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Chapter 5 by Frizza Frizza

Will she get her things back?

She might have them, but...

Alice introduces herself, Chelsea, who is still busy with Alice's cell phone.

Alice gathers all her courage and snatches her phone from Chelsea's hand, only to immediately lock it again.

Chelsea looks up at Alice with amusement and says. "Brave brave, just give it back to me. And you won't regret it right away."

But Alice stands firm and says in a trembling voice. "No! Now give me back the rest of my stuff and go!"

Chelsea smiles cheerfully and says, "Well, if that's what you really want, then I'll go now." And sure enough, she gets up.

Alice can't believe her luck. For the first time, she has successfully stood up to Chelsea.

Chelsea takes a long time to turn around to leave, which again makes Alice a little puzzled.

("Oh God! Did Chelsea find something on my phone that fast, or even send some of it?")

Alice asks herself, and unlocks the phone as fast as she can. At least, she tries.

[Wrong PIN] is what the screen shows. Even with her second slower attempt, the cell phone displays.

[Wrong PIN] The third time, when Alice is much more panicked, the same message appears. But now there is the additional message.

[Wrong PIN too many times try again in 30sec] And the cell phone showed nothing more than a timer.

"What did you do?" Alice calls after Chelsea, who had almost walked out of the entryway.

Then Chelsea turns around, continues to smile happily and says. "What's wrong with you? Do you want me to stay?"

"No! I want you to tell me the PIN for my phone!" Says Alice, holding her locked cell phone up in the air.

"Oh. Why don't you give it to me and I can unlock it for you?" Says Chelsea with her feigned friendliness that she usually only displays when strangers are around. "Please! Tell me the PIN!" Begs Alice now again, clearly more ****.

"I have an idea." Says Chelsea. "Invite me to spend the day with you and go to as many movies as I want and we'll have a deal." Alice definitely doesn't want Chelsea with her, but desperately needs access to her phone back.

Because it's not just social media apps on there, where she's not friends with very many anyway. In the absence of a computer, all her data is on there. Important appointments, short stories she's written, and her diary, which she's been keeping digitally since her stepsister found and read her paper ones.

But what's most important to her, pictures of her parents. From a time when all was right with the world for her.

"Deal," Alice says weakly.

"Wonderful!" Says Chelsea and walks over to Alice's backpack.

She pulls out a pad and pen and writes something down.

Alice just watches her do it.

"Okay, I'll make a video and you read this." Chelsea says and hands Alice the note.

Alice sees the lines and is about to say. "But I can't do that... "

Chelsea turns back around and says. "Okay, if you don't want to. Have fun then."

"Wait..." says Alice. She has to get her phone unlocked at any cost! Chelsea turns around, grins, and pulls out her own phone.

"Playback!" She finally says.

Alice looks at the note and reads. "Hey, I'm Alice. As few of you know, I work at the little old movie theater in our town. I'm inviting all my friends here to join me at the movies today.... come by and enjoy a free movie."

But then when Alice is sure the shot is ready, Chelsea showed her to turn the note over.

Alice gets even bigger eyes as she reads what it says.

"I'll also buy you popcorn, snacks and drinks and I'm open to special requests" At the last sentence she looks at Chelsea pleadingly. But Chelsea just nods crossly.

"Josie and Edmund you are no longer my friends and you are not allowed to come!"

With that, she ends the video.

Although Alice is sure that even if Chelsea sends it to anyone, hardly anyone will come forward. Because as we all know, she doesn't have many friends.

But still, she was afraid of what she would do with this video.

Will she get her PIN now?

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