Alice 19th does not belong to me. The characters are (c) Yu Watase. And the Maram and Lotis word.
Alice was now at her house, packing for the trip to Norway. Digging through her messy closet, she finally found her red suitcase. "Ahah! I knew it was here somewhere." She unzipped it and opened her clothes drawers and grabbed her favorite outfits. She knew that it could get cold in Norway, the way Frey had talked about it, so she also packed a blue and red sweater. "I think that'll be enough," she said to herself. She had finally finished packing, it took a while to close her loaded suitcase. She wasn't leaving for another two days, but she thought it better to be ready.
She had talked it over with her mom earlier, and it didn't take long at all. Ever since the day when Alice told her mom that she was moving out for a while at Chris', her parents trusted her more. Alice walked over to Mayura's room. She thought she should just reassure her. Alice stepped out of her room and walked down to Mayura's door. She rapped on the door. No answer. She rapped again. "Mayura? Are you in there?" Alice opened the door slowly and saw that Mayura wasn't in her room. "Hey, mom! Do you know where Mayura went?" Alice shouted down the stairs.
"Yes, she said she was going out with some friends," replied her mother. Alice walked back into her room and unzipped her suitcase. She reached in and took out her Lotis Mirror that Frey had given her.
"I wander if this thing can REALLY grant wishes," Alice murmured to herself. She remembered back to the day when Frey gave it to her. She laughed when she thought of the time she was wearing the v-cut pajama shirt that Kyo gave to her. It dropped a little low when she said, "Can it really grant anything I desire?" It was nice when they were still altogether. Mei Lin, Billy, Frey, Chris...and Nyozeka. She hadn't seen Nyozeka since the day that she confessed her feelings to Kyo. Nyozeka's human form was so cute too.
Alice lay down on her bed, gazing up at the mirror. "I hope, we can see eachother soon.." Alice yawned. Stretching out her arms, she set the mirror on her bedside table. "G'night.." she yawned again.
It was the next morning and Alice got up and got dresses in time. "Hey mom," Alice said in a tired voice. "Did Mayura get up yet?" Her mother looked up at her in a confused way.
"Mayura already left. She said she was with you." Alice was the confused one now. Why would Mayura say that? Maybe she just needs her space...
Alice scooted up a chair to the table and poured a bowl of cereal. Crunching on the cereal, she thought of Norway. Maybe they would see Frey again, and hopefully the Lotis Branch there had recovered from the tragedy they encountered last year.
"Well, I'd better get going," Alice said to her mom. Mrs. Seno smiled and nodded to her daughter. Alice grabbed up her bookbag and headed out the door. Kyo had promise to meet her by the produce store in the morning. Hopefully she hadn't missed him yet. The street lights were flickering on and off, and she could hear the horns of the cars. Alice walked down the next block. Past the manga store, the candy shop, and finally reached the produce store. A bit of a surprising site greeted her. Mayura was holding Kyo's sleeve and talking to him. Not that that was BAD or anything, but holding his sleeve? Alice could get pretty jittery about that.
"Hey Mayura, hey Kyo," Alice said grabbing Kyo's hand. She shot her sister a look. Her look read, "Back Off NOW." That was really un-Alice of her to do. Mayura smiled at Kyo. "I'll see ya later Kyo," Mayura waved. Alice could feel herself twitching all over.
"What were you guys talking about?" Alice questioned.
"Don't worry, she just wanted to know how I was doing and all. I'm sure that's all she was doing." Now, Alice did love Kyo, but he could be 100 DENSE sometimes. Mayura could of been trying to come on to him!
"So...um...are you excited for Norway?" Alice smiled, trying to strike up a conversation.
"I guess so. I mean, it'll be nice to see Frey and them again. A big smile crossed Alice's face.
"FREY'LL BE THERE?" Alice beamed. Kyo stiffened.
"You...you want to see Frey?" he whimpered. Alice looked up at him and gave him a tiny giggle.
"Are you jealous, Kyo?" she snickered. Kyo shook his head. "No! Of course not. Now hurry up, we have to get to school, I'll race you."
Alice's face brightened up. No, I don't think that Mayura was putting moves on him, maybe she's just trying to be a friend... "Sure! I'll race you, Kyo!" Alice darted ahead and ran at full speed. "Haha! I'll beat you Kyo!" she shouted, looking back at him.
Kyo's eyes widened and he pointed a finger ahead of Alice. "WATCH OUT, ALICE!"
Alice turned her head to see yet ANOTHER little girl on a trycycle. "Oh crap!" she shouted. This time Alice wasn't quite braced yet. Her heel caught onto the wheel in the front, and down, down, down she went. "Riiya!" (shield) screamed Alice. A shield appeared in front of her and stopped her from falling on the hard cement. Alice turned around to see the little girl on the trike.
"I'm SO sorry, I should watch where I'm going!" Alice cried.
"Yeah! You better be!" shouted the little girl. She got off her trike and pointed a finger at her. "That's the second time already! You should pay more atten---wait, ALICE!" Alice looked up and saw a small girl with long, pink hair and pinkish colored eyes.
