This is my first Serial experiments Lain fanfic! I know It's not meant to have humor, but who cares? Enjoy!

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Chapter 1

At Lain's house, a truck stopped by ready to lift off the blocks of tough titanium steel to her. Alice walked by and wondered what was going on, she stepped to Lain's frontyard while the workers dropped off the blocks and went away with their trucks. Before Lain could close the door, Alice came in and asked why she ordered titanium steel to her house.

" I need it to upgrade my Navi, can you help me?"

" Sure I'd love to! What do you want me to do?"

Lain started unwrapping the boxes.

" Just take these boxes up to my room and beside the Navi that's all."

While Lain was giving instructions, Alice was daydreaming about her boyfriend.

" Um Alice? Did you hear me?"

"Huh? Oh yes, the titanium. I'll do it!

She carried the blocks upstairs, while Lain was unwrapping more boxes. Then Mika came walking down to her making beeping sounds with her hand adjusted to the shape of a telephone as always. Lain had to stop unwrapping and walk with her to the living room to keep her from bumping into anything.After that, Lain realized that her sixty page book report which was a week overdue was still incomplete along with her geography project.

" Aw man! I can't believe I completely forgot about it! How am I going to ever upgrade my Navi today with my homework hanging?"

Then Mika came back walking, and Lain had to walk with her to the washroom, and then to the basement.

Lain was starting to get pissed.

"Geez! This is going to take all day if Mika doesn't snap out of her "Mood of mentalness"! And plus I have that stupid book report! What could get worse?

Alice called out from the upstairs room.

" Hey Lain! Did you say you want me to put these blocks on TOP of your Navi?"

But then the Navi couldn't hold the blocks and it collapsed on top of Alice. Lain immediately ran upstairs and screamed

" AAAAAAAAAAHHHH! ARE YOU OKAY!"

Alice answered under the pile of Navi pieces and steel blocks.

"I'm fine, don't worry."

" Not you! The Navi! My beautiful Navi is broken! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! Are you okay Navi? Please be okay! Don't die! Don't die!"

Alice just twitched an eyebrow.

" Wow, I never knew Lain loved her Navi so much, so much the she forgot about me!"

Lain turned back to Alice with fire in her eyes. Alice just backed away from her and sweatdropped.

" Um, I just remebered I have homework to do! Bye!

Without hesitating, she ran out of Lain's house and to the streets gasping.

Next day at school, Alice invited Reika and Juri to her house and told them everything that happened last night.

"Whoa that really is bad news! How are you going to make it up to her?"

Reika and Juri looked at her curiously

" I am going to buy Lain a new Navi! That's how!"

But Juri wasn't quite sure how Alice could manage that.

" But Where will you get the money to buy the Navi? they've gotten expensive now that they were renovated. It cost at least five thousand, maybe even more!

Alice wasn't quite sure how she could get so much money either. But she did save some money since her early age. So she asked Juri and Reika if they had a bank account.

" Yes we do! In fact we started our accounts at our early age just like you!

Alice was relieved to hear that.

" Um okay. How much have you saved so far?"

Reika answered fifty cents and Juri answered twenty five cents.

Alice fainted.

"That's it! That's all you have! fifty, twenty five cents? Don't you ever get allowences?"

" No we don't."

" Then HOW am I going to pay for the new Navi!"

Reika gave a suggestion.

" Uh...Find some money on the Ground?"

Alice just grumbled.

" Shut up. Like I would be even lucky to find a penny."

" Well you could get a part time job, I mean your getting old."

" What! OLD? WHAT THE HELL!

" Hey! No graphic swearing Alice!"

" Who do you think you are! My MOM?

" Look, can you two stop fighting and get back to the subject?"

Juri sighed.

Reika just frowned.

" All I'm saying is that if you want to repay Lain, the best way is to get a part-time job."

" A part-time job! No way I'm going to work at this age!"

" It was only a FUCKING suggestion! Sheesh!"

Alice blinked.

"Um...Didn't you say no graphic swearing like what, two minutes ago?"

" Whatever, so are you going to find a job or what?"

Alice pondered whether to find a part-time job. She knew it would take some work, but she really wanted to get that new Navi for Lain. Then finally she decided, that she would get a part time job and get that money.

" I'm going to do it! No matter what it takes!".

End of Chapter

I hope you enjoyed it! Please don't flame me!