Disclaimer: I don't own ½ Prince, I just love it!

I woke up in the floor; it felt like I had been there forever. I looked out of the open window. The sunrise had become a sundown; well it took me a couple of minutes to realize so, but I was quite certain when I saw the sun, in my window that pointed to the west. I tried to stand up, but my efforts were futile.

For a moment I couldn't place why I was there, but then I remembered everything that happened the day before. But to think that no one had found me yet was more of a miracle than a wonder. After all, in my home there are pretty many servants… well, I will think about this latter, since they didn't come in, I have one less thing to worry.

I put my hand on my throbbing leg; it was pretty swollen, and I couldn't quite move it. I panicked inwardly for a few minutes before getting my right mind back. This isn't the first time something like this happened, I had gotten all kind of injuries in the past while training, so I could give myself some first aid.

I picked up an umbrella of the closet and used it as a cane so I could stand up; and took out my first aid kit; which was bigger than the norm, having all kind of bandages and pieces of wood in case of something big. I patched my leg temporally but I knew more than well, that what I needed was a doctor.

My face was burning; I was starting to get a really high fever, not only for getting sick from the rain, but for the leg as well. I looked myself in the mirror for a moment. My inexpressive look was nowhere to be seeing, and my face had turned really red and sweaty because of the fever. If someone else saw me like this it could be really embarrassing; not to say that it would make other people want to ask me many things, that I don't have an answer for, and if in the end, I would be giving my father the perfect reason to put me under the care of a body-ward, just like my brother has Shen… I guess I wouldn't manage to wriggle out of it this time.

I cleaned my face and washed the sweat away. Then I put on a long dress with some difficulty; I was satisfied to see that it hides my swollen-bandaged leg perfectly. I looked in the mirror once again, I looked a lot better, but my face was still burning red. I walked half jumping on a leg, and still looking myself in the mirror; I started putting on my makeup.

I covered my face until I regained my usual skin tone; but even if it doesn't look like it, I still feel like dying. Thanks god that the thick makeup was, at least, enough to hide my pain to others.

I put on my expression usual expression "perfect" I exclaimed, but when I did so, my voice came out really weak and hoarse. Well since I don't talk much I guess it should be fine.

This cover was perfect for a while, but I was practically agonizing. I had only one option, get out of the mansion. I took a deep breath, and approached squatted on the floor to get my phone out of the muddy clothes, that had gotten dry. I dialed my mother; she wasn't picking up the phone. I guess that I can go to her place for the time being and contact her latter. I will ask her to make a cover up for me; this one wasn't my first time asking her to do so, and she is better than me at it anyway.

I held on my umbrella tightly, and put on some pink glasses. If it had being a more normal hour I would have chosen sunglasses; but I had no option but to settle with those, to help me hide the redness of my tired watery eyes.

Good thing that I'm so fashionable, if not I wouldn't have around, something as useless as those colored, decorative glasses, which only porpoise was to make people look good.

I didn't even spare a word for the people of the house as I left hastily; but I made sure to leave a note behind saying I was going to visit my mother; and whenever I did so, it meant that I was going to stay away from several days. And the maids know that the most likely reason for that is due to some sort of injury. I walked perfectly bearing the pain as I left the mansion, and leapt on the Lamborghini my driver had parked outside, as if knowing that I was going to leave beforehand. I didn't do so, but if something the old man was good at, was in knowing when and where I wanted to go before I spoke even one word.

The car was soon in front my mother's building complex. I took my copy out of my pocket, and attempted to open the door. However I realized something was wrong. The key didn't fit! I looked at it with some fright. I was way too tired to panic at this point, so restrained myself to ring the bell.

No one was home; I was getting increasingly confused, and thinking aggravated my dizziness. I gave a look to the bag I was carrying. I should have packed a change of clothes; but instead I used it to hide the muddy clothes from yesterday, the wig and the fake glasses… There was no way helping it, I hadn't time to ask the maids to hide it for me; so if I didn't take those away and leave fast I would have been discovered by my brother. And I really didn't want to run into him.