"Are...you...Nyozeka!" Alice croaked. Nyozeka smiled and wrapped her arms around Alice.
"I'm so glad I got to see you, Alice, Kyo!" Nyozeka ran up and hugged Kyo's leg.
"Hey Nyozeka, what's with the cute uniform? Are you going to a school, here?" Alice said, indicating the sapphire blue sailor suite and the black neck tie. "Yep! I'm going to Meio Elementary!" she exclaimed, smiling.
"Alice, we should get going to our school now," Kyo suggested, reaching his hand out to Alice. She clutched it and pulled herself up.
Nyozeka waved good-bye and wheeled away on her trycycle. Kyo and Alice walked towards the school. "So...did you a Mayura have a good talk? She seemed to be having a nice one," Alice shyly stated.
Kyo looked at Alice. "Don't worry. She's just trying to be my friend now, nothing else." Alice smiled and looked up at him.
"I guess so."
A few hours later...
"You get to go to NORWAY!" Oishi demanded, her mouth dropping open. Alice grinned weakly, nodding. Her friend sighed, pouting mockingly. "I wish I could go to Norway with Wakamiya..." Alice flinched, despite the fact that she knew Oishi was just teasing.
"Hey! I thought it was you and Tatsuya now!" Alice teased back. Oishi knocked her on the shoulder. "Don't be an idiot! Where the hell did you get an idea like that!" she stammered.
"Ohhhh! Don't splay dumb with me! I know where you got off to on Thursday!"
"Alice Seno! Shut up will you!" Soon it became a cat fight, not a bad one though. "Yeah! It's true!" "NO IT IS NOT!"
"Alice! Oishi! Enough of that! This is math class, not a diary." The teacher whirled around and scribbled on the chalk-board. The two girls giggled and held in big laughs. Soon class was over, and it was lunch time. Alice and Kyo walked again over to a restaurant. This time their lunchtime was 10 minutes shorter, because of Oishi's questioning of Norway. So they went to a fast food restaurant. "Hey Kyo, what do you want?" Alice asked.
"I'll just have a cheeseburger. Here's some money for it," he handed Alice 500 yen. "I don't think it'll cost that much," she said, walking to the counter. He is so dense. She came back with their orders and set Kyo's plate down by him.
"So we're leaving tommorow, are you excited?" Kyo nodded. "How's your cheeseburger?" Alice didn't know what to say. She really got peeved by Kyo's quietness a lot. "Hey, Kyo. Before we leave, do you wanna go to the movies or supper or something?" Alice asked.
He looked up at her. "Sure, that would be fun. I'll treat you." Soon their lunch break was over and they had to head back to school. Oishi ran up and started asking them questions again about their trip to Norway, along with some demands that Alice buy her a souvenir.
"Okay! Okay! Oishi. I'll get you something," Alice snapped. Oishi grinned, satisfied with that, then continued to speak about Norway.
"You said you had friends there, Alice?" she asked as she doodled in a bored fashion.
"Yeah, I have a couple there. We're just going to catch up with them, and uh, you know. Just do some stuff," Alice stated. Oishi gave Alice a questioning look.
"Oh, so... that's ALL? You and Kyo aren't doing anything ELSE?" Alice could feel her face heat up. It was bright red.
"OISHI YOU PERVERT! WHAT THE HECK! IT'S NOT LIKE THAT!" shouted Alice. She grabbed up her bad a chased Oishi with it, knocking her on the head occasionally. They ran down the sidewalk, turned at the school gate, when Alice tripped on nothing. "WAGH!" she yelped! Oishi spun around in time to see her heading straight for the cement. As Alice fell, she thought, I do remember Nyozeka saying the Lotis words in my head was possible. And I can't say them out loud now, there are too many spectators. "Riiya!" She tried to think, but nothing happened. Alice's chin collided with the hard cement.
"That...hurt!" she whined. A tear streamed down Alice's cheek and she quickly wiped it away. Kyo just stepped out of the building to see Alice laying on the cement.
"Alice!" he yelled, running over. Grabbing up her hand, Kyo pulled Alice towards him. "Are you okay, Alice?" he said soothingly. Alice looked up.
"Yeah, I think I'm fine. It just hurts more than I thought it would." Alice grabbed up her knee and saw that there was a gash in it. "Oh crap, I think I should go to the nurse. Um...Kyo? Could you help me?" Alice said, blushing. Kyo grabbed her hand and pulled her up onto his shoulders.
"No, Kyo! I didn't mean like this! I just meant, um...for you to support me! Besides, I'm gonna get your uniform all bloody, and..." Kyo reached behind him and squeezed her hand.
"No, I like it better this way," he whispered. Alice's face was redder than before.
"K-K-Kyo.." she stammered. He opened the door and walked down the halls. Many students turned there heads to look at the specimen. When the reached the nurses office, Kyo took Alice down and kept her stable.
"She needs the nurse," Kyo told the secretary. The secretary pushed a button and the nurse came up to the front desk.
