Friendship is something that was always a mystery to me.
I seen it happening, every day, everywher, people hanging out in groups talking about pop culture and what they had for breakfast. At school it was like a well kept secret, always walking behind these strange people, I wondered how they can manage it so easily?
Then, it happened to me, a girl approached me said she liked my style and what my name was. I twas that easy, but around this time they wanted to invade my world even more, the first time she finally came over to my room , she marveled at it. "I love it!" she examined the poetry headings I pasted all over my wall and played some music, she picked up a manga and asked for some water. I was happy, I finally had a friend. The happiness was shattered when a glass bottle hit my head. I was immidately unconcious, the next day she didn't want to be friends with me anymore. I returned to my solitude, always wondering how normal kids lived their lives.
That day at Leila's apartment I was waiting for the cool girl next door to practice guitar, she was friends with Leila, but for the first time I wanted a friend, and I wanted it to be her, I had met her before at a kareoke mixer Leila took me to, when I sang she praised me.
She had caught me watching her practice on the terrace a few times but today she hadn't started yet. Suddenly I heard a knocking on the door and went to answer, it was her!
I was startled and opened the door. "Yeah?"
"If you wanna see me play you can come over you know, I have a lot of food my parents sent over we can hang," just like that, as if she'd known me forever. She cocked her head and smiled, that's when I noticed she had blue eyes, like mirrors. "I'm Seiko," and put out her hand, I shook it, "Charlotte, nice meeting you," I took the keys and locked the door and that's how it happened, easily.
Seiko told me how she admired my singing and how long I had been singing and that she wanted me to sing something for her while she played guitar. It was overwhleming but I soon noticed this was Seiko's nature. Fast talking and a creative vocabulary she swore loudly when she bumped against smething that inflicted pain, or at an annoyance. It contrasted to what a small asian girl would be, long Blond polytail swinging behind her, her roots were clear though,almost white. She had blue eyes, I wanted to ask why but it might be rude. She said it aloud before I could ask almost laughing but clearly cynically, "I'm an albino, it's why im mostly indoors during the day," "You don't go to school?" "Yeah, but at night, college is stupid but whatever," "You go to college, I thought you were still in highschool," "Nah, i did the GED thing, too busy to manage school," "What do you do?" "I go to college at night, meet with friends, with my stalker, do da shopping, norma tortured girl stuffs, and you home carriage? What do you do all day beside listen to japanese rock and sneak peaks at my guitar skills?" She was funny and I laughed at her clever jokes, I told her that I didnt know what to do yet, and that's how our friendship began. Seiko loved my lack of social skills and convinced me to sing in her band, "but we're currently the only two in the band," it wasnt before Tomo wanted to hang out and talk about music, so I invited him to the apartment, with permission of course from Allie, he saw me and Seiko practicing and we became a band of three, as soon as he mentioned he plays bass and guitar.
Seiko is a little rash, and mischievous and loud but she's honest and head strong, I love that about her.
Seiko told me that she lived at the apartment by herself, her father is a business man and travels a lot, she said she was adopted but nothing else. It wasn't till christmas when I met her father I learned that she was born in a small village in korea, her father was visiting korea on business, her mother tried to drown her in the river, and was caught, Seiko was rushed to the hospital where her father was, doing business there he had an accident while on construction site for his companies expansion building, and while walking around he came to the children's ward, and he heard of Seiko's story, he met with her, and fell in love instantly, he made it a plan then to adopt her right one the spot as soon as he held her in his arms, he knew she was his child now. Seiko is embarrassed of the story but she doesn't deny of it. There anger in her eyes when he leaves to the restroom. "I always wish he'd leave the part about the river out, it's not something I like to be reminded of. I gave Seiko a hug, she protested but accepted it, Im glad seiko lived, I don't know what my life would be like without her in it.
I seen it happening, every day, everywher, people hanging out in groups talking about pop culture and what they had for breakfast. At school it was like a well kept secret, always walking behind these strange people, I wondered how they can manage it so easily?
Then, it happened to me, a girl approached me said she liked my style and what my name was. I twas that easy, but around this time they wanted to invade my world even more, the first time she finally came over to my room , she marveled at it. "I love it!" she examined the poetry headings I pasted all over my wall and played some music, she picked up a manga and asked for some water. I was happy, I finally had a friend. The happiness was shattered when a glass bottle hit my head. I was immidately unconcious, the next day she didn't want to be friends with me anymore. I returned to my solitude, always wondering how normal kids lived their lives.
That day at Leila's apartment I was waiting for the cool girl next door to practice guitar, she was friends with Leila, but for the first time I wanted a friend, and I wanted it to be her, I had met her before at a kareoke mixer Leila took me to, when I sang she praised me.
She had caught me watching her practice on the terrace a few times but today she hadn't started yet. Suddenly I heard a knocking on the door and went to answer, it was her!
I was startled and opened the door. "Yeah?"
"If you wanna see me play you can come over you know, I have a lot of food my parents sent over we can hang," just like that, as if she'd known me forever. She cocked her head and smiled, that's when I noticed she had blue eyes, like mirrors. "I'm Seiko," and put out her hand, I shook it, "Charlotte, nice meeting you," I took the keys and locked the door and that's how it happened, easily.
Seiko told me how she admired my singing and how long I had been singing and that she wanted me to sing something for her while she played guitar. It was overwhleming but I soon noticed this was Seiko's nature. Fast talking and a creative vocabulary she swore loudly when she bumped against smething that inflicted pain, or at an annoyance. It contrasted to what a small asian girl would be, long Blond polytail swinging behind her, her roots were clear though,almost white. She had blue eyes, I wanted to ask why but it might be rude. She said it aloud before I could ask almost laughing but clearly cynically, "I'm an albino, it's why im mostly indoors during the day," "You don't go to school?" "Yeah, but at night, college is stupid but whatever," "You go to college, I thought you were still in highschool," "Nah, i did the GED thing, too busy to manage school," "What do you do?" "I go to college at night, meet with friends, with my stalker, do da shopping, norma tortured girl stuffs, and you home carriage? What do you do all day beside listen to japanese rock and sneak peaks at my guitar skills?" She was funny and I laughed at her clever jokes, I told her that I didnt know what to do yet, and that's how our friendship began. Seiko loved my lack of social skills and convinced me to sing in her band, "but we're currently the only two in the band," it wasnt before Tomo wanted to hang out and talk about music, so I invited him to the apartment, with permission of course from Allie, he saw me and Seiko practicing and we became a band of three, as soon as he mentioned he plays bass and guitar.
Seiko is a little rash, and mischievous and loud but she's honest and head strong, I love that about her.
Seiko told me that she lived at the apartment by herself, her father is a business man and travels a lot, she said she was adopted but nothing else. It wasn't till christmas when I met her father I learned that she was born in a small village in korea, her father was visiting korea on business, her mother tried to drown her in the river, and was caught, Seiko was rushed to the hospital where her father was, doing business there he had an accident while on construction site for his companies expansion building, and while walking around he came to the children's ward, and he heard of Seiko's story, he met with her, and fell in love instantly, he made it a plan then to adopt her right one the spot as soon as he held her in his arms, he knew she was his child now. Seiko is embarrassed of the story but she doesn't deny of it. There anger in her eyes when he leaves to the restroom. "I always wish he'd leave the part about the river out, it's not something I like to be reminded of. I gave Seiko a hug, she protested but accepted it, Im glad seiko lived, I don't know what my life would be like without her in it.
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