I awoke to the sound of Alex Gaskarth's voice blarring through my phone, signaling that someone was calling me.
'Cause I got your picture
I'm coming with you
Dear Maria, count me in
There's a story at the bottom of this bottle
And I'm the pen
Make it count when I'm the one who's selling you out
'Cause it feels like stealing hearts
Calling your name from the crowd
I reached my arm out and sluggishly pressed the answer button in the left corner and pressed it to my ear.
"Hello?" I said sleepily.
"Kagome? I'm meeting my new boss at work, sweetie. Go sightseeing, meet the neighbors, do something for today, okay?" She said, trying to sound comforting.
"Okay. I'll probably bring Sota with me to go eat breakfast or something." I responded, wanting to just bury my face back into my pillow and return to dreaming about Ron Weasly. Such a good dream.
"Have fun, I love you."
"Love you too." I said, as I hung up and threw my phone back on the dresser beside me.
I groaned loudly but got up and stalked over to the door and into the bathroom to take a shower.
Damn.
The bathroom was almost as big as my room. The door lead to the vanity counter and by it was a huge bathtub. Further along there was a huge shower with sliding doors and a fancy showerhead that they have in movies.
I quickly showered, got dressed in dark red skinny jeans, a t-shirt with a zombie on it and my grey converse. I raced down the stairs and saw Sota sitting on the couch, watching Death Note.
"One good thing about moving here is having anime on the local and big TV stations, it's awesome!" Sota exclaimed, smiling broadly.
I smiled and walked over and stood in front of his view of the TV. He instantly frowned and I held by finger up and said, "How about we go meet the neighbors? Maybe they have someone your age with them."
He quickly got up and put on his shoes and went to the front door and was already racing down the driveway. I grabbed my phone and put it in my back pocket and went next door to the house on our right.
The house was far bigger than ours. The sound of heavy metal music was pounding through the walls. I covered my ears slightly and yelled to Sota,
"Geez are they deaf?"
I knocked loudly on the door, hoping they'd hear us. The blinds on the window up towards to the top of the house shifted. I stood by the door another two minutes before the music shut off and the door opened. A girl stood before me, only wearing shorts and an exposing tank top. She had long black hair, like mine, and far too much makeup on her completion and eyelids. She had bright red tar her lips, she looked like she was ready to pounce. I put on my best fake smile for her.
"Um, hi. I'm Kagome Higaurishi and this is my brother Sota." I said gesturing towards him. "We recently moved here, we just wanted to come say hi to our new neighbors." I finished my sentence with a really fake smile, hoping that this would be the last time I'll ever see her again.
She looked me up and down, obviously eyeing my not so preppy clothing and lack of makeup. She twirled her black shiny hair with one finger, and smacked her lips with almost each word she said.
"I'm Kikyo. And this isn't my house. This is my boyfriend's and his brother's place." She said, eyeing my zombie t shirt and skinny jeans.
"Oh, well I'll probably just meet them later, I guess." I responded, already just wanting to go.
She was silent for a second and pursed her lips and twirled her hair even more. Her whole stance changed. She was more on edge, and she had her hand on her hip in an instant.
"No you're not." She retorted. "You're going to stay away from my boyfriend. I'm over here often with him, so I'll know if you ever talked to him. Ya know what happened to the last girl that tried to flirt with him? I beat her up so bad, she wanted to change schools to get away from me. So back off, kay?", She said sweetly.
She swung her hair over her shoulders as she turned around and sashayed back inside. Before the door was completely closed she yelled, "Sorry, Inu-baby! Some loser was at the door." Her voice reached a higher pitch of fakeness and it literally hurt my ear drums and it killed my brain cells with each word I heard from her mouth.
The door slammed shut and I was in shock be her outright rudness. I mean I'm rude sometimes, but I keep it to myself. I turned back around and grabbed Sota's hand and said while walking down the street, "Let's go get some breakfast."
