Category: Diary

Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

Yeah, it was a pillow fight, and a rip-roaring one too.  And yes, Sabby was in on it.  Woman’s got an arm.  Sabby usually doesn’t do things like that.  I asked her afterwards when we were all plopped on the bed catching our breath and nursing sore noses why, and she just said “I haven’t felt young in a long while and you’re not going to be here that much longer.”

Awww.

Sabby has never treated me like a child, but lately she’s been treating me a lot more like an adult.  She’s told me more about herself, but as a friend rather than a mother.  She had it hard, she really did.  The stuff she did as a teenager just to survive…  I’m glad I was saved from that kind of life.  I mean, it made her who she is now, but sometimes I can still see the scars peeking out.

So, Yuki wants to room with me in Japan when I go to school.

I asked her why…  I mean, she has her parents to stay with, and she has a bit saved up too from her time as an idol.  I guess it didn’t pay great but she was pretty responsible.  She just said “I like you, you’re easy to get along with, and I don’t want to be alone when I go back there.”  I asked her about Suzuka and Haruna, and she just shrugged.  “They’re good people but I don’t think I want to live with them.”

“And you want to live with me?”

“Un”, she said, softly.

She’s going to get a job and start applying to college when she gets back there, she’ll also have entrance exams to take too.  But… I think it’s good for her.  I agreed.

It’ll be nice to have someone around.  I’ve had people around for as long as I can remember (well, you know exactly how long that is).  But Yuki will be a roommate… not like Beth or Dave or David or Sabby.

I’m starting to realize.  I’m going to be a grown up.

I am a grown up… but I’m going to be one too.

I have to tell Rebecca and her SoCal friends about my secret if I want to teach them the dance steps.  Aww.  And I have to arrange airfare for them too at some point.  Not sure how I’m going to work that out and have any hope at all of keeping even the smallest bit of the surprise, still a surprise.

Oh well.  Even if not, I’m sure they’ll have a blast.

Love you all!!! ❤️

Hi! It’s me1 Lily!!!

What a hot day!! Now we’re in summer in central Texas!!!

It’s not hot in Tokyo though, so when I popped over this morning to go take some lessons from Miki (and their choreographer), it was really pleasant there.  I actually went for my run there.  I guess there are some advantages.  They taught me a lot of the steps and now I need to teach the girls.  They dumbed it down for us newbies, so it’s not like we’re doing backflips or anything.

Of course they asked why I’m teaching them that…  well, I want to perform it with them at the shop.  And there’s no other reason.  Not at all, no sirree…  but I actually do want to perform it with them at the shop, so, well….  I’ll spend tomorrow teaching them some of the steps.

Going to have to figure out how to teach Rebecca and her friends in SoCal those steps too, but…  we’ll figure it out.  Yeah, I want them to perform it too.  They were on the train with me, after all!!!

Beth actually figured out the other reason I don’t have at all, but she has to keep it quiet, and now she actually has to help me.  Aww.  the others are a little suspicious but I told them if they trust me just go along with it because I’m not going to have them do anything bad.  I mean, who am I kidding, they for sure know something’s up but I want to keep at least SOME surprise…

Okay!  Girls are here and they’re full of chocolate, so there’s some wall-bouncing going on, so I may as well join in on the…  oh crap, is that a pillow fight I hear?  Sabby’s not gonna be… wait.  Is that her I hear throwing pillows too?

Dangit, I need to get in on that action.

Love you all OWWWWWWW

I’M GONNA GET YOU BETH.  Stop squealing and running!!! Okay gotta go!!!

Hi! It’s me1 Lily!!!

Well, I didn’t expect that.  David wanted to spend some time with me today.

I guess I’m going off to college soon and he’s gonna miss me…. even though he couldn’t quite say it.

So, I told him about my little “skill”.

Dangit, now he thinks I’m a superhero.  He wants me to wear a costume and everything.  And he was zoning out when describing the heart-shaped hole in the chest.  Oh well, he’s a boy, that’ll happen.

