Author Note: One more chapter after this one. Hope you all enjoyed the story.
Miyuki and I waited at baggage claim for our bags to be unloaded off the plane and onto the baggage carousel . We had booked the first flight to America as soon as we got to our hotel. Thankfully the flight was only two hours away so we grabbed our stuff and took a cab to the airport. I must have checked my bank account a hundred times. I couldn't believe that we had pulled it off and Tysha and I found the loves of our lives all at the same time. Sure it took years but I wouldn't have had it any other way.
"Nadi you're going to miss our bag." Miyuki broke my train of thought as she lunged for my bag.
"Sorry Miyuki I got it." I grabbed the bag just before it passed us.
Miyuki followed me towards the pick up area. It was still daylight outside but it wouldn't be for long. I waved to a cab driver and waited as she pulled to a stop. Miyuki and I both got inside and I gave the directions to Jim's house. Finally all this madness is coming to an end.
"I'm kind of happy we went to England." Miyuki said as she looked out her window.
"Why is that?" I asked as I looked out my window.
"Because I can pick up little bits of conversation now."
"Eh Miyuki they speak with an accent over there. Now that I think about it it'd be funny to hear you talk with an English accent."
"Why do they have the accent? Why can't it be you Americans that have the accent?" Miyuki said while poking my arm.
"That is a good question. I don't know. Let me think about it." I smiled at Miyuki before we both turned towards our windows and rode in silence.
"Oh no. I don't see Jim's car." I said as the cab drove away and left us in front of what looked to be an empty house. It was dark by now and I thought I'd at least try and knock on the door. Miyuki and I walked up the drive way and I knocked on the door. To my surprise a light inside turned on.
"Who is it?" I could hear Jim's extremely gay voice ask.
"Hey jerk it's me."
Jim threw the door open and gave me a huge hug and went over to a startled Miyuki and gave her a big huge too.
"Did you miss an awesome party last night or what?" Jim asked as he motioned for us to follow him into the house and towards a nice looking bar if I do say so myself.
"Party?" I asked with a raised eyebrow. "How big?"
"Oh my god it was huge and fabulous. You're girlfriend was the beer pong champion last night too. I guess you found a girl who can keep up. Oh and man was it funny when I made her eat my brownies. She was high last night and if you asked her today she wouldn't even know what you're talking about because she had no idea. Oh it was so hilarious." Jim said as he poured and three drinks from the bar and handed it to Miyuki and I.
"What is this?" Miyuki asked me as she sipped her drink.
"It's called Sex On The Beach." I informed her.
"Yup a nice light drink after a night of heavy drinking." Jim said as he drank his drink like it was water.
"You're a damn alcoholic you know that Jim?" I said with all seriousness. "Now let me get this straight. You got my young and impressionable girlfriend from Japan drunk and high last night at one of YOUR parties, because we all know how your parties are, and exposed her to girls without any restraint and dignity and guys who are the gayest in Miami? Thank you soooo much for looking out?" I said sarcastically.
"Oh don't be such a kill joy ok she was loving it." Jim took another drink.
"Really?"
"Yup."
"Wait was Natalia here?" I asked with a little concern.
"Yea but don't worry about that Tysha watched Natalia like a hawk it was funny as hell."
"Oh and to my next question where the hell are they?" I asked a little annoyed that Tysha didn't tell me about the party.
"They ran off this morning with MY car!" Jim exclaimed as he remembered what happened this morning. "Ugh I was so pissed off."
"What do you mean ran off?" I asked wishing Jim would continue with at least one train of thought.
"Well we were all passed out this morning due to the party last night and your mom decides to show up and start banging on the door. I hear her and I just smoke some pot and go back to sleep. She must have been out there for awhile because Tysha answered the door like forever later and the only reason I woke up is because I heard your mom screaming for Tysha to come back but I wouldn't of come back either. You're mom was like the dragon lady. I pretended I was in a coma when she tried to wake me up I wasn't going to move I thought that would be considered suicide. That is the only reason why I didn't get pissed off when she took my car."
