jAPAN IT! "just take my hand, japan it with me!"-Ludo.


Kyoko sat distraught, folding her legs over and under again and again, awaiting Matt's return from work at the game store. She wasn't quite sure how to tell her boyfriend of ten months that she would have to move back to Japan, her home island, to visit her dying father until he finally passed away. The doctors said he had a year, and as much as she loved and was scared for her father, she didn't even want to leave Matt behind. A whole year! Who knew, by then, her father could try to set her up with a japanese business man while her japanese slacker back home made it off with some blonde haired bimbo who pretended to enjoy video games only to get him between the sheets. The thought sent a chilling tingle down her spine and a few pushy tears from her eyes. She heard the front door unlock, and quickly wiped them away before her eyes could get puffy and red.

"Kyoko, I'm home!" she heard him call from the entrance. He walked in to the kitchen where she sat on a swivel bar stool and was quickly put off by the sad and worried look on her face.

"What's the matter?" he asked, walking up to her and playing with a long strand of waist-length black hair. He loved playing with her hair because it reminded him of his mothers own silky midnight locks that he used to caress before she passed away from breast cancer. He missed her, but with Kyoko, he felt she was always watching. She didn't answer right away, simply turned away from him and stared down at the marble counter-top. She was trying to find the right words to explain the situation to him but none came to her mind.

He continued to stare at the back of her head until she finally turned around rapidly and said in a set, yet high pitched voice,

"Let's go to japan."