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"I'm home!" I said as I walked in my house. My mother looked up from her sewing and smiled.

"How was your day?"

I smiled "It was good, though this kid named Luke ran into a wall."

She giggled "Why'd he do that?"

I shrugged "I don't know, he got excited about something and ended up running into a wall."

She giggled again "Luke is an interesting type."

I walked over to her and looked at what was on her lap "What are you making?"

"Oh, I just got bored and decided to make a little pattern." She put it in her basket and turned back to me "So did you meet any new friends?" She had been asking that every day now.

"No." I said.

She sighed "How come you won't talk to anyone Gill, all the kids that go to that school are really nice."

I put my hands and her lap and sighed "None of them seem interested in me..."

"You could talk to them, the new kid Chihaya seems nice."

"Mmmm." I muttered.

"Are there any girls you like."

"No! All of them are annoying."

She giggled, I didn't see what was so funny "How?" She asked.

"Well, Kotomi is dead quiet, Mai talks to much, Pat talks to the point where I don't know half the words she is saying." (Note: Gill started learning big words after his mom died, well that's what I thought)

"What about Kathy and Roomi?"

"Kathy is in her own group and Roomi won't stop bugging me." There was two other girls my age who lived here but they were home schooled. Plus there was a girl who lived on Toucan Island but she was also home schooled and she was spoiled.

"Well, maybe Roomi likes you?"

I stared at her for a second "No, she asks why I read so much and if I was antisocial..."

She patted my head "Don't worry about that. Always look at the bright side of things."

I readjusted my hair "You always say that."

She started laughing and I grinned "So, father told me you were going somewhere...?"

"Oh, yeah, I'm going on a quick trip to the main land area."

"Why?"

"I'm going to see what type of stuff they have there."

"So the only reason you are going somewhere is because you are curious?"

She giggled "Yeah, I'll be back in two weeks."

"When are you leaving?"

"Tomorrow morning."

I pouted "Thanks for the heads up."

She smiled "Don't worry I'll get you a souvenir." She leaned toward my ear "Plus I'll tell you if there are any cute girls around."

"Mother..." I whined, but I had a grin on my face.

The next morning, mother had her bags all packed. Father said goodbye to her.

"Promise you will come back." I said.

She smiled and patted me on the head "I will, the two weeks will go by quickly. Don't worry honey."

The weeks didn't go by quickly, actually they were much slower. Chihaya came up to me one day.

"Watcha doin?" He asked.

I looked up "Reading..."

"What are you reading?"

"A book."

He laughed "What kind of book?"

I was surprised, usually if I said that, the kid would walk away.

I told him about the book and he grinned "That sounds cool."

We started up a conversation, he moved here to live with Mai's grandma. She started teaching him cooking and things like that.

"What do you know how to cook?" I asked.

"Um...a few soups and stuff. Can you cook?"

"No." I mumbled.

He laughed "Nah, that's fine. We were going to play hide and seek in the town today, do you want to join?"

I blinked "Um...okay..."

After that, Chihaya and I started talking a lot more. Just about random things and stuff. Finally the day came when mother would come home. I ran home and anxiously waited for her.

"Father, is she coming yet?"

"She will be here any second." He grinned.

I heard the door open and jumped up, mother walked in. She smiled at me "Hello Gill."

Over dinner she told us about her trip. It sounded amazing.

"Sounds interesting." Father said.

"It was, thought there was something that made even more interesting."

"What?" I asked.

"Well, while I was in the city I saw this girl on the side of the street."

"Why was she on the side of the street?" I asked.

"There are some people that don't have money for houses." Father said.

"No, this girl, she was Gills' age. She was having a heat stroke."

"Oh, you didn't..."

"Well, she could've died. I decided to take her to my hotel and get a doctor to help her."

"Akina, what if she was tricking you?"

She giggled "That is exactly what she said. She wasn't though."

"Why was she out there then?" I asked.

"She ran away from her family."

"Why?"

She sighed "Some families aren't very nice to their kids, the girl had one of those issues and she ran away."

"Did it get handled?" Father asked.

"No, her mother signed her over to one of my friends from childhood. Her and her husband are the parents of the girl now. She is a lot better now."

"What was the girl like?" I asked.

She smiled "I think you might have liked her. She was really quiet but sweet once you get to know her. She is the type who likes to learn like you too."

"How come you didn't bring her here?"

She started laughing "It's a bit more complicated then that. She has a brother a bit older then you who ran away as well. Apparently he is now in America with the father."

"I thought you said the parents weren't nice." Father mumbled.

"The mother got a divorce and remarried. The brother ran away once they remarried and found his father, they moved a few months ago. The girl had to deal with the step father, who wasn't very nice."