He did tell me he’s glad I’m his sister though.  Awww.  I wonder what brought that on, but I’m not going to look that gift horse in the mouth.

I popped over to Tokyo and got him some kakigoori though.  He loves shaved ice.  I should buy some of the syrup so I can make my own and not have to transfer to yen.

That’s another inconvenient thing – I have to keep a little currency handy for any country I want to go to regularly.  I’ll need a bunch of little coinpurses in my bag, or something, with labels… and won’t that look weird if someone’s snooping around.  “Why does she have yen…  and yuan?”

Well, honestly, I really can’t go to China, it’s one of those countries that isn’t particularly safe, but still.

Anyway, other than that, it’s been hot and a bit boring.  Crystal came over to show me some more music she wrote.  Dang it she’s really good.  I want her to start taking music classes, I bet she’d do some really cool stuff.

Also…  I’m trying to coordinate with Miki for her to teach me the choreography for “don’t embarrass your big sister on the train”…  but I can’t tell you why, it’s part of the surprise for this August.  I’m no dancer, but I need to know all the different steps anyway  In fact, I might take some dance lessons over the next month.  I’m two left feet, but..  I need to.  I’m pretty fit and flexible, so I just need to learn how to do the steps and not trip over myself.

And I might drag the girls along with me.  Hahah!!  Or at least some of them.

Love you all!!! ❤️

Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

I don’t really have much to say today.  It was another boring day.  It’s getting hot here in Central Texas.  Yeah, I guess I could go to Australia, but, what’s the point, really?  I can also stay here and have an ice pop.

Central Texas is a little boring in the summer, really.

There’s no beaches, there’s no amusement parks really except for the waterpark, there’s… really nothing.

Look at me, being all complainey.

Oh well, it’s fun complaining sometimes.  I’d just better not let Sabby catch me, um…  well, she’ll probably read this.

Oh well.

I studied Japanese some, and ran this morning, and, well…  what else.  Nothing, really.

Well, considering all the exciting stuff that happens to me, maybe I should be happy to have a day where I don’t have anything to say.

Love you all!!! ❤️

Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

Today was a boring day.

“What, you mean you can’t just travel to London and make a day of it?”

Well, no.  First, Sabby would be ticked.  Second, time difference.  Third, I really don’t like doing it if I don’t have to.  Fourth, well, I just didn’t, so…

So I just kinda of sat around and watched anime.

Yes, Sabby likes it when I do stuff that’s useful, but sometimes I deserve a break too, right?

All the girls were off doing their own thing today.  They invited me to do something, but I really didn’t feel much like it, so I just lazed a bit.  Let Marie cuddle with me (she’s fine) and watched anime.  I caught up on “Sound! Euphonium”‘s third season, and, ummm.. wow.

Not telling you what happened, but, well, some stuff really happened.  I was crying by the end of episode 12.  Poor Reina!  And poor Kumiko!!!

And poor Kanade too!!!

Poor everyone except Mayu!!!

Anyway…  otherwise, I’m still lazing around tonight.  Just flopping around in my PJs until bedtime.  Maybe I’ll do something more interesting tomorrow.

Love you all!!! ❤️

Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

Well… things are getting a little back to some semblance of normal, after all the frankly weird stuff that’s been going on, lately.  I went to church today and had a frank talk with the pastor.  I explained to him some of what the Boss is doing.  I figured I owed that to him, anyway – if he’s going to trust me, well, I need to make sure he has a reason to, and supernatural stuff just tends to happen around me.  It’s funny how churches seem to be so accepting of the supernatural – until they see it happen with their own eyes.  Then they think it’s a demon or something.

Sometimes it is.  I haven’t run across one yet but Mrs. X has.  She says it’s not fun, but it also kind of comes with the territory that high in the government  She gave me some tips to dealing with them, but it mostly comes down to not letting them get inside your head.

