I was awaken by the alarm on my phone, ringing to the tune of scared, by Three Days Grace. I didn't want to get up just yet, but I had no choice. As soon as I pressed the snooze button, my room-mate, Dani, burst through the door, like she always does to make sure I'm up. If I'm not, which is just about all the time, she would jump on me. When she jumped on me, I groaned.

"C'mon Joanna, get up! You know what today is!" Dani exclaimed. I looked at her with tired eyes.

"Saturday?" I moaned. However, I knew what event she was talking about, and I really did not want to go.

"Well, yes, but other than that!"

"Do I really have to go to the Victoria's Secret sale with you? I hate going to that store."

"Well, you don't have to go in with me, but at least come to the mall with me! You can go to Hot Topic or something while I'm in there." Dani smiled at me, and I just stared at her.

"I'd rather sleep..." I said, and Dani got off of my bed and sighed, her hands on her hips.

"Well, you're no fun." she told me.

"Well, I fell asleep at 5:45 AM..." I flipped my phone to read the time, and then I showed it to her. "It's only 9:30."

"What were you doing up so late?" Dani asked. As I turned my back to her, trying to go back to sleep, she rolled me back over. "You didn't have another fight with Zane last night, did you?"

"Please don't even mention his name right now."

"Joanna, why don't you just leave him? You've been in a fight with Zane every day this week! Seriously, the guy's a douche bag!" Dani yelled.

"I know he is, but it isn't that simple. It would be really awkward to see him again, especially if he would try making conversation about how he misses me, and all that other crap..." Dani sighed at me.

"Whatever, it's your choice." she replied. "So, you wanna tell me what the fight topic was this time?"

"I'll tell you when you get back from the sale, 'cause I really wanna sleep." I told Dani, and she nodded.

"Alright, then I'll leave you alone so you can sleep. See you later Joanna!" she yelled as she walked out the door. I tried falling asleep, but this boyfriend trouble just had me thinking about Light...I really missed him.

It had been 2 years today from when I jumped off the cruise ship to escape getting arrested as being Kira. Since then, I haven't seen anyone that I knew from America; not L, or Amanda, or Light, or my family. No one. Oh, and I forgot to mention, I moved to France as a foreign exchange student. I went to the finest college, paid for by Dani's parents; Dani was my pen pal way back in 5th grade, and her family was one of the richest in France. I had been living with her in their mansion for the past 2 years...I am practically family to them. Dani loves calling me her roommate, since I'm living with her, so that's what we call each other. For identity purposes, I dyed my hair black and put many different color streaks in it; all the colors of the rainbow, actually. It's the color I have been wanting since middle school, but my parents would never let me. I also cut it so it's still covering my right eye, and has layers. The longest part of my layers comes down to about the bottom of my neck, and was extremely straight (I straightened it every day). I also put in color contacts; I have various, so I like switching it up to go with my mood, although my favorite ones to use are my light violet contacts.

Every night I slept, I could never stop thinking about how I left everyone on the cruise. I never stopped thinking about Light...Suddenly, I head my phone ringing to "Had Enough" by Breaking Benjamin. I looked at the caller ID and answered it.

"Hello?" I moaned softly into the phone as I yawned.

"Hey sweetie." a voice said into the phone.

"Hey Zane." I got annoyed, but I didn't let Zane hear it through the phone.

"Do you wanna go to lunch later? I feel really bad about last night's argument." Zane asked me. I was getting really pissed off now; he knew I was angry with him because of the fight already, but then he also knows that I've only been sleeping for about 3 1/2 hours.

"Then why didn't you call me later..." He could now hear that I was aggravated through my voice, and before he had a chance to answer me, I hung up the phone and turned it off so he couldn't call back. After that, it took about 30 minutes, but I finally fell asleep. As I fell into a deep sleep, I pictured Light, and nothing else.

"Joanna, I miss you...When are you coming home?"

I miss you too, Light...

"I love you, and haven't stopped thinking about you."

Me too.

"Please, come home."

I can't.

"I don't know how much longer I can be alone without my goddess..."

As Light held out his hand to me, I woke up to someone knocking on my door. My eyes shot open, and I looked at the clock, and saw it was 2:30 PM. I rubbed my eyes as I sat up.

"Come in." I said. It was Dani behind the door, with a whole bunch of bags, about 5 of the 13 being from Victoria's Secret. I looked at all of the bags. "So I'm guessing that there wasn't just a sale in Victoria's Secret?"

"Joanna, you definitely should have came, it was so much fun! Kevin and I went on a little shopping spree!" Dani exclaimed (NOTE: Kevin is Dani's boyfriend). "Did you have fun sleeping again?" She smirked, and I yawned.

"Yeah, I guess." I replied. "But Zane called me around 10:00, and tried apologizing.

"Did you accept?" Dani asked, already knowing the answer by the expression on my face; one of my signature looks that said, Are you stupid or something?!

"I had another one of those dreams though..." I told Dani. Her face grew serious.

"You mean about that Light guy again?" she asked. When I nodded, she sighed. "Joanna, you need to let go of him. You haven't seen each other in like, 2 years. Do you really think he'll remember you?"

"I know he remembers me!" I raised my voice, and she stepped back.

"Sorry." Dani apologized. There was an awkward silence in the room for about a minute, before Dani picked her bags back up. "Well, I'm gonna go hang all this up!" Before she walked out the door, she suddenly looked through her bags until she got to 2 Hot Topic bags. "Oh, and before I forget, I got you a few things from Hot Topic that I know you've been eying!" She tossed the bags to me as she walked out the door.

"Thanks!" I exclaimed as she walked down the hallway. I looked through the 2 bags, getting happier with each item I found. After I hung up the clothes and put any accessories in my special drawer for them, I stared at my computer. I then walked over to it and sat down. I logged onto AIM as invisible, like I always do so then Amanda and L don't know I'm still alive, but they weren't even online. However, I did notice that Light was on. I clicked on his name, and I typed a message to him.

Joanna: Do you remember me?

I sent it, and waited a few minutes. When I heard no answer after 5 minutes, I was about to log off, but then I heard a small ping. I opened the window, and it was Light answering me.

Light: How could I not?

TO BE CONTINUED...