Spirit me back
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Chapter 1: Ribbon of red
Chihiro was sixteen now. She had her birthday a few days ago. She looked at her naked room. Boxes lay everywhere in the house. They were moving again. She couldn't remember the reason but she would have to go to America. She could remember it had something to do with her father's new line of work.
Chihiro pulled her hair over her shoulder and placed a ribbon at the end of her hair. Ever since she left the spirit world she didn't want to loose the ribbon she had gotten from her friends. She looked out the window and could see the path to the shrines. She could almost see the entrance to the old fair grounds which at night turns to the bath house for the spirits. She could remember all her friends as if it was yesterday that she went there. She tried so many times to go back to that world but it never worked. She had been there so many times she could make a map and draw every stone and store.
She waited for so long to see her friends again but she never lost any hope of seeing them. She planned that when she was old enough she would work in a bath house just because she did when she was younger and in a different world. She hoped that at night she would find a stray or lost spirit coming to the wrong bath house. She was ready until her parents told her that she was to move to America. She seen movies and pictures of America, so she figured that they don't have anything like a bath house. She sighed.
They probably don't even have shrines." She mumbled in the wind.
She ran down stair and went outside. She stared down the hill and at the path. She had to try one more time. It slowly was beginning to get dark. She ran down the hill and to the entrance of the shrine. A small wind blew past her. She sighed in despair. The wind was blowing in the wrong direction. Then a leaf blew past her face and into the tunnel. She smiled and ran past the statue and into the tunnel. She ran out into a field.
"Kohaku!" She yelled but only the wind answered. She ran past the large rock and up the stairs and stood in front of the statue of a frog. She turned around as the sun disappeared for the night. Nothing happened. She waited an hour but still no ocean appeared. She stood up and looked back at the vacant old park. "Kohaku! I'm going to America in the morning! I came to say...!" Her voice drifted. She didn't want to say good bye. If fact the first time she left she didn't want to leave. "I came to say I miss you." She said as she squatted down and hugged her knees. She began to cry and the wind blew at her hair.
Her ribbon untied and flew in the air. She noticed it and quickly ran after it. When she couldn't find it she noticed where she was standing. She was at the tunnel, the way out of this world. She hugged her knees again. "I don't want to leave. I don't want to forget you! I've the ribbon my friends made for me...I don't want to forget you. I don't want to forget them. I want to be with you..." She cried.
She looked up and a few flower petals flew around her. It smelled like the flowers from Kohaku's garden. She sniffled as she noticed the wind was caring her ribbon to the grass beside her. She picked it up and held it in her hands. She turned around and smiled. "I'll miss you, my dear friends." She walked out of the tunnel and went home.