As the sun slowly crept over the hills beyond the Kanzaki house, the entire street was covered in vivid colors of pinks, gold, and light light blues. Hitomi had been awake for an hour or so, just waiting for that sun to arise, and she couldn't but help letting out a sigh of awe when those colors flooded her bedroom. The colors seemed to seep into her very soul and waken the inner child she always longed to keep locked away. A smile of happiness crept across her face and her eyes lightened. Then that dreadful noise sounded.
That horrible, horrible noise that shattered all dreams. Her alarm clock was going off. Hitomi opened one groggy eye and looked at her target. She rose her fist and slammed it into the annoying machine. The alarm was silent but the buzzing was still fresh in her head and she had to answer to its call.
She slowly and rather clumsily got out of bed and managed to balance herself on her baby blue carpet. Her head started spinning at the sudden action but one quick and rather painful slap on her cheeks made the spinning stop. She zig zagged her way to the shower and the cold water ended what the dream shatter had awoken. She half heartedly got dressed and studied herself in the mirror. The sleepy looking girl who stood in the mirror was Hitomi's bad side.
Her light brown, almost honey blonde, hair was cut short at the end and rounded neatly at the top around her head. She had soft green eyes that stood against her lightly tanned skin like topaz emeralds. Hitomi stood on in disgust. She hated the way she looked and no one could tell her otherwise. Even though she was a star runner on the track team, got straight A's, she had never had a date. She had watched with jealous eyes as her best friends, Millerna, Naria, Eryia, and Selena; go from boyfriend to boyfriend within days.
When she was in a time of need because of those jealousies, she had gone to her childhood friend Yukari who understood. Yukari too was a runner on the track team, was probably the nicest person you could ever meet and was an honors student, but she looked much different than the rest of everyone. Yukari had died her hair dark brown and had gotten purplish contacts more punk like. Yukari always acted as if she as a child who had been abandoned and was transformed punk through rebellion.
She had grown her nails out and was known to be mighty ferocious when it came to fighting. Though they were friends, Hitomi only hung around Yukari when things got to intense for Hitomi and she needed a shoulder to cry on and some advice to mend the pain, or when Millerna, Eryia, Naria, and Selena were avoiding her. Hitomi occasionally felt guilty when she hung around Yukari because she felt like she used her as a psychiatrist, but she would always forget she even had a guilty bone in her body when she needed Yukari's advice and comfort. Yukari was the sister Hitomi never had and probably never would have. That's why they understood each other.
But as Hitomi started to think and enter the world she referred to as her "bubble", her brother's annoying voice broke through her shields and she had no choice but to hear him.
"HITOMI!!! MOM AND DAD WANNA TALK TO YOU!!!" he called from the kitchen. Hitomi heard her parents scold at Mamoru for yelling.
He heard him snap that he was old enough to do what he felt like but Hitomi knew her parents wouldn't stand for that. She heard more shouting from her parents and a slam of the front door. Hitomi rolled her eyes as she walked down the stairs and walked into the kitchen. She quickly moved across the room, grabbing cereal and milk and a bowl. She mixed the contents together and sat down next to her parents on her favorite stool and made herself a little perch a top of the white cushion. Once she had put everything back and had grabbed a spoon.
"What's up?" she asked her parents.
"Hitomi, we know your turning 16 in a couple days and because of that, your father and I have decided," she stopped, as if unsure if her very words.
Hitomi was about to shovel her face full of Captain Crunch cereal when her father spoke up.
"Hon, your mother and I are leaving the town for a couple of days." He rushed out. Hitomi played the words again in her head and she had to keep herself from grinning. Her mother gave her father a look that could wilt flowers than turned back to her daughter.
"Hitomi, it'll only be for a couple days. I've left everything you need on the counter. The fridge is stocked so you probably won't have to go out shopping, but just in case, I left a hundred dollars," Mr. Kanzaki sent a look at Mrs. Kanzaki.
"Um, I mean, 250 dollars on the counter. That's for emergency food and other emergency things, only." She said a little rushed and firm. She obviously didn't trust her daughter and Hitomi's dad was the one who had forced her to go through with it. Hitomi smiled at her dad.
"Everything will be fine. Mamoru will be off at his friend's house most of the time and the most excitement I'll have is a movie in the living room with Merle." Hitomi stated, trying to ease her mother's anger and fear.
Her father gave her the 'thumbs up' sign next to Mrs. Kanzaki and Hitomi's mother's head spun to where his hands were. As a reaction, he quickly laid his hands flat on the table and pretended to be massaging the sore on his hand from hitting the table to hard. Hitomi couldn't help but giggle and her mother's icy stare was on her. Hitomi gulped and looked down from the rage in her mother's silver blue eyes. Hitomi's father also looked down in dismay but couldn't hold back the smile that was spread across his smug face. Hitomi's mother rolled her eyes and stormed out of the room to get her keys. Hitomi looked up and whispered to her dad,
"What's the bribe?" Her father scoffed.
"Am I really that bad?" Hitomi nodded and her father winced.
"A week in the Bahamas, if this works."
"And if it doesn't?" Hitomi said with sly eyes.
"I truly don't wanna know." He breathed jokingly.
Hitomi couldn't resist the laugh that came from her heart. If she wasn't leaning against the table, she would've surely fallen out of her stool.
Hitomi's father too broke out in laughter that seemed to come from deep down inside, except he maintained it when Mrs. Kanzaki walked down the hall.
"RICHARD!!" she called from outside.
Hitomi's dad winced at his real name and grudgingly walked to the Jeep waiting outside. Once Hitomi calmed down, she noticed that her father resembled that of a punished dog.
Hitomi scoffed and got down from her perch on the white stool and put the still half full bowl of cereal in the sink and dumped its continents down the drain. Once cleaned, she slipped on her light tennis shoes, grabbed her bag and her father's weather coat and left, locking the house. Her brother was waiting for her by the bus stop and so was Yukari.
Her brother walked over to Hitomi and asked, "What'd the parentals want?"
"They're gonna be gone for the next week or so and the house will be all to ourselves till they come back." She explained.
A look of pure evil flashed into Mamoru's eyes that made Hitomi shudder. Yukari came running over and half shouted, "You're gonna be home, alone??"
Hitomi nodded, a little confused. The same look spread over Yukari's face. Then Mamoru and Yukari looked at each other and grinned wickedly.
"It's 'PARTY TIME'." They said in unison and that little whisper made Hitomi shiver.
She did not have a good feeling about this.
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