I sat there on the cold floor, I looked at my phone and it tempted me to call the old driver to fetch me back; but I discarded it. Even if my double life is something, that sooner or later could get discovered, I wasn't going to let the cat out of the bag tonight.

I sighed unmoving as I replayed over and over all kind of worst case scenarios on my mind, and saw, as the red sky turned completely into a dark starry one. Night had arrived, and my diver was long gone already. I didn't have the guts to keep pushing my luck with the maids, and I felt like I had nowhere to go. I wondered what my big brother was doing right now, and sighted before crawling myself into the cold floor.

"You are!" A somewhat familiar voice called out to me in my sleep, I couldn't place it at tall. And my vision could not identify the face of its owner since my sight had become blurry.

I looked up and saw the eyes of whoever that person was, moving from my face to my tightly bandaged leg, which was still gravely swollen.

I looked to the floor letting my pain show into my face. I hear a soft clank as my pink glasses slided down, and crashed down the floor. I felt the soft night breeze scarp my swollen-red eyes, and feeling them become dry because of it, I let tears fall as a waterfall. Many of them disappeared within my thick makeup, but soon they started washing it. I felt my consciousness drifting away.

I heard a yell "You are burning up!" and then whoever it was ran away, disappearing into an apartment, and then came out alongside with another figure; a tall one, definitely a man. He picked the lightweight me, with ease. Then I simply lost conscious.

When I opened my eyes once again I was in a white room, and my leg had been cast. I tried to move a little, but I felt that all my body was in pain. I took a look to my arms and noticed that I wasn't wearing my clothes, and that the makeup of my body had been properly washed away. The scratches of my body could be seen easily; alongside with a lot of purple marks that I hadn't seen before.

"Windy?" a familiar voice called out to me in my daze, and I could only look up.

'Starlight?' I exclaimed in my mind before widening my eyes. I couldn't open my mouth; I froze stupidly at the unexpected encounter.

"Windy!" Starlight's voice called my in-game name once again; it was now filled with relief as it resonated into the room.

She leapt to my side, keeping a shocked expression.

I looked at my friend once more, noticing that she wasn't a beauty (her face was more in the cute side) but still looked a lot alike her female avatar. Her eyes and hair were black, she was thin, and she was wearing a short, tight black outfit. It was latter that I would notice that this person, who was wearing such an enticing attire, was kind of petit, at least 10 cm shorter than her avatar.

"Starlight, where am I?" I managed to say with a trembling voice.

"In the hospital" She looked at me worriedly.

That should have been obvious ( -_-"). I sat down… well I tried to do so, but once again my body didn't respond. I think I'm too weak to move just yet, a couple of attentive eyes were all over me, she probably noticed "Stop looking at me like that" I said giving her a weak smile "Oh! And thanks for bringing me here"

"You are not such an idiot, you weirdo" she smiled with a lot of relief "I had never seen with some many injuries before" she said wile sobbing "You better give me a good explanation for it"

I nodded, and then I remembered something "Sorry for the two day delay" I said while my face turned even redder than what it was with the fever.

She widened her eyes, and then chuckled "You sure are a weirdo, you know?"

"It takes one to recognize another right?" I replied and smiled cheerfully, as I wasn't on a hospital bed unable to move.

*Creack* A door opened. Starlight turned around and I followed her line of sight. We both saw a lovestuck handsome doctor coming into the room.

"Dear, who are you looking at with those heart shaped eyes?" Starlight asked fuming with anger.

That expression was so familiar; he was probably fixated on my beauty, and on top of that I was smiling, no wonder the guy was unable to notice Starlight's expression, which bordered on murderous.

The blushing man was unable to hear her reproachful words, but I, on the other hand, got a hang of her jealousy really fast; I let my smile vanish replacing it with cold glare "State your business" I spat, and then noticed Starlight giving me a surprised look, as she realized that the guy had finally snapped out of it.

"We need you to fill some papers… Do you need us to contact your parents?" he asked me with a pink face as he handled me the papers.

I took a look at them briefly "It won't be necessary to bother them. I can pay the costs right away if you require it"

He nodded and I followed him with my eyes as he left hurriedly.