I didn’t really have any messages today, so I just gave a quick generic message about some of the stuff the Boss told me.  You know, how he’s in charge and doing stuff behind the scenes.  But I kept it generic so it didn’t freak anyone out.

The way the world is right now, it’s a necessary message, I think.  Too many wars.

Otherwise, Crystal and her band came over and practiced.  They’re really getting good.  Crystal’s been writing lyrics and they’ve been writing music around it, and it’s good.  I mean, good.  If they can’t make anything out of it, it won’t be because they’re no good.  Sabby’s pretty much done with the new shop, they just have to start getting food and stuff shipped over and the grand opening will happen really soon.  Crystal’s band will be one of the inaugurating bands.  She’s really happy about that, and so is her group too.

BTW… you know, Katy?  The one who dresses all cute and primly and looks like the model of a classy girl?

Yeah…  she’s wilder than Crystal.

You can never judge a book by its cover, can you?

She’s the type who’ll be with a random boy and say “fudge me”…  haha…

Well, anyway…

Joe and Anathema are off starting their new life.  Anathema is deliriously happy, even though Joe is away for a while on duty sometimes.  Just comes with the territory, I guess.  She’s due pretty soon, I hope I get to meet the baby.

I guess I’ll go to bed soon.

Love you all!!! ❤️

Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

So all the girls stayed over today, and I didn’t pop anywhere.  Sabby took us to the waterpark.

You know, I could have popped in, and saved the admission fee.  But that’s one thing we are explicitly not allowed to do.  Unless I have a very good reason, no stealing.   The Boss is big on that kind of thing.  And that’s stealing.  They can’t stop us, really, but we do have a code that we have to follow.  So, we just kind of went in and did our thing.

And it was fun!!! The waterpark is always fun.  All the splishing and splashing and sliding and fwooshing and squealing…  Crystal had some boys staring at her.  She did nothing to encourage them… but she was prancing a little more than usual.  She’s not quite as gifted as I am, but she can hold her own.  And, sometimes, she does.

HAHAHAHAAA!!!!!

She doesn’t think that joke is funny.

HAHAHAHAHAAHAAAA!!!!!!

I’m sitting here snickering and Crystal is whapping my head.  WORTH IT.

I don’t prance.  Crystal prances.  haha.

Okay, enough.  Ow.

Anyway… it’s only about two months until i go to Japan.  I’m already starting to figure out what I want to take, what I want to ship… see, if I want to take anything big, like my digital piano… I can’t pop it with me.  It’s only stuff I can carry on my person.  Basically, if it doesn’t fit in a backpack, I shouldn’t push it.  Even a large backpack, but still.  So some stuff I will still have to have shipped.  So Sabby’s going to help me figure all that out.

But if it’s just taking stuff, well…  I can pop several different backpack loads.  I was warned not to take too many trips in too short a time, though.  Apparently my totem is very energy efficient, etc… but it can still need to recharge if I’m not careful.  Five trips in ten minutes or so is about the limit, I guess.  What amazing science… even if it’s not entirely science.  The impression I’m getting is that it uses science to do something that, well, isn’t quite scientific.  There’s still some supernatural in there somewhere.  But still, it’s amazing.  That’s confusing the heck out of Beth, but something to puncture her worship of science isn’t a horrible thing.

Well, we’re going to go play a game.  We haven’t decided what…  Liz wants to play Scrabble but she’s too good at it and no one else wants to.   Truth or Dare is, well… off limits after the Crystal incident (though that turned out well in the end), so…  maybe we’ll just end up playing cards or something.

Love you all!!! ❤️

Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

All the girls are over tonight.  We’re playing games and eating.  A lot.

I popped out to Japan and got us some okonomiyaki.  When I popped back, they just said “We’ll never get used to that”.

“Join the club,” I said, a little more sadly than I meant to.  But they enjoyed their okonomiyaki and bubble tea, so there’s that.

