Wishing you with the Jade Vine

Chapter-1: A call from Dan

"It's been almost two years since he left and now we even don't know where he is?" Alice thought so while plucking the Jade Vine, one of the rarest flower on earth which Alice's scientist grandfather somehow produced here in their garden.

Alice always used to give these flowers to shun on his birthdays. Shun really loved them. And now Shun's birthday is on next week. But Alice won't be giving him as Shun left his home two years ago leaving no message. Alice finds herself as guilty for Shun leaving like this way. Guilty for the death of that person.

"Alice… where are you? You have a call. It's Dan." Alice's grandfather called her.

"Dan oh yeah he told me he would call me during his breaks when I last talked to him. Maybe he had a fight with Runo once again." Alice giggled to herself.

"Hey Dan it's been quite a.."

"Alice you won't believe me but what….I… oh it's very urgent and it would be better if you come to japan for some time because I can't tell you on phone."

Alice's heart leapt with a faith. Her hands were trembling. The bouquet of Jade Vine that she was holding fell from her hand. Alice spoke,

"Dan, is it Shun?"

"Alice I told you I can't tell you anything on phone. It's better if you came yourself to know. Anyways I better leave now. Runo's coming and I already told Marucho to send a plane over to your place. Bye"

"Dan wait…."

Alice didn't understand a bit of it. First of all what is the thing that Dan wants to tell her. Is it about Shun. Secondly how on earth she's going to come to japan at a time like this. She got her entrance exam coming over. Her exam for getting into St. Rosaria Academy, one of the best Academy's all over world. It has many branches. Alice is trying for the one that is in Russia. And why Dan said that he better leave because Runo's coming. It isn't a time for joking. Is it? If Marucho knows that she's coming then why doesn't Runo know? Well at least Dan sounded as if though he was trying to hide it from Runo.

"Anyways," Alice thought.

"If it's Shun who Dan wants to speak about then even if it's my entrance exam coming over I'll still go to japan. I really want him to know what happened on that grave night. I want him to know the truth and also I want to give him "The Red Letter".

Alice whispered silently to herself so that no one could hear her. Not even her grandfather.

Alice was very surprised when a lot of things happened together at once. After she finished talking to Dan she was plucking the Jade Vines back to the basket right at that moment she heard the noise of a plane, of course a private plane sent by Marucho which Alice didn't need anyone to inform about.

Alice was just wondering at that time how fast is that plane . Alice came outside hoping to see the familiar face of Marucho's butler. But there was someone else standing near the plane. Obviously not Marucho's butler. A man with a very strong face.

The man came towards Alice. He spoke,

"Miss Gehabitch?"

"Urr…yes. You are…"

"Pardon me. I am Whillshar Michels. Pleased to meet you. I am the one who master Marucho sent to receive you. Tobatchi's suffering from a quite illness. So instead of him I came. I hope to give you my full assistance."

"Thank you but I haven't tidied my stuffs yet. So if….."

"Don't worry Miss Gehabitch. Master Marucho has kept everything ready for you at his place. So now if you proceed."

"Yes sure. But my grandfather doesn't know yet. So.."

"it's okay Alice. I heard you say the name Shun. So it's okay."

"Thank you grandfather."

Alice looked outside through the window of the private plane. She could recognize the familiar scenery of Japan. The same Japan she saw two years ago.

"Miss Gehabitch."

"Please call me Alice. I find it weird for a person older than me calling me like that. It will be much more comfortable if you only called me Alice."

"As you wish. But please allow me to call you 'Miss Alice' or else I might be scolded by master Marucho."

"Okay. By the way were you saying me anything?"

"Yes. Please get ready for landing"

" What!"

The next thing Alice knew that she was standing in the middle of nowhere. Well actually she wasn't standing in the middle of nowhere. She was standing in one of the roads of Japan. A lonely one. She neither saw Marucho's big gigantic house nor Dan's house nor the familiar street. She was standing all alone. And to make the situation even worse rain started to fall.

She tried to give herself shelter under the oak tree that was standing few miles away beside the road. She wandered,

"Why would Michel's land me here in the middle of nowhere?", "Where are the others?"

"I don't even know where is this place?" "It's not near Marucho's tower. Is it?"

A few million questions like these started to pop in her head making her feel dizzy. Suddenly this came to Alice's mind,

"Am I tricked? It was Dan. Right? Yeah Dan did sound a bit of weird but still."

"Maybe it's all my imagination. I'm just thinking too much. They're all going to be here at any moment. So I'll just wait for them." Alice thought.

But Alice still couldn't calm herself. As the rain grew heavier Alice's tension also grew heavier. And when she saw mysterious someone coming from the other end of the road she felt like dying due to happiness.

At first she thought it was Dan but when she looked carefully it was somebody else. Somebody very familiar.

The same green cave in the same way covering the mysterious face underneath. The same style of walking.

SHUN

Alice had no doubt. It had to be Shun. But as the person in cave proceeded foreword Alice started to feel dizzy. And she suddenly felt like everything around her was going dark.

All went dark.

Hi everyone. It was my first chapter of my first story. Hope you enjoyed it. I know there are lots of grammatical mistakes in the chapter. Sorry about that. Anyways if you liked my story please look out for my next chapter.