Yukio pulled the curtains. "Get up, Lia!"

"What are you doing?" I whined irritably. "I don't wanna get up. It's Sunday."

I pulled the covers over my head. Yukio cheerfully yanked them off. I was wearing the same jeans and t-shirt as yesterday, so I just curled up into a ball.

"Go away," I muttered. "It's Sunday. I'm sleeping in."

"No, you're not," Yukio said. "I'm taking you to the school to take your entrance exam.

"Get out of my room, Yun," I said.

"Mephisto said you have to go to school," Yukio said.

"No," I replied. "I wanna stay here. Actually, I want to go to America."

"If you go, I'll let you take your own medicine," Yukio said. "As long as you promise to go to your therapy sessions."

"Promise?" I said, sitting up.

"I promise," Yukio said. "Your account's been unfrozen as well. It was assumed that you would need money for clothes. Sheimi said yesterday that she wanted to take you shopping."

"Fine," I said. "Wait, who is Sheimi?"

"The girl I told you about when you were allowed visits in the institution."

"Oh," I said. "Hm…"

"Don't go scaring her off," Yukio said.

"Shut up," I replied. "You and Mephisto and all the adults. Always thinking the worst of me. Only Rin was ever kind to me."

Yukio said nothing, only grabbed my wrist and dragged me to my feet. "Come on. No time to waste."

So I passed the entrance exam. Then I came home to find that my cousin was there.

"Aria!" I said excitedly. This girl was my cousin and close friend in my other life. She almost looked the same, but she had the hair and eye color of Sheimi. Then I realized. In this world, Aria was Sheimi.

"Lia!" Aria exclaimed, hugging me. "I missed you! They said you'd never come back, but I didn't believe them for a second."

"Aria, you've been okay, right?" I asked anxiously. "Nothing bad has happened, right?"

"Well…ever since you've been gone…there's something you should know," Aria said.

"What is it?" I asked.

"Well, Rin was gone, and Yuki asked about you only a few times because of his fear of Mephisto," began Aria. "Anyway, the one person who went all the time, asking about you was Ryuji Suguro, another exorcist at the cram school. He's from Myoda."

I was thrown for a loop by that one. Of course Bon, who hates injustice, would want to help me. He sorta fought that way for Rin, though not as much as I would like. But did he and I have a past that he would expect me to know about?

"Bon…" I said. "Hm…I wonder why. I don't remember ever really meeting him."

"I remember," Aria said. "Suguro kept you from getting expelled from school once. He stopped you from fighting some kid, by getting into the fight himself. He defended you."

"Oh yeah," I remembered, surprising myself and laughing. "At first he was trying to hold me back, but he got so mad at what the kid said the he went back and attacked him."

Aria laughed. "Well…I have homework. And you're supposed to go shopping for clothes."

"That's right!" I said.

"By-By the way…why are you calling me Aria? My name is Sheimi. Sheimi Moriyama." It broke my heart to see my own cousin cowering away from me.

"Don't worry, Sheimi," I sighed. "I took my meds. Can I call you Aria? Like a nickname, for your lovely voice?" I didn't give a damn about her voice. I didn't like the real Sheimi, but I loved my cousin. "You can call me Lia."

She nodded emphatically. "Sh-shopping, I'm supposed to take you shopping."

I smiled. "Okay."

Our day shopping wasn't too interesting, I got some nice clothes. I bought Aria/Sheimi a charm bracelet with funny little devils on it that we both thought looked like Rin.

She's a sweet girl. I bet Mephisto's using her. It's sad.