I never believed in love at first sight. Not before I met him … Him, who is my life, my love, my everything … My name is Hikari Aino and this my story … A story about a family … a story about a curse … a story about love.
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It all begin during the winter I had started to work in a bookstore. It was the greatest job, I've ever had! I had loved books since I was a little girl and now, to be surrounded by books every day and talk about them to customers, was like heaven for me.
"The only thing that could be better, would be writing something myself and getting it published", as I said to my parents. Of course, they had a slightly different view on my future plans.
"When will you finally decide to find yourself a nice and decent man to marry?", my mother kept asking me, day after day. "You're not getting any younger, you know", my father liked to add. To emphasis her point, mom then would sniff dramatically and say: "I won't live forever, after all … I want to have grandchildren one day." "Grandsons!", my father chimed in at this point.
My reaction to this, was to pat my mother soothingly on her shoulder and say: "I'm only twenty-two, mom. If I start a family with thirty, you will still live to see your grandchild, I promise!"
I was happy with my life as it was. I really didn't think about chosing a potential husband. Independence was my motto! But, as they say, good things come when you least expect them … Especially when one of this things is called Hatori Soma …