Chapter 156: Unsure Emotions (1/2)
”Alice! Alice, are you going to wake up anytime today?” Iris grumbled knocking on her door. Fed up of shouting, she opened the door to a cold chill. The window was left wide open with small trickles of snow pouring in. She rolled her eyes, slamming the window shut, turning to her sister fast asleep in bed. ”Isn't like you to leave the window open… Or sleep in for that matter.” Iris pulls the bedsheets from her yapping. ”Come on, sleepyhead rise and shine!”
”The Alice requires five more minutes.” She croaks shivering.
”Five more minutes and it will be lunchtime. Come on before father gets cross.”
Alice gives in sighing as she sat up, struggling to keep her eyes open. ”My head hurts…”
Iris felt Alice giving her a strange look. ”Well for starters you're freezing, and there's snow in your bed. What were you doing out last night for?”
”The Alice doesn't recall leaving the comfort of her bed last night.”
”Come on, don't joke around with me. It's alright, I'm not mad. Were you getting in some extra training? Sneaking out to explore?”
Alice shook her head, rubbing her eyes. ”There were no lies told in my statement. The Alice doesn't remember anything from last night. At the matter of fact, she doesn't even remember getting into bed.”
”Oh yeah? Strange for you. You're the best when it comes to remembering things.”
”I remember talking to father in his office. Getting my shoes on and then nothing… And for the record sister, the Alice isn't good at remembering everything. I still can't remember what our mother looked like…”
”This again?” Iris questioned sitting on her bed, almost slipping off miscalculating the fall. ”We've been through this. Mum died when we were only babies. We couldn't possibly remember her.”
”Then why are there no pictures of her? We haven't seen one of them.”
”Beats me. If you're so caught up on it, just ask father himself.”
”You know he isn't one to respond well to those sorts of questions. It's like he just wants to pretend she doesn't exist anymore.”
Iris blinked serval times trying to think of something to say. ”Come on, get dressed we'll go into town today and go shopping. Just you and I fuck what Hans has to say.”
Iris stood up, moving towards the door as Alice held her hand over her eye frowning. ”Do you feel guilty for not helping V.I.R.A.L? Our friends are out there risking their lives and we're here talking about shopping.”
Iris leaned against the door staring down, hiding the look of disgust. ”You know I wanted to go. The Garden is back, but father refused to let us go… Zinnia is having to lead her team into battle without Alton, and there's nothing we can do…”
”Iris… We should talk to Alton.”
”I wish we could. But he's gone who knows where… Hmm, let's not think about it too much. Shopping.”
”I want to help them.”
”Alice…”
”No! They've saved our lives plenty of times. We're friends we should be looking out for each other. Not hiding like cowards.”
Iris took a while as she nodded. ”You're right… Tell you what, forget shopping. Like we need anything. Get dressed meet me outside in an hour. I don't care what it takes we are going to fight for our friends and this city.”
Alice looked much more lively smiling. ”Iris… Are you sure?”
”Hell, yeah I'm sure! I'm not changing my mind now! Get dressed.”
Iris stepped outside startled, seeing her father waiting. ”Iris. I'm glad to see you finally woke your sister up. What are your plans for today?”
”Oh, I was thinking about going shopping. V.I.R.A.L is dead right now with no streams so I thought I would use the downtime to relax.”
”I see… Don't waste all your time now, even if it's Christmas you don't want to slack off and fall behind more than you already have. If you have any hope of streaming with Alice next year you must improve.”
”Yes sir, sorry sir…” She whispered bowing running off.