Nobody could have expected that something as simple as a homemade necklace could hold such an incredible secret. Something that would change the life of the person wearing it forever.
When Terry crafted the necklace and gave it to his girlfriend Anna, he knew exactly what the consequences would be if she were to find out what was inside. So he had to keep it a secret for as long as possible.
When Anna finally found out what was hidden in the necklace she had been wearing for so long, the relationship between the pair would never be the same again...
For a second, Anna was stumped. Why did Terry want the necklace back? By now she had been wearing it for about a year and got really attached to it. But Terry told her that she had to trust him and with a little hesitation she handed it over...
Anna thought that Terry maybe wanted to clean it or make sure she didn't lose it on the rest of their trip. But then he put both his hands on the pendant and broke it open! Anna let out a scream in disbelieve and was about to get very angry. "How could he do that...?!"
But before Anna could fully react to what just happened, she saw what had been hidden inside the ring and suddenly her anger faded away and tears started to well up in her eyes...
But what was in the necklace? And why did it mean so much to Anna? To understand this, a bit of backstory is required...
Anna and Terry are a lovely couple who live in Australia and have been dating for one year now. They started dating after being friends for almost 4 years, but their romantic connection didn't seem destined from the start. Not at all actually...
Anna and Terry met when they were still fairly young. They had met in a club on a night out. Anna didn’t think much of Terry at first, while he was already fairly interested in her. Anna had more eyes for one of Terry’s friends, who had joined them one night.
In the time that Anna was hitting it off with Terry's friends, She and Terry also started hanging out quite a bit as a result. They saw each other often and really started building up a click. But, this click was not romantic whatsoever yet. And there was a good reason for this…
Even though she and Terry hung out often, she didn’t know much about him. He was always very mysterious and kept his cards close to his chest. Anna would often ask him questions about his past, only to be met with very vague answers which didn’t reveal much...
While the relationship between Anna and Terry’s friend didn’t last, the friendship between her and Terry did. And over a long period of time, the friendship seemed to develop into a relationship. Much to the displeasure of Anna’s parents and friends…
They didn’t trust Terry. He always had something about him that made them think he was hiding something. And while these suspicions were always in the back of Anna’s mind, she couldn’t help but get more and more romantic feelings for her mysterious friend…
After 4 years of friendship, Anna and Terry officially started dating. While Anna’s friends and family were very skeptical at first, they couldn’t help but admit that the relationship quickly seemed to blossom into something beautiful. But the doubt about Terry never completely faded...
Terry also felt the eyes of the doubters on him at all times during his relationship with Anna. He knew that in order to get what he wanted from Anna, he would have to work in complete secrecy. But luckily, he already had a plan figured out...
After a lot of deliberation, he knew what the perfect time would be to undertake action. His and Anna’s one-year anniversary was coming up and this was going to be the moment Terry would make his move. Now he just had some preparation to do.
Terry was going to give his girlfriend Anna, a very special gift for their first year anniversary. He was going to make something himself. Even though he wasn't particularly handy, he still wanted to give it a shot, because he knew that what he wanted to give her could not be bought in a store...
Terry decided to make Anna a necklace. It took him a lot of work and time, but he succeeded in making the main part of the gift himself. After completing the necklace to his satisfaction, he purchased the chain for the necklace and combined it all together.
He made the necklace from Tasmanian Wood. A high-quality ornamental timber is used for making cabinets and furniture, turning and paneling, and small objects. The wood is hard and close-grained with deep, dark color and satiny luster. But the wooden pendant would hold more than meets the eye...
It took a good amount of time for Terry to design the necklace and glue everything together. He hoped that Anna would appreciate and love his gift, although there was something he had been hiding from her. And it had something to do with the necklace...
On the day of their anniversary, Terry took Anna out to dinner, where he was going to reveal his big surprise. He was a little nervous as he wasn't sure whether or not Anna was going to like the necklace he made for her. Or if she would maybe have some suspicions about it...
After finishing the dinner, Terry finally revealed his surprise to Anna. He took out his hand-made necklace and gave it to her. His hands were almost shaking as he took the box out of his coat pocket. Anna's reaction to the gift was far from what Terry expected...
Not only did Anna like his gift, but she absolutely adored it! It was indeed a beautiful necklace, and what she found most important about it, Terry made it himself. Anna was on cloud nine after receiving the necklace. Her reaction to the gift made Terry very relieved.
The fact that Terry had made the necklace himself made it much more special to Anna. She wore her boyfriend's gift as soon as he gave it to her and never took it off again. Little did she know what was hidden inside the necklace the entire time...
Terry had always been worried that his secret would eventually come out. If his girlfriend ever discovered what was hidden inside the necklace, he would be in a lot of trouble, especially if she found it before he intended to reveal it to her.
While he had of course hoped she Anna would like the necklace, he never expected her to be so fond of it that she would wear it always and anywhere. But besides just wearing it, Anna also did something with the necklace that scared Terry greatly, but he could never say something about...
Because Anna loved the necklace so much, she showed it to all of her friends. This made Terry even more scared that she would find out the secret. If it would just hang around her neck, there would have been no problem, but the more people would grab it or hold it, the higher the risk of the necklace revealing its contents would be.
Anna even showed her friends that were not living in Australia. She Zoom called with everyone. These zoom calls were not specifically organized with the intention of showing the necklace, but because she was always wearing it, she often got a comment about it from her friends.
One of the friends Anna called was currently living in Scotland. She had immigrated there from Australia a couple of years ago. They were still missing each other very much because they had been best friends for years, so they zoom called at least once a month. Below a photo of Anna's friend Sofia.