It took me a minute to realize that this wasn't the safest place right now and that Shizuma and Tysha were who knows where. "So you don't know where they are?"
"I think I do actually. Tysha had called me and told me that she would bring my car back after she met Jess at her place cuz they were gonna stay there for now. Also Jess is throwing a party down on south beach tonight and I'm sure you're girlfriend will be there and along with Tysha." Jim took my glass away and started to wash it.
"Why would Shizuma be there? She could want to stay at Jess's house."
"Eh not so much. I mean she technically could but the question is will she? For someone who can't speak English everyone wants to party with her. She is like cool and free spirited. Well at least when she's been drinking. Hmm the party started already and I have no way of getting there." Jim pouted.
I didn't know how I should feel about this. I didn't feel angry because I partied hard when I was here and I wanted to be mad about it because there was just so many things Shizuma didn't know and people might take advantage of her. "What are those?" I said pointing at some keys on the table.
"Oh those are the keys to Trevor's Ferrari." Jim stopped when he saw the look on my face. "Oh no we are not taking the Ferrari to south beach."
"Why not that's where people take their Ferraris to park them and show them off and not to mention it's the only car we got. It's no big deal." I tried to manipulate him.
"No way Nadia. Besides it only has two seats." Jim said as he grabbed the keys off the counter.
"Come on Jim there are going to be a lot of hot guys on south beach. Also a lot of alcohol. We can improvise on the seats." I waited to see any changes in his expression. I saw him sigh and I knew he gave in.
"Ok but we aren't staying for long ok."
"Yea that's fine with me." I said as I looked towards Miyuki who was waiting impatiently for me to tell her what was going on.
"Well?" Miyuki asked aggravated.
"We our going to go see Tysha and Shizuma now." I explained.
"Why aren't they here?"
"Eh It's a long story Miyuki I'll tell you later." I said hoping that I wouldn't have to and that Tysha would.
Jim jumped into the driver's seat of Trevor's Ferrari and I sat in the passenger seat as Miyuki sat on my lap.
"Hey Nadia keep your head down. I don't want to get pulled over." With that Jim started towards South Beach.
"Shizuma let's go." I turned away from Ocean Dr and all of it's beauty towards the beach where Tysha was motioning me to follow her. Jess and a lot of her friends set up a bonfire on the beach and were drinking while battery powered stereos were blasting some guys were throwing a Frisbee back and forth to each other and some of the girls were playing volleyball. It looked really fun. Even though it was fun I still couldn't stop thinking about Nadia and Miyuki I had bee calling them all day and Nadia's phone was still off. If I thought too much about it I would cry.
"SHIZUMA!" Jess yelled as she wrapped her arm around my shoulder and pulled me towards the bonfire laughing. It made me smile a little. We made our way over to Tysha who handed me a beer. She had her hair up since she almost lit it on fire when she started the bonfire.
"How you feeling?" Tysha asked me with concern.
"I don't know Tysha I'm worried." Tysha pulled me into a hug.
"I'm sure they are fine. I wouldn't start worrying until another day ok." Tysha said as she stepped back.
"Hey Shizuma." I looked over to see Natalia heading towards us. I looked at Tysha and we both rolled our eyes in unison.
"Hi." I said back. I heard someone call Tysha's name and saw a guy motion for Tysha to help him carry more speakers for the stereos.
"I'll be right back." Tysha told me as she ran to save the falling speakers. I looked at Natalia to see her staring at me like she did by the stairs a Jim's house. Great.
"This is kind of a big party isn't it? I mean there is no parking at all." Miyuki said as she kept scanning for parking.
"Is she talking about the parking?" Jim asked me. "Tell her it doesn't matter what is going on there is never any parking here."
