Helllooo again my little readers! I sincerely apologize for making you wait so long for this!
I re-introduced myself to The Sims 3 and got addicted to it, and then we get a one of the cool Ipad 2 s so I have been playing around on that aswell. To top it all off we have relatives staying with us for a couple of days AND we will be to a different state for the summer! Oh and I momentarily lost my inspiration so when I got it back it was still hard to think of a way to do this chapter so here it is! Enjoy!
Shana's eyes slowly opened as she began to wake up from her long slumber. She blinked a couple of times till they focused and everything wasn't blurry anymore.
Looking around she found herself on her bed. She started leaning up into a sitting position when the back of her head starting aching and she slightly winced from the pain.
Pushing it aside she turned her body placing her bare feet on the floor, but quickly withdrew them back as the floor was icy cold to the touch.
She glanced around to see where she was, but didn't get far as the whole room was dark and the only source of light available was from the one window to her right. Despite the cold floor she got up and walked over toward the window to look out.
The sky was dark and the city's lights shined brilliantly. It was probably late night or very early morning she concluded, as she turned to find the door. It wasn't hard because there was a faint light illuminating from under it.
It wasn't locked so she hadn't been kidnapped or taken hostage by Hecate, but there was something coming from behind the door. It sounded like music, or people talking...maybe both.
Inching her way out Shana was relieved when she saw the familiar outlining of her apartment, but was slightly surprised to see the T.V on. Had she fell asleep on the sofa and sleep walked back to her room? It would've been the perfect explanation except she has never sleep-walked in her entire life so why should it start now? She grabbed what was nearest to her , which happened to be a broom, and took slow guarded steps towards the sofa. For all she knows there could be a thief lurking around her apartment.
Though who would be idiotic enough to break into her, a flame haze's, apartment?
Having already expecting to put up a fight, that when she walked to the front of the sofa she was startled to see Alice sleeping on it with a stupid grin on her face. No one would want to know what she's dreaming about..
Shana's eye slightly twitched from the scene. How can one girl be so annoying even when she's not doing anything? That grin is definitely something though.
The fox girl here explains why the T.V was on but... why was she here in the first place?
Did something happen and she needed to sleepover or something? For some reason most of yesterday is a blurry black dot in Shana's memory. She wasn't knocked unconscious, right? Well that would explain the pain in the back of her head, but they would have taken her hostage and not taken her back to her apartment. Did Alice talk her into drinking, and she got drunk? No way! That couldn't have happened or at least she hoped it didn't. After contemplating each scenario she decided not to waste her time thinking about it and just wake the other girl up.
Shana wondered the best way to wake her up...but it didn't take more than 10 seconds to find the perfect way.
Holding the broom up by the handle so that the bristle part was lightly grazing the ceiling, she started lightly hitting the girl but with too much force for it to be considered "patting".
It took a couple a hits before that grin on Alice's face turned into a tight frown, and eventually she started to wake up.
She instantly put her arms infront of her trying to defend herself from the continous hits. "Hey! What are you doing?" she asked, her tone was a mix of confusion and anger. That's what she felt and it showed. Confused as to why Shana would be hitting her with a broom. A fricken' broom. Well..better that than something that could mercilessly kill her or do great harm. And she's angry because she got woken up from a very 'pleasant' dream and opening her eyes to see that girl hitting her with a broom was not her idea of a nice morning.
"Waking you up" The flame haze replied in a way that it seemed like she did this every morning, but did not cease hitting her with the broom.
Alice waited for the right time then sprung up grabbing the broom aswell so that she could tower over the other girl except Shana ended up losing her balance because the handle for the broom had hit her in the stomach when Alice grabbed it.
She landed with a thud and felt pain just sear through her entire body. Not until now did she notice how much her mucles were aching and how much she felt like she just fought 3 denizens at the same time. This new, unpleasant, discovery just made her even more curious as to what happened. Maybe Alice came over and they got into a fight and she got hit on the head? Or maybe she was pushed down the stairs or, or...maybe nothing happened at all.
