Oh my gosh you guys, THANK YOU FOR ALL THE REVIEWS!! I didn't think this story would be very popular due to the fact that it's more of a friendship fic to start off. My apologies for Chapter 4, it refused to update for a while there. I wanted to shout out a thanks to Rina for offering to help me with Japanese school systems, haha! For this fic, I think its actually better that I changed it to a totally American fic, that way I don't step on any toes by accident. I'd also like to tell you about Niffer's stories, Love Has No Boundaries ( A good one!) and her new story, Why (which I haven't got a chance to read yet). As I said, shameless promotion of stories is fine! Let me know if you'd like to advertise, haha. Oh, and Windsoffortune, no worries! No dating for a couple chaptersJ It's decided! Well enough of my yapping, this chapter is dedicated to all of you who reviewed so far! You're all wonderful, thank you for the honest opinions. On with the show!
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Happy Birthday Van! December 7, 1991
Why didn't you tell me it was your birthday last month? I would have got you a present or something. I taped a chocolate sucker to the front of this letter as a gift, I hope it made it there. I'm glad soccer is going so well. I'm starting to wish I played too. You like English class? But you're a guy. Most guys hate it. I don't like it all that much because I'm not that great at book reports. Oh well, maybe when we write stories I'll like it better.
I love your sister! Ohhhhhh, I wish I had one! She's so cute giving you her doll. You're family must be busy a lot, huh. My family eats together all the time. It would be weird if I didn't sit with them every night. I'm sorry, it must be hard. Where does your mom work? What about your dad? Oh! And tell your mom thanks about the chocolate thing, it really helped this month.
Now, about Christmas…I think I'm going to make my mom a necklace out of some beads and stuff. For my dad, I saw these cute little tools on a keychain. I might do that. I'll get Kohaku a G.I. Joe fighter. Maybe you could do stuff like that?? My mom always likes it when I make her stuff, so maybe yours will too.
Are you going anywhere for Christmas? Every year we go to grandmas house and sing carols to her neighbors. They usually give us candy canes! I hope it snows. My brother and me usually build snowmen and forts and snow angels and…lots of things. My grandma bakes cookies for us, and my grandpa reads us the Christmas story. You don't still believe in Santa, do you? I hope not. He's not real ya know. My dad tries to tell Kohaku Santa still gives him his presents, but my brother is smart, he knows the truth. Do you go sledding?? Do you even get snow in California? That would be weird not to have snow. Do you have Christmas trees? What about lights? Are there lights hanging on your house?
Well I better go, Kari's mom is going to take us ice skating!
Merry Christmas!
Hitomi
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Feliz Navidad Hitomi, December 23, 1991
That means Merry Christmas in Spanish, did you know that? Thanks for all the advice about gifts. It ends up me and my brother and sister made my mom a ton of chocolate chip cookies for her gift (they are her favorite). Then, Folken and me built dad a shelf for all his tools. Merle painted it with hand prints. It looks really cool. I got Folken a pair of fuzzy dice for his new car, and I gave my sister some of my comic books. She likes to read them with me sometimes, so I let her keep them.
You asked so many questions this last letter! Let me see if I can remember them. My mom works in a doctor's office as a secretary or something, and my dad fixes cars. He's like the head of his own car shop. Sometimes he'll let me go to work with him on Saturdays and I'll get to hand him his tools. The other guys that work there are all really nice. They usually give me a few dollars for helping them out.
My grandparents died when I was little, so we just stay home for Christmas. We still have Christmas trees, and lights and stuff. I don't think it snows here, at least I haven't seen any yet. It's pretty warm here in December. Sometimes we'll go to the beach and have a barbeque. Dilly went with us last time. It was a lot of fun. We played volleyball, and went surfing the whole day. I love candy canes too, but I can never eat the whole thing.
Soccer finished, our team came in third overall. I didn't mind because I played my best. My new friend Chid is pretty good at soccer too. We hang out a lot now. His family has lots of money so whenever I go to his house we play hide and go seek. Their house is huge! I mean it's like a mansion. It even has a swimming pool. One time, I saw him trying to hide behind a plant right by the edge of it, so I snuck up behind him and pushed him right into the pool! He was soaked! Plus he had all his clothes on. I went to help him out but he pulled me in to. We had a water fight, and it was great! Then we got yelled at. It was all worth it, though.
OK, well I have to finish a project before school starts again. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Your friend,
Van
P.S. What is your New Years Resolution? Mine is to do better in Chemistry….it's so hard. Bye!
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