Summery: Thoru house is in repairs, but this means she doesn't stay at in a tent this time she goes to a all boys school where she will meet the whole Sohma family in a different way then before.
By: Cho-san
This means memories
CH1 Repairs
" Bye Thoru, have a nice week," Said lady with an black apron on "its suppose to be hot one."
"I will Mrs, Kyarii. You have nice weekend too." I replied while walking away from her.
I always got the groceries for my grandpa to help him out with things in the house, and also its always fun to walk down the streets of Japan and go window-shopping.
As I walked along I heard cute little girls in kimonos laughing at each other while holding balloons. This had reminded me of my mother and I, and how we used to go shopping downtown.
"Mom, (laughing) this is so cool" said Thoru while holding a cotton candy stick.
"Yup isn't it? Well, you get to eat all the cotton candy you want and all the pocky you want even when your teeth fall out and our tummy acks." Said her mom while laughing.
"Mom… stop your going to make me feel bad." Thoru says while looking down at the cotton candy.
"Oh don't worry, tonight's the night to do everything we want to do as long as its legal (laughing) ." She said while holding Thoru up in the air. You hear them both of them laughing while walking down the streets of Japan.
I smiled at the thought my mother. I have missed her so much, but she always told me not to ponder on the past and do the right things in future.
Nothing could stop me now for having a relaxing day I said while twirling around, nothing. Except for maybe this.
"Thoru can I speak with you for a moment?" my Grandpa came into view as he asked. He was short old man, but he was kind and took me in when my mother died.
"Yes Grandpa?" I answered. " I decide to do some repairs on the house." He said as he pointed to the walls.
I smiled " Great, this house needed repairs." Grandpa looked down for one a moment, then looked up at me. It had seemed if he had a hard time telling what he wanted to say, the way he acted.
"This will take awhile, about two weeks. So maybe you should stay with a friend," he asked worriedly, " wouldn't want you fail your studies because of paint fumes."
I know grandpa was being nice to let me stay at my friend's house for a week or two, but I can't ask Uo or, Hana. Uo lives in a small apartment with her little brother. I just couldn't do that to her I would make her feel like a burden. If I went to Hana's house I would just make her clean after 7 more people. What am I going to do? Hmmm….
" Yes, I can stay at my friends house." I blurted out with out thinking, but the expression on grandpa's face turned into a relived look. When I saw his face changed I couldn't take back what I said, it'll make him worry, and I don't want that.
"Good you might want to start packing tonight before it gets difficult, because the workers are coming on Friday, you know how I have to get this over with. Then you may go to your friend's house tomorrow, does that sound good to you dear?." He smiled while he embraced me.
Oh no this Friday. Why of all Fridays did it have to be this one. I don't have time to find a place to stay… or do I? I could live in a box, yah a box it's good, its shelter, and its cheap. I'll just be living with rats no one else (no worries right? ha ha… ah!). But what if I get hungry? What am I going to eat… rats? Eww it just makes me ill to even think about it. Ok, so I know that's not going to work, but what am I going to do? Then maybe I should look for apartments until Thursday noon, and if I can't… well hello to Mr. Box, and rat food for dinner ha ha ha ha her laughter dies
" Yes it's fine grandpa I will be leaving on Thursday, at noon." I said as I bowed then walked slowly away. When I was down the hall I thought " maybe it would be best if I took a bath to relax my self from all of this."
I got undressed and rap my self with a towel. " That steam feels good." I commented when I walk into the blue tiled bathroom. I step in and felt the hot steamy water caress my feet. " Ahh… that feels SO good." I said while I slowly slid down into the bathtub. The water rose faster while my body was sliding down. The warmth had calmed relieving of all my worries that had happen, but with silence you always have think of something, always.
I shut my eyes closed thinking of all the things that have happened. I thought of my grocery shopping after school, my friends Uo, and Hanh, how they chased away those girls who where making fun of me at school, and how grandpa… "What am I going to do about this problem?" I asked while the thought came upon me. " It's not going to go away. Sooner or later it's going to attack me back, in the butt." "What am I going to do?" I says again while she shakes her head, " Ahhhhhhh I don't want to live in the slums!" I yelled as I put my hands over my head.
"Thoru dear, you all right?" my grandpa asked outside of the door. " no, I'm fine. There was this huge cockroach, that's all." I replied. " You see, that's why we need to do repairs because of the bugs." He said while walking away
I ran out of the bathroom thinking, "can't let my self live in the slums" saying it over and over again. I appeared at the door and slung it open. The words "NO slum!" repeated in my brain as if they were marked like the national anthem of Japan. "Alright I yelled where's the newspaper?" I yelled as if the newspaper going to walk towards me(that would be funny if it did).
I threw on a pink polka dot pajama and ran toward the newspaper (the newspaper did not run to me.) " Hmm apartments (flipping through pages) let see I need one room and a bath so it couldn't be so hard… Oh theirs one." I said to my self. A picture of a small white brick apartment appears on the page. "Oh perfect so how much… its only… $300,000! What really 3 thousand? ( I don't know how yen works so I'm going to use dollars) I can't make grandpa make him pay that much, He'll go broke having to pay the apartment and the repairs on the house. I'll just have to look for cheaper ones that's nice, and that doesn't have bathrooms that stink.
6 hours later of endless looking at houses
After looking at the newspaper for six hours, I gave up. I put the newspaper aside, and went to the bathroom to brush my teeth. I glide my feet over the carpet and looked up at the mirror that showed my horrifying reflection of a 16 year old girl with bags as big as the world. Probably if you listened closely you would hear a crack near the corner of the mirror, I hope that wasn't suppose to mean what I thought it meant.
I drag my feet out of the bathroom, and laid my self in bed." Ok, maybe now I can sleep. Good night mama." I said while placing kiss on the picture frame, "hopefully I'll find a new home and maybe new friends." A smile appears on my face, but slowly leaves when thinking about not finding a home. I shake my head to get the idea out of my mind. "It's not time to think about this. I can only think about the good things ahead of me, not the bad." I said to my self while I closed my eyes. "And maybe tomorrow I'll have a new beginning…"
(A/N: well there it goes hopefully it was good, because I'm not good at writing sometimes and all so if I do make a mistake tell me. please tell if it was good, review please…gets down on knees)
Preview: Thoru goes to house to house to find a place to stay, finally she finds one, but it doesn't turn out what she thought it would be.
