I look out the window and watch him drive away until I can no longer see him.
"So Sakura how have you been, I haven't seen you since you were four years old" Ai asked me.
"I was just fine until you came" I replied coldly.
"Sakura as much as I would've liked you to stay there I couldn't" she replied.
"It's not up to me where you can stay" she continued.
"Whatever, I don't want to talk to you any more"
"Sakura you don't mean that, you're just upset"
I don't respond. For the next hour we ride in silence until I eventually fall asleep.
"Time to wake up Sakura" Ai nudges me.
"I'm awake" I replied coldly.
"Okay well this is your new home" she says as we get out the car.
Sfx: walking, knocking on door, door opens
The door opens and there's a girl standing there. She looks like she's fifteen years old.
"Hi I'm officer Ai, is your mother home?" Ai asks.
"Yea just a second" the girl leaves and returns with a woman.
"Oh hello you must be Sakura" she stoops down to my level. She gives me a big smile but I don't smile back.
"Sorry she's a little upset right now" Ai tells the woman.
"No, I'm very upset" I tell her.
"Well why don't we go inside and talk" the woman opens the door further and we walk in.
"Lets go into the kitchen and get to know each other a little better" the woman replied.
We sit down on a light blue couch and the woman brings us snacks.
"So Sakura what do you like to do for fun?" she asked.
"Well I used to like to play with my sister" I replied.
"Oh and where's your sister how come she's not with you?"
"Sakura was living with a family who had found her in a cemetery up until now" Ai replied.
"A cemetery?! What were you doing there?" she turns back to me.
"My best friend Nene had died and I was sleeping next to her grave" I replied.
There's a long silence after that.
"Sakura why don't you go and put your things away" she replied.
"Hey Yakumo can you come here please"
"Yes what is it?" the girl asked.
"Sakura this is Yakumo, she's going to show you to your room." the woman pointed to a tall girl with long black hair. I followed her up the stairs and into a room. It was a normal size room with white walls and a big window. There were two beds in there so I figured I was going to sleep in that bedroom.
"This is your bed" Yakumo pointed to the bed against the wall next to the window.
"Who sleeps on the other one?" I pointed across the room to the other bed.
"I do" she replied.
"Oh" I replied putting my stuff down.
"So how old are you anyway?" Yakumo asked while sitting on her bed.
"I just turned six two months ago" I said while unpacking.
"Wow you're only six, how long you been in foster care?"
"I left my home when I was four and then I ran away and lived with this other family for two years" I said without looking at her.
"Why'd you run away?"
*Sigh* "That's really none of your business" I replied coldly.
"Fine you don't have to tell me if you don't want to" she said getting up and walking towards the door.
"Wait, I'll tell you" I grabbed her arm.
She walked over to my bed and sat down.
*sigh* "The reason I ran away was because my best friend had just died and Mrs. Wu told me I couldn't visit her grave anymore so I decided not to go back with her"
"Then when I woke up the next morning a woman and her husband found me and took me into their home where I lived happily for two years until Ai had to come and ruin it"
"Oh now I understand" Yakumo replied.
"How long have you been in foster care Yakumo?"
"Um let's see, since I was ten" she replied.
"Ten? How old are you?"
"I'm fourteen, so I've been in foster care for four years"
"Why?"
"Well my father left my mom and me when I was little and then when I turned eight my mom got real sick until she eventually died five months after my tenth birthday"
"Oh" I replied getting up.
"Just "oh?" nothing else you're not going to cry and say what a sad story or anything?" Yakumo asked.
"No" I simply replied.
"Why not it's a sad story"
"Because I've heard worse" I said looking out the window.
"Like what?"
"Well would you like to know how I got into foster care?"
"Sure"
"Well for as long as I can remember my mommy was afraid of my father"
"Why was she afraid?" Yakumo asked.
"Because if she did even one little thing wrong my father would punish her severely and my mommy took this until I was four years old"
"That's when she snapped"
"What made her snap?"
"Well me and my mommy had just gotten home from school and when we got there my father was furious"
"So as a result he took her into their room and beat her and then he came out and got me"
*Gasp* "What did he do to you?"
"He took me into their bed room and got on top of me and then he did something that was real painful"
"I'm not sure what but my mommy called it rape and that's what made her snap"
"Your father raped you?!" Yakumo asked standing up.
"I guess so that's what my mommy had said" I said looking at her.
"Well what happened next?"
"Well she got a gun and shot him"
"Wow"
"But that's not the end, because then she saw me lying on the ground and ran over to me when my father saw that she wasn't looking he stabbed her"
"Your father is a horrible man!" Yakumo replied.
"Yes but I didn't let him get away with it because after he stabbed her I shot him five times"
"Whoa you're right your story is sadder" Yakumo said walking over to me.
"Ya but my mom will come and get me one day and until then I will wait for her"
After I had told Yakumo my story we had became the best of friends. This time I hoped that nothing would change, that this was how it was going to be. But once again life let me down because after only a year of me living there did Yakumo leave.