*** Author's Note ***
I wasn't expecting the turn out that chapter 4 brought about. Someone said the chapter
was short. Sorry about that. I don't really even remember posting it. I started writing it at
about midnight and got it posted sometime around 7 am. I checked my email at around 3
in the afternoon and had a, "New chapter posted" thing, a new fan, and a couple of
reviews… So~ yeah. I read my chapter and was like, "Hey. I write pretty good in my
sleep…" Just a side note, Nina does in fact have a Myspace, and the url is
myspace (dot) com (forward slash) 532289513
If you want to be her friend, go right ahead! Oh yeah! I have to warn you.
I am going to an anime convention this weekend, so I won't be posting any this weekend.
Man! I SOOOOOOO wish some of you readers lived closer to me! Then I could meet
you all in person! Oh yeah… That reminds me… SilverSteam is making me
cosplay as L and she is Light. We have the handcuffs and everything! This will be fun.
Anyway! You know, I think I will have a competition. The winner can be added as a character
in my story! How does that sound? I just need to think of what the competition
should be… I'll be thinking about it over the weekend! Hey! At the bottom of your
review, add who your favorite character is so far! Oh speaking of review!
THANKYOU TO EVERYONE WHO BOTHERS TO REVIEW!
And I also must say thank you to my newest fan- sabata414
THANK YOU!
~Gebrelle
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Anne stared at Light for a moment longer before she seemed to lose interest. "Oh yeah! Look what I brought!" Nina looked at the magazine that she was waving in her face.
"What is this?" She asked taking it from her. Anne grinned mischievously.
"Flip to page 15," she instructed. Nina did as she was told and was surprised to see one of her drawings of her favorite alley way. "Maria won that one too eh?" Nina just shook her head. Anne was always entering her artwork to competitions. She always won them, but it was kind of embarrassing, even if they were entered under a pseudonym, or fake name. It was always Maria.
Anne had chosen that name, because, as children, she could only remember Nina's name because of Christopher Columbus's ship's names: The Nina, The Pinta, and the Santa Maria. It had seemed silly at the time, and Nina still thought it was a funny Pen Name, but hey, Maria was already quite famous among the young artists. It made her feel better that Anne always shipped the entries from a different county than their own. She was always so proud; you would think Anne had drawn the pictures herself.
"I think I forgot to mention the prize." Nina raised an eyebrow at her, "You get an all expense paid, round trip to Japan!"
Nina's eye twitched, "And if I don't want to go?"
Anne gasped, "Why the hell wouldn't you? It's in July. No school…"
She dropped her head, "Do you know how much work it takes to get a passport?"
Anne smiled, "Already taken care of. And since it was Maria that won, your passport," she said as she tossed a passport into Nina's lap, making the subway bag rattle loudly, "Is under the name of Maria Abigail Wright. You don't have to be Nina Mea Laverock for a couple of weeks. Just think about it. Two weeks, in Japan, nothing to tie you to yourself, except your art."
Nina opened the passport and saw what Anne said was true. It was an official Passport, down to the T. It was nice. She had never seen a real passport before, much less ever had one. Though, she didn't think this one counted as having one either…
"Untraceable?" Nina asked without looking up, though she knew the answer. Anne never got anything half done.
"Uh-huh," she said happily, "and you'll need these." Anne threw a few other things at her. "Here is Maria's driver's license, complete with the motorcycle part, birth certificate, social security card, shot record, and insurance card." Nina looked all of them over. They all said Maria, but they had her face on them.
"Where did you get the rest of the name?" Nina asked, not looking up from the documents.
Anne shrugged, "I made it up on the go. Like it?"
"Abigail?" she looked at her, "Seriously?"
Anne laughed at her look, "Is it the meaning that's bothering you? It's your middle name. Get over it. I think Maria's name may be better than yours," she laughed again.
Nina stared at her blankly, "I like my name. So what if Nina means girl?"
"And Mae means bitter?" Anne laughed some more.
"Maria means bitter sea. I am okay with those. But Abigail? Really…" Nina shook her head. God is joy… "I just think you've lost it is all."
Anne finally stopped laughing, "No one cares about name meanings anymore," She looked at Nina, "They really only care about the name."
"Well, when you know everyone's name, whether you want to or not, names lose their pa-zazz…" Nina sighed, "meanings are the only thing you can look for in a name. Isn't it a shame that most people don't know the meaning of theirs?"
Anne laughed softly, "I guess I'll never understand the way you feel."
"She could you know," when Light spoke Nina and Anne both jumped. She still wasn't used to him yet.
Nina broke in before Light could continue, "No. Absolutely not! There is no way in hell I am letting her give up half of her life span."
Light grinned a wide grin, "I see you read all of it. Very well, I'll not bring it up again."
Anne looked slightly shocked by Nina's outburst. She rarely let her temper show, even when her anger seethed.
Nina set down the passport and massaged her temple, fighting the headache that was forming there. She sighed, and, without another word, unwrapped the now cold sub. Anne followed suit and they ate in silence for a while. Finally Anne stood up and skipped to the kitchen, returning in a moment with a couple small bags of chips. She tossed some plain Lays to Nina who caught them with one hand without looking up.
"Nice reflexes," Anne commented, "and speaking of, are you ready to take on stage three of fencing classes?"
Nina gave her a stern look, "I know we have discussed this before. I have to keep up my grades. And now we have this…" when she said 'this' she motioned to the DeathNote lying on the coffee table between them. "And speaking of 'this', I decided that it we should start judging criminals with a bang. Something the authorities can't cover up."
Anne nodded. "How about killing all of America's most wanted?" She looked thoughtful, "What do you think, Light?" Light jumped when she said his name. He obviously hadn't been listening; instead, he had been peering down into Nina's bag of chips.
She let out a big sigh, "Would you some chips, Light?" Nina asked sarcastically.
"Actually I would. Thank you…" with that, Light turned up the bag like there were only crumbs in it and poured them all into his mouth. Nina and Anne just stared at him, neither knew what to say. Light set the bag back down by Nina, "Right, I think America's most wanted is too small of a scale. Kira could be anyone anywhere in the world. We want them to think this for as long as possible."
Nina blinked a couple of times and shook her head; he sure put those chips away. "I agree, we should get the nation's most wanted from all of the world."
"What?" Anne yelled, "Do you know exactly how many countries there are in the world?"
Nina smiled, "Not exactly. Humor me."
"There are 192 members in the United Nations, two more, Vatican City and Kosovo, that are not members. That's 194. And if you count Taiwan, that's 195 in all… That's what I read somewhere. But it really is more like 257…" Anne noticed Nina's smile and huffed, "I think you've lost it."
She kept smiling, "I've not lost it. I have just got it. We will kill the top 10 of all the countries that have a most wanted list. That should lower the number some…"
Anne shook her head and Nina pulled her computer into her lap. "Well, I guess we will be starting our research with Afghanistan. We might as well do it alphabetically." She tossed a pen down on top of the DeathNote, "We'll set their time of death to be midnight tonight. Do you think we can have this done by then?"
Anne laughed this time as she pulled out her laptop, "Definitely. I have all day."
*** Foot Note ***
I just finished this chapter at 3:30 am. This is going to be the last chapter until
next week. Unless you beg. LOL! You might get one more… Probably not though…
Have a nice week end all!
Oh yeah! And did anyone else notice that chapter 3 was labeled "Chapter 2"? LOL
that should say something about my brain eh? Heh heh heh…
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