Grandpa was in the garden planting flowers when we arrived back. Grandma showed him everything he knows now about gardens. He had a hard time when she died, but the flowers and garden always comforted him. As he turned his head, he saw us approach and I handed him a box full of eggs, hash browns and pancakes. He smiled generously and thanked us.
"The moving trucks are going to be here in an hour, better pack all of your things before your mother gets here." Grandpa said, already devouring his food.
Sota and I nodded and headed inside to watch some more death note. As I walked over to the kitchen, the doorbell rang.
Ding-Dong
I was hesitant but walked over the door and opened it to find a girl around my age, with a boy Sota's age behind her. She reached out her hand and said,
"Hi I'm Sango and this is my brother Kohoku. We saw that you guys recently moved here. We live to your left." She said, and smiled when Sota appeared behind me. She introduced Sota to Kohoku and they ran off and went to discuss what 13 years olds talk about.
I shook her hand and smiled back at her. She had brown hair and had on a black t-shirt that read "Uncharted Theives" with a guitar slashed through the font. Guess it was band, never heard of it.
"Come inside, Sango. Make yourself at home." I went to the fridge and offered her some food, she accepted Raman.
"So you moved here from America?" She asked, slurping her Raman.
I nodded and sighed and said, "Yea, my life was pretty great. Hopefully Japan is for me, because I really miss my friends."
"We'll probably go to the same school. That would be the best! You're probably going to Shikon High, right?" She asked, throwing away the Raman cup and sitting down next to me. I nodded and folded my legs Indian style.
"I can show you around if you want. I know what it feels like to be the new kid. You can sit with me and my friends at lunch and you'll probably have classes with some of them." She said, smiling slightly and looking at me.
"Thank you, it means a lot. What are your friends like? I asked, putting my hands below my chin, like getting ready for a story.
She laughed and sighed in disbelief, not knowing where to start. "Well, there's Miroku. He's really purvey, he'll probably try and touch your butt if you're not careful. Be wary of him." She said, laughing and continuing. "There's also Rin, she's really sweet. She's dating Sesshomaru, he's pretty um… well not social. He has a temper but in a really threatening way but Rin seems to like him. There's Sesshomaru's brother, Inuyasha. He's well, arrogant and rude. He's dating Kikyo, the royal bitch of Shikon High. She basically lives next door, but Inuyasha, Rin and Sesshomaru live there." She said, pointing to the right of the house.
"Yea, I kind of had a run in with her today." I said.
"Oh my god, really? Tell me the deets." She replied, lying down on the floor.
"Well, I just wanted to say hey to her, kind of like you did with me. She came out and said she didn't live there, that he boyfriend did. I told her that I'd probably just meet him later then, and she just flipped and told me to back off." I said, shrugging.
"Yea, that sounds like her. Thank god she's not in our friend group, I'd die. Inuyasha knows how she is so he just tells her to hang out with her friends. Oh yea, and there's Kouga and Ayame. They're pretty normal. I think that's all of us." She finished, laughing and standing up.
I stood up too and walked her to the door. She gave me her number and told me school starts in less than two days, so she can just give me a ride to school. I waved bye to her and felt that finally I was going to live a normal life. Friends. Friendsss. Speaking of friends.
I pulled out my phone and texted Ayumi.
Hey, just met someone really cool. It's lookin up gurlllll. FRIENDS. I KEPT MY PROMSE. Love you 3
About ten minutes later the moving vans arrived and Sota and I moved the boxes inside. It took ten minutes in all to get all of my boxes up the stairs and into my room. I unpacked pretty easily and was hit with memories of America and my old life. There were pictures of my friends, my dad, my mom and my dad and all of us before he died. I wiped some of my tears away and sat on my bed.
The front door slammed shut and I knew it was mom.
I really don't wanna talk to her right now.
I slipped into pj's and checked the time.
10:30
Turning the light off and getting into my new bed, I heard my door open and my mother sighing slightly. She closed the door and I heard her footsteps trail off into the distance.
Hopfully Japan has a lot to offer.
