In Love With The Devil

In Love With The Devil -2- "From a sweet dream to an insecure nightmare."

A few weeks earlier…

“I’m going to miss you so much, Anu-chan!” Kaimu, my little brother, called out as he ran over to my best friend, Anuette, and hugged her tightly. Anuette laughed a little as she hugged him back, even though the tears rolling down her cheeks were obvious.

“I’m going to miss you too.” She said, and her English accent was heard. She had a strong accent, though she tried to hide it most of the time, but now she seemed too upset to worry about it. “Both of you.” She looked at me as she said that, and I gave her a small smile. I was crying too, I’ll admit it. I had been crying all day and I was rather surprised that I still had tears left in me. Kaimu pulled away from Anuette and looked up at her with a big smile. “Make sure you take care of yourselves, okay?” She said.

I nodded and Kaimu said, “Don’t worry!” He reached his hands up into the air and stood on his tippy toes, trying to look as tall as he could manage. “I’m a big boy now! I’ll take care of mum and Maiya-chan! I’ll fight off all the bad guys too!” He began punching the air out in front of him, with a serious look on his face and Anuette and I laughed. I walked over beside him and ruffled his brown hair and he grinned up at me, his brown eyes twinkling with excitement. He was excited to go to Tokyo, where we were moving, since he was born there. Me? Well, I was born here, in England and I was pretty upset that I had to leave.

“We have to get going now, you two.” My mother’s soft voice came from behind us and I turned to look at her. Her tired looking hazel eyes were looking mainly at me, and she looked apologetic, even though she was smiling. Her short, dark blonde hair fluttered a little in the small breeze that was in here somehow. I gave her a small smile and nodded. She blamed herself for us having to move around a lot. She thought that it was messing with our lives, but I didn’t blame her at all, I loved her no matter what.

I turned back and looked at Anuette, who was wiping tears from her eyes with a tissue. “Well, we’re going now.” I said. I wasn’t very good at goodbyes, and I didn’t really know what to say at the moment. I walked over to her and gave her a big hug. “Goodbye Anuette.” I whispered to her and I could feel the tears well up in my eyes again, and I tried desperately to blink them back. I pulled away from her and she smiled at me.

“Goodbye Maiya.” She said. I looked down at Kaimu and grabbed his hand and we both turned around and began heading towards where we would board the plane.

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We were moving to Tokyo, Ikebukuro, to be exact. We’d lived in Tokyo before, when mum was pregnant with Kaimu and we’d lived there, me, mum, dad, and Kaimu, when he was born, for three years. After our father died in that car crash, in Tokyo, our mother was obviously upset, so was I, though Kaimu was too young to understand. Mother didn’t really want to be there after that, she said that everything reminded her of him. So we moved to England. We’d lived there for almost four years and now we were going back to Tokyo. Confusing, yes, but mum wanted to go there, mostly to see dad’s grave. So that’s why we’re moving there. Though, little did I know that moving there would change my life much more than I thought that it would.

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The plane ride wasn’t that bad. It started off a little bumpy, but then smoothed out as we went along. It would take twelve hours to get there, but at least we didn’t have to switch planes halfway through or anything. To be honest, I didn’t completely like planes. To think that you’re miles up into the sky, in a giant metal thing with who knows how many other people on it, and with one mistake, the entire plane could plummet down to the Earth. Then we’d all be dead. We’re defying gravity here, humans aren’t supposed to ‘fly’ or anything.