Red Canvas - Part 1

Chapter 1 - Kaito

Kaito

In the taxi on the way to the airport, Kaito felt so uncertain about what was to happen from now on. It just all happened so quickly. One week he was sitting alone playing the piano and singing and the next he's packing a bag to go live in England! A part of Kaito felt sad about leaving his only home he'd ever known and as the thought reached him, a single tear slid down his face. Everything he had known was in Tokyo. How could his parents be so blind? His whole life revolved around a single piano, a room, a house. He still had his notebook full of his songs, notes, and dreams all either written or drawn in by the same pencil. Kaito pulled out his phone and headphones and started to listen to some music when his mother nudged him. They were here. Out of the taxi, through the airport, through customs, through all the shops, through to the plane and finally to his seat. Here he would be stuck for the next 12 hours, reminiscing on his life in Tokyo. Kaito had been to the Heart of Tokyo, the city, countless times, most with his mother when his father had to go to business meetings and they had to come. They would spend ages in the Pokemon Centre, buying plush toys of their favorite Pokemon for themselves or in the Tokyo Skytree, looking out to their beautiful city. But now he might never be there ever again. He took the window seat so he could take one last look out at Tokyo as they took off. He felt the unfamiliar pull of the airplane against him and they were in the air. This was Kaito's second ever plane trip. His first was up to Sapporo for a skiing trip with his mother in August when he was 13. His father had to be away for some time in Kyoto so his mother arranged a 7 day holiday for them up in Sapporo. Here, Kaito learned how to ski and had loads of fun on the slopes. But after the week was up, they had to return back to Tokyo and back to their normal lives. And now, they have to leave their old lives behind and swap them in for new ones in London. Kaito took one last glance out the window and then prepared himself for what was to come.