Afterwards, we just chatted and played games.  Crystal suggested “spin the bottle” but several of us have boyfriends and the rest won’t do it without a boy around, so that’s not happening.  Crystal does like boys, but she’s a bit, ummm…. adventurous.  She’ll need to be adventurous somewhere else, I guess.

We don’t care, but it’s not for us.

We haven’t made a girl pile in a long time, so I guess we’re going to do that tonight.

Love you all!!! ❤️

Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

Well, I learned something.  Travelling halfway across the world is difficult.  Not because of the travel time, that’s not an issue now… but because of the time difference.

I went over to spend some time with Miki today, after her work.  It was like 4 AM for me.  We had fun and everything, but by the time I got home it was like 10 AM, and I was really tired.  I just took a nap.

Sabby wasn’t too happy.  I explained what happened, and she said she understood, but it’s still a weekday and it won’t do for my sleep schedule to get out of whack –  I still live in the US and my circadian rhythm is important.

Sigh.  She’s right.  She’s always right.

Maybe we can compromise on the weekends.  Evening for me is morning for her, so… well, we’ll see.  She’s an idol so she is busy.

You know, if you’d told me about this before, I might have thought it’s the best thing ever, but it’s really kind of a mendokusai.  I guess humans are really meant to just, well… kinda stay in one place.

I asked Mrs. X today what about popping around when flying (she finally gave me her cell number and told me to only use it to find out when she has some free time so I can pop over to see her or vice versa).  She said it’s possible but not pleasant.  I told her what I was told, and she said she suspected that to be the case.  A speed difference of 450 mph in unpredictable directions on top of everything else kinda bogs down whatever is doing all those calculations, and it, well, takes steps to reduce its load.  Like, apparently, plopping you in the sky, unaided, for a few seconds while the atmopheric drag lets your speed equalize and it can do the next calculation.  It can slow you down a little but that inertia takes a bit to bleed off it seems.  Apparently ATC does NOT like a transponderless bogey flitting through the sky on a ballistic trajectory, and neither do pilots.  Apparently we’re the cause of a few UFO reports.  It’s still safe because it knows what the weather is and where the planes are, so it won’t drop you in the middle of a storm, but she says it’s like the worst amusement park ride times a hundred.

She was telling me about the time she almost got intercepted by an F-16…  the pilots were so confused when she just vanished.

Note to self… that’s only for emergencies.  She agrees with that statement.

Yeah, the Boss is right.  Don’t mess with that.  It can be a bit unpredictable.

I call him the Boss because he’s the Boss and what else can I call him?

So… in more mundane stuff…  I’m going to college.  In Japan.  It’s all settled.  I’ve got a dorm and everything.  Well… it’s not really a dorm.  I’m going to be saving lots of money on flights, so I’m going to spend that instead on a decent (by Tokyo standards) apartment near campus.  I haven’t chosen my major yet, but I’ve got a little time before I need to register, so, well, I guess I’ll get it figure out.  As you can imagine, I’ve been a little preoccupied.

Just a little…

I could theoretically leave at any time, but…  I’m going to wait till the end of August.  That’s what I was going to do anyway, so why change my plans?

I asked Mrs. X if I could use my “skills” to supplement my income through arbitrage.  You know, buying goods in the US and selling them in Japan, or vice versa.  She, well.. frowned.

I guess I can.  But it’s a bit frowned on.  Especially if that’s all I use it for.  The Boss doesn’t mind if we have a little fun with it or use it for gain in a pinch, but we’re supposed to use it to further his goals… whatever those are.  So if that’s what I’m spending most of my time doing, well, I might get a scolding.  And keeping track of the import duties (which I would still owe) can be a pain.  Aww.

I don’t really want a scolding….  again…

Okay…  I’m still a little off… Sabby’s right about the time difference, so…  I’m going to bed now.

Love you all!!! ❤️

Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!

And I had my first scolding today.

That’s not really fun.

