She gazed outside of the car window at the house passing. It was morning in Japan, yet her eyes were heavy with sleep. Back home in America it was night, and she had just gotten off a very long flight with a crying baby right next to her…in other words she'd rather not remember it.
"Chiyo," began Mrs. Yagami, "as you know we have a son, Light, who's your age, and a daughter, Sayu who has just started high school. You will have your own room. And I'm sure your grandfather has told you this, you're attending cram school at night with Light in order to prepare for your college entrance exams."
"Yes, my grandpa told me. Thank you again for allowing me to do so." she responded. Truth is, she actually hated to study and she procrastinates on almost everything she's given.
Mr. Yagami pulled the car into a driveway of a very nice house. It was much larger than Chiyo's. Her grandpa didn't really make much money, but she made good enough grades that her schools paid for her education. The door opened and a girl who looked about 14 ran out and was waving.
"Chiyo! My names Sayu! It's so awesome that you're staying with us." She came up to her and threw her arms around Chiyo almost knocking her over.
"Thank you Sayu." She laughed, "Pleased to meet you." She grabbed her bag from the trunk while Mr. Yagami was so kind to grab 1 huge suitcase containing all her clothes, 1 smaller bag with shoes, and two other bags containing personal belongs and essentials. It may seem like a bit much, but Chiyo was there for a year.
"Come on, I'll show you the house." She said grabbing Chiyo's wrist and pulling her inside. "So this is the kitchen, the dining room, and the living room combined into one." The news was on, the reporters saying something about a man getting stabbed in the downtown Kanto region. Sayu pulled her hand again up the stairs, "This is our bathroom, you, me, and Light share. Oh! You haven't met Light yet!" she yelled, "That's his room," she pointed out, "he doesn't like it when you go in without permission…trust me. My rooms over there and my parents room is down the hall. This is your room." She said indicating a room right next to Lights.
Hmmm a teenage girl living next to a hopefully attractive teenage boy…the possibilities are endless, she thought to herself before she was pulled into her new room. It was nice. There was a beautiful desk, a dresser that had a small but not too small TV on it, a walk in closet, and the best part was a full sized bed next to the large windows.
"Wow, you're house is beautiful Sayu." Chiyo said sitting on the bed, "but pardon me, I have to use the bath room. The flight was unbearable and the bathrooms were filled pretty much the whole time." She laughed getting up and walking out of the room.
When I was done, she looked in the mirror. Her blue eyes were staring back at her. She had dark circles underneath from lack of sleep. Her long wavy brown hair looked a bit messy, so she grabbed a brush on the counter. Once she felt satisfied she opened the door and let out a gasp because she ran into someone. Her hands were on their chest, theirs rested on her waist to prevent a collision. Even though Chiyo never considered herself to be short, she only came up to the persons shoulder. She looked up and met a pair of amber eyes peering into her blue ones. This must be Light, she thought.
"Sorry," she said in English, forgetting where she was. She began to blush when she realized how cute this guy was.
"You must be Chiyo, right?" he said with a smile. She could feel her cheeks burning, "I'm Light."
"O! Brother! You move fast don't you?" said Sayu poking her head out from her room. Chiyo quickly pushed herself away from Light.
"Nice to meet you Light, but excuse me, I have to go unpack now." She said entering her room. Light continued to stare after her, hmm she seems interesting enough, and at least she's cute. He smirked to himself and walked into the bathroom.
She walked into her room and lied down, and fell right to sleep. She woke up around ten to find the house empty. Shit. She had slept through dinner, and felt rude. It would have given her time to get to know the family. She went back to her room, and changed into something a bit comfier. She dug out my tooth brush and face-wash from her bag, and walked to the bathroom. Tomorrow she started school. It would be so much fun to get to wake up early and do homework, yeah right, she thought splashing cold water on her face.
She walked out of the bathroom, and a pain sent her to floor. "Ouch!"She whispered loudly to the darkness. She had tripped over a stool or something.
"Are you ok?" Light was standing outside of his door.
"Yeah, I'm fine." He came over and helped her up, "I'm just clumsy, that's all." he laughed, and he had a really cute laugh. "So you're still up?"
"Yeah, it's only ten thirty. My sister and my parents go to bed early. I'm studying for the entrance exams."
"Ooo sounds fun." She said rolling her eyes, "Do you want to take a break and help me unpack?" she asked.
"Sure, why not." He said. They walked into her room, "Wow you have a lot of stuff."She stuck her tongue out at him.
"I'm away from my room for a year, of course I'm going to bring a lot of stuff." She walked over and grabbed a bag.
Wow, nice legs…Light thought as Chiyo bent over to pick the bag up. She was in pajama shorts that covered just enough. She turned to look over at him, and he quickly looked away.
"So what made you decide on Japan?" He asked grabbing a crate of computer stuff.
"Actually my grandpa decided." She said pulling out clothes and folding them, "I told him that I wanted to study abroad, and he thought my grades would do best here."
"Do you live with him?"
"Yeah, my mom left my dad once I was born, and he died when I was five." She said opening a drawer and putting shirts in there.
"I'm sorry, that must've been hard" Light said setting up her printer.
"Yeah, it was rough, but I was really little so I can hardly remember it." She said, Light was being relatively quiet, "What about your family?"
"My mom stays home and keeps house, my dad is a police chief, and actually he's had me help him on a few cases. My sister Sayu is a freshman, and she's a total pain. All she does is ask me for homework help, and drool over boys, especially this one actor, Ryuga." He said taking out her laptop, "wow, nice Mac."
"Thanks, that's three summers worth of work right there for you."
"A job, what else did you leave behind?"
"My bike, and my cat, Cleo." she said putting the rest of her clothes away. She pulled out a bag full of pictures.
"No boyfriends?" Light said after a slight pause. She smiled slightly, and looked at him.
"No…why?" he stopped and looked at her.
"No reason." He stood up and grabbed my school bag.
"Oh, do you have girlfriend?" she asked setting pictures of friends on her dresser.
"No. You know what? You're Japanese is really good, how long have you been speaking?"
"For about two years now. I loved the characters, and I just had to learn them. They didn't offer it at my school so I taught myself." Light stopped putting her books into the desk drawers.
"You taught yourself? You're that smart?"
"Japanese is not a hard language to learn. Actually it's a lot easier than German, and French."
"Did you teach yourself those languages too?"
"Yeah, I don't know what to say , but I like to learn, and I love languages."
"How'd you do in school?"
"Oh, I'm the top of my class back home. According to the national standardized test things they make us take I'm in the top 95 percentile of kids my age." She said, "Of course that's not nearly as impressive as you. What's it like being number one everywhere?" She grabbed a clock from my bag and set it on the dresser.
He gave a questioning look.
"You're mom told me. She admires you a lot." she said smiling. He smiled back.
"I should probably be getting to bed." He said looking at the clock I just set out. It read 11:30.
"Alright, thanks a lot Light." She said waving goodnight, "it was nice to get to know you, and get my room unpacked."
"Oh sure, if you need anything just ask." Light said walking out of the room.
She smiled after he left. I could not get any luckier. She emptied her shoes into the closet, and didn't even bother to hang up any of her nice clothes. She pulled out the last bag and only took out one thing. It was a really old stuffed lion cub that her dad gave to her before he died. She threw back the covers and climbed into bed, except there was one problem. She wasn't even tired.