CHAPTER 17: Meeting My Grandparents

Another 30 minutes had passed and the question is getting hotter.

The press conference is live and someone is reading the questions from online.

After one hour the press conference ended.

"Thank you so much for your time Mr., Mrs. And Miss Iekami, if you will need another press con, our place is welcome." A man said.

I'm guessing that he's the owner of the place, and coordinator.

"Thank you so much Mr. Hajime."

"Anytime."

Dad smiles at him. "Alright, we need to go to our parent's house to formally introduce Zenah to them."

"Good luck." The man said to dad.

After we bid our good bye to everyone we went inside the car and dad drove to his parent house.

While we're on the way Niko-sensei spoke. "Zenah, can I have your phone?"

"Sure." I gave him my phone.

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My phone doesn't have password so it can be open by everyone.

"You should put password on your phone, it's for safety purposes."

"Okay, I'll put some when I get my phone back."

After some minute he gave my phone to mom.

"She's too young to put her username, so you create a username for her in all of the social media platforms, I already created her email."

It took mom less than 20 minutes to finish what she's doing on my phone, after that she gave it back to me.

"There you go, if you don't want the usernames that I gave you, you can tell me and I'll change it."

I checked everything.

E-mail: iekamizenah@gmail.com

Twitter: @zenahhhh

Instagram:@ze_nah

Facebook: Zenah Iekami

It's actually not that bad.

"So, what do you think?"

"It's good, thank you mom."

"Anytime sweetheart."

I put a password on my phone, it's 070905.

"Did you put password on your hone?" Sensei asks me.

"Yes. It's 070905."

They all looked shocked

It's the date of birth and death of my sister, Zarinaiyah.

"I can't think of any numbers so I just¬¬—"

"You don't need to explain, Zenah." Dad cuts me off.

After a while, we reach a fancy Japanese house. It's the traditional houses of Japanese, but this house is different because it's fancier.

"Let's go to my room first and change clothes." Dad said.

I wonder why we need to change clothes, our clothes looks nice.

When we step out from the car, a servat went to us.

"Master, your clothes are ready, and they're also ready." The servat said.

" Okay, thank you. Please tell them we will there in 10 minets." Dad replies back.

"Okay master." Before the servant left she bowed at us.

"Let's go." Dad said.

I can already feel the tension.

To be honest, I'm feeling anxius, I want run away, I want to return home.

Mom and dad are taking the lead as we walked to dad's room.

"Sensei, I'm scared."

"Do you want to go home?"

Yes. I want to say that but I can't open my mouth.

"No." I lied. "I just need some advice to lessen the scariness that I'm feeling right now."

"I'm not really good at giving advice, but I'll try my best. You know it's normal to feel cared and anxious, believe it or not even me at this kind of age, I still feel scared sometimes, but I choose to face it, why? Because if I ran away I can't keep moving forward, I'll be stuck in that place. There's only two options, face it and keep moving forward or be a coward and run away."

I still feel scred.

"You still look scared, told you I'm not good at giving advice." He shrugged.

"Thank you, it didn't make me relieved but it inspires me."

He laugh. "Really"

I saw four kimonos as we enter dad's room.

*(Kimono are Japanese traditional clothing.)*

Is this what we're wearing?

I remember sensei told me that dad's parents are very traditional, because for them the traditional is better than the modern.

After wearing the kimono, they put some head accessories on my head.

Is this me?

I ask to myself.

Someone knocks at the door.

"Yes?" Dad said.

"Master, they are waiting for you."

"Yes, we're coming."

"Let's go." Mom said

We went down.

I saw a old lady and old man sitting on the floor with tea in front of them.

They must be my grandparents.

The man stood up as he saw us. "Oh my, Aki-san, Haru-san, Niko-san, it's nice to see you again. He looks at me. "Is this her?"

"Yes, father." Dad said.

"Sweetheart' introduce you self." Mom said.

Sensei taught me this.

The old man sat down.

"Konnichiwa, Watashi no namae wa Zenah desu." I get on my knees and bowed at them.

*(Translation = Good afternoon, my name is Zenah.)*

Then I sit properly. Mom and dad are sitting beside me while sensei is standing beside dad.

"Hajimemashite, Zenah." The old man said.

Finally the old lady looks at me.

I felt mom holds my hand and squeeze my hand.

"You adopted a child and yet you choose a girl, a girl can change her surname once she get married, whose gonna earn the credit for that? The man's family of course! Girls are useless." The old lady said.

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"So, are you saying that you're useless too!?" Dad said with anger.

"Haru!" The old man shouted.

"Last time you insulted my wife before we get married, and now you're insulting my daughter too!? If you keep on insulting my family then we won't show our faces to you.

You're old, your death is near, and yet you keep on insulting my family, remember this mother, no one else will take care of you but my family."

"Is this what you taught my son, Niko¬-san¬?"

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"No, and I apologize for he said. But what you also said about Zenah is disrespectful, you hurt the child's feeling.

Even so, Haru is wrong for shouting at you and for what he said, you're also wrong, you don't have the right to insult the people you just met."

"You're all being rude. Zenah, do you want to take a walk with me? I'll tour you to our house."

I look to mom. "Go ahead, your grandpa is nice don't worry."

"Okay, then please excuse us." I said ands tood up.

We went outside for a walk then we start talking about random things.