The Other Side

Travel Day And A New Friend!

FINALLY! The day has come, my brother Quin-Lun and me are traveling to Japan! Of course my brother was fighting, fight about how early we had to wake up, about how he had to pack another bag for clothes. I'm just waiting in the living room, trying not to yell to hurry him up. Our parents are doing that just fine, my older sister just waiting for the bus to go to the mall with her friends. She just say "Don't come back with a man, cause no one wants you..." Yea very friendly and encouraging...

My brother finally came down with two bags instead of one, our parents put the twins in the seats, got us in the car with the bags, and we are off! Well I thought, we had to stop for gas. But we are so close to an amazing adventure, and also a new culture! Well, kinda retracing my mom's family's footsteps. But it's a start!

We got to the airport, and went threw the paperwork. Have to deal with mom giving us wet hugs and kisses, dad gave us some money to get food and such, handed our tickets... and also fought with our twin sisters to not come along, our dad had found them trying to high jacked our cart... With a big heartfelt good bye, my brother and I started our trip to Japan. When we where sitting for our plane, brother had a weird feeling... he had to use the bathroom, he drank too many Monster drinks with his money he got from dad. So while my brother went to use the bathroom, I was sitting at the waiting area alone.

I started to look around and saw a girl, same age as me! I got excited and waved, she was quiet and didn't notice me. So I got up and waved at her, with a big smile I got the courage to say "Hi my name is Ming!" She ignored me, till she looked up almost jumping from the seat. My dumb butt didn't notice she had headphones on, stepping back with my hands up. "I'm sorry! I just wanted to say hi!" She quickly got up and bow, replying "No, no, no! I'm sorry... I'm just scared... it's my first time traveling by myself." She took off the headphones and smiled, I went ahead and fixed my outfit. And I started to introduce myself again...

"HI my name is Ming!" She waved and smiled saying "My name is Sakura... and who is this?" Confused I turned around and saw my brother... trying to fix his pants. "He is my brother Quin-Lun... He is... unique." We both laughed and she waved to my brother, surprised my brother as he tripped over his bag. I face palm my forehead, and looked at Sakura apologizing for my brother. She just giggled and waved her hands, then we got quiet for a bit. "Can... Can I sit with you? Cause I'm very nervous..." excited I replied "Yea! Where you going?" Sakura blushed in embarrassment and replied "I'm going to Japan..." I jumped up and down in excitement, which made Sakura nervous even more. "Oh my God! That's where we are going!" We both jump up and down in excitement, even thou we are collecting a lot of attention I didn't care.

Our plane arrives, and as we are heading on we where talking about how we are going to Japan for school. And so was Sakura, but she never had traveled outside the United States before. As we got on the plane and found each other's seats, Sakura and I started to chat more. "Ming... I'm not only going there for school, I'm also finding my family." I stopped and stared at her a bit in confusion, I never heard someone trying to find their family before. "What do you mean? Don't you have family here in the United States?" Sakura taking deep breaths and try to smile, I couldn't help feeling something bigger is at play here. Sakura try not to tear up, she turned to me and said "My family is from Japan, but I'm a kidnapped child."