Figuring it was best just to ask instead of constantly thinking about it, Shana stood back up wincing at the pain as she staggered over to the sofa. Right when she sat down a loud clanking noise came from her left.
Alice had tossed the broom off the side and onto the wood floors before turning now to the flame haze with tears in her eyes threatening to fall apparently not noticing her friend was in pain. "You don't have to hit me with a broom to wake me up. Geez your so mean sometimes"
Shana rolled her eyes at the drama queen. She knew those were fake tears because Alice cannot, no matter how hard you try, get emotionally hurt that easily.
"Even after all I did for you after what happened" The fox girl continued her fake sobbing. "Even after all that.."
Shana resisted the urge to roll her eyes again. Honestly, can't she see that she's not fooling anyone? Wait didn't she say 'after what happened'? This is what caught the flame haze's attention as she turned to the fox girl with a very curious facial expression. "What happened, Alice?"
Said girl stopped her little act and blinked twice, for all the things that girl could have said, Alice wasn't expecting that. "Eh? You mean you don't remember?"
Shana shook her head. She turned so she was facing the T.V across the room and had her chin placed in her right hand while the other held the right's elbow. She wore a hard thinking expression."I don't remember anything from yesterday"
"Amnesia, maybe?" Alice asked to herself so low that Shana didn't catch it.
"Well if you really did lose your memory than I guess I have no choice but to tell you what happened" Alice got up and started pacing back and forth as she recited what happened.
Flashback...
"Your pregnant"
Silence as still as the dead descended around them. Children's screaming and laughter could be heard in the far distant background.
Alice didn't know exactly what to do, but she knew she needed to say something cause if she didn't then the silence would consume her whole. Then again if she said the wrong thing then Shana might kill her...so there's really a cliff down each road. Why was she so quiet anyway? Alice couldn't figure out if she liked the usual hot-headed flame haze side or this quiet one.
After a couple of moments Alice realized it didn't even need to be pondered. This quiet girl infront of her doing absolutely nothing was starting to scare the crap out of her.
Her throat felt so dry all of a sudden and she nearly flinched at how loud it sounded when she swallowed. It was like stepping into a puddle on a rainy day, how loud the splash is.
A weird sound came from the back of her throat when she got startled by Shana's hand starting to lift up into the air. As if reaching out for her and
The fox girl swore she heard a 'doink' sound come from the flame haze as the girl fell back and hit the wooden floors behind her. Alice rushed to her aid to find out she had only fainted. AKA Alice thought she had a heart attack and may have dropped down dead.
Feeling somewhat relieved that it hadn't come to the extreme, said girl carried Shana to the bed.
End..
"And that's what happened" Alice finished her little flashback.
"So that's what happened yesterday.." Shana said slowly as the memories rushed back into her and that black blurry spot of her memory was now crystal clear.
How could she have forgotten? Even now she can't believe it. Maybe someone's pulling a prank, and by the end of it that someone had better have counted their blessings. But what if it's not a prank, a silly joke? No one would want to go this far though. The flame haze sighed before immediately tensing up at a thought. Yuji. What about him? Is he in on the joke? No, no he wouldn't do something like that. Then it must be true.
Shana was starting to open her mouth about to say something when Alice beat her to it by one milisecound.
"But. The good news of all this is..." She felt her spirit liften. Oh good, so there is good news!
"I'm not pregnant!" Alice announced clapping her hands together with a huge smile on her face. And Shana's spirit just flew out the window...How is that good news? Maybe to her but still. The flame haze was about to ask how she knew when she remembered something.
When Alice came back through the door of her apartment yesterday and gave her the box for the pregnancy test, Shana happened to see that the girl had another one in her other hand. Why would she check herself though?
"I was having the same kind of symptoms you were having so I decided to buy an extra for me while I got yours" Alice finished saying as if she read the flame haze's thoughts loud and clear. Said girl slightly nodded in understanding and went to get up but felt the same kind of pain from before sear back through her body.