Before Sofia, everybody had reacted very positively to the necklace up until this point, saying for example how thoughtful of a gift it was or how good the craftsmanship on it was for somebody who had no experience making such items. But Sofia didn't seem to trust it...
Sofia had met Terry in the very early stages of Anna's friendship with him. This was only a couple of months before Sofia emigrate to Scotland, but it gave her enough time to form a very strong opinion about Terry, which at the time was shared with a lot of Ann's friends and family. She didn't trust him.
And this distrust also very much extended to the Necklace. Sofia called the handmade piece strange and said that it reminded her of something. But she couldn't quite place it. Anna took Sofia's words with a grain of salt as she always seemed to have it out for Terry. But she could not completely shake Sofia's doubts...
Some months pass and to Terry's relief, Anna was still unaware of what was hidden inside her necklace. Most of her friends had seen it, so there was a lot less grabbing and holding the necklace and thus less risk of his girlfriend finding out what's inside. But he also noticed she started wearing the necklace less often...
Anna tried to play this off to Terry as her wanting to switch up her look from time to time and that the necklace didn't match with some of her clothes. But was not the actual reason for Anna wearing the necklace less frequently at all...
In all actuality, the words of warning Anna had received from Sofia, still plagued her mind somewhat. Anna not wearing the necklace had nothing to do with her fashion choices but was more like a test to see how Terry would react to her not wearing the necklace all the time.
While at first, Terry didn't really seem to care about this, the less Anna started wearing the necklace, the more worried he seemed to become. He often asked where it was if she hadn't worn it for multiple days in a row and he seemed really concerned about the possibility of Anna losing it.
This all started to get Anna a little worried about the necklace herself. Why was Terry so fixated on it? She knew he had probably worked really hard on it, but she had never before seen him act this way about a material object. It all just felt a little weird to Anna. But she managed to mostly put these worries to the side. For now...
More time went by, and the couple decided to go on a nice trip together. The couple had always loved to travel but due to financial issues, they had not been able to go on a trip together for a while now. So they wanted to make sure this trip would be special. But there were a lot of discussions...
Anna is afraid of flying. And living in Australia had given her a lot of other options. Throughout the years. She always managed to find a new vacation destination in her home country. Terry did always love to travel further, but so far he had always conceded to Anna and stayed in Australia.
So the couple decided to take a trip within Australia, and do it all by bus. But they didn't just stay in one vacation hotspot as they would normally do. To meet Terry in the middle, they decide on making a road trip through a large part of the country and visit places they hadn't been at all or maybe only ones before.
Their trip turned out to be fantastic. Terry and Anna made many memories together, and The love between the couple started to blossom up even more during this time. However, Terry's secret was always in the back of his mind. He knew he couldn't keep this up for much longer...
The couple still had a lot of fun together.But the fear was eating Terry alive. He knew he would have to reveal the secret soon in order to save some of his sanity. Sadly, he found it extremely difficult to decide what the right moment would be. There was always something stopping him...
One year after their first trip, They wanted more.
Even though she was still very much afraid of flying, Anna gave it a chance. They started to research what place they wanted to see most. Every place Terry had been before was automatically not considered as he really wanted to see something else.
Something that was also very important for Anna was that she would be able to visit one of her many friends living abroad. This would give her an extra incentive to overcome her fear of flying. Terry found this request very reasonable. It didn't take long for them to find the perfect destination with these criteria...
They decided that Scotland was the only option they could pick. Terry had never been to any place in Great Britain and was very eager to finally see it with his own eyes, and it would give Anna the possibility to finally see her best friend Sofia again. This was the destination, and the time Terry would reveal his secret...
Terry decided that Scotland would be the perfect place to finally reveal his big secret to Anna. He had been pushing the occasion forward for a long while now, but he knew that there would not be a perfect moment for it for a long while probably. But there was an obstacle in the way...
By this stage, Anna had almost stopped wearing the necklace altogether. Terry had also stopped making comments about it as he felt like it was becoming too obvious that there was something up the necklace. And that was the last thing terry wanted Anna to suspect...
But if he intended to reveal the big secret to Anna in Scotland, she would need to take the Neckalce with her, and not only that, she would have to. be wearing it as well. Terry decided to wait with bringing the necklace to Anna's attention till the very last moment, to not give her much time to object...
While the couple was packing their backs, Anna was all smiles and very excited. Terry saw this as the perfect time to mention the necklace and picked it up out of the drawer, alerting Anna to the fact that she should not forget it. But Anna rejected with some hesitation to this.
She didn't really want to take the necklace with her to Scotland and told terry that she probably would not be wearing it that much anyway and that she didn't want to lose it there. But after a little back and forth, Anna gave in to a persistent Terry and put the necklace in her carry-on.
The next day, on the way to the airport, Anna was actually wearing the necklace. She felt like she had been acting silly with all he suspicions and wanted to show terry that she still really appreciated the gift. But with it being all in the open like that, Terry started to have some worries...
There was one moment in particular when Terry thought his secret would come out. When the couple was making their way through the airport towards the plane. He was terrified to go through the security check, knowing how strict the airport police were.
When they entered the airport, Terry started to panic. He was worried that the security would ask Anna to scan her necklace separately and that his secret would come out. But he knew that if it would just be thrown in with the rest of their items, it would probably all be fine.
Luckily, his secret remained hidden even after going through airport security. Terry was relieved and fully prepared to enjoy his romantic trip with Anna. But what was going to happen only a few days later was beyond his imagination entirely...
Finally, one day on their vacation in Scotland, Terry decided that he was going to reveal the secret kept in Anna's necklace. After hours of waiting for the perfect moment, he thought that now was the time to do so. But unfortunately, things didn't go quite as planned...