• I opened one eye, then the other, and saw that Paprika didn't shoot a real gun at me. I felt lightly drained, like last week when I went to the blood bank.Yui wanted a Shigrui pillow so badly she made me go there for some money.
    "Paprika? Did it work?" Jill whispered behind me,"am I now fully alive?"
    "I believe so Jill, I feel somewhat, tired though," Paprika said,"wonder why?"
    I looked at the spot where blood got on my hair, and saw that the stain of blood made a maroon spot in the back, just like Jill's hair. Now we are one and the same, I thought, and turned toward Jill while standing up. "Can you stand?" I asked her nicely.
    "I-I think so," and she stood up with little vigor. After all this excitement, I stumbled to the main hall with Jill and Paprika in tow. Yui shoul be around here, since this is where her friend Koni wait for her mom.
    "Chiyo-san!" I heard Yui shout, and she hopped (literally, she hopped) over to us,"I thought you were talking to Rinji!"
    "After I talked to him, I talked to Paprika, and then Jill came over," I lied.
    Yu-chan made us all go to the mall and dance in every store with her as part of her advertising campaign. Paprika told me the spot in my hair is the little of her blood for the exchange of mine."Something to remember her by," she said cryptically....


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    Sera, Novice Poet and Artist