YOUR POV:

"Hey! What are you looking at?" I asked, raising one eyebrow.

"My baby girl has grown up so much! Come here to mamma!" Akira said almost teary eyed.

"What is wrong with you? Did she have too much coffee or sugar?" I looked at Tadashi, suspiciously.

Tadashi nodded his head. "Welcome to Tokyo! Hope you enjoy here!"

I cringed, "wow! My one best friend has become my mom and the other has become a stranger. No wonder I needed to come here and restore the balance of the world!"

TADASHI AND AKIRA ARE BOTH FAMILY FRIENDS OF MINE. WE HAVE KNOWN EACH OTHER SINCE WE WERE IN KINDERGARTEN AND CONTINUED TO REMAIN IN TOUCH EVEN AFTER TAKIRA {TADASHI+AKIRA, AS I LIKED TO CALL THEM}, MOVED TO JAPAN. TAKIRA ARE THE CLOSEST FRIENDS I CAN IMAGINE HAVING...A PART OF MY SMALL FAMILY.

"Fine, savior of the world! Let's get going." Tadashi said literally pushing us through the crowd and out of the airport.

"Geez! Do you need to apply your "man" strength on us?", I teased.

This had become a joke, since in one argument Tadashi had practically shouted at me that "he was a man". I had won the argument anyway, but the joke had stuck.

We drove to Akira's apartment where I would be staying from now on.

When they reached, I was awestruck. "Akira, you're stinking rich. This place is beautiful!" Akira smiled. "I always wanted an apartment here. Do you know how many celebrities I get to see and..."

"…and scrutinize their clothes and make my life hell by nagging on and on and on." I said, imitating Akira. "ermehgerd! Did you know she was wearing sneakers with her LBD?"

"Yah! My voice doesn't sound like that. And sneakers with almost anything dress-like is a disaster."

Tadashi interrupted, "even I know that. Though I am least bothered.."

"As if! Look at what you're wearing! Jacket, jeans, shirt-all in Akira-like synchronization."

"That's the bare minimum which I had to do, in order for Akira to take me to the airport for meeting you. If I let her be alone, then she wouldn't have picked you up before tonight…she would have disappeared into the EN-VOGUE mall which falls on the way."

Akira rolled her eyes. "Will we keep standing here and talking? Let's go?"

They entered the building and I looked around. It was empty and nobody could be seen. "Where's everybody?"

"_, you don't expect people to sit around and welcome you."

They entered the elevator, Tadashi carrying my huge suitcase, and I carried my duffel bag and handbag. Akira pressed the button for the 5th floor. Soon they walked out and 'Takira' walked ahead of me, carefully planning things for the day. I lagged behind, noticing each and every minute detail as was my habit.

"White walls go well with metallic colored furniture right?" I muttered to myself, "Now if the walls were blue then..." and crashed into someone.

I fell on the other person landing on him/her. As I opened my eyes, I found two hazel brown eyes staring back at me. "chocolate." I mumbled.

"Excuse me?", a sweet voice asked and I realized that it was coming from the person trapped under her.

I quickly scrambled to my feet and collected my luggage from the floor. "Omo! I'm so sorry! I was lost. I hope you're not injured."

The man got up and dusted his clothes and said, "no i—it's ok. I'm fine. You new here?''

It was then that I got a proper look of his face. A beautiful face. Absolutely beautiful. I couldn't think of anything else. Calling a guy beautiful would feel strange to but, right now it felt perfectly normal. Brown ruffled hair, a long sharp nose, small lips and those chocolaty brown eyes which slightly crinkled up as he smiled.

"Whoa!" I breathed. I couldn't take my eyes off him.

A few seconds passed and I was snapped out of my thoughts by someone's hand waving in front of my face.

"You alright?" the beautiful stranger asked. I noticed his long slender fingers. "Yeah, I'm alright pretty much."

He gave her a smile. Then I came back to being myself. "Why did you crash into me? I can understand that I had spaced out because that's-so-like-me, but what was wrong with you? Huh?"

THIRD PERSON'S POV:

Tadashi whispered into Akira's ears, "There we go." They were standing at a distance watching silently.

The stranger replied, "Excuse me? I'm at fault? I just turned from here," he said, pointing at the juncture of two passages, "and voila! There you were mumbling like a hobo and crashing into me."

"I'm a hobo! You look like a hobo!" _ shouted.

"Am I now? I don't think you would have ogled at me like that if you thought I looked like a hobo." He said smirking.

"I did not ogle. Why would I ogle at you? Who do you think yourself to be? How arrogant? God, I mean what is wrong with guys nowadays! Seriously!"

Finally Akira butted in and pulled _ away, who had gotten dangerously close to the stranger, and might have started hitting him.

"Enough! _, come with me!" she scolded her.

She turned and bowed at the stranger, "I'm sorry for the inconvenience caused." That being said, she marched off with _'s wrist clutched in her iron grip.

YOUR POV:

Why exactly was I shouting? I didn't need to shout at him when it was clearly my fault. I don't know… something happened to me. When he smiled at me I felt as if I'd melt. But I know very well that my defensive walls come up when I get that goo-ey butterflyish feeling. Not good. Not good at all. I hope I don't meet him again. If I did I would end up hitting someone or in the police station. I hate this feeling of my mind going blank. That too because of a beautiful guy. Uugh! What's wrong with me.

I sighed and then realized I was standing in Akki's living room and she was lecturing me of something about behaving around K-pop idols.

"Whatever! Akki, calm down. Breathe. Live and let live. Ok? I am hungry. I want to eat. The airplane food was crap. Cook me some awesome noodles. Pretty please~~", I whined.

"Fine. Go and get changed. Your room's over there. Tadashi will have dinner and then leave."

"What? He doesn't live here? I always thought he did! You never said anything!"

"You never asked."

After having dinner we had some chatting and then we went back to our rooms. I slept like a baby. Literally.

The next morning I woke up, trying to find my side pillow beside me but to no avail. I sat up and realized: gone were the days of snuggling against my side pillow back home. It's time to start a new journey here in Japan! As I stretched myself slowly I said aloud, "Rise and shine! New day today."