This is the Way I Lived
Prologue:
"The Start of the Beginning"

"If you don't pack now you will make us miss the flight tomorrow and you will be the one disappointed not me," my mother yelled down the hall. My mother Leah was one of the four other pestering human parts of my family. There was also my father Rick, my younger brother Alex, and my even younger sister Crissy. I was so excited about going to Japan that I had forgotten to pack so I stayed up all night choosing what I would take even after the sands of sleep came for me.-I hope something exciting happens in Japan because I'm tired of the same old life, living it day after day-Ericka thought.

My name is Ericka and I am a perfectly normal human... How boring is that? I am 5'4", have dark brown hair with red highlights, tan skin. My family looks basically all the same except for the highlights and my eyes which are Sapphire blue. They are the only weird thing around. I'm finally in Japan it has been my dream to come here since I found out about anime, and now I'm finally here getting ready to go.

At 5 we left for Japan. When we finally arrived at our hotel we were all tired except me because tomorrow I would seek out a shrine I had heard about from a friend.