Shin closed his phone gently and sat on his bed. He didn't know what to do, he didn't so much know what to think.
Alice had been gone so long, that number had to belong to somone else by now. And that message was so strange, it couldn't have been pre-recorded and set to send to him on a certain date like they used to do.
Shin layed down on his bed and stared at the picture of him and Alice hanging above his bed.
The two of them were 13 in the picture, having a picnic in the park. Alice was grinning and holdingh a tea pot, while Shin was splurting tea all over the place. Alice had a major sweet tooth and was in charge of the tea, so naturally she over sweetened it to the point of being discusting.
"Would you like some tea with that sugar?" Would be the appropriate phrase for her.
"Nobody hurts me like you do, Nobody knows me as well as you. I'm staring out into the blue, I'm sorting files of what we knew."
Shin sat up suddenly and grabbed a couple of pieces of paper and a pencil from his bedside table, then copied the words from his head onto the paper. A song... in commemoration of her. Perfect.
"My futures long, my futures torn. My dissapointment knows it all. I'm stuck, I'm locked I'm paralized, the gate is closed I'm left outside. Heaven is wrapped in chains, I won't get in, you won't let me. Heaven is wrapped in chains, and I just can not find the key."
When Shin finished, he sung ait a bit, just a few bars, though he thought every note sounded awful.
Strify walked into the room when Shin finished. He'd come to check on Shin, to see if he was alright, when he'd heard the song.
"I didn't know you wrote songs Shin... It's very good, very powerful. Could I try singing it?" Strify went to sit on the bed with Shin.
Shin handed Strify the piece of paper he'd recorded his words on. Strify studied it a moment before he began singing.
"I really like this, can we use it?" Strify asked while studying the paper once more.
Shin just nodded his head.
"On one condition. You've got to think of the person you care about most when you sing it." Shin said as he grabbed his towel and some fresh clothes from his dresser.
" 'Heaven is Wrapped in Chains' Shin... How did you come up with this?" Strify looked up at him.
"She helped me." He left the room and headed towards the bathroom.
Kiro was on the couch reading his twilight books for the 5th time this week, Romeo was in the kitchen cooking dinner and Yu was in his room on the phone with his girlfriend, Vanessa.
They seemed so happy, doing whatever they were doing. Kiro so content with his books, and Romeo cooking up a storm that promices to be an excelent meal, Yu and his girlfriend, and Strify has his music.
Shin wondered why his peace never seemed to show up anymore. He always used to be so carefree and peaceful all the time. He has lots of fun with these guys, but there is still that missing element he can't put his finger on.
He locked the bathroom door and began undressing.
'Why is there never anything truly comforting anymore? It can't be that difficult.'
He stepped into the shower and turned on the hot water and soaked in it for a time.
'Could it be because of the accident? Or maybe this Alice imposter.. I wonder who she is, the girl who smells of vanilla and smiled like a sparklig angel. Alice's smiles were always genuinely happy, but they never glowed as if she were truly happy as this girls did. She smiled as if the world was perfect. Or like a mother would when she first meets her child, so peaceful and joyus. So... perfect..'
Shin grabbed his shampoo and scrubbed his hair while pondering this.
He pictured her in his head, her face had gone completely blank when she saw him, like watching the life run out of a person. Everything about her screamed Alice. The way she moved, the way she looked at me, the way she spoke. It was almost eerie.
Shin stepped out of the shower and wrapped his spongebob towel around his waist. He turned to the mirror and staired at his foggy reflection.
'What am I gonna do? I can't really find her, I tried that already. She might not even go back there now that I've found her there once.'
Shin bit his lip nearly to the point of bleeding. Once again Alice's song rung on his phone, causing his to jump a foot.
He rummaged through his pockets a minute before remembering that his phone was on his dresser.
He opened the bathroom door, not bothering to get dressed first, and swiftly walked towards his room. Strify had appeared in the doorway a moment before Shin had gotten there, carrying Shin's phone.
"Hey Shin... Who's 'My Little Sugar Princess'?" Strify asked, holding up Shin's phone so the screen was facing him.
"Whoa... 'My Little Sugar Princess'? Shin, who knew you actually associated with girl?" this was from Yu, who strode over to them with a grin on his face, as if to say "Good Boy." or "I'm proud of you."
Shin scowled at the both of them and snatched his phone away. It had been a text message this time...
'Saturday 7 DONT FORGET!
~Queen of Sweets"