"Ema, you ready yet?" my dad Riku yells from the living room.
"Yeah, just a minute", I answered and put on my black shoes. I ran out of our apartment's door and almost jumped the stairs down, where dad already waited with his white suit on checking on his watch.
"Here I am", I said to dad.
"Bonjour Mademoiselle", I heard the downstairs cafés owner to say "good morning miss."
"Bonjour Madame", I answered and smiled "good morning ma'am.
"It is your lucky day Monsieur", she said to my dad in French and I translated it into Finnish. Dad smiled happily.
"It seems like it is", he said and I translated again.
"Ema, the car has arrived", he said and stepped out of the corridor.
"Good luck", the owner said and dad thanked in French.
"Bonne journée", I said and she wished me luck too. I left the building and stepped into the car on the backseat next to dad. I looked sadly to the building, which's fourth floor had been my home for four years. We moved there from Finland with my dad's job. He had asked to be transferred to Paris since my mother had to come back here because of work. My mom, Louise, was French, and my dad was finnish. So I was a bit of both. My mom though died in a car accident about three years ago. Dad found a new love and today they were getting married. The woman was Japanese and she had some children of her own, I just didn't know what gender or what age. They wanted to keep the rest as a secret. Though I already knew that I'm moving to Japan after wedding…
At the church there were some guests and it was my job to guide them. (I also had a list of the arriving guests so no one could cheat) I got to speak English a bit more. I knew the wedding must have cost a fortune, since there were quests from around the world. I also knew that Miwa (I didn't know her last name), the bride, really wanted to celebrate in France. Though my dad had a friend who owned a hotel nearby and that was the location where the guests had spent their past two days. The optional return flight was the day after tomorrow, if you didn't want to stay for a longer time, of course with your own cost. Almost every guest had arrived but a Japanese family called "Asahina". At last a big car arrived and out stepped one woman, and the rest were men/boys. I counted them quickly and got a sum of 12 plus one woman. With eyes larger than plates I stared at the group of suits and colorful hair. At last a tall man with brown hair and eyes like a teddy bear arrived to me and said:
"We are the Asahina family. Where might our seats be?"
"Oh yes, just a minute", I said, watched at the map of the seats and answered: "They're on the first row on the left side; you had a great timing we were just about to start."
"Thank you. Now if you'll excuse us" he said and walked right next to me. I watched as the colorful group of smiling faces walked next to me, and at the same second I felt purple eyes to drill down into me. I watched in the group and saw an orange haired boy with a beauty mark on his chin, to turn his eyes elsewhere. I had chills.
I went inside, and as they started to play music, me and my cousin Sara, started to walk through the aisle. We threw down flower petals before the bride. I were dressed in minty green dress, with white lace and Sara had a white dress with the same color green lace. We had ponytails and a flower in our hair. I walked on the first bench on the right side. I glanced at the orange haired guy on my left, and he was focused on the ceremony. I didn't feel good about that group.
After the ceremony I gave the map to the celebration place for the guests and hopped on Sara's ride. At the location I started to give out the champagne (and fruit drink for kids) for the guest for the toast with Sara. We were responsible about almost everything. After giving out the drink the car of the newlyweds drove into the yard. We had a toast outside in the beautiful sunshine and with the aroma of France. After that was lunch, inside. I was hungry as a wolf because I hadn't eaten anything yet. After getting food I just sat next to Sara and we started to speak about a lot of things. Sara was like a sister to me and we had a lot of things to sort out. We talked about school, food, the wedding ceremony and of course, boys.
"So I heard that you have a boyfriend" I said and smiled. Sara stared at me and whispered:
"How the hell did you know, suurisuu". (It means a big mouthed person)
"Some little birds were singing it", I answered and glanced at my other cousin, Sara's little brother, Saku.
"Saku, you little persereikä!" Sara said to him, "asshole".
"Sara! Clean that mouth of yours!" Anna, my aunt and their mother said angrily.
"Don't worry; I won't tell anyone, there is no one I could even tell. So, tell me more. Is he tall, handsome, smart?" I said and moved my plate away since I had finished eating.
We talked about that till my father announced that next we will move outside to enjoy dessert. We walked outside laughing about something once in a while. After cutting the cake we sat on the grass in the straight sunshine. I saw how the orange haired guy glanced at me once in a while and spent most of his time with a white haired and a dark haired guys. I also felt how many other glances from the same group drilled into me once in a while. I really didn't have a good feeling about what was happening next. My dad came to me and said:
"It's time to introduce you to your new family."
I nodded and got up. My stomach felt really weird and I was dizzy. I was so nervous that I even watched panicking back into Sara. I was really scared and almost delivered a dose of roast beef and mashed potatoes back up. And finally when we got to the corner of the yard, I almost died.
Those guys, who I had been watching around all day, stood in front of me and smiled nicely.
"Voi luoja", I whispered, "Oh my god"
"Ema, meet your thirteen brothers", dad said while I were staring into the void.
"These are my sons, go say hi", Miwa said and stroke me on my head till I woke up from being a carrot.
"Hello, my name is Masaomi Asahina, you may call me as you like. I'm a doctor and 31 years old", said the man with teddy bears eyes.
"I am the second son Ukyo Asahina. I'm a lawyer and 29", said a blond guy with glasses.
"I am Kaname, the third son; please call me nii-san. I'm a monk and 28 years old" said another blond man, but had longer hair.
"My name is Hikaru and I'm the fourth son (unfortunately), I'm 27 and a novelist", said the man, who definitely looked like a woman.
"I'm Tsubaki", said the white haired buy.
"I'm Azusa", said the dark haired guy with glasses.
"And I'm Natsume", said the orange haired guy, and looked at me.
"We are triplets. I and Azusa are voice actors and Natsume is a game co. worker. We are 24 years old" Tsubaki said and threw a wild smile on his face.
"My name is Louis, I'm the eighth son. I'm a beautician and 21 years old. I look forward on working with you", said a man with platinum blonde hair and warm eyes.
"I'm Subaru, the ninth son. I'm a college student and I play basketball, I'm 20" said the tallest guy from the group, he had eyes that looked a bit scared.
"My name is Iori. I'm the tenth son and a high school student. I'm 18 years old", said a boy with pretty silvery hair and a kind smile.
"I'm Yusuke, I'm 16, a high school student and the eleventh son", said the only redhead.
"My name is Fuuto and I'm the twelfth son. I'm a 15 year old singer idol", said the boy almost as tall as me.
"And I'm Wataru! I'm the last son and still 10, and I wish that we will have a lot of fun, onee-chan", said the smallest boy smiling brightly.
"Umm, well, I'm Ema, and I'm 16 and I, I, umm" I said and tried to get something else out of my mouth.
"It's okay; you must be pretty shocked, right?" Masaomi said and I tried to make myself get some reason of things. Everything I thought was; 13!? How the hell? Why that much? Is that a thing in Asian religions? How old is she?
"Welcome to the Asahina family", everyone said at the same time.