Running away

A new place

We wandered for a bit and came to a place where there seemed to be more people. I stepped onto a stone thing, probably to prevent people from falling into the river. I looked around and noticed two fisherman.
    They just stared at me and whispered to themselves. I looked at them, confused. One just shrugged and asked me something. "What's your name kid?" Seeming that they would be no harm I replied back. "Nashi!" I yelled back.
    The men smiled warmly at me "Well then Nashi, Make sure you don't fall into the river!" I smiled and said back and said "Don't worry I'll be fine!" They looked at me shocked and one almost fell off.
    I heard them violently wisper back to each other. "That kid sounded just like Lucy! I know and the one next to her looks like her too! She also has that weird hair color of Salamander too!"
    They continued talking but I couldn't hear them as they were to far away. I stepped off worried "Did they know my mom? How did they guess it so fast?" Thoughts swirled through my head as Luke turned his head to me, obviously he wasn't listening to my conversation with the fishermen.
    He asked me "You alright? You seem kind of pale..." I nodded and said a simple "I'm fine" as Luke turned away still focused on a pamphlet I didn't notice before. We kept on walking for a bit when I noticed a woman.
    She was fairly.... large and had a dog-like scarf wrapped around her neck. She looked fairly old and had red sunglasses. She was wearing lots of jewelry including pearls and had a red dress that split, revealing her cleavage.
    She also had purple hair that was in a weird hairstyle. I stepped back in shock as she realized I was staring at her. She just stood in place and crossed her arms. My attention was however reverted back to Luke when he exclaimed.
    "This should be the place!" He looked up with a happy face to a huge hotel. It was a light brown, with a brick design. It looked fairly new too.The place was right next to the house that the lady was standing in front of.
    She was staring at us with a confused look. I, being very weirded out, took Luke's hand and led us inside. The inside was extremely pretty. There was white colored walls and dark brown hardwood floors.
    There was a bathroom, a mess hall, elevators, a massage parlor, a pool, judging by the signs. There was nice staff looking staff and happy people. There was a clean smell, and it looked like they served breakfast here too!
    I drooled at the thought as Luke walked over to the register. He walked up to a lady with red hair, cut to her shoulders. She looked fairly mean. Luke spoke up "Um... Hi!...er...Can we have a room for two?"
    He asked. She looked down and said "Sorry we don't serve kids here. Go find your mommy and come back, Kay?" She replied snarkily. I sighed, and pulled Luke outside. We sat down on the border of the river and the street and I put my head into my arms.
    I looked into the clean water. It seemed like there was fish in the water. This place must be very eco- friendly too. I groaned. "What are we going to do now?" Luke asked. "We find another hotel, duh" I replied.
    "They won't accept us. This is dumb" he said. "Maybe we should just give up and go home" he mumbled. I shot up and grabbed his face, forcing him to look me in the eyes. "We are definitely not going home! We came here for a reason! To find dad right?"
    I looked around and noticed people were giving us weird looks. I cleared my throat and continued. "Don't you want mom to be happy? She obviously loves him. He... " I stopped. What if dad didn't want us? What if he refused our confession?
    I gulped. I shook all of my negative thoughts away and stood up. I grabbed Luke's hand and wandered. The old lady from before was still looking at us, probably contemplating something.
    I was about to walk past her when Luke yelped. I jumped back, ready to protect my little brother from anything and noticed the lady was grabbing his arm. She quickly let go however, and cleared her throat.
    "You need a hotel, right" she said puffing out her chest. I pulled Luke behind me and slowly nodded. "I don't know who you two are.... but I have a feeling that I should let you stay here, charged of course."
    I looked to Luke and she seemed like he was thinking. He looked up to me and shrugged. I sighed "Yeah sure, for how much?" thought for a moment.
    "5,000 jewel per week!"
    "Isn't that more like renting the place?"
    "Fine! Per day!"
    "We'll take it!" Luke shouted before I could butt in again.
    "We'll take the first option!" He continued. She gave us a grin and said "Follow me." We walked inside. I liked this place! It was so roomy! It had hardwood floors and had two mailboxes.
    There was a pleasant flowery scent coming from upstairs and a calming cinnamon scent coming from a candle which was sitting on a desk. There was papers and other stuff inside too.
    There was two sets of stairs, one on the left, and one on the right. She led us up the left set of stairs as I looked right. I stopped once we reached the head of the stairs. I seemed.. drawn to the other door.
    I was about to walk towards it when I heard a door open. I turned my head to see the lady leading Luke into our room, I suppose. I took a glance at the mysterious room and followed them into our new room.
    I glanced around and completely fell in love with the place. It had wooden floors and a giant yellow carpet of the floor. It had pink walls, much to Luke's dismay, and a fair amount of windows.
    It was beautifully made as I wondered around. I found myself standing in the restroom area. The bathroom seemed almost perfect for baths! I cooed and started placing my stuff into the built in shelf next to the bathtub.
    I placed the rest of my stuff around. I made a mental checklist of what we would need for if we need to go to the store. I stepped out and it seemed like Luke had already paid the lady, as she was walking out, counting money.
    Luke sighed, looking into his wallet as he closed it. He walked past me into the restroom as I started unpacking. Since we didn't have any furniture I just stacked my clothes on top of each other.
    I laid down a blanket and since we didn't have pillows, I used Luke's blanket that he brought. Since we didn't have enough blankets for separate beds Luke and I would have to share.
    I fished through my almost empty backpack I pulled out a stack of magazines and set them next to my side of the makeshift bed. I stood up and gave a "hmph" of approval as I heard a door open.
    I turned to see Luke wiping his hands on his pants while grumbling about how having any towels or something. I dumped out the rest of the contents of my bag and looked on the floor. My cracked phone, wallet, and a bag fell out.
    I looked at the bag with curiosity. I picked in up and looked inside. It was the food from yesterday! I drooled at the thought, and also because I haven't eaten today. I did a little happy dance and looked around for a heating lacrama or something.
    I groaned in disapproval when the only thing in sight was a oven. It was still kind of cute though at least. I picked up my wallet off the floor and some clothes and walked to the vacant restroom and changed.
    I looked at the clothes that I chose at random after I closed the door. It was a red baggy crop top and some high rise jeans. I sat them down on the toilet seat and started up the bath. After the water was a good temperature I added some bubbles.
    I took off my clothes from the previous day and got in the tub. I mewed at the perfect temperature of the water and relaxed. I looked around for my prepared bottle of shampoo and picked it up. It read "Strawberry-Vanilla scented 2- In one"
    It was the same shampoo my mom used and recommend to me. I oozed some on my hair and washed it out. I continued to wash my body and sadly left the bath, with my fingers slightly pruned. I dried myself off and got changed.
    I proceeded to brunch my hair and teeth and walked out to the shared bedroom. Luke was reading his book and barely noticed my existence, only giving me a glance. I picked up my small wallet and slipped on some converse.
    I was about to leave when Luke finally decided to speak up "Where are you going?" He asked "To the store, we need firewood" "I'm going with you" "Go ahead" I scoffed. Honestly I wanted him to go with me.
    I was scared of going alone and I was utterly useless without magic.He slipped on some shoes and I opened the door, treating him like a princess when his back was to me. He turned and I acted like I had done nothing as I closed the door behind us.