Chapter 2

Lurid apartment...

So we headed off to start a new life in New York. Midnight was cradled in Lara's arms; dad tried to read the map but we just had to trust him!

We ended up going to Fresno and got to New York 2 hours behind schedule. Kyou fell asleep on my shoulder and Aika fell asleep on my lap. What a comfortable ride!

When we finally got there, it was already 7 in the evening. I shook my siblings to wake them and got out of the car.

I walked out to find an eerie rundown apartment building that was about to break down. What came out of the apartment was even scarier than the spooky building. It was the land lord. His swelling, bloated body scares me to this day. His hairy swelling arms wrapped around a girl, supposedly his daughter and on the other disgusting arm held a bottle of Sake. He had probably been drinking but life goes on.

He approached my mother in an unordinary fashion. Sliding from side to side and the girl struggling to hold on and finally, he fell on his back side with a large thump! The girl helped him up once more and he tried to hand my mother the keys but in the process fell down and vomited all over my mother's Jimmy Chou's.

"AAAAAAHHHHHH!" My mother screamed and jumped trying to avoid the vomit.

Aika, Kyou and I laughed under our breath as dad shushed but I don't know why, he was laughing too and supposedly being hypocritical.

The girl handed my mother the keys saying "room 442" and dragged the landlord back in the peculiar apartment building.

We raced up the stairs trying to find the apartment. And there it was room 442; the dissatisfactory on my face flooded onto my sibling's and father's faces.