It's hard to believe just how quickly life can change in a single day, my boy brought a girl home and left with her, now we're helping them move everything to their new apartment.
Like usual, the people began to show up wondering what happened, small towns are like that, even if we are a few hours away from the city, townspeople just don't have a lot going on, so things like this tend to spread quickly.
"That's the last of it," I said to everyone and the men in our family drive off to put everything in the apartment, as for us girls, our job is to clean Kazuma's old room and maybe my house too.
I watch them drive off and I start to help everyone clean, I can already hear Aqua's voice as she sings, I can feel the hairs on my hand's stand, her voice is masing, it's like every note she sings is hit perfectly.
I stand by the door and I find mom, looking at the girl, her and my inlaw are both watching her clean.
"He's got himself a good one" mom says to me, as she hands me a rag and points at the windows.
I start to sing with my new daughter, and I can hear both my mother's voices singing with us, between the four of us, we're done cleaning quickly.
"So Aqua, do you want to see the town and see where Kazuma grew up?" my mom asks her new granddaughter and Aqua gives her a thumbs up.
More and more, I'm beginning to see her quirks and just how Kazuma was able to get her.
We show her the old spring where the town's water supply comes from, both the elementary school and middle school where Kazuma studied and...
"Hie" I hear a familiar voice and I can't help but stop smiling.
"Mrs, Sato, nice to see you again,"
"Nice to see you too Sakura," I said to the girl that broke my son's heart
"So, I heard Kazuma had eloped with a girl, but its Kazuma, he wouldn't '
I was about to say something when I noticed Aqua walk in front of me, up until now she had been nothing but a delicate flower, but now the girl looked as if she was charging into war.
Somehow her blue hair seemed just a bit more radiant, she seemed to walk with more confidence and her body language, its better not say it.
"Hellow, I'm Kazuma's wife. Who might you be?" her voice was soft, but there was an edge to it.
"I'm Sakura, Kazuma and I grew up together" Sakura answered Aqua and the two young women looked at each other, they shook hands but they never took their eyes off each other.
It looked as if both women were ready to tear into one another.
"Nice to meet you Mrs?"
"Aqua" my new daughter said, before letting go of Sakura's hand.
"Take care of him," Sakura said her voice was soft but there was anger laced in every word.
"I will" Aqua answered her, there was a line drawn between Aqua and my son's ex-friend, the girl had marked her territory and Sakura didn't like it.
She must have thought, Kazuma would always be there and now that he's completely moved on, she can't stand it.
We said our goodbyes and headed home, the boys were already back when we returned, unfortunately, the newlyweds would be leaving us, they had to fix their apartment.
"Well, at least we know two things about that girl." I said
"Yep, she's the jealous type" mom said as she watched the car drive off
"And our grandson upgraded from the last girl he liked," my inlaw said before the three of us began to laugh.
[Else where]
She opened the letter, not a text message but a letter.
From now on you will have to live on your own.
I managed to buy you some time, but if you can't survive without our family's money.
You will be married off to someone that mom chooses.
She closed the envelope and looked at her empty apartment, the electricity would be cut off tomorrow and she had until Monday to find somewhere to live.
Her mom had taken everything, the only things she owned right now, were her suitcase and the clothes she had on.
She heard a knock on the door, but she didn't bother to open it, the door opened anyway and when she turned to see who it was, she found her driver standing at the entrance.
The man walked up to her and sat beside her, he had been with her ever since she was little, he was both her butler and her friend.
"...You have two friends that might be able to take you in" he said to her, before he pated her on the head.
"I don't have any friends" she answered him
"Acquaintance then"
"Here you can start working there whenever you want, an old friend of mine is the owner. Take the girl with you and he will hire the two of you" he said to her and she knew exactly who he was talking about.
"Come on I'll buy you lunch and you can go see them later," he said to her.
Her body moved on its own and as they left she noticed several people walk up to the door and begin to change the locks.
There was no going back, she had been exiled.
