The next morning at school, Sayomi was still feeling a bit homesick. She took at look at her palms again, the symbols now beginning to fade. Ryoma came up behind her and looked at her strangely.

"What's on your hands?"
"It's nothing..."

"What's the matter? You seem sad."

"I'm fine, really..."

"You don't seem fine."
"I'm just a little homesick, that's all." she stared at her hands again.

"It shouldn't be too long until spring break. I think we should go to Canada."

"Yeah, then I culd spend the week with my old friends and wait-we?"
"Yeah, as in you and I. This could one of those things for just the two of us."

"Well we can't travel halfway across the world by ourselves, so we'll probably need to bring along a chaperone. Your dad seems like a pretty fun guy."

"Alright, so it just means we go just the two of us...with a chaperone."

She hugged him tightly and ran off to tell Kome.

"That girl is...I don't even know what."

Sayomi frantically ran to find Kome.

"Kome, Kome, guess what?!"
"What?"
"We're going to Canada for spring break!"

"We? Like, you and me?"
"And Ryoma and his dad..."
"What? Ryoma's coming too? But you hardly know him!"
"Well he's the one who's going to be paying for the plane tickets and stuff."

"Okay, so why are we going to Canada?"
"Because if you didn't already know, which you should, I'm from Canada and I'm going to be visiting all my friends!"

"Oh...you'd think I'd remember something like that..."

"So are you going to come?!"
"I'll ask my parents tonight."
"Yay!"

Sayomi spun on her heels, about to head to class, to see a rather angry looking Ryoma.

"You invited Kome?"
"Well she's my best friend in Japan, so I thought I'd take her along to meet my best friends in Canada...is that okay?"

"I guess if you'll be happy..."

"Thanks so much!"

"You couldv'e at least asked before you invited her."

"I'm sorry, I got excited."

After class, Sayomi took out her notebook and began writing a letter.

"Dear Leah and Tiffany,

How are you? I've missed you both so much! Has anything happened since I left? I'd like to think so, considering it's been a few years! Have you met anyone new? I've met a lot of people in Japan. And as crazy and quirky as you guys are, I've met a few people who are almost as crazy. Maybe even equally as crazy.

First, there's Kome. She's the first person I met here in Japan."

Kome saw her writing the letter, not recognizing the english.

"What's that?"
"It's a letter I'm writing to my friends in Canada."
"Oh cool! Can I say something?"
"You don't even know them."

"Well then can you tell them I look forward to meeting them?"

"Actually, I'm going to surprise them, so they aren't going to know that we're coming."

"Oh, okay. Well tell them I said hi!"

She went back to writing her letter.

"As I'm writing this, she's here with me. And she says hi. Ha ha, she's pretty ridiculous sometimes. But I'm used to silly people. After all, I've been friends with you two for all these years.

Then there's Ryoma. He's one of my newer friends. Well...not exactly a friend, more like...a tennis rival. He's the only first year as one of the regulars on the tennis team. Which means he must be pretty good, right? Well, he is. I played against him last week. He's left handed, but he played me with his right. But then again, so was I. And the most amazing part was: I beat him. It wasn't by a lot, but I still managed to beat the only first year regular. But then I found out he let me win. But enough about that, I've got lots more to tell you.

There's also a funny guy I recently met. His name's Eiji. You know how I love gymnastics and combine that with my tennis? He's got an acrobatic style of play too. When I played against him, he admitted there were things I can do that he can't. I partnered up with Ryoma and played against him with his partner, the co-captain of the tennis team. I was amazed when we beat them. Going through all the people I've played against, I don't think I've played against too many girls here at Seigaku.

Spring break is coming up soon, so I hope you have something fun planned. I know I do. I'm also planning to send you guys a gift. It's very special. Way too special to send through the mail. So wait at the airport and look for Ryoma's dad. I'll make sure I put a picture in the envelope. He'll be bringing your gift."

She closed her notebook and looked around for Ryoma.

"Oh, hey, could I get a picture of your dad?"
"Why do you need a picture of my dad?"
"So my friends know who to look for at the airport."

"What about us?"
"It's going to be a surprise, they don't know we're coming. I'll explain everything later."

"Uh...okay, I'll bring you one tomorrow."

"Thanks, that'd be great!"