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Chapter two: A bitter meeting
Alice stared at Dan without uttering a single word. She couldn't believe her ears. That part of her heart the wished to see her long lost love, broke. Every crack formed, hurt and ached for every word cut like daggers. Before she knew it, she started crying. Her tears fell down her cheek, trailing a path behind down her rosy cheek.
In the beginning of her journey, a part of her, no matter how little it was, expected the worst; not finding her friends alive. Not finding Shun, alive. But they were, and he was. She didn't know what was worse; for her to find out he died or to find out he lost every bit of a memory about the years they spent together, that she was going to be treated as a stranger when she's around him.
Runo poked Dan hard on his stomach with her elbow. She glared at him, but her glare softened when it fell on Alice. The said girl was sitting in front of them, in her flesh not mind. It looked like she was in her own world, she didn't even seem to take notice of the streams flowing freely on her face. It broke Runo's heart to see her best friend in this situation.
"Alice, I think you must go and take some rest," she said in a soft tone. Again, Alice didn't seem to notice anyone was talking to her. Runo stood up and took her apron off. She placed it around Dan's neck and left him to tie the knot in the back. Dan gave a sigh to himself; he knew she wanted him to take care of the café while she's gone. He didn't protest and left to hang the 'open' sign on the door.
Runo grabbed Alice's suitcase and with her other hand, grabbed Alice's hand and helped her up and the two walked out of the café. Alice did nor said anything, she just allowed herself to be dragged along by Runo.
After a while of walking, the duo came to a stop in front of a small house nearly two blocks away from the café. Runo put the key in the hole, a clicking sound was heard and the door opened. It was then that Alice waked up from her thoughts. She, instantly, touched her cheek and felt the salty liquid, she wiped her face with her hand and took a look around her.
"I moved out of my parent's house. I live here now," Runo informed, noticing the puzzled look on Alice's face. Alice nodded to say she understood and the two walked inside, closing the door behind them.
Alice took the place in. The living room was a bit messy, but other than that; the house looked amazing! The design of the house was modern. It was clearly done by a good interior designer, but even though, parts of Runo could be seen in the place.
"Sorry about the mess, Dan held a party here last night and as usual he didn't clean after it," Runo said, putting her hands on her hips. Alice felt like laughing at that, but no sound came out. She was just not in the mood.
Runo went upstairs followed by Alice. She opened the guest room and led Alice in it. Alice sat on the bed and took off her shoes. She didn't look up, she just kept starring at the floor. Runo put the suitcase down and sat beside Alice on the bed.
"Alice, you are awfully quite. You must talk to someone, you know. Talk to me, Alice," Runo said. Alice didn't respond.
"I should kill Dan for bringing it up," Runo stated, looking down at the floor.
"How…H-How did it happen?" came Alice's question. Runo looked up as she heard her voice, a small smile lit up her face, happy and relieved she heard her voice. She breathed in and decided to tell her what had happened.
"We were at the hospital after two days of the Tsunami. Shun had entered a coma, but the doctors said he would wake up that day, so we were all gathered in his room. He slowly woke up, but he didn't recognize any of us," Runo answered, hints of sorrow appearing in her eyes.
"The doctors said it was an amnesia caused by a heavy trauma. I think he hit something hard when he was facing the waves," Runo added.
"Last thing I remember, was seeing him being washed off by the waves deeper inside my house. He went in the water to get my box back, it was my fault, then," Alice said, feeling guilty.
"Alice, you can't blame yourself for what happened. Now, you can help," Runo said putting a hand on Alice's shoulder.
"But…How?" Alice asked, confused.
"When you left all of a sudden, we thought you were lost or dead. But, now you are here, you can get his memory back. If anyone could do it, it's you," Runo said. Alice thought about it for a second and smiled, she felt there was some hope, after all.
The two sister-like friends spent the next two hours, emptying the bags. Catching up on what they have missed. Runo held Alice's dress in her hand, it was blue with white roses drawn on it.
"It's nice," Runo commented as she looked at herself with the dress in her hand in the mirror. Alice giggled. Runo raised an eye brow at her.
"Your taste in clothes seemed to have changed," Alice pointed out. "You are wearing a light summer dress and your hair is even different, it's put down in two low ponytails," she continued. Runo looked at herself in the mirror once again and giggled as well.
"Ya, growing up does that to you," she said while laughing.
Alice took the last item out of the bag, it was the violet-coloured box. Her eyes sparkled as she looked at it. A few tears made their way to her eyes, but she quickly wiped them away.
Runo looked at the object, wide-eyed.
