Rebels of Yunizaru!

My First (Technically Third) Day in Yunizaru

*BEEP BEEP BEEP*

I roll over and look at the digital clock that I have on my nightstand.

[5:30 am]

Finally. I'd been lying awake in bed for the past three hours or so, waiting for it to be daytime...

Unfortunately, given the season, it's still dark when the day begins.

*BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP*

Oh, right I forgot. Probably should turn that thing off.

I hit the snooze button on the alarm and stare at the ceiling. I know exactly what she's gonna have me do today. I can hear her now.

"KOBAAAAAA!"

Probably gonna have me explore the city or "make friends."

"KOBAAAA!"

My door flies open, and there she is, my mother. Wearing her Fuchsia-colored waitress uniform, with a pan in hand, ready to yell at me. Her hot pink hair wrangled up into a messy bun.

Mother: "What did I tell you about sleeping in? You have work today and you know it!"

Sleeping in? I sit up, rub my eyes, and look over at the clock again.

[5:34 am]

Who the hell considers that sleeping in?

Mother: "Your uniform is hanging up on the bathroom door. If you need help tying your tie, just tell me."

I'm not sure what has Mother thinking I'm going to work today, with it being a Sunday and all, but I don't feel like correcting her yet. She usually realizes these things on her own. We're both still adapting to living together again. It's been years, but she's doing her best, I guess.

I got here Friday after everything was final. Almost as soon as I entered the house, she made it very clear to me, that things were going to be different from what I'm used to with my father. It's only been two days, so I'm still getting used to things. When I stayed with my father, I only got personal time with him during the early morning hours, so I'm used to being up around this time.

It feels like my mother just assumes I'm a lazy good-for-nothing, who likes to sleep, but "sleep is for the weak," as my father would say.

For background, my father was an assassin. I've only ever witnessed him asleep once in my entire life. Usually, he'd be up planning how to kill his next target, or you know, going out and doing his job. I'd try to stay up often and watch him work too, and he'd let me since I hardly made a sound anyway.

My parents have been divorced for four years, and even before that, their marriage was on the decline, because as I was getting older, and she was getting older, my mother started to loathe the idea of me growing up with an assassin as a father. Never staying in one place long enough to make any meaningful connections. She started wanting a "better life" for me. To her, a "better life" means being "normal."

When it got to the point where she couldn't handle the idea of being with a man who took lives for a living, she left the wealth behind. Then came here, to Yunizaru, to settle and start making her own money. Hoping it would be enough to sustain life for us, you know, in case I ever had a change of heart and decided to leave father behind too. I can admire her hard work, but she's currently working two jobs that take up most of her time, and when she's home she's worrying about me or watching the news.