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Third person
The room was dark; the only light seemed to come from a small digital clock. Just barely highlighted by the red light was a figure. Slowly the figure turned over in the bed, her dark, raven locks almost disappearing in the darkness. Asleep she almost looked peaceful, seemingly unaware of what would have to happen within the next day. She was dreaming.
Beep, beep, beep. Beep, beep, beep. Crash!
Apparently Rika didn't like to get up in the morning. Sitting up with a groan, the Japanese girl glared at the clock. A dark aura surrounded her. Honestly if looks could burn holes through objects her clock would have been fried long ago. Forcefully slamming the off button she got up.
Cue POV change: Rika
'Ugh! I hate that stupid clock.' I looked over to the glowing red numbers, '6:00! Are you kidding me! Why am I up this early?' Then I remembered what I was up for, my flight back to Japan left at 9:00 meaning I had to be at the gate at 8:00. Fabulous, just fabulous. Slowly getting up from the floor, I went to turn on the lights. If I didn't realize that I had set my alarm someone would have been beat bloody. I unplugged the abused clock and set it in the last box in my room. Everything else was already being shipped over that wasn't in a suit case.
"Oh what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day," Reiley was singing from the other room. I silently opened the door and walked up right behind the red head. I tapped on her shoulder. She dropped to the ground sweeping out her leg as I jumped over it. The more girly one of the twins paled and gulped when she saw me. "Oh Rika, I ah didn't see you there. Um, I didn't wake you up did I? Hehe. Sorry for disturbing your mornin'."
I chuckled darkly with my head hanging down slightly. "Oh you didn't wake me up but please do tell me what is so great about this morning, or any morning for that fact." I could see her slightly shaking.
"Umm well, you get to go back to Japan and we get to come with you?" Reiley squeaked as she jumped behind the couch.
"Hahahaha! You should see your face deirfiúr beag. You should know by now not to do anything loudly in the morning. Rika hates mornings." A wide awake Kaylie sputtered out.
"I'm sorry. I forgot deirfiúr mhór. I'll stay quiet next time."
I am not a morning person. I have never been a morning person. I will never be a morning person. So how did I get partners that were morning people? I turned around and walked back to my room. Shutting the door I sighed. There was no sleeping for me until I got onto the plane. I walked to my small suitcase holding my outfit for the day. I put a dark purple baby tee on and pulled on a purple tank top that stopped a little above my navel with a heart the color of the baby tee on it. I then pulled on some light denim shorts and my favorite pair of gray all stars. I just brushed my hair and let it hang down to my waist. When I left my room the twins were waiting for me. Reiley left her hair down with a white head band. She wore a baby pink shirt with a picture of Lord Death's mask on it and dark blue skinny jeans and black flats. Kaylie on the other hand was wearing a blue tank top with white trim and tan shorts and grey and black plaid converse. Her hair was pulled up in a high pony tail with her bangs hanging down.
"Ready to go to the airport? The others are meeting us there to see us off." The Irish twins said in unison.
"I guess. Let's get going. The sooner we leave the sooner we see the others," I sighed. "I'm going to miss this place." It was the truth. I had lived here with the girls for three years with the girls. Now I'm just expected to go back to Japan and pretend like my time here didn't affect me? Yeah my dad was nuts. Death City had definitely left its mark on me.
We arrived at the airport around 7:45 and checked in. Turning around we saw our friends in the crowd. Patty must have seen us as well because she started waving and jumping around to get our attention. I hurriedly walked over there dragging my twin weapon partners with me. As we reached them I let go of the girls and threw my arms around Maka and Tsubaki who were conveniently standing next to each other.
Out of all of the others I had formed a bond with Maka, Tsubaki, and Kid the most. They understood how hard it was to feel good enough for your family. All of the high expectations got to you after a while. Just look at Kid, he's OCD because he is under the impression that he has to be perfect and if he doesn't have everything perfect he could never make a decent reaper. Of course I think he would be great even without it. Maka pressures herself to become like her mom, and she finally did. Soul became a Death Scythe and her father couldn't be prouder (much to her annoyance because he clung to her whenever he saw her telling her how his 'little baby girl' was growing up.) Tsubaki was from a fighting family, she had to be a great ninja weapon no matter what. Sure enough she became a death scythe too.
