''Welcome to Japan.''

I stared at the large bilboard for a second, not really taking in what it looked like or what it said.

But mostly what it meant.

To me and my twin sister it meant abandoning our home in crappy England at the ages of 16 knowing no Japenese whatsoever and having to live out that last of our school years here.

It also meant that we wouldn't be seeing our family for god knows how long.

But mostly, it meant that basically me and my sister... are in deep shit.

Rachel stood next to me, her long gingery hair flowing magically to her hips as she tapped her foot impatiently on the floor.

Being twins, me and Rachel looked almost exactly alike, if it wasn't for our eyes. Though, no one could tell we had different eye colours.

From a distance we looked like we both had dull green eyes, but if you studied closely you could see how Rachels were a more fey green and mine tinted more a light blue than anything.

Another thing that could be used was our usual difference in fashion.

While Rachel liked to wear shorts and light coloured t-shirts with her hair flowing sweetly I prefered to wear as much clothing as possible showing off a small amount of skin.

'Honestly.' Rachel tutted. 'Is Mai picking us up before christmas or not?'

I smiled weakly. 'I'm sure she's just caught in traffic.'

Rachel nodded and pulled out her phone, tapping in a few sentances of words before placing it back in her back, casually.

'This is ridiculous, Payton.' She whined. 'I can't understand any of these damn signs. Stupid Japenese. Stupid Mum. Stupid life.'

'Come on, Rachel.' I chuckled. 'Calling it all stupid's not going to help you learn Japenese any faster.'

'No.' She grumbled. 'But it makes me feel better.'

'I'm sure it does.' I laughed, looping my arm through hers. 'Lets make a deal, if you help me with all my homework for the next semester I'll pay for your lessons.'

The difference between me and my sister was she got the brains and I got the brauns.

She can times the square root of pie by 60 and know the answer in seconds while I have a hard slap.

Or I like to think so.

Back in England, the two of us were in college together living it up, she was passing her classes easily while I was failing miserably so I got a job and practically dropped out of college.

I earned loads of money and never spent it while Rachel gained loads of knowledge and as I expected never used it.

You never do.

Schools are crap these days.

But now we're in Japan, our mother is forcing me to return to school again and not get a job.

No use in not getting all the help I can get.

'You'll do that for me.' She whimpered.

I chuckled. 'Let's not have this conversation.'

'Kon'nichiwa?' A sweet gentle voice suddenly asked. 'Payton and Rachel am I correct?'

Me and Rachel turned totally in sync and stared at the young girl we knew by the name of Mai.

She had long blonde hair tinted with pink highlights, she was short and skinny with dark skin and wore only a short pink mini skirt and matching tank top.

'Hello.' We replied together, we did that alot. 'We're the twins.'

'I know who you are.' She laughed, her japenese accent becoming extrememly odd with our english language.

'Right then.' Rachel grinned.

'Can we leave now?' I asked.

The young girl nodded and turned away and began strolling towards, what I hoped was, the exit.

Rachel and I grabbed our own bags and jogged to catch up with the girl.

'So... Where are we staying?' I asked.

'Subarashī hoteru.' She replied simply. 'Until your mother arrives at least.'

'Why she couldn't come at the same time as us, we'll never know.' Rachel and I scoffed exactly in time again.

'She was busy with the packing as I have been informed, and preparing the rest of your family for the move. Plus the new semester starts tommorow so you cannot miss that.' She laughed, some of her words coming out misprounced but neither I nor Rachel corrected her out of respect.

'The rest of the children in our familys semester starts tommorow as well.' Rachel snarled.

'That is correct.' Mai sighed. 'I guess your mother just thinks you two need as much help as you can get.'

Rachel and I snarled in time again and glared hard at Mai.

'Our mother is a self-ritious, notorious bitch.' I snapped.

'Who never notices anything we do, or even cares for that matter.' Rachel continued.

I took a threatening step forward as we had stopped walking by now so Mai could stare at us with what looked like pity in her eyes. 'We didn't even want to come with her in the first place.'

Rachel stepped with me and looped her arm in mine. 'And as soon as this school year finishes,'

'We're going back to England.' We finished in sync again and stormed past her, finally seeing the double doors, the doors that led to our new life.

A life of irritable people with a pathetic language me and Rachel can't give a rats arse to learn.

'I swear to god,' I muttered. 'If they don't sell mint imperials here I'm going hope no questions asked.'

Rachel turned to me and giggled, the wind flowing through the door pushed her fringe away from her face revealing her dainty sweet face and her cheely smile.

'If they don't have any nice beaches or any water to swim in what so ever then I'm going godesszilla.' She poked her tongue out.

I chuckled with my twin just as we burst out the door, I blinked a few times adjusting my eyes to the new light and stared around in surprise.

'This is... nice.' Rachel muttered taking in the sights around us.

'Not what I expected.' I walked on, my feet just meeting instead of hard concreate met soft green grass.

Not the dead green grass me and Rachel could easily find anyway in England.

Good, clean, living, bright green grass.

'I expected cities, skyscrapers and millions of people pushing me over.' She mumbled.

'So did I.'

'We do have that in Japan.' Mai stepped past us. 'But not here, this is the nicer more greener part of Japan. Come.'

We raced after her, completely forgetting our anger before and focusing mostly on the beautiful landscape and the occasional stereotypical japenese house we passed.

'So Mai...' I gulped. 'Whats the school like?'

Mai turned to me and smiled. 'I went there when I was younger, its a quiant little place. Huge. Very hard to get into though, even rich kids have to be smart to be expected.'

'I guess you're going alone then Rachel.' I sighed.

Mai chuckled. 'Don't worry, I managed to pull a few strings for you, Payton. I know how you slack, your mother made that very clear to me.'