I relayed the message to Miyuki. "It's pretty here. Everything seems to be open. There are so many restaurants and clubs here. It's awesome because the beach is right across the street. Hey look is that the party?" Miyuki pointed to a huge fire on the beach.
"Yea it is." I told her as I tried to catch a glimpse of silver hair. No luck.
"Do you want me to drop you both off here and look for parking on my own?" Jim offered.
"Are you sure Jim?" I asked out of concern.
"I can handle myself Nadia." Jim smiled. "Go on I know you are practically jumping out of your pants."
"Thank you." I told Jim. "Let's go Miyuki." Miyuki and I got out of the car and made our way down the beach. I could see a lot of people around the fire already and was wondering how hard it was going to be to find Shizuma.
"Look." Miyuki said. I followed her gaze which was set on the most beautiful girl in the world. Shizuma was dancing in the middle of a huge crowd that had their eyes on her. They all wanted to dance with her and kept coming up to her one by one. Miyuki and I watched for a little bit as Shizuma smiled and laughed as she danced and drank the beer in her hand. Wow she looks like a natural. I looked around to find Tysha watching Shizuma. I saw Tysha yell at one of the girls who got a little to close to Shizuma while dancing. Awesome. I saw Natalia make her way to Shizuma. Slut. Natalia put her arm around Shizuma which made the silver haired beauty stop dancing and put an aggravated look on her face as she took as step back. At that moment Tysha ran up to Natalia and got in her face.
"How many times do I have to tell you Natalia. Shizuma doesn't like you. You're creepy to her. Not to mention she is with Nadia. She should be here any day now and when she is I know you wont try to get with Shizuma then because you're too scared." Tysha told Natalia in a not so friendly voice.
Natalia didn't expect Tysha to get in her face like that and it startled her.
"From the looks of it she seems scared of you Tysha." I told my best friend as she turned around in surprise.
"Nadia!" I felt someone jump on my back as they shouted my name.
"Who the?" I looked around to see Jess smiling down at me. "You're too fat for this." I smiled at her.
"Oh whatever." Jess said as she jumped off my back. "Hey you're girlfriend is so cool."
I looked over towards Shizuma and saw that she was already next to me. "Why didn't you have your phone on?"
I looked over to Miyuki who was already buried inside Tysha's embrace. Tysha looked as if she was scarred of letting Miyuki go in fear that she might not ever see her again. Miyuki had the phone on her and I told her to turn it on. I guess she forgot.
"We had to turn the phone off on the plane. It was a long flight back here. I don't think we remembered to turn it on. I'm sorry." I said sincerely as I pulled Shizuma into my own embrace. I felt like I did when I first me Shizuma. I was so awestruck by how beautiful she was. I realized that I could stare at her forever and she would always have the same effect on me. Shizuma leaned towards me and gave me a gentle kiss. I missed her so much I couldn't help but deepen the kiss.
"Whoa you two can't you wait one more night before you rip each others cloths off. Geez." Jim said pulling us back to reality. I pulled away from Shizuma's kiss but I didn't let her go. "Well come on now Nadia I want to see Shizuma kick your ass in drinking."
I couldn't help but smile. I hadn't drank in forever. I knew I would lose. "All right let's do it." I said regardless. "Hey Tysha don't think I haven't heard about how you have been taking care of Shizuma."
"Oh ok Nadi well then we'll have a talk about how you almost ran out of money in England with Miyuki." Tysha smiled as she held Miyuki.
We enjoyed the rest of the night. I "let" Shizuma beat me that night. Miyuki and Tysha were completely out of it they drank so much. To bad tomorrow we are going to have to do a lot of thinking.
Mrs. Sakuragi waited in her car at the airport pick up for Mr. Hanazono. Mr. Hanazono wasn't to confident that Mrs. Sakuragi would be able to put his daughter safely on a plane home after the phone call he had received twenty four hours ago.
"Good Morning Hanazono." Sakuragi greeted the silver haired man who sat in her car.
"Good morning." Hanazono said shortly. "Did you find out where my daughter could be?"
