Savannah and Kayleigh managed to get some shut eye on the plane, as the 11 hour flight to Tokyo took its toll on the two girls as well as the 16 hour time difference. Savannah was still asleep when the airport came into view.
"Savannah, wake up we are here." Kayleigh nudged her friends shoulder gently a couple of times watching as Savannah's eyes fluttered open slowly; Savannah gave a sleepy smile and looked out the window.
"Can you believe it we are finally made it to Japan?" Kayleigh asked. Savannah nodded silently as she watched their descent into the airport.
"So Savannah we know no one in Japan, how exactly are we going to find these car meets?" Kayleigh quizzed, holding her friends arm at the baggage reclaim.
"Marcus is going to hook us up with someone. I don't know the details; he said he would give us a few days to settle in." Savannah remarked as she spotted her luggage and pulled it off the conveyor belt.
"Wow you want to settle in? I thought you would be dying to get to the meets." Kayleigh mocked as she also pulled her luggage off the belt.
"You are far too happy for someone who has just flown for 11 hours straight, and into a different time zone." Savannah complained.
"And you are not excited enough, we are in a different country. One that you have wanted to visit for the past 10 years." Kayleigh reminded Savannah.
Getting out of the airport was easy enough; it didn't really hit the two friends that they were really in Japan until they were outside.
"Okay, what shall we do first?" Kayleigh asked a dumbstruck Savannah who was just staring at the sight in front of her. Kayleigh waited for 5 seconds before punching her best friends arm.
"Sorry Kay, it's just hit me. We actually made it. I was thinking we go meet our landlord and get settled and refreshed and then food, I'm starving." Savannah said once she came back to the real world.
"Well I've had a few chats on Skype with our landlord, and she seems lovely and speaks perfect English, her name is Yuri. Oh and I have already paid her 6 months' rent up front, so we don't have to worry about that." Kayleigh beamed with pride at her organization.
"See this is why I leave all the important stuff to you. I wouldn't have anywhere to live if I came on my own." Savannah laughed as she hailed a cab.
"You would be a lost cause without me." Kayleigh chucked in agreement as they put their luggage in the boot of the taxi.
Savannah bit the inside of her cheek to stop herself from laughing as Kayleigh tried to tell the driver where they wanted to go, eventually Savannah took over.
"Are you going to do that the whole time we are here?" Kayleigh huffed as she got comfortable in the back seat.
"Well you should have taken lessons like me." Savannah giggled. Kayleigh just puffed out her cheeks in reply.
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Kayleigh sat in silence as Savannah and the cab driver had a conversation in Japanese, she could pick out very few words as she used to eavesdrop on Savannah's lessons. Now she wished she had actually taken them with her.
After a while they arrived at the apartment complex, the two girls unloaded the car, paid and tipped and thanked the driver. Savannah followed Kayleigh up the steps to the apartment that Kayleigh had written down in her day planner. Kayleigh knocked on the door as Savannah hung back, her mind drifted back home and to what the guys were doing and how she was going to contact them.
"Savannah come say hello to Yuri, I'm sorry my friend has a habit of spacing out." Kayleigh smiled at the person in the doorway. Savannah walked over and stood next to Kayleigh as she and the young Asian women exchanged small talk.
"Savannah, I'm Yuri your landlady, any problems just let me know and I'll get it sorted for you, come let me show you to your apartment." Yuri smiled as she leaned back into her own home and grabbed two sets of keys.
Yuri led the two girls up to the top floor of the four story building when they came to the door with 4B by the door frame. Yuri opened the front door to a spacious and modern two bedroom apartment.
"So it's fully furnished, all utilities are included in the price but I have already explained that to Kayleigh. I've made up an information pack for you. Well girls I'll let you get settled if you need anything just let me know. Oh and I've stacked up a few of the cupboards for you, just the bare essentials." Yuri smiled leaving the keys on the kitchen table and leaving the two girls to their own devices.
"I'll set up the laptop so we can Skype the guys back home." Kayleigh sighed contently as she pulled out her laptop from one of her suitcases and sat on the couch. Savannah made her way to the bedrooms; they were identical so Savannah had the room on the right. Throwing her stuff on the bed she took a seat.
Everything was coming together beautifully now she just needed to get some sort of income; the money she had saved and won would only last so long.
"Savvy, you going to come say hey to the guys?" Kayleigh asked standing at the doorway. Savannah took another looked around her room before going into the living room and joining Kayleigh on the couch in front of the webcam.
As soon as both girls came into view the questions started, a smile broke out on to Savannah's face when she saw her family on the screen, jammed around the laptop each trying to get some sort of camera time. For the next hour or so Savannah and Kayleigh spoke to their family back home after a while Kayleigh's stomach started to growl.
"Right loves, we need to go find some food, I'm starved, and we will give you a call later in the week." Kayleigh giggled.