"No way! You still have it?" she asked in disbelieve and snatched it away from Alice's hands. Runo looked at it, it had the letter 'A' drawn in a half heart.
"Alice, this could really help us, maybe when Shun see it, he will remember," Runo said, excited. Alice took the box back.
"You think so? This only happens in movies," Alice said, not so sure about the idea.
"It won't hurt to try," Runo said. Alice smiled.
After getting everything done and ready for Alice to stay there; the two girls decided to get back to the café and help Dan out, since they left him in the rush time. Alice remembered how crowded the place will look like.
Runo pushed the door open. The jingling sound of the bells was not apparent because of the loud noise in the café, the place was full of people and Dan was struggling to keep up with the orders. Mr. and Mrs. Misaki were doing their best to help, but it looked they need four more hands to help.
The two young ladies grabbed an apron and began to work, giving Dan a chance to catch his breath. Runo's parents were really shocked and happy to see their daughter- like girl back. After more hugs and laughs, they got back to work. The boys were certainly happy Alice was ok, for everyone feared the worst. Alice lived in Japan nearly all her life so she had many friends there.
When the time came to close up for the night, everyone left the place, even Dan returned home. Alice and Runo were in the kitchen cleaning the dishes, 'just like the old times' as they put it.
The jingling sound came from the door of the café; Runo completed cleaning the dishes while Alice went to see who it was and ask him to leave the café, politely. But, when she reached the door, she froze in her place.
It was him, the boy of her past. The one she held feelings and love for, deep in heart. She looked at him as he stood in the doorway. It was, with no doubt, Shun. He was taller now, but the same thing can't be said about his hair for it got shorter. Everything else though remained unchanged. His features seemed to be holding back a secret, one he didn't know himself.
Alice, forgetting all about his amnesia, rushed to him and gave him a hug. A very tight one, as tears started running down her cheeks. Shun was taken aback by this, what was this lady doing? He, slowly, released himself from her grip and stared at her with a confused expression on his face.
Alice wiped her tears away and a blush made its way up to her cheeks, giving them a rosy colour, after remembering. She shot an apologetic look in his direction.
"I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else," she lied, putting her head down. It pained her that he had no memory of her.
"It's…ok?" his statement was pronounced as a question, he was still confused at the weird situation.
"Do you know who I am?" she asked, hopefully. Shun looked at her for a second.
"I am sorry, no. Must I, though?" he said. Alice shook her head, disappointedly.
He eyed the young lady, closely. She looked beautiful, a lot if he might add. She looked…oddly familiar, there was something about her that made him think more about her.
Abruptly, his head started aching. The pain shot through it fast. He put a hand on his forehead and used one of the tables for support.
"Shun? Hi," Runo said as she joined the scene. Shun shook the pain off and greeted his friend.
"Where's Dan?" he asked, annoyance in his voice.
"He went home," Runo answered.
"Then, why would he ask me to meet him here? Your boyfriend is so weird," he said and walked towards the door, but stopped to look at Alice.
"Nice meeting you…" he trailed off, leaving her the chance to tell her name.
"Alice, Alice Gehabich," she said. Her name was familiar as well to Shun, but even thinking it brought the headache back, so he let it go and left the place.
Alice stood there, hurt in her eyes. She knew the first meeting will be something like that, but still it hurt. Runo came closer to her and put a reassuring hand on her friend's shoulder causing Alice to smile, but it was a weak one.
"I'm sorry. Dan must have wanted him to see you, he must have thought he'll remember you," Runo apologized. Alice shook her head from side to side to say it was ok.
Deep down, it wasn't.
"He's still friends with you guys? How?" Alice said, after recovering.
"He doesn't remember us, but we were able to convince him we were his friends, so he's acting like it. He's hurt too Alice, not remembering your life is hard," Runo explained. Alice nodded.
"So, what are you planning to do?" Runo asked.
"Ill go and visit him, I'll try to remind him of me," Alice said, determined. It was almost nine o'clock, so she decided to leave that till tomorrow.
She helped Runo close the place and said her goodnights to the two owners and left with Runo to go home. She laid down in her bed and opened the music box to listen to its tone.
God, please help me. I can't loose him, not him too.
That ends chapter two. The reason why this chapter came out late is that I am writing it without a previous plan. I usually plan my whole story through before writing it, so it's quite hard to write it. The idea came up to me and I didn't want to blow it, so I wrote it before all that.
So, how was the second chapter? Was it good? What do you think will happen; please do tell me, it might inspire me a little. Please R&R ;)