'Oh I bet she did.' I rolled my eyes, Rachel squeezed my hand reasuringly.

'So basically, you start tommorow, I've spoken to the school about the circumstances with your speech, you'll each be given white boards and dictionarys and-'

'Oh balls.' Me and Rachel groaned. 'You think we didn't try dictionarys in these past few months we've known we'd be coming to Japan. We just can't understand a fricking word of them.'

'Oh.' Mai mumbled. 'Well... We'll discuss the details a bit more later... For now, we here.'

Rachel and I turned our heads symltainously and our eyes locked on the large house in front of us. It was large and a light brown colour stretching 8 storys high.

'Wow.' We gasped.

It had a large thatched roof and nasty looking gargoyles on each podium reached from each story.

'I guess this won't be all bad.' We turned to each other and chuckled. 'As long as we don't make a mess on the first day.'

But I sure bet we will.

Mai led us inside the house and up the stairs taking us to the second-to-top floor.

'This is where you girls'll be staying.' She smiled kindly. 'Make yourselves at home and lunch is in an hour.'

'Lunch in an hour.' I repeated when she left. 'What are we going to do after?'

'Get ready for school?' Rachel snickered.

'Nahh.' We laughed.

'We could explore the house.' I offered.

'And research Japenese a little so we don't look like total idiots tommorow.' Rachel gulped.

'We could do our hairs.' I wiggled my eyebrows slowly causing Rachel to tumble backwards onto her bed and laugh.

Looking around slowly I saw that the room wasn't really anything special, it was beige with in total 4 port windows high on the wall, two beds with the exact same crisp white sheets and two brown wardrobes and desks on the sides.

'Well that'll take up the whole day considering the length of our hair.' She laughed.

Both of ours hair reached down to our hips, they were all really thick and -because of our little kip on the aeroplane and our forgetfullness to brush it after- were extremely knotty.

I giggled. 'Well... Lets explore the house now, go down for lunch, come back up here, do our hair, straighten it, curl it, I don't know while listening to something banging on the radio, then be done by about 6 I would hope. Go for dinner, come back here, research some Japanese than sleep.'

She laughed. 'Sounds like a plan.'

'Ok. First... I need a pee... First one to find a toilet wins and gets my love forever.' I sprinted out the door just as the throbbing from my bladder became irritable.

'You're so on!'' Rachel laughed sprinted after me. 'And don't think I'll go easy on you just because you're my twin!'

I sprinted down the hallway till I reached the stairs then slid down the banistar about three floors before shouting back up. 'I won't, I hope you're expecting me to kick your butt.'

'Sure sure.' She laughed, hot on my heels also sliding down the banistar.

'Shit.' I mumbled and jumped back on, sliding another three floors down.

I ran down the last set of stairs and to the kitchen were Mai was having an indepth convosation with a member of staff.

They both stared at me in confusion as I just stood there like a lemon till Rachel crashed behind me knocking us to the floor.

'Everything alright?' Mai laughed.

We nodded. 'Super.'

The member of staffs eyes bulged. 'Karera wa issho ni hanashi o shinseina garakuta.'

We turned to Mai in confusion while she just stared at the member of staff in annoyance.

'What did she say?' We asked again in sync.

'She very rudely commented on how the two of you occasionly talk in sync.' Mai rolled her eyes while the member of staff just stood there, twiddling her thumbs awkwardly.

'Anyway, girls.' Mai turned to us and smiled politely. 'A very special guest I have just been informed is visiting us tonight.'

'Oh?' We grinned. 'And who might that be?'

'Yuzuru Suou. The chairman of your new school. He wished to meet the two of you as he does with all his new students as to wish them welcome.' Mai grinned.

'Does he speak english?' Rachel muttered.

'I would presume so, him being as famous and well spread as he his.' Mai held her hand beneath her chin as if stroking her imaginary beard.

'Hehe spread.' Rachel and I snickered.

'Please girls. Yuzuru Sempai being as important as he is, will not take any immature behaviour from either of you and will kick you out of the school before you can say, as you british do, ''Ohh blimey he mugged my tea and scones.'' She laughed in her strange british accent.

Rachel and I giggled slightly in our hands, commenting on how neither of us had said that in our entire lives.

'Will you though? Did you understand my point?' She pleaded.

'Yes, Mai.' We nodded.

'Jō wa mata kare no musuko Tamaki o mochikomu yotei.' The member of staff muttered.

'Oh thank you, Fujou.' Mai smiled. 'Yuzuru will apperently also be bringing his only son and heir, Tamaki Suou. Who is apperently just a year older than you...'

We rolled our eyes. 'Oh good. Well... We'll be waiting in the kitchen, stuffing our faces with food.'

Mai chuckled and waved us away as Rachel and I sprinted in the direction of the food we could already smell, we were kinda just presuming it would lead us to the kitchen.

But thankfully it did and we began to pig out on anything we could find, till a knock sounded at the door and two figures followed by Mai stepped in.

'Hello...' The elder looking of the two smiled. 'My name is Yuzuru Suou.'

Rachel swallowed the food in her mouth and stuck out her hand, quickly introducing herself while I stared at the younger figure in awe, he was blonde, tall, cute and had mesmerising blue eyes.

'Tamaki.' He beamed from ear to ear.

'Charmed.' I grinned.

He frowned, confused. 'Is that your name?'

I frowned too. 'No. It's just something we british say, my name's Payton.'

Rachel snickered. 'Not a british saying, a Payton saying.'

I rolled my eyes and stared at Tamaki Suou in confusion.

Why does he look so much like a girl?

He should really get a hair cut...

And I was hoping Rachel was thinking the same thing so I didn't feel as rude.