"Are you alright?" Alice asked her voice full of concern as she now noticed her friend in pain, even if it was only for a second.
Shana, instead of replying with an 'i'm okay' or 'i'm fine' she asked, "Why does my body hurt so much?"
Alice's worried face fell and turned into something unreadable, all traces of concern were gone and replaced by a small ounce of fear. As quickly as the foreign(to Alice) facial expression came it disappeared. And it turned from 'unreadable' to a forced smile. "Whatever do you mean Shana-chan?"
"I mean, it hurts whenever I try to stand up"
"Eh really? That's a mystery" Alice nervously chuckled as the side of her forehead was noticeably perspiring. "I wonder how that happened"
Shana was going to say something until she noticed how the fox girl was acting and was becoming suspicious. "Alice do you know what happened?"
Alice contemplated her choice here. She could A: Tell everything. She could B: Lie. She could C: Tell everything then run. She could D: Run for her dear life. Or F: She could tell everything in a calmly manner then when things get out of hand lie then run.
She, in the end of her 3 second thinking, chose F but was skeptical about it.
"Okay fine" Alice let out a breath she didn't know she was holding then continued. "You see..You haven't been asleep since yesterday. Cause you've been asleep and/or unconsious for about 2 days now and well"
"When you fainted 2 days ago I was forced to carry you up the stairs. I just got to the very top step when I slipped on a... And then fell backwards down the stairs and I ended up landing on... you" Alice finished with a uneasy smile. Being afraid of what the flame haze's response would be.
Oddly enough to her aswell, Shana didn't feel angry at all, but rather more mentally exhausted from all this stuff happening and all. "Wait, What did you sli-"
"I have no idea" Alice interrupted, already knowing what she was going to ask. "It all happened so fast and when I went to see, whatever it was was already gone"
"Oh"
A thick blanket of silence wrapped around the two girls, threatening to suffocate them both.
"Hmm...2 days..." Shana started whispering to herself. "2 days...2 days..."
"WAIT!" She shouted, startling Alice who was slowly inching her way closer to her what Shana was whispering. Said girl turned to the fox girl with a horrified look on her face, but yet she seemed happy at the same time. 'Weird' Alice thought.
"2 days, right?"
"Ya"
"Do you realize what that means?" Shana slightly lowered her vocal volume. Seeing as the other girl didn't with her baffled face, she continued " Yuji will be back early tomorrow morning!"
Alice's baffled expression turned into one of...of...who knows when realization dawned on her. Maybe it was fear or maybe it was excitement, either way Shana couldn't tell in the slightest. "Ah well...that's...um...Oh"
The fox girl watched as Shana paced back and forth in front of the coffee table. "Why not just tell him?"
The flame haze turned to her and gave a look that told Alice that she basically told her to surrender to Hecate. "Are you kidding me? What do you think he would do? Probably die from a heart attack!"
"He wouldn't die from a heart attack" Alice tried to convince her, but even the fox girl didn't believe it herself.
Sighing Alice got up and walked toward the front door while the flame haze started going on about what could happen.
"Where are you going?" She asked noticing the girl about to depart from the apartment.
"I'm tired an want to go to bed" And Shana just now noticed the dark circles under her eyes. She must be really tired. "I still think you should outright tell him"
"But what would hap-" The flame haze started but didn't get much words in before Alice interrupted her.
"I know. I know. 'He would faint, die' or whatever" She looked aggravated, but then all traces of it was gone. Her once hard eyes softened and she sighed before continuing. "Have you ever wondered which hurts the most: saying something and wishing you hadn't, or saying nothing, and wishing you had?"
Alice quickly grabbed her coat then exited the apartment leaving Shana to think over her words.
Shana found that she was all worn out from todays events and decided sleep on what had been said. After all, tomorrow is the start of their 3rd year in high school. This is going to be one of the worst school days in history...
I wonder whats going to happen next O.O
Oh wait I do know xD Hope you enjoyed this chapter and again sorry for making you wait so long for it. I wish I could have done better but this is what I got so ya..