"She is okay now?" I asked, I didn't know why it mattered.

"She is fine now. I told her she could come and visit any time. Maybe you two could meet."

I smiled "What was the girl's name?"

She smiled back "Hikari."

I stared at the ceiling for a few hours. Every few minutes, a sob would escape my lips. My mother died a week ago, apparently she got really sick. She told me she was okay...now it wasn't. I hadn't seemed Father since then. I rubbed the tears from my face and got up. I started my daily routine, I grabbed a cook book and tried my best to make stuff. I'd finish school and head straight home. I read about how to o things in the house. If I didn't, then my father would be in trouble. After the death people would come up and ask how father was doing. They never asked me though, no one would talk to me unless it was about my father. I finally got most dishes in the cook book done. I grabbed the food I made for father and went upstairs to face his closed door.

"Father?"

No answer.

"Father, I made you some food...if you want." I thought this was sad, a seven year old cooking for his own father.

I sighed when there wasn't a response "Um...okay...I'll leave it right here if you are hungry..." I set is down and walked into my room. That went on for two more months. Now, I was sick of it. Father finally started going back to work but he left when I wasn't looking. I went into his room after school before he came back. The place was a mess, I started to clean it up. Was this how my life was going to continue? My father wouldn't look at me and I would have to do everything on my own? I saw something in the corner of my eye and turned. It was mother's wedding ring. I walked over to get a better look at it. I heard footsteps suddenly and whipped around, it was father. He glared at me "You were going to...?"

I felt sick "No, I was cleaning your room and I found this! I was just--"

"Why would you take it?"

"I didn't take it!"

"But you were going to! Do you have any idea how much that means to me?"

"Father I wasn't going to take it! I was just--"

"Apparently you don't care that she is gone now!"

It was dead silence, those words felt like a sharp pang in my chest. I glared at him, I felt my eyes sting. His expression changed "Gill--"

I stormed out of the room and brushed past him. I opened the door to my room, closed it and locked it. I collapsed on my bed, rubbing the tears away from my eyes. I was sick of crying. After an hour of laying in my room I heard a knock on the door. I didn't respond.

"Gill..."

I didn't say anything. Then I thought about how familiar this seemed. I wasn't like my father would would just give up on spot. I sighed and got out of bed, I unlocked the door and opened it.

"Gill, I'm so sorry."

I just stared up at him "I do care about her dying, but I can't just drop everything."

"You are right...I'm sorry for everything, I had no right to yell at you. It's just...your mother meant a lot to me. I promise I'll make it up to you."

"You don't have to. Just please don't act like that again, you are the mayor and you have to do your responsibilities for the town."

He smiled finally "You are right." He patted me on the head like mother used to do "You will make a way stronger parent and mayor then I will, I know that."

I looked up to him and blinked unable to believe what I heard.

"Promise me one thing though?"

"What?" I asked.

"Make sure when you find a girl, that makes you feel like you need to protect her more than anything, do that. Got it?"

I gave him a look "What does that mean?"

He chuckled "You will see."

10 years later...

"Father I'm going to school." I looked into his room and found him staring at mothers wedding ring. He did that once and a while.

"Are you alright?"

He looked up "Yep, why do you always leave so early?"

"To help Elli with work at the school. She doesn't have an aptitude for that kind of work yet."

"Ah." I started walking out "Don't forget to say hi to the new girl."

"What?"

"Yuki's sister just moved here two days ago, she will be in your class."

"She is Yuki's sister?"

"Yes, you heard correctly. Don't be rude, or I will make you regret it." He gave me a look. I smiled and flicked him on the head. Weird how I looked up to him, literally, I was twice my father's height now.

"Fine, see you later."

When I got to the school Elli showed me paperwork she needed help with. I sighed and filled some of it out.

"She forgot the information on this one." I muttered to myself. I walked out to get it when I saw someone in the corner of my eye. I looked up and saw a girl, she looked my age, smaller than me though. She had short brown hair and a cowlick, her eyes were a fiery mahogany brown. This was Yuki's sister. Usually siblings act the same, besides Roomi and Kotomi, but the girl didn't look like the type. If she was like Yuki she would've had a wild look in her eye and would be bugging me nonstop. She just stared at me. Why was she staring at me? It was getting annoying.

"Oh, Gill, this is Hikari. She will be in your class. Did you say hello?" Elli asked.

I wasn't in the mood, I grunted and went back in the other room to finish my paperwork. Either way, I'm positive Hikari wouldn't be someone I would like.

I couldn't help writing the last part XD lol! So anyway please comment on what you think!

-00Spirited Away00