"No I didn't. But I might have a way of finding out. What happened with Miyuki's parents?" Sakuragi asked curiously.
"Ha they broke down and went to go see a therapist together. Two actually. A Japanese therapist and an American therapist. I think they liked the American's advice more because they listened to him." Hanazono laughed.
"What did he tell them?"
"Something along the lines of 'She will contact you only if you stop chasing her and she might actually be experiencing true love and that all that matters is that they all find a common ground to communicate and so forth.' Quite liberal don't you think? Do you know that I have serious plans for Shizuma?"
"No. I haven't known you for all that long Hanazono and your personal affairs are none of my business anyway." Sakuragi plainly stated.
"Well I'll tell you anyway. There is a very wealthy family who has a son about thirty years old. The son has taken special interest in Shizuma. Do you know how well things will work out if she marries him?" Hanazono asked.
"You are going to marry your daughter off to a thirty year old man?" Sakuragi seemed a little annoyed. "For money? Has she even met him?"
"It doesn't matter if she has met him or not. Have you been away from Japan that long that you have forgotten the way we do things? I love my daughter very much but this is in the best interest of our family." Hanazono spoke the words that his father had told him once before. "She will grow to love him. It worked for my wife and I and our generations before us. Isn't that how your family was?"
"I suppose. But I didn't keep up the tradition. I fell in love with a Mexican America who was doing business in Tokyo. We ran away together and had Nadia. So I can't really relate to anything you're talking about but as I said before your business is your business and Shizuma is your business not mine nor is she Nadia's." Sakuragi finished.
"Where are we going?" Hanazono changed the subject.
"To a young mans house named Jim. I didn't get to talk to him the last time I was there but we'll get him talking this time."
Hanazono and Sakuragi rode the rest of the way in silence.
My first night in America was a night of wild drinking and dancing and playing volleyball on a beach. It was really fun but I think that now was a time to stop and think about what we are going to do. Where am I? I thought as I opened my eyes to a bright blue sky. I felt the weight of someone's arm on me which I discovered was Tysha's and when I shifted my body I felt the soft shift of sand underneath me. Wow I passed out on the beach. I looked over to see Nadia stand up about ten feet away. I waved at her to tell her to come over. She nodded her head and bent down to pick up a sleeping Shizuma. As she brought Shizuma over I could hear her whining.
"I don't feel good Nadi." Shizuma said as Nadia sat her down next to me.
"Aww I know. See I knew this would happen that's why I didn't drink as much as you. I wanted to be the one to take care of you." Nadia said with a smirk.
I couldn't help but bust out laughing. "Whatever Nadi, you know very well that you were trying so hard last night. You lost fair and square." I told the girl who new that I was right.
"Shhhh Miyuki if you let Shizuma know that she's gonna brag all the time." Nadia smiled and gave Shizuma a quick kiss. Shizuma smiled with her eyes closed.
Tysha sat up and looked at Shizuma. "What happened Shizuma? You didn't get sick at Jim's house." Tysha commented as she laughed.
"Aww don't make fun of her." Nadia said as she hugged Shizuma tighter.
"Hey ladies." Jim said as he came out of no where.
"What's up Jim." Tysha said as she stretched out into the sand.
"Hey Nadia tell Shizuma I know what would make her feel better." Jim offered.
Nadia relayed the message.
"What?" Shizuma asked Jim as she stood up slowly. Before she got an answer Jim picked her up and ran towards the ocean. I heard Nadia get up and yell at Jim but as soon as he threw her in the water and we saw her face we all started laughing.
"That will make her feel better even though that was a little messed up, but very funny" Tysha said.
"Miyuki come here!" Shizuma shouted towards me.
"Go on Miyuki. You only live once and who knows if we'll ever do this again." Nadia told me as she sat next to Tysha. Without another word I ran towards Jim and made him fall in the water before I dove in. I felt really free at that moment. What did Nadia mean about us not being able to do this again?