"Starlight… who is that guy?" If she was one of the people I met yesterday, then maybe… "Isn't that the same man from before?" I asked her trying to recall how the blurry figure looked like.

"Yes, he is my new boyfriend, and he is the son of the owner of this hospital" she announced proudly "he is quite a catch isn't he?"

"I didn't know you had a boyfriend" I looked at her with extreme disbelief.

"Of course you don't know about him, I met him only yesterday"

"And you took him into your apartment already? Are you crazy, that's way too dangerous!" I nagged worriedly.

"How dare you say that?" she gave me a disbelievingly look before getting all high and mighty "I'm proud of my instincts, and have never gotten a scratch in all my years of fooling around and changing boyfriends… besides, for you to have this many wounds and not wanting to contact you parents… you were doing something shameful and dangerous yourself, weren't you?" then she huffed "Someone in your position has no right of giving me advice"

"You are right!" I realized suddenly, and then she gave me 'the look'... damn, she is curious; she will pester me forever, and annoy me to no end if I don't tell her what happened. I might as well skip the experience, after all, I would probably end up giving in anyway.

"Let's make a deal" I proposed "I will tell you what happened, but you must not interrupt me until I say I'm finished" I then glared at her with my fiercest look "If you make one comment before I finish, I won't say anymore"

She gulped down under my scary, overpowering aura, and bit her lips wile blinking. I was pretty serious this time around, and she knew me enough to tell.

"Well, were should I start…"I trailed of my past; I was way too young when it all began, and thus the story is kind of long. With the tendency of dropping the subject she has, I probably should keep it simple, and finish it before she gets bored of it "For some time now I have gotten a penchant for betting on online casinos and making money in the stock market. At some point I invested the money I earned in a small company, buying it almost entirely, and yesterday I had to take care of some business there"

I finished all of that in one breath and then looked at her sparkling eyes that were ready to overflow with questions, but didn't know where to start.

I continued before she made up her mind on what to ask "My family doesn't know, and you could say, I'm living a double life… And I had quite an accident in my way back, before I managed to sneak into my room through the bathroom's window" and then added "Well that's about it"

I gazed at her with some awkwardness, and she was trembling with excitement "A secret life, how fun!" she exclaimed at last "Don't worry about anything, I won't speak a word of it"

*Sigh* what a relief. It looks like she was more trustworthy than I thought; I didn't have to put any pressure of her, to prevent her to speak. I smiled sweetly, and saw her shudder.

"What was that smile about?" she asked me a tad fearful.

She really is perceptive! Damn her sixth sense…"What do you mean?" I blinked feigning ignorance. Then a question filled my mind "By the way, what did the doctors say about my condition? I'm not going to get stuck here, right?"

She looked hesitant for a moment "Well, the injure of your leg was properly treated, and you will be able to take the cast off in a moth more or less; but the bruises and scratches are something that made some of the nurses think you were victim of domestic violence and maybe rape, plus you were starting to show signs of anemia"

"Rape?" I paled. I know I haven't been eaten properly, these past few days, so it's not all that surprising that I was getting anemic, but domestic violence and rape? How outrageous! "They are wrong… But, what can I do? I can't tell them the truth!"I cried "But no matter what I can't let something like that to spread! What would my father say?"

I trembled with fear at his reaction, making him get mad at me for making him become a culprit of domestic violence. He is quite intimidating and easy to misunderstand; so he would be the most likely one to become the prime suspect. As the say goes 'Like father like son' well in my case t should be 'like father like daughter' we are way too alike in that aspect… Not that he is expressionless; I would say he is misunderstood because his expression is way too fierce.

My father inherited me his piercing blue eyes. However, even if they are the same shade of blue, they are nothing like mine. Those eyes of his are small and sharp, and are hard to notice, after all his messy eyebrows draw too much attention; on top of that he has bad eyesight so he also wears a pair of thick glasses. It could be said that you would have to look very hard at them to notice they are blue. On the other hand my eyes are big, beautiful and mesmerizing; they are like weapons, sharp, cold, and hypnotic. They are the second thing guys notice about me… yeah, the second one, I don't get what is so good about a pair of bouncing big boobs. They make your back ache, and they are hard to train with. At the beginning they made me lose balance more than once… Well that's not important. The point is that my eyes are really hard to miss. After all, many victims have drowned in there; in those sparkling seas of clear blue.

