Chapter 3: Baby, It's A New Name

Engrossed in her music, Shizuka didn't even hear the announcement for dinner or the knock on her door. She didn't even open her eyes until the person at her door came over to her bed and tapped her on the shoulder, causing her to startle and suddenly sit up, seeing said person, who happened to be B.

"Oh my god! Don't do that you scared me! For all I know you could've been a fucking serial killer or something!" Shizuka yelled, still freaked out.

B grinned, it was amused and slightly creepy, "How would a serial killer get in this room? The window is on the third floor and there's too many people around to just walk in"

Shizuka took a deep breath in, if his words of wisdom were supposed to be comforting, they weren't, "It could happen okay? If someone was for some reason really intent on killing me they could"

"Is there someone intent on killing you?"

"Not that I can think of" She replied, partly lying, the arsonist could be after me, he may have been after my parents originally…or it could've just been a coincidence, she still wasn't sure why the man had chosen her house to burn down, it could've just been that it looked extremely flammable or picked at random, but it could also be that maybe her parents had some deep secret or something, and he had wanted the whole family dead. But I'll never know unless they catch him, which they won't, so I shouldn't think over such morbid thoughts, I'm safe here, it's okay, that thought comforted Shizuka, if only a little, and she was now calm enough to wonder why the hell B was in her room anyways. It's not like earlier he had seemed so concerned that she was fine.

"Why are you here?" She asked.

"They announced dinner, and I figured you wouldn't know the way there, and it looks like you didn't even hear the announcement"

"No, I was busy listening to music...and thinking some things over"

"Like what?" Clearly, he didn't understand the concept of personal.

"Like…well, for one I need an alias"

"That's easy"

"Not really, I don't want to just pick a name. If I have to be called by something else, I want it to be something good" Shizuka said, starting to get annoyed by B.

"Yes it is. What's the first letter of your name?" B asked, though, at this point, Shizuka didn't realize he already knew it.

"S"

"Ok, what's your favorite thing in the world, or something that defines you?"

Well that's easy, thought Shizuka, music, it's my life, "That'd probably be music" She told him.

"Ok, well you could go with a name based off a word relating to music that starts with S"

Shizuka thought of all the words she knew music based that started with S, "So, let's see, staccato, scale, serenade, scherzo, scordatura, septet, sextet, sequence, sharp, slide, um…slur, sonata, sonatina, soprano, staff, stretto, suite, symphony, and system. I think that's it"

"Well, already there are ones that obviously wouldn't be very good names, even if we changed them a bit; like scale, scordatura, septet, sextet, sequence, sharp, slide, slur, staff, and system. Then there are the ones that might work; like staccato, scherzo, soprano, suite, symphony. And last are the ones that would probably make the best names with a little editing; sonata, sonatina, serenade, and stretto." He listed the words off the top of his head with no problem, as if he had memorized them.

Damn, I wish I had a memory like that, she thought, no wonder he's here if he can remember all that in one go, "Well, I don't really like sonata or sonatina as names. Stretto doesn't really work for me either. And serenade could work, just how would I change it?" Shizuka mumbled, mostly talking to herself.

Of course B ended up saying something in the matter anyways, "You could change it to something like Serena?"

"Serena? Actually, that's really pretty, I like it."

"Anyways, it's dinner time." And then B turned and walked away.

I really don't get him, Shizuka thought, setting her mp3 player down then getting up to follow him.

-It's a short chapter, I know, but I felt dinner needed to be a seperate one. And the reason the chapter title is named what it is, is because I've had the song title (not the song, just the song title) Baby It's A New Age stuck in my head (I've never even heard the song before :)-