"Man do we have a situation here or what?" Tysha asked Nadia.
"Yea we sure do but the up side here is that we are rich haha." Nadia smiled as she said this.
"Yea but here is the thing I don't think Shizuma wants to blow the money or lean on it like a crutch just yet." Tysha said in the best way she could.
"What do you mean?" Nadia wondered.
"Well she wants to go to school and live a normal life and get a good education and she wants you to do the same. To be quite honest I think it'd be the best thing for all of us and our development out of adolescence." Tysha said while thinking of how she wanted her future to be.
"Who the fuck are you and what have you done with Tysha?" Nadia sounded a little annoyed. "Ok we'll get back to that one. What else?"
"Our parents. Mine are cool you know they don't even speak English so no one is even getting them involved. Yours is on the hunt and Mr. Hanazono as well. I don't know how we should proceed with this. I mean I don't think it'd be cool if we just threw our parents out on the curb like that you know?" Tysha said.
"Here is the thing Tysha Mr. Hanazono and my mother want to send Miyuki and Shizuma back. They both turn 18 soon but until then we basically kidnapped them which means that if Hanazono hasn't already he could have the cops looking for us."
"I don't know dude I think we should ask them before we decided anything." Tysha nodded towards the ocean where Miyuki and Shizuma were attacking Jim. Jim made his way over to Nadia and Tysha leaving the other two girls behind.
"Hey one of you has to drive my car while I drive Trevor's to my house." Jim said as he sat in between Nadia and Tysha.
"Hell no man that is hot territory right now." Tysha told Jim.
"Oh come on I have to get these cars back. Look only one of you has to go not all three. Jess can give you the rest of ya a ride back to her place." Jim reasoned.
"I'll do it." Nadia volunteered.
"Are you sure?" Tysha offered. "I can do it Nadi I mean you have had all the crappy jobs since this whole thing started."
"I'll be ok Tysha don't worry about it. I'll be right back." Nadia stood up and walked towards the water. "Shizuma." Nadia called as she reached the water. "Come hear real quick."
Shizuma made her way towards Nadia with dripping cloths and hair. Nadia couldn't help but smile.
"Hey. You wanna swim with us?" Shizuma asked.
"No I can't right now. I have to drive Jim's car back to his house." Nadia told her.
"I'll go with you." Shizuma offered.
"No I don't think that is a good idea. I heard about how you and Tysha ran away from Jim's house when my mom showed up. I don't think it'd be the smart thing to do." Nadia reasoned.
"I don't care. We both finally reached each other after being separated and now you're going to leave again?" Shizuma's expression turned sad as if she was about to cry.
"Shizuma don't cry. It's just that if my mom is there it'd be a very bad thing and we'd be separated anyway."
Shizuma didn't respond for awhile, her face returning expressionless. "I'll take my chances." Shizuma simply said as she walked past Nadia and headed for her bag of dry cloths she hadn't dropped off at Jess's yet. Nadia sighed and went to Tysha to get the keys.
"I'll call you ok." Nadia told Tysha as she motioned Jim to follow her.
"Ok. Be careful." Tysha said over her shoulder as she made her way over to Miyuki.
"So what do you want to major in?" Nadia asked Shizuma as she sat silent in the front passenger seat of Jim's car.
"What?" Shizuma asked.
"What do you want to go to college for?" Nadia repeated.
"Business." Shizuma smiled.
"Are you planning on running like stores and stuff?" Nadia asked.
"Night clubs." Shizuma's smile grew.
"What? Really? Why?" Nadia laughed.
"Because everyone goes to them to unwind from whatever they do that stresses them out, they go to meet people, or they go just to have fun. No matter what the reason I feel like people will always go out to night clubs. Making it a good business. Also I like night clubs a lot and I want to actually build and run my own." Shizuma explained.
"That's really cool and smart Shizuma." Nadia smiled as she remembered their vacation in Japan and the club they went to.
