind. Oh well... Go off and read it any way Now, in this story, it isn't going to be so dark, but it's very funny (well, I hope so), rather clever and exciting! I've been working on it for over a year now. So you must respect it. Most authors wake up in the morning and say 'I'll write about this today'.

I try hard to plan CCS stories these days!

As you guessed, Meiling Li is main character and she's still the nice girl we all know and love. Please reviwe this sotry my beloved fans. Thank you!