I wonder what it was that my mother found so attractive in my father. His looks are really plain, and he is way too serious, they are not compatible personality-wise. My mom is the kind of person who shines, who is free and unrestrained. Her black eyes have so much life in them; she is really expressive and overreacts a lot. She is an actress, and she can convey her feelings perfectly… she also is incredibly good at lying.

My parents fell in love at first sight, and got married in the spur of the moment; but their marriage lasted only about three months. It seems that she couldn't bear to live in a big mansion, and staying as a housewife. On top of that my father was hardly around due to his work, and the flames of her love cooled rapidly. It was right after their divorce that she came to know that she was impregnated with me. My father tried to convince her to stay, he practically begged her to marry him again in the various months she stayed at the mansion since she had a complication on her pregnancy, making it pretty risky. They came to some sort truce, but as soon as she gave birth, she left me under my father's care, left the house completely and started dating a fellow actor.

Love is really crazy! it's hard to believe that someone as composed and prideful as my father would go to such extents for keeping a woman as whimsical as my mother by his side. They are so different, even now… Speaking of which, the genetic pool is really a wonder; I look nothing like any of my parents, and I think nothing like them. I can't help but wonder where I got my cold eyes from… Oh well, at least they don't fight, and my mother has enough common sense to keep in contact with me, she even writes me from time to time; so she didn't abandon me completely. If she did, I wouldn't be looking for her to stay in, would I?

"Windy, WINDY!" a loud voice resonated in my head, as Starlight yelled at me in my ear. I jumped, pushing the source of the sound away.

"If it was your intention to make me go deaf, you might have succeeded" I roared.

"What the hell is wrong with you? Why were you ignoring me!" she complained as her voice grew louder.

"I was thinking of something, besides, WHY ARE YOU YELLING TO A SICK PERSON, YOU DAMN WEIRdoo…"

A very angry nurse entered the room "This is a hospital, keep quiet"

I blushed embarrassedly at my outburst, and Starlight did too. The nurse gave us a menacing look as she walked away with a foul expression.

"I forgot we were in a hospital" I managed to say breaking the long silence that formed after the woman left "I guess the habit is a really terrifying thing after all"

"I guess it is… anyway, regarding to your question from before…" she trailed.

"Question? What question?" I asked distractedly.

Starlight gave me a really pissed off look, but she kept on anyway "I didn't know why you were hurt when I saw you out of my apartment, so figured that it would be wiser to keep the issue low profile just in case. Luckily for you I was dating the son of the owner of this hospital, it was really easy to convince him to help me out; after all, for a woman the kind of situation you probably went through is something that was better handled with delicacy… To make a long story short, I used my influences to give you some privacy and stop people from trying to figure out why you were so wounded"

I looked at her full of gratefulness; Starlight giggled "It has been a while since you gave me that look" she teased.

After that we started chatting for a while, and I relaxed a lot. Until she made a particular remark "You sure are weird, you haven't changed your expression in the last five minutes"

I blushed slightly with a stone expression, and then put on a smile on my face "Sorry, I forgot"

"You forgot? I know that you aren't all that expressive; we have played together for quite a while after all. But I never fathomed that you would be almost completely expressionless in real life" she looked at me "Why is that?"

"Don't you think it's weird?" I asked her, feeling a bit shy.

"Not at all, it's really interesting… so you say that you forget that you have to show emotions?"

We stared at each other for a moment.

"More or less… But I have to admit that when you are around, you are so annoying that even if I try to remain calm my expressions show in my face"

"That's the most amusing complement that I have ever received! I promise I will do my best to annoy you from now on" she grinned wickedly, for a long while, and then she rose an eyebrow "But I have to say that you really get forgetful about the weirdest things"

She was so mean! She was teasing me a bit too much. I blushed and looked away… but to think that she would take that as a complement.

