Persona 4: Replay (Prologue)
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"You have your medicine? Your stuffed animals? Your pictures?" My Mom asked as she pulled out of our gravel driveway and into the alleyway behind our house in our small town in Illinois. I yawned "Yeah Ma, I got everything, we went over this last night, remember?"
"I know, but still, your going away to Japan for a year, I just want to make sure you have everything." She said as she started to drive down one of our two main streets in town and made her way onto the highway and brought up the speed on our old, green P.O.S. (Piece of Shit). I yawned and laid my head against the headrest on the passenger seat and looked out the window, only to see what I thought was a blue, shimmering butterfly.'Pretty...' I thought as Mom turned on the news and was going to let me sleep on the way to the airport.
I should probably explain where I'm going. See, I won a trip to Japan to study there as a foreign exchange student. When we found out I had won, I only had two weeks to pack and get ready to leave my home for a year. Bad news is I can't come home until my time in Japan is up, which means the only contact with my friends and family here in America will be the internet and phone calls.
"Ashley...Ashley, time to wake up." I heard Mom say. I opened my eyes, which I just realized I never remembered shutting my eyes and napping. I felt very sad at the thought that I didn't get to have one last conversation with Mom. I rubbed my eyes when I felt them start to get wet. I couldn't cry, since crying is for the weak, and I'm NOT weak.
My body put itself on auto-pilot again, I guess, since I didn't realize I was hugging Mom goodbye and going past the usual business of security, buying gum, and waiting to get on the plane. I sighed and pulled out my PSP, continuing my game of Persona 3 Portable.
I had named my MC (who is the girl) Mizuhana. I kept playing until I heard that the plane was boarding, which made me shut down my game and out it away. I boarded the plane, put my bag away and took my seat. I got lucky since I was the only one for my three seats, which meant I could lay down if I got tired. I watched as the plane took off and soared above the sunrise. I yawned and decided to go back to sleep the moment I could unbuckle my seat belt.
It was about another half hour until I could, and by then, the skies had turned dark and had started to rain and thunder. I shut my window, but looked outside one of the others and saw a bit of lightning. I shivered in fear and closed my eyes, and started to go back to sleep...
-A FEW HOURS LATER, NO ONE'S P.O.V.-
It had been raining for hours, and the lightning had gotten worse to the point it had almost hit the plane several times, which made the pilots think about turning back and landing. They noticed a dark cloud ahead of them, and decided to continue through it. At the same time, a bolt of lightening had hit the plane the exact moment they hit the center of the cloud, a blue light surrounded the plane and made it disappear from our world, and into the next.
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