A/N: Okay, I need to finish my stories. So my first target: ASPD (this). And, sorry, I'm not thanking anyone for favorites and subscribing anymore. I'm very, very sorry for the extremely slow update. Sorry!

Also! There's an OC in this chapter. I've posted a picture on deviantArt of her. My username's TheSilverWatch.

Enjoy!

I am so tired, Rin thought, sitting down on one of the benches. She was waiting for Mikuo.

"Rin?" Rin felt someone shaking her shoulder. Her eyes snapped open. When did I fall asleep?

Mikuo smiled at Rin. "So, where to today, my princess?"

Rin thought for a minute. "How about the library? I don't want to go anywhere noisy right now."

"The library it is."

The door chime clanged as Rin pushed open the door. The musky smell of book filled her nostrils, and she relaxed. The library was like a second home for Rin.

Rin walked over to her favorite chair and plopped down. She scanned the shelves closest to her to see if there were any books that looked interesting. Rin found one. A thick, red-covered book. She grabbed it and started reading.

This book sucks. But she kept reading, until the words blurred in her eyes and she fell to dream world.

"Hello."

Rin looked over and saw her younger self.

"You'd better wake up." The younger Rin winked. "There's something you should learn before deceit." Something sad glittered in her wide eyes. "It starts with a l and ends with a –ove"

"L…ove. Lo..ve. Love…" Wait, what? "LOVE?"

The younger girl just smiled. "Have fun," she said waving. Rin's dream blurred and she was back in the library.

Rin rubbed her eyes. What was that dream about again? I forgot.

Mikuo looked up from the book he was reading. "Oh, the sleeping beauty woke up."

Rin blushed. "Shut up. I didn't mean to fall asleep." She glared at Mikuo, but stopped short. There was something in his eyes.

Mikuo smiled warmly. "You look really cute when you're asleep. Because you're not scowling."

Rin's cheeks warmed again. She put her hand up to her cheek. I don't get it. Why am I blushing?

Mikuo laughed. "Don't be embarrassed." He stood up and patted Rin's head.

Rin suddenly remembered a different hand patting her head when she was really young. A tender, soft hand, filled with love.

"Oh, god, did I say something? I'm sorry!" Mikuo's voice brought Rin back to reality.

Rin looked at him questionably. "What?" Then she felt something wet hit her hand. Am I…crying?

A brush across her eyes confirmed that. What the heck? Do I have no control over my body anymore? Rin shook her head violently, as if to shake away the strange things that kept happening.

"Rin, don't cry," Mikuo pleaded. Her tears didn't stop. He searched her eyes and saw something that seemed to say, "Help me."

Help you? How? Then Mikuo did the only thing he could think of.

He kissed Rin.

Rin was stunned, but some strange urge inside her pushed her to kiss Mikuo back.

They both pulled away, blushing. "I-I'm sorry, I don't know why I did that," Mikuo stuttered.

"That was…kind of…nice," Rin said slowly.

Mikuo grinned and kissed her again.

The door chime rang again as the two walked out of the library hand-in-hand.

Suddenly, Rin slumped over on Mikuo's shoulder. "Rin? Are you okay?" Mikou asked with concern.

"I'm fine, just tired."

Mikuo blew out a breath. "Last time you were tired, you passed out and Len yelled at me. Len's such a meanie sometimes!" He grinned. "How would you like to have a piggyback ride?"

Giggling, Rin hopped on Mikuo's back.

"LET ME OUT!" Rin banged her hand on the glass container she was stuck in. It was shaped like an hourglass. Actually, it was an hourglass. Sand slowly tricked through the tiny hole above Rin.

"Why do you want to leave?" a whispery voice asked.

I know that voice. It's the one that was in my head just before I became a psychopath.

"Yes, that was me."

Rin started. This voice could hear her thoughts? Then she hit herself on the head. Duh! The voice is inside my head!

"Actually, I do have form other than a voice."

Suddenly, a little girl with long silver hair appeared outside the hourglass. She wore a little gray dress on top of another red dress that was torn and ragged. The thing that caught Rin's eye was the fact that she didn't have legs. Instead, a wisp of smoke replaced her legs and the girl seemed to float in the air. Like a ghost.

"In theory, I am a ghost. My name is Silver."

Rin tried to keep her growing annoyance in check. "Well, Silver, can you please tell me WHY THE HELL I'M HERE?"

Silver's wisp of smoke materialized into legs and she paced back and forth in front of the hourglass.

"Well, your younger, non-psychopathic self was locked away in that same hourglass. She begged me, the warden, to be freed. I said she could take your place in life. Slowly, she worked herself into your dreams and now she's you."

"So…I have to take her place and stay in this hourglass until she dies?" Rin sagged against the glass into the sand.

Silver's eyes sparkled. "Not exactly. See, we don't need two Rin Kagamine's in this world. You have exactly 72 hours to find a way to convince me to let you out. In 3 days, that hour glass will bury you alive." She grinned, her sharp teeth glistening. "You've already wasted one of those precious hours."

Rin wracked her brain, but she couldn't think of anything that Silver might want. I might as well get to know her.

Silver grinned. "No one has ever wanted to hear my story. I must warn you, it is quite long." She glanced at Rin, but Rin just told her to go on.

"I used to be a young, pretty, living little girl, much like you. That is, until I dove headfirst into the very thing you yearned for most."

"Love."

A/N: Cal-iff~ Han-gaar~. Heehee. Next chapter, let us learn more about this intriguing young ghost. Also, please see what she looks like on dA. It's called OC- Silver.

Thanks for reading!