"Hey do you want to stay at my place for a while?" she beamed at me "If you go back now the way you are looking you will get in trouble"

"Can I really stay with you?" I was feeling really shy about staying over at a friend's house for the first time.

"Of course! But don't forget that you will have to pay for the medical fee before that"

Well that much was to be expected so I had nothing to complain about it "Sure!"

I woke up in a queen sized bed; it was a lot smaller than mine. I looked around into the unfamiliar room, the walls were covered by paintings, and the bookshelf was filled with colorful books; I walked in the direction and started reading the tittles, Cinderella, Snow white, Sleeping beauty, The Beauty and The beast, Rumpelstiltskin, Rapunzel… it seems that all of them were fairy tales.

*Grugle gurgle* my stomach started making noises, and I realized that I was really, really hungry. Not having eaten a decent meal for so many days made me feel like a bit weak. I walked in the direction of the kitchen, and started opening the drawers all around until I found a frying pan; then taking some ingredients out of the fridge I started cooking with a grin remembering what happened yesterday…

As soon as we arrived to Starligh… I mean Mei's department she declared that I will be sleeping in her bed for the time being since I was sick, but she certainly gave an emphasis when she said 'for the time being'. I felt really grateful to the reluctant gesture, and for the loose pajamas she lent me.

Back to the present, I sniffed the fragrance that the food was giving and took a zip to taste the noodle soup I was making, it needed a bit more of salt. I looked for the salt, but I couldn't find it "Mei, where do you keep the salt?"

"I don't know… somewhere" she yawned, being half sleep.

"But I can't find it!" I whined distractedly as I kept jumping in one foot around the kitchen.

"I'm coming… WOAH" Mei let out a really weird sound, and she was soon wide awake "How many people are you planning to feed with that?"

I looked around uncomprehendingly and soon I realized that I had made a big mistake when I was spacing out! How embarrassing… I was cooking everything around! I gave a surprised look to some mushrooms that were still on the making over the frying pan, the fresh oranges that were cut in half, ready to become juice, and the instant coffee that was standing over the table.

I flinched, and then turned around just to find that there was more. As I absent mindedly stayed at the kitchen I unknowingly finished making French toasts, alongside with bacon egg and tomato slices, which made a vivid contrast with some pork sausages, among other dishes.

I guess spacing out, while being hungry, in a kitchen was a bad combination.

"I'm sorry Mei, I didn't notice" I apologized with a bow.

She held her head with one had "Well, I guess, we can eat some of it now, and the rest on lunch and dinner… and if there is still some left we can have it as a breakfast tomorrow… and maybe lunch"

We started eating in silence for a while, I was feeling really ashamed, and Mei, looked really lost in thought. As we were about to finish the silence was broken "Alice" she muttered.

"Hmm" I looked at her, still chewing.

"Don't you think your parents will worry when they notice that you aren't around?" she asked worriedly.

"Don't worry, they won't notice" I said confidently, and put another piece of tomato in my mouth.

I informed the staff that I was staying on my mother's house, and since she is on such bad terms with the rest of my family no one will try to contact her ASAP. Not even my brother! After all, the second wife -who took over the place of his mother as the main authority in the house- and the son of a first wife, are bound to at least have a couple of issues between them; Besides, no matter how over protective he is, he can't do anything to stop me, a girl my age is bound to need her mother for time to time after all.

She still looked quite worried about the issue, but decided not to pry too much about it, which I appreciated.

"By the way Alice… How long are you planning to let me playing by myself?" she inquired. She was probably still a tiny little bit mad at me for breaking all contact for two nights straight.

"I don't know, I didn't bring my helmet, and I can't go home nonchalantly with a broken leg and covered in bruises to fetch it… but I guess I can buy one tomorrow morning!"

"But one those helmets, is really expensive, were would you get the money? You must have spent quite a lot with the hospital fee already, are you sure you can keep spending money like that?" she pinched my cheeks "Don't tell me you are rich, you brat" her tone changed completely and she started rambling all around "How unfair, you have the looks already, and as far as I know you are pretty smart too, why couldn't you have been a guy?..."

