Disclaimer: We all know the drill...I say I don't own Vocaloid and then I say that I will but then I get punished by either getting shot or slapped across the face with an orange...yippee...this story is officially making me depressed :O But no worries! I will continue :D

Rin slipped out of bed, put on her dressing gown and hurried downstairs.

It was bright and noisy and completely normal in the kitchen, the kettle boiling, the toaster popping, Mum humming along to the radio and eating her breakfast before she went to work. By the time Rin said goodbye and left for school, she had almost forgotten the doll and what she had done to it.

Almost, but not quite. A shadowy image of the doll and the mysterious voice hovered at the edge of her mind and, as the day went by, Rin had to concentrate harder and harder to keep it at bay. Whenever she let that concentration slip – if her attention wandered during a boring lesson, for instance – the image instantly grew stronger, the voice hissing and buzzing and whining in her ears. Once she was fed up of trying to keep it at the bottom of her mind, she began to wonder who that voice belonged to. She had never heard that voice before, she was certain.

Rin could barely think of anything else on her way home. Dark thoughts filled her mind, visions of sticking pins in the doll and what that might do to her father's girlfriend, the images accompanied by fierce pleasure. But there were other feelings too – fear, and a sense that she might be on the edge of doing something wrong. The sky was closing in as she turned into her street, thick clouds lit red underneath by the sun behind the houses, a whispering breeze chasing leaves around her feet and along the pavement in front of her.

Rin went through the gate, her eyes averted from the sign. She walked down the path and opened the front door. Mum wasn't home yet, and it was quiet and still inside the house she was familiar to. Rin took off her coat and hung it up, went into the kitchen, made a sandwich and poured herself a glass of cold milk. She took her snack upstairs to her room, put the plate and glass on the desk and dropped her bag on the bed. She was going to eat her sandwich, drink the milk, then get on with her homework. But she didn't do any of that.

Instead, she found herself standing beside The Junk Basket.

I won't lift the lid. But then she realized she had done just that, and there was the doll, lying face up on top of everything else inside, even though Rin remembered ramming it in and pushing it down beneath all the other stuff. She sensed that the doll was staring up at her. Waiting.

The voice started hissing again in Rin's ear.

"Pick it up. Pick it up, pick it up."

Rin did as she was told. She held the doll in her hand. It was exactly as she remembered, the black eyebrows, the pinklips, the blood-red letters on the body spelling LILY. Although now it also had a tiny hole in the fabric of its stomach. Rin brushed a fingertip across the hole, wondering if it really was possible to hurt someone by jabbing a pin into a doll...

Suddenly, she felt she simply had to know – and there was only one way to find out.

She pulled her mobile out of her bag and called her father at his office.

"Well, this is a lovely surprise," Dad said when she was put through to him. "You don't usually phone me here. What's brought this on then?"

"I don't know," said Rin. "I just felt like a chat, I suppose." She kept her voice light and tried to talk in the way she'd always done before he left.

"Hey, that's great," said Dad.

She could tell that he was pleased, and she realised he probably thought she was beginning to ease up on him. How wrong was he. But she couldn't care about that. He could think what he liked. All she was interested in was his girlfriend.

"So – how's school going this week?" Dad asked.

"School's OK," she replied. "But I was wondering – how's...Lily?"

There was a profound silence at the other end of the line. Rin had never used Lily's name in a conversation with her father before, not once, and for a second she thought she might have gone too far, that Dad had somehow worked out she must have a sinister reason for asking her.

"Nice of you to ask," Dad said eventually, and to Rin's relief he sounded even more pleased than he had done before. But there was some worry in his voice too, and a little puzzlement.

"She was a bit poorly last night, actually. She woke up about midnight with a pretty bad stomach ache. It kept her awake most of the night, but then this morning the pain just vanished, and she seems fine now."

"Mr. Kagamine, there are some files you need to read through" A faint male voice was heard from the phone.

"I'd better go, love. Work awaits. I've got lots to do...no rest for the wicked, eh? See you at the weekend. I thought we could try that new ice cream place in Norbury; if it's all right with you..."

"Yeah...sure, Dad," Rin mumbled, her mind suddenly in turmoil.

They said their goodbyes and Rin hrrriedly ended the call. She sat on the bed, still holding the doll in her hand. She stared at it and felt her skin crawl. The thought that the magic might actually have worked scared her and made her feel guilty too. But it also made her feel excited in a twisted way.

It was then that she heard the voice again. It had returned, was urging her to try again, to do something else to the Lily doll.

"Do it, do it, do it. Hurt her, hurt her, hurt her..."

Rin did her best to resist it. She decided to go downstairs and watch TV for a while. Maybe that would get this crazy nonsense out of her mind.

An instant later she was in her mother's bedroom, searching through the dresser drawer where mum kept her sewing kit. Rin found what she was after – a little box with letters that spelled LENKA KAGAMINE on it which she remembered seeing when Mum had altered her school dress at the beginning of the term. Rin took the box out and opened it. The silver pins inside slithered out and rustled as if they were alive.

Just so you know, Norbury is not made up, it's actually a place in London :) oh and there is a new dessert shop there which is NOM! Review because that is what gives me motivation x) Anyone wanna have a guess as to who is Rin's dad? Winner gets a muffin xD