All the weapons in our group had become death scythes, even the twins. Reiley was set to go work under Justin in Europe but now that we were headed to Japan that is where they will be death scythes. The others were planning on staying in Death City. I just hope that they would be able to visit us.
Kid stepped out from behind the girls and coughed lightly. "Seeing as we have all been friends for about three years, Liz, Patty, and I have decided to give you three each a copy of this." He handed me a perfectly symmetrical photo album as Liz handed one to Kaylie and Patty handed one to Reiley.
We opened them at the same time and gasped at what was inside. It was a picture of the day we all met. Maka and Soul were sitting at the base of a tree having a 'cool' conversation. Kid having a symmetry fit while Liz was trying to calm him down and Patty was laughing at him. Kaylie was listening to Soul and Maka talk and laughing at what was said. Reiley was smiling and looking up at the clouds. I was just sitting in the grass; my expression stoic like it usually was at the beginning. Black Star was jumping off of a tree limb with Tsubaki yelling worriedly after him with her hand stretched out.
I was almost crying. It captured that day perfectly. "The beginning of a beautiful friendship" was written off to the side in Kid's perfect writing. I looked up at the others, my eyes shining. Just as I was about to say thank you Soul stepped up to us. He pulled out a cd from behind his back.
"I remember you saying that you had a diverse taste in music so here you go. He handed a cd to each of us. On the back of the case the tracks were listed. There was music from all genres on this cd! All of my favorites were on it plus some other ones that Soul had written. If there was one thing Soul and I bonded over it was our love of music. I looked over to the twins and saw that their cd's had different music on it. All to their specific tastes.
Again I was about to say thanks but Maka pulled out three different journals. Each one had a name on it. She handed one to the corresponding person. Mine was purple with blue diamonds and had my first name on it in beautiful cursive writing on it. Kaylie's was red with blue polka dots with her name written in cursive. Reiley's was pink with black diagonal stripes on it and her name in cursive.
Black Star and Tsubaki stepped up last. "Since I'm a star, Tsubaki and I got you something too. Here you go." Tsubaki handed us each a box. I opened mine and saw it was a charm bracelet with a black and silver fan on it, the Celtic threefold symbol, and a black star. Reiley had a black star, Lord Death's mask, and a Celtic threefold symbol. On Kaylie's charm bracelet was the Celtic threefold symbol, a black star, and an eighth note.
Finally I couldn't hold it any more I threw my arms around the closest people (who happened to be Black Star, Tsubaki, and Soul). Reiley and Kaylie ended up starting a group hug pulling the others into our hug. It was quiet with in our group as we all enjoyed our hug until Kid had to speak up ("This is not symmetrical!") We started laughing and let go of each other.
"We can't thank you all enough-" I started.
"For all of this-" Reiley added.
"We are going to miss you-" Kaylie piped up.
"Thank you for being our friends!" We finished together. Yeah we had a freaky connection where we could finish each other's sentences. The twins could carry on conversations without talking so I was just happy to be this close to them where we knew each other this well.
The others laughed at us. It wasn't unusual for us to do this. Before we knew it, it was time to board the plane and say our last goodbye's to our friends. Once in our seats (which were first class, you can't expect anything else from my father) we settled down for a very long flight. My favorite Irish girls soon fell asleep on each other's shoulders. I opened the photo album back up and looked at the pictures of my friends and our crazy antics. 'I love my friends,' I thought. 'I'm going to miss them. *sigh* Oh well, Japan here we come. I wonder what my brother is up too. Has he made any friends? Is he still closed off from the world? Hope he isn't too surprised to see me and my friends. This will be fun; he hasn't met the twins yet." Those were apparently my last thoughts as I allowed sleep to take me.