Chapter 10: First Day In Japan

When I was still in the Philippines, I used to wake up around 5 to 6A.M, but today I overslept.

I open my eyes. I saw dad sitting beside me while he was looking at his laptop, and mom is still asleep and she's hugging me.

Dad look down at me. "Oh, you're awake, good morning." Then he lean down to give me a kiss on my forehead.

"Good morning too, dad."

"Stay still for now, I'm sure your mom will wake up soon." He said.

So I stayed still.

Then I felt mom hugs me tighter and whispered.

"Good morning."

"Good morning, mom."

Dad looks at mom. "Morning, honey."

"Morning too, hon."

Dad kisses mom's forehead and mom kisses dad's forehead too, the she kisses my forehead.

They are so sweet, I'm lucky to have a parents like them.

"Today will be a long day, Zenah." Mom said.

I look at her confused.

What does she mean? I ask in my mind.

"Hon, don't stress Zenah too much." Dad said.

"I won't." Mom pouted.

"Promise?"

Mom didn't answer dad, instead she look away.

"Hon." Dad calls her.

"Okay fine I won't. Zenah and Aimi will take a look around the house, and in the afternoon we will go shopping" Mom said.

They are not just sweet they are also cute.

"We will go shopping, mom?"

"Yes, why?"

"I saw my clothes on the closet, I think that's enough." I said.

Dad chuckled. "Trust me Zenah those clothes aren't enough."

"Yep, your dad is correct."

"Okay let's go downstairs to eat breakfast." Dad said.

Me and mom washed our face then we went downstairs for breakfast.

"Good morning, ma'am, sir, and miss Zenah." The maid greets us.

"Good morning too."

We ate bacon, fried rice, hotdogs and French toast bread for breakfast.

Aunt Aimi is cleaning the living room.

"Aimi." Mom calls her.

"Yes,ma'am."

"Can you please accompany Zenah to look around the house?"

"Sure ma'am."

"Your aunt Aimi will accompany you, okay? Me and your dad need a meeting to attend to, even if we want to accompany you we can't, I hope it's okay to you." Mom said

"Of course, you don't have to worry about me, mom." I said.

We continued eating. After breakfast I brushed my teeth and change clothes.

I checked the time, it's pass 8.

I waited for aunt Aimi, while waiting for her I saw mom and dad dressed nicely.

"Okay Zenah mom and dad have to go, don't worry Aimi will take a good care to you, if you need anything just tell it to the maids, okay?"

"Yes, mom."

"Okay, we have to go, bye." The she kisses me at the cheeks.

"Bye, sweetheart." Dad said and he kisses me at my forehead.

Then they left.

They must be in a hurry.

I just waited for more minutes to aunt Aimi.

"Sorry kept you waiting." She said.

"It's okay."

"I bought a water and towel just in case you get sweaty and thirsty."

"Thank you."

She smiles at me.

The house is like castle and you can see a big fountain in front of the house.

"Let's go."

We rode the electric scooter to look around the house because we walk we will get tired.

"Where do we go first aunt Aimi?" I ask her.

"Have they already told you about their daughter?"

"Ah yes."

She nodded. "Actually, their daughter is buried 5 minute walk from here, if you want we can visit her before wandering around the place."

"Oh really? Of course I would love to visit her." I said.

"Okay." She said.

We rode the electric scooter to get there. When we get there I saw a big glass cage with flowers around it. Aunt Aimi told me to get inside.

I want to pay my respect to her.

"Aunt Aimi, what's her name?" I was talking about mom and dad's real daughter.

"Zarinaiyah." She answer.

"Zarinaiya, nice name."

I saw her urn.

I touched it and close my eyes.

Hi, Zarinaiyah, my name is Zenah. You probably watching me from above. I'm sorry for what happened to you. The life I'm experiencing right now is the life you were supposed to be living with. I'm happy to continue what you didn't do and that was dad. I'm very happy that I met you even though we met like this. Promise I will visit you weekly. Good bye, Zarinaiyah.

Then I left the cage.

"You're donr?" Aunt Aimi asks me.

"Yes." I replied back.

"Okay let's go, we have a lot of place to look for." She said.

We saw a lot of places.

Gymnasium.

"Your parents use this whenever they celebrate their daughter's birthday, wedding anniversary and when they celebrate something."

"It must be hard for mom and dad to celebrate neesan's birthday because it's the same day when she died.

"You're right."

We continued to wander around.

There's swimming pool. Court. Then another house oh wait no it's garage with different expensive cars in different colors. A very nice garden with different kinds of flowers.

You can also see a lot of trees.

After that we went inside the house. We took a rest for a bit, then we continued to look around.

The first floor is where you can find the living room, kitchen, dining area and comfort room.

Second floor is like entertainment floor. You can play video games. Library. There's also a mini bar and private room for meetings.

Third floor is the bedrooms. There's eight bedrooms, this is actually for guests,

And lastly, the fourth It's very private floor, it's only for us. You can find our bedrooms in this fool. It has 6 bedrooms. One for me, one for mom and dad, and they also have separate rooms, aunt Aimi said they only use that room when they are fighting.

The 3 bedrooms are extra.

I forgot to mention there's two elevator in the house, in case you tired s of using the stairs.

After all of that aunt Aimi told me to take a rest.

"Come on, I know you're tired, wait for me here I will prepare you a snack. What snack do you want?"

"Anything is fine aunt Aimi."

"Okay wait for me here I'll prepare it for you."

Then she left. I want to watch something so I ask for the maids help.

"What do you want to watch miss Zenah?"

"Anime?"

"What anime, miss Zenah?"

"It's up to you." I said

She laughs. "Okay. What genre do you like miss Zenah?"

"Romance. And also can you please just call me Zenah-san."

"I'll try my best to call you that."

Then she played some anime.