"Wait before you go Marcus said to give this information to you, it's his contact said he might be able to give you a job. Oh and he doesn't know you're a girl so you better impress." Rowan called before Kayleigh could end the call.
He typed the information down and sent it to them via a message instead of reading it all out. Savannah grabbed the pen out of Kayleigh's planner and jotted the information down. After they exchanged goodbyes the room became silent once more as Savannah and Kayleigh huddled up on the sofa for a few minutes.
"Well looks like you got yourself a job." Kayleigh squealed.
"Kayleigh chill. I haven't got anything yet." Savannah said as she looked down at the paper.
"Okay let's freshen up and then we can go get food." Kayleigh jumped up from the couch with another burst of energy. A few minutes later the girls were ready and headed out the door.
"So come on nerd where should we eat." Kayleigh probed as she hung on to her friends arm once again.
"I had seen a noodle place down the street." Savannah suggested, with a nod from Kayleigh it was settled as they watched the noodle place, something caught Savannah's eye it was a group of cars parked outside the small restaurant. As the girls got closer it dawned on Savannah what her eyes were laid upon.
"Savannah, no, no, no, no way I'm not losing you to a car so early on in our trip." Kayleigh moaned as she grabbed hold of Savannah's arm and dragged her into the restaurant.
"But Kayleigh that is a 1997 Mazda RX-7 with a Sideveil Fortune body kit." Savannah cooed as she twisted to look at the car through the window. The scene caused a group of teens to laugh as Kayleigh continued to pull Savannah away.
"Savvy you know I don't do car talk, and I can't read or speak Japanese so, order for me will you." Kayleigh giggled at her friend's excitement. Savannah sighed as she gave the car one last look before heading over to the counter and asked the waitress if they did a menu in English.
Savannah took the menu and gave her thanks and made her way back to Kayleigh, when the group of teens caught her eye, they were staring at her and whispering. Savannah thought nothing of it and continued on over to her best friend who was staring into space.
"One menu in English. Can I go back to daydreaming about that car now?" Savannah smirked as Kayleigh rolled her eyes. Savannah was so absorbed in the car that she didn't hear her friend order for them both and then call her name several times.
"Wait what?" Savannah asked as she shook her head, Kayleigh gave a wicked smile.
"Who knew you would pick a place to eat where we didn't need your Japanese lessons. Oh and there is this cute guy staring at you." Kayleigh gave a devilish smile as Savannah started to look around to see who she was on about. Savannah's eyes rested on the Asian guy that was sat with the group of teens, she could have sworn he wasn't there a moment ago.
Their eyes meet for a few moments before the waitress arrived with their orders.
"Mmm, smells so good." Kayleigh said excitedly as she dug into her meal.
"Well at least you learnt how to eat with chopsticks." Savannah giggled as she dug into her own meal. The two girls made idle chit chat as they enjoyed their meal.
"So do you think you will check out that garage?" Kayleigh asked, Savannah didn't say anything just shrugged as she continued to munch her food.
"We came all the way here for you and your car problem and you don't know whether you want to check out a garage." Kayleigh stated in disbelief. Before Savannah could reply a young African-American lad still in his school uniform came and stood next to the girls table.
"Sup girls, I and my friends couldn't help overhearing you admire the cars outside." He smiled and gave a nod back towards his friends who giggled. Kayleigh and Savannah looked at each other; in an unspoken language Kayleigh gave Savannah the go ahead.
"Don't get me wrong, the other cars are pretty decent and tripped out, but there is only one car out there worth my time." Savannah smiled as the boys face dropped but the smile soon returned.
"The names Twinkie, you new around here?" Twinkie tried a new tactic to get the girls attention. Savannah thought for a moment, it wouldn't hurt to make friends especially as they were going to be in Tokyo for so long.
"I'm Savannah and this is Kayleigh and we just arrived." Savannah shuffled over so Twinkie could join them.
"So what brings you to Japan?" Twinkie asked as he sat down next to Savannah, with his hand behind his back he beckoned to his friends and they didn't need calling twice as they filled the booth behind, leaning over. Before Savannah could open her mouth to say anything Kayleigh piped up.
"Savannah came for the cars; I came for the fashion, culture and guys." At Kayleigh's comment Savannah almost choked on the food she was swallowing and the group who had joined them burst out laughing, Kayleigh smiled innocently with a shrug.
"What I'm confident and forward."
"The only reason people don't call you what they think of you is because you are friends with me." Savannah coughed trying to get her lungs to work.
"It's a good thing I love you or I might have actually taken that offensively." Kayleigh giggled.
"Oh where are my manners, I'm Kayleigh and that is Savannah." Kayleigh gave a dazzling smile to the group Savannah, Savannah waved to show her acknowledgement as she took another mouth full of her meal.
"I'm Neela, this is Sean, Reiko, Earl and Han, and you have already met Twinkie." A brunette smiled pointing to each person in turn.