"I heard you wanted me to go to college too." Nadia smiled.
"You talked to Tysha?" Shizuma thought aloud.
"Yup. I guess we could do what you suggested. If it's what you want." Nadia offered.
Shiuzma nodded her head and smiled.
"Ok then that's what we'll here we are."
Jim parked Trevor's car first and then Nadia parked behind him.
"There just like I left it." Jim said satisfied with his parking.
"You just better hope he doesn't keep track of his mileage." Nadia killed Jim's assurance that Trevor would never find out.
"Thank you Nadia thank you very much. Come in and get the rest of your things Shizuma."
Nadia and Shizuma followed Jim inside. "Hey Jim what are you doing?" Nadia asked as she looked past Jim and followed his gaze to his bar where her mother was sitting at. Nadia felt Shizuma practically shove her into Jim and push them both forward. Nadia turned around to see Mr. Hanazono making his way through the front door.
"Well this is awkward." Jim said under his breath.
"The three of you sit down." Nadia's mother told the three who she had finally caught.
Nadia, Shizuma, and Jim sat down on the couch in the living room as Mrs. Sakuragi
and Mr Hanazono sat at the bar.
"Nadia you know it's over right? No more running away. You have been caught now it's time for you to face the music." Sakuragi told her daughter in English who was already thinking of a way to leave. "I know what you're doing so you can stop right now. There is no way you're going to get out of this one."
"Mom you're such a damn hypocrite." Nadia told her mother knowing that it was over.
"You're father and I were old enough to do what we did and you are lucky that Mr. Hanazono was nice enough to not call the police on you. Shizuma is seventeen." Sakuragi told her daughter.
"So when she is eighteen I can try again?" Nadia said in all seriousness unknown to her mother.
"No. Why don't you try to do the right thing here Nadia?" Sakuragi asked.
"Which is what? Let Shiuzma get dragged back to Japan and live a life she doesn't want?" Nadia argued.
Jim was growing seemingly uncomfortable as the conversation carried on and Shizuma had no idea what was going on. Hanazono sat listening to mother and daughter arguing wondering if Nadia will just give up.
"Right now it's out of your hands. You have no options at all right now Nadia. Shizuma will leave for Japan today. I'm sorry Nadia." Sakuragi finished.
"No you're not. You never cared about my feelings. You have always been emotionless towards me. You're not sorry." Nadia said while instinctively grabbing Shizuma's hand at the sight of Hanazono standing up and looking at his daughter. "Mom please don't let him take her." Nadia, on the verge of tears, begged her mother.
"Shizuma it's time to go." Hanazono told his daughter.
"No. What's going on? What just happened?" Shizuma asked confused with the English conversation she tried to understand.
"What'd you think was going to happen? Did you think you were going to stay here? Your life isn't here with this girl. Your life is back in Japan. Now let's go." Hanazono started towards the door.
"No." Shizuma stated.
"I'm not going to say it again. Let's go." Hanazono said.
"You should go." Nadia mumbled.
"What?" Shizuma was shocked at what she thought she just heard.
"There is nothing we can do at this point. I'm sorry I guess I keep letting you down. I should have planned this one out too. One day I'll stop screwing up and make it up to you." Nadia fought to hold back her tears. "This isn't goodbye Shizuma." Nadia looked at Shizuma and tried her best to smile.
Shizuma held on tighter to Nadia's hand. "As long as you aren't giving up." Shizuma smiled as she gave Nadia's hand a finale squeeze before letting go. Shizuma stood up and followed her father taking a glance back at Nadia before she left through the front door.
"Damn." Jim said as he leaned back onto the sofa. "That was the saddest thing I have ever seen. Mrs. Sakuragi how are you going to live with yourself? Get the hell outta my house."
Mrs. Sakuragi looked at her daughter who was letting tears flow freely from her eyes.
"Don't look at me as if I'm going to tell Jim to respect you. As far as I'm concerned I don't have a mother." Nadia said through her tears.