"GOODNESS GRACIOUS ME!" she exclaimed. ''Child, what on Earth made you get that scrape?" she shouted, pointing towards her leg.
"It's nothing Miss, I just need it treated..." Alice said. Now, you may be wandering, why not use Jiva? Well, at school they don't use the Lotis words, or the would become even more big specimens. Okay?
The nurse sat Alice down on a bed an got some rubbing alcohol. She dipped a cotton ball in it and dabbed Alice's leg with it. Again, Alice didn't notice, but under her clothes, and on her thigh, appeared the Maram word, Niru.
The nurse wrapped up her leg and put a bandage on her chin. A little blood seeped through the wraps. Alice winced at the pain. I wish I could use the Lotis in public! "There we go! All better!" she smiled. Alice got up and staggered over to the doorway. She turned the cold knob and left. The hallway of the office smelt really funny, and Alice's nose crinkled up at the smell.
Kyo was waiting at the end. "Alice!" he happily cheered. "You okay?" he asked as he embraced her. Alice's leg throbbed, but she didn't pay it any mind. She lifted her arms and wrapped them around Kyo too.
Later that day, Alice walked home. Her shoes clicked against the concrete. The sound of horns honking, people shouting, and women and men running off to work, filled Alice's ears. She was still a couple blocks from her home. Her leg continued to sting and throb. It just wouldn't stop. "Stop..." Alice said to herself. "Stop...that's the Maram word, Niru. Alice sighed. She didn't want anything else bad to happen. A small character had already appeared on her body, she didn't like what was happening. Alice turned the corner and saw Mayura up ahead.
"Mayura!" shouted Alice. Her sister spun around and ran over to Alice. "Hey Alice! What happened to your leg? Do you need help?" she said. Mayura put her arm around Alice's back. Alice smiled up at her sis.
"Thanks a lot sis, you're great." They continued on home. Mayura supported Alice all the way there. Even though people would stare and point, she didn't care. One little black haired girl questioned her mom, "What are those two doing, mommy?" "There just helping eachother sweety, I HOPE."
Alice and Mayura finally got to there house. "Thanks sis," said Alice. "I think I'm going to go upstairs now," she said.
Alice opened the door and staggered over to the stairwell. She gripped the railing and climbed up the steps. One by one, her leg throbbed more. "Alice, sweety! Are you okay?" called up her mom. "Yeah mom, I'm just going to take a bath," called Alice. She reached the last step and opened the bathroom door. It was humid in there, somebody must've just been in here. Alice took off her school uniform and unstrapped her bra. She dropped in to the floor and turned on the shower. She also turned on the hot water for the bath.
Alice lifted up her knee and rinsed it off. But when she rinsed it off, more blood seeped through. "Argh!" Alice screamed out of frustration. She continued to rinse it off, but gave up on her seventh try. "Urgh, never mind!" she whined.
The bath had finished filling up, and she jumped in and grabbed the shampoo bottle. Alice suddenly had an idea pop into her head. "Jiva." A faint glow came from Alice's leg and it healed up the cut. All of a sudden, a huge pain ran through her leg. "AAH!"
Alice gripped her knee and a tear streamed down from her eye. Her knee felt like it was about to burst. "JIVA." Alice shouted. Her knee throbbed again. Alice's head seemed to fog up. Everything in the room started to get blurry. Alice's body gave way and she fainted.
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It was morning, and Alice woke up in her futon in her room. She lifted herself up and was now in her P.J.s. "Nnnh.." she sighed. She looked over at the clock and it was 9:30 a.m. "CRAP!" shouted Alice. Her plane left at 10:00, and she had to get going at 9:45 to meet Kyo.
Her leg still hurt, but she leaped up and changed into a red tang top and a pair of torn jean shorts. Alice grabbed her suitcase and her other bags.
With that, she ran out of her room and down to the kitchen. "MOM! I need a ride to Kyo's! I'm gonna miss my plane!" she yelled. Alice's mom sighed and walked out to the car with Alice behind her. "All right sweety, but you should be careful. I found you asleep in the bath tub last night... honestly!" she said.
She turned the keys in the car and they left. "Now, where's Kyo's house?" her mother asked. Alice gave her instructions and the car was there in about 10 minutes. "Sorry I'm late Kyo!" Alice whispered to herself as she got out of the car. She went inside Kyo's house and bumped into him.
"Oh! K-K-Kyo!" Alice said. Kyo smiled down at her. "I'm glad you're better," he said. He knelt down and gave her a kiss on the cheek. "Okay, let's get going to the airport," he said. Alice helped him bring the bags out to the car and they shut the back door. Kyo and Alice hopped into the front seats and he started the car. It turned around the corner and they got to the airport soon enough.
Alice and Kyo got out of the car and they grabbed there bags. "All right, let's get going," Kyo said. He grabbed Alice's hand. Kyo's hand is so warm... Alice thought. They both walked towards the airport and in a couple of minutes, were headed towards Norway.
To be continued in Part 3