Chapter 1: June 17
"Momo-chan! Hurry up!" called out a black-haired girl from a bus to one of her classmates,
The 12 year old Kurosaki Momoko or Momo to most, was a beautiful girl, having straight long light-brown hair and honey-colored eyes that fitted her sweet personality, she was the oldest in the family of four kids, a dad who was a doctor and had a caring person of a mom. Sadly to say this girl was always late for school, but today not only for school but for the school trip to Kakunodate, a trip that was part of the final assignment for history class.
"Coming!!!"said Momoko while running with all her might and finally getting inside the bus before the doors closed, but to her dismay she bumped against her history teacher who Momoko and the entire class was very afraid of.
"Always late Kurosaki-san" said the teacher looking down Momoko's petit form. "But I'll let it pass this once" the teacher turned around and continued checking the lists of students, "we don't want this trip to be unpleasant now would we?" she said still looking at the check list.
"N...o! No! Of c...course not Ito-s...sensei!" Momoko said nervous and trying to fake her coolness.
"You don't have to yell; I'm not def you know" the teacher said venoumsly while walking away.
"Of course...sensei…" Momoko made her way to the black-haired girl who called out to her before and sat beside her.
"At least she is in a good mood, don't you think Momo-chan?" her friend wore a smirk, and started to open a comic and chewing gum. "She most be happy about something today, maybe is the trip, maybe she think she'll find her soul mate in Kabunodate! Or maybe she likes the driver!" her friend fantasized.
"Uh…Aiko…I think you might be right about the driver…" Momoko said to Aiko and motion her to glace towards the bus driver. At the moment Miss Ito had returned to the bus front, and the driver was somewhat checking her out, Miss Ito not far behind the whole scene, was giving the driver flirty looks.
Both Momoko and Aiko started laughing.
"un..haahhaha..unbelievable hahaha…" Aiko said between laughs.
"shhhh..(Giggles) shhh she'll hear!" Momoko had a hard time calming her self too, but stopped when Miss Ito glared at the both.
"Kurosaki-san, Kojima-san please keep quite, we haven't even got out of school grounds and you two are already making a commotion" Miss Ito said with her superior like voice.
"Yes Sensei" they both replied.
Just when the teacher turned, they sended knowing glazes at each other and began smiling happily.
Just when Momoko thought it was going to be a great day, but little did she know that it was soon going to be the worst of her entire life.
Momoko P.o.v.
"ooooh cute" Aiko said while looking at the little Edo period dolls of the store that we where in, Ito-sensei said that while we are here we should buy some souvenir for the family or close friends, I was thinking on giving Karin, Yuzu and Mum some princess-like doll, and to Ichigo a very nice key holder, but to my dad…mmm…well…I'll give him my love, that enough! (sorry papa!)
(giggles)
"What are you giggling about?" Aiko asked me, I turned to face her, wiping the memory of my dorky father's face of my head.
"Nothing, just imagining my dad's face when I get home empty handed for him" I said smiling and star collecting the items I was going to pay for.
"You sure are a mean girl Momo-chan" Aiko mocked disapprovingly.
"Serve him right, for embarrassing me last week when you guys went to my house" I said walking towards the line of payment.
"Well at least You have a funny dad, not like the rest in the world" said Aiko following closed behind, when I got there I saw Ito-sensei and another sensei talking, I felt chills run my spine, it was their expression, too serious for my liking.
That's when they tuned to look towards me, but not with that serious face anymore but another one.
Pity.
'What was going on?' I thought. I saw Ito-sensei walk towards me with her cell phone in hand, she looked distressed.
I gave Aiko a questioning glace, but she was paying attention to something else.
"Momoko-san" Ito-sensei said her face still full of distress and worry.
'Momoko-san? That's the firs time she has called me that, and what with her?' She saw my confuse face and handed me the cell phone.
"Momoko-san, its for you, Its urgent" she said giving me the phone and putting a hand on my shoulder.
"um…okay.." I said to her and she turned to leave.
"Kojima-san come with me, please" Ito-sensei said to Aiko, but although confuse by her sensei's command she obeyed, I saw the other sensei with the same expression Ito-Sensei had. "hello?" I said in to the phone.
"Momo-nee…(sniff)" 'Ichigo?'
The moment I heard my younger brother crying, I knew something had happened,. "Ichi-nii? What wrong, why are you crying? What happened? Is everything okay???! Ichigo answer me" I some how dropped everything to the floor and runned out the store.
"Ichi-nii, What-" I was cut off.
"Momoko"
"Papa?" why would Ichigo be crying, why would my dad be calling me at this moment?.
"Momoko, It about your mother"
Mum?
"she's.."
No
"she gone Momoko"
No no no
"she had a hard attack , Peachling"
It can't be, please be a joke…
"you're kidding right papa?"I said, my voice trembling.
I somehow knew it wasn't a joke, papa wouldn't joke about things like that, but still, I couldn't let myself believe that my mum was dead.
"no, Momoko, I'm sorry…" I could hear my father weeping from the other side of the line. "I'm so so sorry…"
My mummy dearest
My Mentor
My whole world.
That's when it happened, the fainting; I could feel myself lighter and lighter by the second, my father's voice had disappeared, and finally I collapsed.