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Me from Japan

Daya's POV

"Sawyer here's your bear," I say. I sit in a dining room chair holding out the stuffed animal Harper gave Sawyer as Sawyer waddles around in front of me. My dad is in the kitchen cooking explaining the seasoned chicken smell. Kayla is helping him and it's kind of cute seeing her be his cooking assistant especially since I hardly see Kayla since she became the head stylist at her salon and her big disruptive family moved close by. 

Sawyer holds out her hands and in her baby blue jogging suit makes her way over to me. She takes hold of the bear and instead of kissing it like she usually does she shakes her head. "No," she whines. She flings the bear across the room making it land in front of Dani who is staring at her phone which is how she normally spends her time. She just got back from sleepaway camp, and along with a duffel bag of smelly clothes she brought a stank attitude. 

"Dani can you get Sawyer's bear," I say. She continues to stare at her phone which is on a high volume even though her earbuds are sitting on the coffee table. She's not even watching anything important just some youtube videos about sims 4. 

"Dani," I say louder. This time she looks up from her phone and lets out a huff which she learned from Vince. 

"What?" she says. 

I want to say something slick, but Vince's words about me protecting her come to mind and I let it pass something I've learned from Ziyah who does that often. 

"Nevermind." I get up and get the bear myself with Sawyer trailing behind me. 

She reaches out her hands again. "Mine!" she whines looking up at me. 

"I thought you didn't want the bear?" Sawyer continues to hold her hands up and continually closes and opens them. I reach down and hand her the bear only for her to fling it again making it land right in front of the front door. 

Kayla comes from the kitchen dressed in her apron with her hair in a messy bun. "Sorry Daya she's been watching Vince and has found a love for throwing things," she says. She picks up Sawyer and places her on her hip. Sawyer clings onto her and it's the cutest thing seeing Sawyer's little brown eyes light up at the sight of her mother. "You good Daya?" Kayla asks snapping me out of my daze. 

I shake away my thoughts. "Yea, I was just thinking." Kayla nods and while softly talking to Sawyer she makes her way into her bedroom. 

I grab the bear off the floor and the second I pick up the pink furred animal there's a loud knock on the door. The sound catches me off guard and in the weirdest way I stumble backwards and fall right on my butt. Of course Dani sees this, and cracks up which I just shake my head at. 

"Who is it!" My dad yells through the whole apartment. 

"It's me!" Vince's voice booms. Of course he can never remember to get his keys. I get up and slightly open the door only to see Vince's scold and matted hair. 

"Me the transfer student from Japan?" I ask. 

"Hahaha open the door I gotta take a leak," Vince says. I open the door and Vince in his California Bears workout uniform rushes towards the bathroom. 

"Vince is that you!" My dad yells. 

"Yurp," Vince says before slamming the door. After I sit on the arm of the couch and hear the sound of flushing and the sink running Vince comes out and comes over to the couch. 

"Sup," he says. He sticks out his hand and without looking away from her phone Dani daps him and he nudges her in the arm. 

"Why don't you ever dap me?" I ask.