"Do you believe?" I ask her. The little girl rubs her eyes and nods a yes.
"I do,I do!With all my heart!" She cries. I pick up her chin so she could look me in the eyes. "If you keep on believing,you're life will be one even though you may not realize it at first." I tell her.
I hug her for the last time and whisper good-bye in her ear. She hugs me back and cries even more.
"Why couldn't you be my mother?" she asks me. I laugh a little and say,"First of all,I'm only six years old. Second,you're mother is a-" my sister Sophia interrupts me.
" mother who will soon come to love a girl such as you like we did." Sister bends down to Kyoko's level to hold her hands down from rubbing eyes again. "I promise we'll come to you and take you to our kingdom. But you have to be good okay?" She tells her.
"Of course!" Kyoko smiles and my heart hurts a little because I'm worried this will be the last time I see her smile. I give a look to my sister, she returns me the same look.
'Do you think...that...maybe...she'll be okay without us?' My sister asks me,telepathically. One of the many kinks to being very close twins is telepathy with each other, along with having a sixth sense of sorts.
'Truthfully Sophia?That is a definite maybe.' I answer her. Sophia frowns and kisses Kyoko on the forehead.
"Love you forever," she says lightly. I do the same too.
Honk! Honk!
"Come on girls!We got a plane to catch!" Our father yells to us.
"Coming!" We both yell in response. Then me and sis run to the car, leaving Kyoko behind with her mother.
•••
"Prez!" We both shout as we see Lory walk through the doors. He is wearing dark sunglasses, a strange colorful tunic, his long black hair cascading down his shoulders, and wearing his many rings on his fingers. From afar he would have looked like a weirdo, but he is pretty recognizable by his moustache that always makes him look like a frenchman even though he is japanese. Though President Lory likes the idea of a mirage so maybe that's why he keeps that stupid moustache.
"Hello...who are you dressed as today?" He asks pulling down his dark shades and raising an eyebrow. I look down at my pink and purple princess gown and smile back up at Prez.
"I'm princess Sleeping Beauty and-" Sister finishes my sentence.
"I'm princess Snow White."
Prez nods his head as if our choices of costumes were indeed excellent and even though it was bought from the mall, they were still very original. Prez was like that sometimes but we don't really mind it because we love the praise of adults. Sure sister and I were eight years old and we had to grow up sooner or later, but we don't really give a damn about that.
"So why are you here Prez?" Sophia asks curiously.
"Because", says our mother behind us on the stairwell with our father and Uncle Rick following behind."he's here to take you two, Uncle, and your father to a party while I go pick up Izzy from her boarding school in London."
Me and my sister look at each other and then we ran across the living room, up the stairways pass our family members, and shouting back
"We'll be ready in five minutes!"
•••
"Obviously a after-party for a premere. Right Prez?" My sister Selena asks . We are only minutes away from going to what may be the best party of our blooming careers and she wants to be the next ruler of being right. I sit next to my Uncle leaning on his muscle arm while he pets my head softly. Selena is across from sitting in between Lory and our father who were both praying for her to shut up. I roll my eyes at her.
Well, I know where we are going but I was asking what premere is the after-party for.
Well, you didn't put it in that way. My sister tells me. I roll my eyes again and that's Father decided to stop Selena incessent blabbering.
"We are going to the after party of the movie,'The Money'." He informs us. Sister and I gasp at the same time."Does that mean we will be able to meet HIM?" Selena asks. Our father nods a yes. We squeal and high-five each other.
"Omy gosh sister!We're gonna go meet Kuu!" My sister gushes.
"I wonder if he is awesome just as he is on TV?" I ask in wonder.
"Riiiiiight!" Selena replies back. Sister and I talk excitedly about finally meeting THE Kuu and how we are going to present ourselves. However we had a little trouble with our ideas.
"What if we did a little show for him? Like an act!" I suggest to my sister. She shakes her head a no.
"No, we want to impress him not audition ourselves to him." she says. I think about that and agree with her. If we did act in front of him we would probably seem like actress wannabes instead of actually...becoming the next him. Never mind. We are wannabes, but we want to tell him that in an awesome way.
"Singing?" my sister suggests. I shoot that idea down quickly.
"We're going to a party, not a talent show." I tell her. We talked and talked some more but we couldn't come to a final decision about what to do. In the end, when the limo stopped and the doors open to show cameras and paparazzi greeting us on the red carpet sister and I were pretty much hopeless. But personal should never be shown to the media so when I see many reporters from famous entertainment channels I smile like it's the only thing that will light up this world. Sister grabs my arm and squeals with excitement.
"Sister I know we have to think of something, but I can't help and think we'll be in the magazines tomorrow." I agree with her on this. Impression are one thing to me. Fame is another and one I love to have. We were near the doors now with me now back to the reality of having nothing to show for my favorite action packed actor. I sigh in disappointment of myself.
Calm down. We will know what to do when we meet him. Sister assures me in my head. I glance up into her violet eyes to see she had absolute faith in what she thought. So I couldn't help it and have faith in it too. We were seconds before the doors when Prez bent down in between us for a moment to suggest,
"Well, why don't you two do what you do best."