"One day you'll understand Nadia." Sakuragi predictably said.
"That's bullshit!" Nadia yelled. "I'll never understand because you and I have different hearts."
"I guess we do. I wouldn't start making any plans to go back to Japan to get Shizuma. You'll be to late anyway." Sakuragi informed.
"What do you mean?" Nadia asked.
"She's getting married as soon as she is of age." Sakuragi stood up and walked out of the house leaving Nadia and Jim in shock.
Nadia sat on the couch trying to slow her tears. Jim sat next to Nadia knowing that there is nothing he could do to ease her pain.
"So when does she turn eighteen?" Jim asked. "I'll help."
"Ugh it's going to be too late by then." Nadia as she stood and made her way to the bar.
At this point Jim was texting Tysha everything that happened and asked her to come over.
A half hour later and 6 shots of tequila Tysha and Miyuki finally arrived.
"Nadia I'm so sorry." Miyuki said as she gave Nadia a hug.
Nadia proceeded to fill in the blanks of what had happened.
"You know Nadia Mr. Hanazono is a business man. Maybe you can make him an offer." Miyuki tried to help.
"What like a million dollars?" Tysha interjected.
"No. No one needs to know about that money except those who already know. What I'm saying is that Shizuma's father wants her to marry into a rich family with wealth and influence. If I remember you have that Nadia. It's just not in Japan but influence outside of the country would help his business out a lot. You're mom is not poor either she is actually rich isn't she?" Miyuki made a point.
"Yea but that bitch wont share." Tysha said "Sorry Nadi about the bitch thing."
"Eh she is a bitch you should have heard her. Completely heartless. It's so weird after she would tell me the stories about her and dad. Now she has completely forgotten what it felt like to love someone and run away together." Nadia took another shot.
"I think you should talk to her and discuss this." Miyuki suggested.
"Discuss what?" Tysha asked.
"That Nadia has everything that Shizuma's fiancé has and maybe more. It'd be the best thing for everyone if Shizuma and Nadia were together. You just have to put this as a business proposition." Miyuki reasoned.
"Babe there is one problem." Tysha told Miyuki.
"What?"
"Nadia is a girl." Tysha thought she should mention.
"Oh thank you I had no idea." Miyuki said sarcastically. "That means that you'll have to make the deal sweeter somehow.
"I told my mom before she left that as far as I was concerned I had no mother." Nadia confessed.
"People say messed up things when they're angry. I think your mom knows at least that." Tysha offered.
"Yea maybe."
"Hey what the hell is going on with your parents Miyuki?" Jim asked as he broke out of his train of thought.
Tysha relayed the message to Miyuki.
"I don't know. I think I'm going to call them today and see if they even care I'm gone." Miyuki looked over at Nadia. "Nadia you should just take it easy for now and wait for tomorrow to do anything."
"Yea. I'm going to sleep." Nadia stood up and went upstairs to the guest room and drifted to sleep.
The next day Nadia stood at the front door of her old home, a nice sized property right on the beach. She had called her mother and told her she wanted to talk to her. Mrs. Sakuragi agreed to have lunch with her daughter. Nadia rang the doorbell and waited for her mother to make it to the front door.
"Hi mom." Nadia greeted.
Mrs. Sakuragi smiled and gestured for Nadia to come in. Both women sat down at their kitchen table in silence both wanting to talk to each other but not exactly sure how to go about it due to the events of the previous day.
"I didn't know what you wanted to eat so I thought maybe we could cook something up together." Sakuragi suggested to her daughter.
"Sure we could do that." Nadia agreed.
Mother and daughter decided on Cuban sandwiches and prepared the meal rather quickly. As they were setting the table Nadia decided to break the silence.
"Mom."
"Yes."
"I want to do something the right way." Nadia recalled her mothers words from the previous day.
Sakuragi let out a sigh. "What did you have in mind Nadia?"