Chapter 1: The Move

I walked up to the door that was in front of me, behind my father. A man opened the door slowly, me not seeing him or inside the house with my father in the way. They mumbled about something for a bit, and my father turned around. "Well, goodbye son. You'll be here for quite a while, so do get along with them." He said, and then walked off, me watching him. He got in his car, and left within moments. I turned around to look back at the house. "Let's go." I said, and walked in, being greeted by the man my father talked to.

"Konata! We have company!" He called out, and a heard a high pitched voice yell, "Coming!" along with a blue haired girl coming out of a different room. She soon walked next to what I took to be her father, and they both bowed, then stood back up straight. "I am Sojiro Izumi, and this is my daughter, Konata." He said. "It's nice to meet you," she added on.

"Ummm... I'm... Patrick Romano... Nice to meet you?" I said, accidentally making it sound like a question. Konata walked forward a bit. She mumbled something along the lines of 'he's taller than me...' and got a closer inspection. As she walked around me, her father started; "Okay Patrick, going to have to get used to your name. Anyway, Welcome to our household. Now, with sleeping arrangements, we are going to have to figure something out. You see, we only have two bedrooms. The question: Do you want to sleep in a room with me, or Konata?" She heard the question, and quickly stopped in front of me, having her nose only an inch away from mine, at least, if she was that tall. She said, "Me." I looked down at her, and contemplated what she said. She was too short to try anything bad, and she didn't look like a bad person, so I took it as a pure intention. "Okay, I guess she wants me to join her, so I guess I will." She looked at me deeply. She looked happy, but I could tell in her eyes, that she was happier than what she showed. "Follow me" she said, and I got my four suitcases, dragging them along to her room.

We entered the door, and I sat my bags down. There was already a second bed in the room, and she had clearly neatened up for this. I looked around, and sat my luggage on the bed. "What's in the suitcases?" She asked. I opened them as I went. "One is for necessities, two are clothing, and the last one is-" But I couldn't finish. As I opened it, she yelled, "Games!" quite loudly. She was correct. It was the largest, a good variety of consoles and games. She pointed out one, a game I had, commonly known as PSO, and showed it to me. "Phantasy Star Online Episode 1 & 2. I've played this game a lot. Once you are done unpacking, we need to play it. See how far along you are." She smirked, and I could tell she had come a good way in it. "Okay. Just give me a little bit." I set my suitcases with clothes to the side, took a few things out of the necessities, and took my memory card out of my gaming case, along with a controller for the gamecube. I plugged the two in, sat down, and played with Konata for a while. She was actually about as far into it as I was, which took hundreds of hours of gametime. We took a break, and Konata went out to check if dinner was made, or if we would have to make it ourselves. I looked around her room. Manga, manga, anime, figurines, manga, hentai, manga- Hentai? Upon further inspection, it was, in fact, hentai. "That one's a first edition. I have two, one for preservation, one for display." I stared at her. "Why do you have hentai?" I asked. She responded, "A friend's keepsake. I got one extra to display, and preserved the copy from her." That made a lot of sense. I sat down in front of the tv, patted the floor next to me, and said, "Let's continue"

-The next morning-

I looked over next to me in bed. I felt something soft all across my side, and decided to stop being lazy. What I saw was kind of startling. Konata was next to me in the bed, me feeling her hair. Her long, beautiful, soft blue hair... She is nice, funny, silly... Wait, why am I having all these feelings? I just met her! In mid thought, she slowly opened her eyes a little bit and hugged me, smiling. My face went red and I looked at her. I've never been hugged by a girl before... I passed out.

When I awoke, Konata was sitting on my chest. She was surprisingly light for her age, then again, she was also short. "Good morning" She said, without getting up. Suddenly, a girl with long purple hair put into a pigtail came in, yelling "Konata! Let's go! We'll be late and it'll be crowded!" She looked at us for a moment and said, "Tsukasa! Come on in, please!" Another girl, a little shorter walked in, with short purple hair, a lighter color than the other. "I am Kagami, and this is my sister, Tsukasa" said the first girl. "Nice to meet you" said Tsukasa. Kagami started: "You can come with us, if you can get ready quickly. Don't want to keep Miyuki waiting." Konata got up with a little disappointment and tossed me one of my suitcases of clothes. For such a small girl, she sure is strong. I took the suitcase, walked to the bathroom, changed, got my shoes on, and walked out, putting my suitcase down and going out the front door, where we all started to walk in a direction, Kagami leading the way.