She kept on saying stupid things for a really long time, and for the contents of it, I better not let her know that I'm not an only child; someone with that kind of impure desire is not fitting for my sweet and naive big brother.

After she managed to let all of her frustration out of her chest she put her hands over my shoulders, and looked me in the eye "We are friends aren't we?" she squeezed me hard and didn't let me anywhere to go "I have a request from you"

I looked at her with a lost look, but I nodded. She jumped excitedly and disappeared for a few seconds before bringing a huge amount of bills. I worried that she was going to make me pay for something really big, like a sport car, wine and lobster. Much to my surprise the bills were from light, phone, food… and none of them were really pricey.

"You said you own a company right?" she beamed at me "I need to put this papers in order, I don't know what to pay when and if I don't get things in order I will get in trouble… Can you ask someone to help me organist them?"

And here I was thinking she was a sucker for money "There is no need for that, I can manage myself" I smiled and then she gave me the same thankful look that I gave her from time to time, but something didn't feel right "How did you manage solve this kind of problem before?" I was growing suspiciously.

"Well, my past boyfriends were really good at it, but unfortunately the one I'm dating right now isn't, so I was getting in a lot of trouble"

I think I get it; she is bad keeping track with money issues so she doesn't expend it carelessly. She is hopeless managing finances, but she developed a weird kind of wisdom to make up for it. I wished that my mother was a bit more like Mei, she makes all her boyfriends spend tons of money on her; how unfitting for a lady of his age.

Now that I think of it, staying with my mother would be a good cover for about a week, or maybe two; but I think they might get suspicious if I stay longer than that.

"I guess I should give my mother a call" I muttered under my breath, but it didn't go unnoticed.

"So you are planning to keep in touch with your mother after all" she smiled "I was really worried that you were running away"

"I'm not... didn't I explain things before?"

"Well sorry for not believing you; but you are staying out, and didn't want to contact your family, so I suspected you didn't want to meet them… But if you are planning to tell your mom, why were you so against that in the hospital before?"

"The one I'm hiding from is…" I can't say brother, right? "From my father, he might get worried after seeing me like this, besides, my parents are divorced, and my mother is much more open minded, so I can ask her to pretend that I'm staying with her for as long as I want"

"Are asking her to make a cover up story for you? Aren't you worried about what she will think?"

"Don't worry, my mother is very liberal… I don't even need to make up a reason to stay out. I can just to tell her that I'm staying at my boyfriend's for a month, and she still won't mind" I shook my hand not giving it much importance.

"I can't believe you said something like that with no expression"

"Stop talking about every gesture I don't make, it's really annoying" I made my eyes go from cold, to freezing, as I started glaring at her.

"I guess you are right, but I find it funny" She is really an odd one, to think that it didn't affect her this time… Well, that's Starlight for you. She probably got used to it.

It took me a while to handle the messy bills, and before I realized she was all dressed up "I'm going out to work. If you need something you can go out with my spare key" she put the key on my hand "Oh! And one more thing, miss freeloader; buy yourself a helmet!"

I looked at the key, and nodded; then I saw her closing the door behind her. It took me longer than expected to finish the papers, and it's me we are talking about... I guess most of her boyfriends left her because of this kind of favors she asked.

Anyway, I guess I should be going now… I stood up, readied myself and walked out the door.

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AN: I know that I wrote two chapters, and she didn't play at all. I guess it just happened that way…. Anyway, I'm starting to seriously need feedbacks. I was told by an anonymous person that Alice should be a little more expressionless in the game, but that she is also lacking flaws… I'm open to suggestions; in fact I really need them. I have a couple of things under my sleeve, but I want to hear second opinions about what I should put there. Also I will be going into a trip soon. So I will vanish for around a month. I don't know if many people will miss me, but I wanted to let the ones who will know about it.

Well I hope you liked my early released chapter. In the end I decided to give my beta a break... It will probably become a break-up, so the last chapter as well as this one were made solely by me. I think I can proudly say that I'm getting better at this!

I hope you people give me reviews. I was super happy when I got 5 reviews in the last chapter! but I'm still greedy, so give me more (*-*)/