Chapter 3: Revealed
Emma and Olivia stayed quiet for a few minutes after Alicia left.
"Hey, Em?"
"Yeah?"
"Do you think Alicia's been progressing backwards lately?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, do you remember when we first met her and she wouldn't talk to anyone but Tancred and sometimes Lysander? Sometimes she wouldn't even look at us!"
"Well, yeah. But I guess I just thought she was shy."
"Emma, Alicia is not shy. But what I was getting at is that ever since we got you and Tancred back together... well, sometimes it seems like she's drifting back into her old self."
"I guess you're right. Remember Christmas?"
Flashback...
"Hey Emma, Liv!" called Fidelio as he and Tancred rushed up to them.
"You wanna come caroling with us?" asked Tancred.
"Sure!" said Olivia.
"I don't know..." said Emma. Even if Tancred would be there she wasn't too fond of caroling.
"Come on!" said Fidelio "It'll be fun! We got everyone else to agree to come!"
"Everyone?" asked Emma doubtfully "Even Alicia?"
Fidelio and Tancred exchanged looks. "Well..." said Tancred slowly "We're still working on that..."
End of Flashback...
"Yeah I remember." said Olivia "Before she started going backwards she wouldn't of minded going with them. But then she'd refused.
"I wonder if something's bothering her?" said Emma "You don't think she's upset that her best friend is going out with her brother do you?!" she asked in a panicked voice. {Yes, she was talking about herself}
"Em... Please don't cause any more problems for us."
With Alicia...
Alicia stood in front of the mirror in her bedroom. Her gaze kept switching from herself to the bottle that she'd borrowed from Olivia. She sighed. Might as well get this over with she thought to herself.
Five minutes later...
When she came out of the bathroom she looked so different she was hardly recognizable. It was because she finally looked like herself again.
Now that she'd washed all the dye out her hair was black instead of the pale blond it had been. She'd been wearing contacts, but not because she needed them. The contacts hadn't done anything to her vision. They were the kind that were invented just because some people wanted to change their eye color.
Now Alicia's eyes were black to. Add in her creepy blank expression and she looked kind of like a zombie.
"Alicia?"
When she turned around she saw Tancred standing in her doorway.
"Did you dye your hair?"
"Not exactly. I kinda took all the dye out of it."
"That's what you look like normally?"
She nodded.
"You... you look... like... like a..."
"I am. My last name isn't Pintro Tancred. It's Bloor."
Read and Review Please! In case anyone cares Most of this was typed at 1AM because stupid me forgot to take my sleeping medicine last night. I don't own Charlie Bone. Jenny Nimmo does and she should be very proud of herself!
