Chapter 1
The beginning
Lilly P.O.V
My name is Koneko. Funny name for an American right? Well I'm not an American really. My mom and dad were born and raised in America and I was conceived in America, but I was born in Japan. My parents, Lydia and Tyler Johnson, moved from America when my mom was three weeks pregnant. She didn't find out until a month after they had moved to Japan. The reason they moved to Japan was my dad had an offer in a law firm and my dad's parents had died two years before so he needed a change. His mom had died from cancer and his dad from a heart attack. They died within a couple months of each other. They said his heart couldn't handle missing his wife. My dad had to pay off what was left of the funerals. That wasn’t paid by the insurance because he was an only child. My mom's parents are still alive but she doesn't really talk to them much. She and her little sister were adopted when she was nine and her sister was five. They adopted them because they couldn't have a family of their own. A year later her little sister Annia died from being poisoned. All that I know is that they took her to the hospital and the doctors tried to get the poison out of her by doing a stomach pump but it had already absorbed in her system. So she died in the hospital, five hours after she got there. The police thought her new parents, the Smiths, had something to do with her death. So they took my mom away from them for two weeks, while they searched the house and checked everything out. When my mom was returned to them, they were distant from her and later after a couple years they adopted a little boy named Ryan. He was adopted when he was twelve. Anyway after my mom's sister had died, my mom went into a depression and by the time Ryan came around she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The doctor had her on medication, but it wasn’t enough. She would stay in her room for hours, sometimes even days, without eating but when Ryan came thing began to get better. He got her to come out of her room and eat. He would go to doctor appointment with her when no one else could get her to go. They were like real brother and sister. In high school mom meet my dad and they began hanging out. Then they began to date but broke up in collage and dated other people. After they were out of collage they meet up again at a bookstore where dad was getting some updated law books and mom was looking up her brother’s first published book. They went to a coffee shop and got something to drink and set there for hours and talk and eventually they started dating again. A couple years latter their got married and then had me. I have never met my grandparents but I have meet Uncle Ryan when he and his wife Kim came one summer vacation. They were both fun. We played a lot of games, stayed up late watching movies they brought and they brought me book I have never read. I wasn't use to some of the words in the book but all I had to do was ask mom and she would tell me what they were. Before I left I was home schooled by my mom but since she worked a lot I mostly taught myself. I was considered a junior in high school. I didn’t have any friend but I did know people my age because I tutored them.
Anyway now I'm fiftteen and we are moving back to America because my grandmother is sick and Ryan is on tour for his latest book, The Miracles around Us. Dad got a better paying job and mom is going to work in the hospital. She says now that I'm old enough to take care of myself she can start working again but she said she would only be take ten hours a week until we got moved in completely and then she would increase her hours. Mom is afraid of height’s so her and dad are take a ship back to the United States. I'm going buy airplane. Mom and dad sold almost everything we had so it would be easy to move. They said we would buy new thing at the new house. The new house is located in California in the same neighborhood as my grandparents. The neighborhood is call woodview mom told me are new house is a mansion and we have rose in front of our house and in the backyard there is a wooded area. I'm so excited to get there and meet my grandparent and see my new house. I will be arriving before my parent so I'm going to have to stay with them. I'm to take a bus to the entrance of the neighborhood and my grandfather will pick me up from there. It takes eleven hours and thirty minute to fly from Tokyo to Los Angeles and four days by the ship mom and dad are taking.
Suddenly I feel a bump and someone comes over the intercom saying that we have just landed in Las Angeles .I was glad I was able to get off now my head was killing me because all the noise everything sounded louder than normal. Everybody starts getting there things and so do I. After I get off the plane I went into the airport to get the rest of my luggage. After that I when outside to wait on the bus. it was dark but I could see perfect which was weird all my senses seen heighted for some reason lately. The bus had just pulled up when I heard a loud screech. I looked over to my left and I saw a truck coming my way and I tried to jump out of the way but I was too late. I heard a crunch and thing when black.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
When I woke up some guy was standing over me. He was talk but I couldn't hear him. I tried to move and I felt a sharp pain and everything when black again............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
