There was a ringing through out the air that day. It sounded like distant church bells. It seemed to always come from the same distance away, no matter where she was. Nicole turned and stared up at the cloudless sky in contemplation.

"What's wrong, Nicole?" Alice, her friend asked her when she stopped walking.

She turned back to her friend and smiled wryly with a shrug. "I don't know. It's strange, but I've been hearing these bells all day. They remind me of something, but I can't seem to remember it no matter what."

Alice leaned over and cupped her hand to her ear with a questionable look upon her face. After a while she squinted. "I don't hear anything. It's probably just nerves. After all, graduation is next week."

Nicole sighed. "I know, I'm freaking out. I'm not ready to be an adult and pay bills yet." Alice laughed.

"Relax! You're starting a new chapter of your life! Don't take it too seriously- but then again, you've always had a problem with that. Maybe it's about time you learned to chill." Nicole gave her a skeptical glance. "Yeah…right." Then she laughed it off with a slap between her shoulders.

"See you Monday, Nicole!" Her friend called as they parted ways, and she made her way down her long drive way to her secluded home in the tree's.

"What should I do today.." She mumbled to her self as she entered her empty home. She had indeed been stressed out lately, and she soon forgot about the bells as she made her way up the stairs to her room. "It's been a while since I've watched any anime…maybe I should revisit one of my favorites." She said to herself as she rummaged through her shelf full of DVD box sets and movies. "Saw that too recently…this girl dies at the end…already seen this 5 ti-" Her hands froze before the black box in front of her. She stared at her old favorite with a strange apprehensive feeling. It had been almost 4 years since she last touched it, and though she didn't know why, she had almost forgot about it's existence. "This seems like a good choice." She said to no one in particular as she carefully slid it out from behind the other DVD's where it had been hidden.

There was a queer numb feeling in her head as she watched the familiar scenes pass. Everything seemed normal until the scene where the detectives met L. There seemed to be a fine split in her memory at that point, and she watched it, knowing what would happen, but at the same time feeling as if something else should be happening. Later in the episode a new character was introduced, a secretary-like woman who she recognized, but for some reason confused her. She paused the video.

"Wait..what happened to the other scenes…I know something else happened, but where is it…?" She shook her head as if to dismiss it, and continued. She finally reached the episode where L died. She watched it with bewilderment, as things she never recalled happening happened, and things she did recall happening didn't. She stopped watching there. "Maybe it was in some fan fiction I read…something like that..yeah, yeah that's it." She whipped out her phone and immediately started searching. That was when she found it.

It was called a Request For Change. It called her by name. Everything she recalled happening was clearly written in the devastating black print that seemed to sink into her very being as she stared at it unblinkingly. Her head buzzed and she heard the ringing of the bells, unrelentlessly pounding in her ears. Could it all be a dream, or had she finally gone insane? She didn't know.

As her mind swirled and fought with it's self, her phone pinged with the recognizable sound of a notification. She glanced down and her face went pale with worry.

The story had been updated.

She was now trembling with such a ferocity that she dropped her phone. She swallowed hard and touched the 'next' button at the bottom of the page. There were only two words.

THE END.