Mayonaka Soñodora Meets Cinema Bizarre

3. Seattle

Pic: Bachiko

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Seattle

The weak sunlight streaming through the suite's windows and falling across my face was what woke me the next morning. Ai was still asleep beside but Bachiko was in front of the mirror, brushing her hair. Cho wasn't there, so I figured she was in the bathroom or something. Fuji was also asleep, spread out on the bed across the room.

I paused my iPod, which was now playing "Face Down" by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, and set it aside.

"Morning Sunshine," Cho chirped sarcastically as she walked back into the room. Apparently she'd been getting a soda from the machine in the hall, judging by the Dr. Pepper she had in one hand.

Noticing her sarcastic tone, I glanced at the clock on the table beside me.

1:37.

"Morning," I laughed sheepishly.

Ai turned over and kicked out, as she had been doing all night. I ignored it, since Ai had been having nightmares since before I'd met her. Then I received a sharp kick to my leg as Ai began to thrash. I helped and the others looked at me just as I got another kick, this time in the small of my back. Ai screamed suddenly and we all crowded around her. Her screams increased in frequency and so did her kicks. Bachiko winced as she got a foot to the ribs, and I was pretty sure I'd have a bruise on my upper arm. It took us a few minutes to wake her up.

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We finally left our suite about an hour later. Ai had recovered from the revelations of her nightmare and was feeling better. Before we'd left, we'd decided to explore our hotel and later go to the mall.

I was wearing a black tanktop under a grey jacket today. I was also wearing dark blue skinny-jeans and my usual high-tops. I'd left my hair down but hadn't straightened it, so it was severely wavy today. Ai had been in the shower for over half an hour today, so I'd done my makeup and Fuji's. My eye makeup was dark grey with silver highlights and black eyeliner.

Ai was wearing a black t-shirt with rows of stylized white skulls on it. She wore jeans capris and her high-tops. Her hair was straightened and pulled up with bright blue dye brushed in. She had on silver eyeshadow and blue eyeliner.

Cho was dressed in a black tanktop like mine and cutoff shorts. She also wore black high-tops, and all the skin showing was slightly tan. She had on black eyeliner, pale green eyeshadow, and stars drawn by her eyes in purple eyeliner.

Bachiko had put on her own makeup and gotten ahold of some sparkle powder, so her face shone with light bluish-purple sparkles. She also wore white skinny-jeans with a black t-shirt with some random design on it. As usual, she was wearing high-tops.

Fuji was wearing a bluish-white spaghetti-strap tanktop, which indicated the way her style had changed over the last three years. Her hair was in a side ponytail and she was also wearing jeans and sneakers. I'd done her makeup to reflect what she was wearing; it was bluish-white with pale green highlights and blue eyeliner.

Our first stop once we left our room was In Short Order, the hotel restaurant. We ate lunch and talked with the girl who waited on us. She said she'd heard some of the music we'd posted on the Internet and she loved the way we sounded. We gave her a tip slightly larger than we usually did and left the restaurant.

It didn't take long to explore the hotel, but at one point we realized it was unusually quite--Bachiko was missing. We found her trying to convince a room service guy to give her the cookie on his cart. He refused, so she went over to a vending machine and got another cookie.

It was drizzling when we walked outside and got into our vehicles. I started up the Camry and "Tears In Vegas" was on the radio again. "In the End" by Linkin Park was playing when we got to the mall.

"Hey Saya, did you hear 'Tears In Vegas' on the radio?" Cho asked when she got out of her truck.

"Yeah," I said with a smile.

"What!? What station?" Ai asked quickly. We told her and she quickly started up her truck and changed the station before we went in. Fuji changed the station in her truck too, since "Tears In Vegas" was on of her favorite songs.

Our first stop in the mall was Sun Hut, an exclusively sunglasses store, because Cho wanted another pair of sunglasses. After that we headed to Hot Topic, Zumiez, and Barnes & Noble. I picked up a copy of Red Chrysanthemum, the eleventh book in one of my favorite series.

A limo was waiting outside the mall when we walked out.

"Who do you you think gets to ride in that?" Cho asked. We all glanced at each other and shrugged, then walked back to our own vehicles and drove back to the hotel. It was about 5:30 when we got back to the room. We just hung out for about 45 minutes. I read, since I'd grabbed Red Chrysanthemum's predecessing book, The Assassin's Touch, from my car.

"What are we doing for dinner?" Bachiko asked after a while.

"We should go to that Chinese place around the corner," Ai suggested. We all agreed and went to eat. The place turned out to be really good, and we were all full and happy when we dropped into bed that night.