You know how Beth has a scientific mind?  She got it into her mind that she wanted to test what I could do with my newfound ability.  I didn’t see anything particularly wrong with that, so we went to a quiet place, and she had a list of things she wanted to test.  Like, she wanted to test whether I could change elevation, or fly, or whatever.

So the first test was to just pop one foot off the ground, in the same location I was.  We even set up some pillows, and gave it a try.

Well, nothing happened.  At least, I didn’t pop.  Instead a voice came out of the air, a quiet voice.

“Don’t push it, Lily.  There’s a lot that goes into the calculations to make this happen.  Gravitational distribution anomalies, differences in the relative speed of the earth in different latitudes, elevation differences, weather… it may be a very quick form of transport, but it’s not instantaneous, and if any one of those calculations go south you’ll be a splat on the side of Mount Everest.  It’s a safe form of transport if you use it properly.  Don’t be trying to push the limits.”

I nodded… I felt really abashed.  I didn’t think of what went into that kind of thing.  I just thought that I thought about something and went there.  I didn’t think about the fact that it still had to follow the laws of physics, even if it used laws no one knew about.

And then the voice talked to Beth.

“Beth, I know about you.  You are a very logical and scientific minded young woman.  There’s nothing wrong with that.  But don’t forget that just because you can doesn’t mean you should.  Remember how Lily got this ability in the first place – her parents were playing with things they didn’t understand and endangered themselves and her.  They’re dead now.  Maybe Lily would be very different now if they’d actually followed scientific protocols and didn’t have a fourteen year old girl in the room with them while they were trying things that they should never have tried.  Remember this, Beth.”

And then the voice addressed me again.

“Don’t be afraid of it, Lily.  I would never give you an ability that could hurt you if you use it properly.  Just use it to go from one place to another.  You can use it to go any place in the world that you’re allowed to by treaty or my dispensation at any time.  Don’t try to skydive, or go to space, or go underground, or do anything stupid like that.  It probably won’t work…  but it’s not guaranteed not to, and you could hurt yourself very easily.  Trust me.  Don’t try to do things I never asked you do to.”

And the voice was quiet.

I looked at Beth.  She looked embarrassed.  We were quiet for a bit.

“I’ve… never been scolded by God before,” she said, shaking a little.

“I have,” I said.  “it’s not fun.  But…  he’s right.  Even if he wasn’t God, he’d be right.  Neither of us understand how this works.  He does.  Maybe we could understand more if we experimented, but that might kill one or both of us”.  I sighed.  “Just leave it be.”

She just looked at me with a calculating look.  “You know, the experiment was a success, right?”

“Huh?”, I said, eruditely.  I imagine I sounded like Kumiko.

“Well, we know more than we did, right?  We know that it follows the laws of physics, we know there’s a lot of calculations involved, we know there are failsafes, and he told me some things about how it works.  Maybe I shouldn’t experiment with people… but maybe I can experiment with a potato or something, someday.”

“You have a issue with that?”, I said to the air.  Nothing.  But inside my head, I heard “No, but at least she’ll be careful now.  I wasn’t kidding.  What she was trying to do was dangerous.  If she tries something like that again, smack her upside the head and tell her it’s from God.  And your totem is OFF LIMITS.”  There was a pause.  “And tell her I didn’t tell her anything I didn’t want her to know.”

I giggled.

“What?”, she said.

“You might find out,” I said, giggling some more.  “He doesn’t have an issue if you don’t experiment on people, including yourself, and stay in your lane.  And he says he didn’t tell you anything he didn’t want you to know.  So it sounds like he’s alright with you trying to learn how it works as long as you’re not an idiot about it.  Stay here for a couple of minutes.”  And I popped out to get some shaved ice.

Beth really likes shaved ice  Especially coconut flavored.  You know how in an anime where they eat something delicious and squeak?  She does that.

Anyway…  I think she just found her life’s work.  I’m okay with that.  Learning how teleportation works would be good.  But I suspect she’s going to have to do it on her own.

Love you all!!! ❤️