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Reiki wasn't sure when the world had started to become black and white; when had everything became boring and slow? An inky black and a chalky white.
Coming to Japan was supposed to be something like starting a new chapter in a novel or turning over a leaf of change. It was a fresh start. Not exactly what Reiki had in mind. But again, ever since her father passed everything seemed the same to her. Sounds would become buzzing and though time passed so aggravatingly slow, it was just a messy blur of grey.
Okinawa was just as bleak as Canada.
But she shouldn't be too quick to judge, they had just boarded off the plane. Airports were strange after all, they were the first thing you'd see after moving to a new country yet they were so... plain. Never truly representing all of what the place had to offer.
"So this is where you grew up, mom?" Reiki glanced up at her mother who reminisced, looking up at the cloudy blue skies, she respired the air as if it had a different aroma. A yearnful tint scintillated her azure orbs that peered down at Reiki who furrowed her brows.
"You'll love it here!" The blunette trusted these words; her mother worked so hard to bring her joy back.
Langa could vaguely remember the stories their mother used to tell them of her hometown, her eyes seemed to shine with a warm light when she recounted the memories she had made.
She could talk for hours about how it never snowed or how the sunsets were so pretty. Even the run-down buildings, far from her old house, that she used to go to with her classmates while in her "rebellious" teenage years.
Walking outside in Okinawa at the beginning of March was very different than Canada; it was rather warm, compared to the slushy spring of Canada. It felt weird, abandoning the snow that she had grown accustomed to, leaving the remnants of her snowboarding career behind.
It didn't snow in Okinawa. That might've been her only regret. For years, the thing she had adored the most (right after her family) was snowboarding.
During the days while she mourned over the loss of her father, she and her brother had to stop snowboarding. Their family was suffering financially, but with a stroke of luck, they had managed to snatch some cheap tickets to Okinawa.
And here they were, in front of their new home.
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