❝𝑯𝒊𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈? 𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒔𝒂𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆.❞
Japanese-American, Megumi Nakamura, decides to abandon the comfort of home after graduating to go live with her cousin in Asia...
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Meg woke up the following morning to a soft sequence of knocks against her bedroom door.
Sunlight was beginning to peak in through the window and past the curtains she had managed to hang up by herself. She had ended up skipping dinner the night before in order to make her new space feel more homey. After the eventful and upsetting day yesterday turned out to be, she had been in desperate need of any form of comfort she could bring herself.
Meg turned her head to face the door, and she stared at it through her half-shut eyelids. She knew it was Ren knocking, but it was too early and she was far too groggy to get into another argument with him. So she stubbornly flipped her body to face away from the door then pulled her pink duvet over her head.
She heard another knock a couple seconds later, which caused her to groan into her pillow.
"I know you're awake," Ren shouted through the door, "I heard you groan just now!"
"Then you should know I'm not opening the door on purpose!" Meg shouted back.
"That's fine, I'll just open it myself then," Ren shouted.
Meg rolled her eyes before nuzzling her face back into her pillow. However, she immediately jolted upright in her bed once she heard the lock inside her doorknob turn. Ren entered her room, and she immediately chucked a pillow at him, "What the heck! I could've been indecent!"
"Well it's a good thing for both of us that you're not. Next time, you should just open the door yourself."
Meg crossed her arms over her chest with a frown. "What do you want?" she asked sadly.
Ren sighed before walking over and sitting down on the edge of her bed, "I want to apologize. You caught me on a really bad day yesterday, and I was a total ass to you. I know I ruined your first day in Japan, and I can't tell you how sorry I am for that. I really hope you'll forgive me. Despite my actions yesterday, I am really happy that you're here, Megumi."
Meg's face softened at his sincere apology, "Thank you. And of course I forgive you. I'm really happy I'm here too."
Ren smiled widely at his cousin who flopped back down against her mattress, "You have to cook me breakfast though. It's early and I'm starving."
"Deal," he said while standing up and clapping his hands together loudly, causing Meg to squish a pillow over her head so that it covered her ears.
"Get up," he ordered as he squeezed her ankles through the blankets. He left her room to head towards the kitchen, and Meg smiled to herself as she continued to lay where she was.