Sister and I give him a puzzled look. Prez sighs in frustration as if we were the dumbest twins ever.
"Be your amazing selves," was all he said before we entered the party that would probably be the best party ever!
•••
"Kuu, dear friend, I'd like you to meet Rick's family." Prez introduces us to my God-I mean Kuu.
He was even more awesome in person than in his movies. Man, fans have been missing out because TV doesn't cut it about Kuu's true appearance.
"Oh hello there." Kuu said to us. My heart stops completely.
Selena ,grab my hand to see if blood is still running through my veins. I told her. She grabs my hand and squeezes it.
You're good. Now stop it and be awesome! She scolds me.
"Why who are these little cuties, President?" Kuu asked him. He smiles his signature gentleman smile at us. My heart melts a little.
"My name is Selena Guzman, but I prefer my last name to be Inihara" my sister said as she holds out her hand. Kuu takes with grace and gratitude.
"That's a beautiful name, Selena. It means goddess of the moon, correct?" he asks her. She nods and I see her cheeks blushing pink. Kuu turns to me now. I hold in my breath panic rising up in my throat for what to say. I think back to Selena's words when we first entered the party. She told me to stay calm. So that's what I'll do. I hold out my hand for him to shake.
"Sophia Guzman, but prefer my japanese last name, Inihara too." I say in a surprisingly proud tone. Kuu shakes my hand.
"Sophia-the wise and both of you are twins with mixed blood?" he asks. Sister and nod a yes.
"Yes sir. We are 55% Japanese , 15% French, 10% Italian , and 20% Mexican . " I inform him. Kuu smiles even brighter and I swear on Ria's Harry Potter books that I will faint if he does anything more awesome than his smiles. This man is killing me here!
"So you are like my son, Kuon. He is also mixed like you too." suddenly Kuu starts babbling about his son and how magnificent he is in this world. He went for about a while before Prez had to stop him as Kuu was talking about a time his son (at the age of six)ripped up his script for a movie and how his son felt so guilty about it so Kuon taped the script back together and tried to make an omelet. However, the omelet was so horrible that its stench stuck around the house for a month. Sister and I giggled at this story. Unfortunately, Kuu couldn't talk with us long because his is ,of course, a movie star.
Sister? I hear Selena's voice ask me in my head.
Yes? I answer her in a dreamy voice.
Sister! Snap out of it!
I turn my attention to her as Father brings us to a table to sit at while he and Uncle Rick try to make business convo.
What! I hiss.
When Prez was introducing us to Kuu, didn't he say ,'I'd like you to meet Rick's family'?
Yeah...so?
Doesn't that mean that Uncle knows the infamous Kuu like Prez does?
Shock hits me in the head with a frying pan. I turn my head to Selena with my brown eyes bulging out of my skull.
So that means...
Kuu already knew about us so that's why he seem to excited to meet us.
Selena and I turn to Uncle who is by the bar talking to a brunette with her back to us. By the look on Uncle's face, he is flirting with her. But all I can think about is how did our loving Uncle know Kuu.
•••
It's been a day since Sophia and I met Kuu and a lot has happen since then. As soon as Father, Prez, Uncle, Sophia, and I got into the limo. Sister and I immediately started pestering our Uncle for answers about the weird connections between him and Kuu. It wasn't until we finally reached home and that we threw our cat in front of his face that he relented. Unlce hates cats, but gives us an advantage. Muhahahahahaha!
It turns out, as Uncle told us, is that he has been mentoring Kuu's son. Uncle wouldn't specify on what he is mentoring him on but, Kuu wanted him to introduce his son to kids similar to him since Kuu heard some whispers about his son being bullied just because he is so mixed with so many races.
"That's terrible!" I say. Who would do such a dumb thing to Kuu's son. That kid must be really dumb (the bully of course).
"Yes, it is. So when I told Kuu I have two lovely nieces who can anything his son can do-and maybe even better- Kuu thought to challenge me on that soooo after he would meet you two..." Uncle trails off and looks away from us. I put both of my hands on my hips as does Sophia.
"Soooo what?" Sophia presses him.
"Sooooo since Kuu finally met you...you both will be in a duel with his son tomorrow. " he tells us.
"What?!" Sister and I screech with our eyes bulging out of our skull.. "We're going to fight Kuu's son in a duel?" I ask Uncle .
"Is it a duel to the death? " Sister asks, panic in her voice. Uncle starts laughs uncontrollably when she said that. He laughed so hard, tears were forming in his eyes.
"No seriously Uncle, is it?" I ask in a demanding way. I put my hands on my hips to add some affect.
My uncle gives us both a smirk and then ruffled our hair.
"It actually depends on you three. Do whatever you want to do tomorrow,just as long as you help the boy." then Uncle starts to walk away from us. We know he's leaving now,but certainly not for home. At least,I think he's not.
"I'll pick both of you up tomorrow around 2:30. BE READY BY THEN." Uncle calls out.
"You betcha!" Sophia yells excitedly.
However, I know tomorrow will be different. Life-changing different and that Uncle will be a horrible consequece of it. I can just feel it in my bones.