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Chapter 6: Another Day

A/N: just wait to play the song, trust me. Also, where the fans at???

-Maki’s POV-

I wake up, I knew it, my insomnia got worse. It's 2 am, I might go watch some anime, I walk into the Living room and turn on the TV. Hm, what one to watch? Yuri on Ice, I haven’t watched that one in a while. I lower the volume and press play. This’ll take my mind of things, for now at least. I'm halfway through it and pause it I don’t know what time it is now, but I don’t care. Why did the Principal give her the starter pack? I bet he did that to spite me, he always does that, well sometimes since I've been here. Is something bad going to happen now? Is he going to do something to my family again? I can’t let that happen. But what if he has a plan? Has he been waiting for a specific moment? I'm a bit scared, come Maki, pull it together. I press play again.

Liz walks in, must be 5:30 then, that’s the time she always wakes up. “Maki, are you alright?” Liz asks. I look at her, “Maki, you’ve been crying...hey, I won’t tell her, it’s fine” she smiles. The only sign I'm super upset is the tears; this feeling is one I haven’t felt in years. Liz hugs me, she caught me like this before and I forced her to keep this a secret. I don’t need Ana worrying about me. She just hugs me, Liz learnt not to ask why but learnt to just comfort me when I'm like this. We stay like that until she tells me that we should make breakfast.

We sit up and head to the kitchen, Liz grabs some stuff and I go to my cupboard. They call it ‘Maki’s Cupboard’ or ‘The Japanese Cupboard’ cause it’s loaded with that nation’s food. I grab some ramen packets and grab some other ingredients to add. I grab a pot and tear open the packets and place it the pot while pouring the water. I cut up the other stuff and add it in. Someone walks in and I look at the clock, it must be Harper, Ana doesn’t get up this early. “Good morning Harper”, “Good morning Green-san” Liz and Nelson-san greet each other. “Ohayo Nelson-san", “Ohayo Togami-san” I look at her, “Do you want some Nelson-san? I have enough for two”. “Please Togami-san!”, I grab two bowls and chopsticks and split the ramen into the bowls. I give one to her and we both sit down.

“Itadakimasu” we both say and proceed to eat. “Shouldn’t you go get Ana?” Liz asks me. “It’s her fault if she’s late again” I reply. “Sometimes I start to wonder if you ever care for her” I roll my eyes. She sounds like a nagging mum, lucky mine wasn’t like that. Ana walks into the room, and she’s sleep-walking. She always looks horrible in the mornings; how does she even fix that? “Is she a zombie?”, “Whenever is she not a zombie”, “Maki!”. “Shut up, your so loud” Ana scolds us. Liz places food in front Ana and she slightly opens her eyes. She takes the food and leaves. Sometimes I ask myself: how am I even related to that?

“Togami-san? Why do you and Potter-san have different surnames? Like I know some cousins don’t and some do, but why not you two?” Nelson-san asks and i stare at her, “Ana took her dad’s surname, and my dad said my mum could pick my surname”. I can tell she’s interested at the mention of my mum. I can tell Liz is interested; I've never really mentioned her. “Does your mum live with your dad?” I don’t know how to answer that, so I just look at my food “It’s complicated, I'd rather not say”. She seems shocked, I'm not ready to talk about that. “You mentioned Potter-san being late?”. I finished my food, so I place it in the sink and leave the room.

A loud smack is heard thought the dorm, and I make another one happen. “Maki! Don’t hit her!” Liz shouts, “(Japanese) You’re not my mum and never will be. Also stop trying to stop what me and Ana do, this shit usually happens. You know, it’s fun speaking in Japanese because that face of yours you make when I speak is absolutely hilarious, almost makes me want to smile” Did I smile or was just a twitch of my muscles? I wanna still be known as the emo kid. It seriously has been too long since I smiled. I can almost sense when Liz makes that face, always bringing warmth to my heart.