Category: Diary

Hi!  It’s me!  Lily!

Last night I had… normal dreams.  I don’t remember them.  I don’t usually remember my dreams.  I think that’s one reason that dream was so powerful.  I remembered it.

If it weren’t for the Lily, I’d think it was just a dream, but that Lily came the same day.  It can’t be a coincidence!  Can it?  How would that person in Washington know about the dream I had?  That… that makes no sense.  Something’s weird.

I keep remembering the look on her face.  Such regret.  Whatever happened, she truly regretted it.

Do I want a dog?  I keep remembering Marie.  Why named Marie? Does that mean anything??

I have so many questions!  And no answers!

I talked to the psychologist.  She didn’t seem too concerned about the content of the dream itself, but she did seem concerned with how it was affecting me.  How do I feel about it?  About maybe, maybe, actually remembering something?

And the truth is, I don’t know.  What good does it do me to remember?  I keep asking myself that.  I like what I have now.  What will remembering fix?  What will it give me that I don’t already have?

I guess if I remember, I’ll find out.

I keep looking at that lily I got yesterday.  It’s beautiful.  And something about it…

Love you all!!! ❤

Hi!  It’s me!  Lily!!!

I had a dream last night.

I dreamt that I was in a house I didn’t recognize, and a woman I didn’t know was sitting next to me.  She was pretty, a little stern looking, dressed very professionally.  The house was spotless and very nice, but had an air of sterility to it.  Like nothing was to be touched.  A morning sun was filtering through the windows, but other than blue sky, I couldn’t see what was outside.

“Yuriko,” she said, sadly.  I could see a tear in her eye.

“Who are you?”

She frowned.  “I…  I don’t know.  Maybe that’s not important here.  But I know who you are.  You’re Yuriko.”

“No, I’m Lily,” I said, puzzled.

“No,” she shook her head vigorously.  “Yuriko.”  She frowned.  “And it wasn’t supposed to be like this.”

“What do you mean?,” I asked.  This was getting weird.  A small dog hopped into my lap, panting.  I absently scratched her.  Her?

“It wasn’t supposed to be like this,” she repeated.  “I… I’m sorry, Yuriko.  I’m so sorry.  I wish I could take it all back.”

“Take what back?,” I asked.  I absently scratched Marie on the head.  Marie?  The dog is named Marie?  How did I know that?  I looked down and said “Marie?”, and her tail started wagging.  Marie, I guess.  She licked my hand.

“What?  What are you sorry for?”

A crystal tear ran down her face, and fell off her chin.  She pulled something out of seemingly nowhere, and handed it to me.  It was a red spider lily.  Perfect.  Seemingly made of iridescent glass, but soft to the touch, like a real flower.  I looked at it, and I looked at her.

“Do you know?”, I asked, tears starting to well up in my own eyes.

She nodded.  “I know.  But I can’t say.  I’m not allowed.  But…  but I had to tell you.  I’m sorry.  I’m so sorry, Yuriko”.  She took my hand.  “I’m happy for you.  I’m glad you found a family who loves you.  Better than we could.  Better than we did.”

My mouth dropped open.  “You – You’re -“

She reached a hand up and stroked my cheek.  “I don’t know if I’ll be allowed to talk to you again.  I love you, Yuriko.  I always did.  And I’m sorry.  So sorry…”

The dream started to fade, and I started to scream.  “NO!  DON’T GO!!! I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS!!!”

But then I woke up.

Oh no.  Oh God.  Oh no.

I ran over to Sabby’s room and knocked on her door.  “Sabby?  Sabby?  SABBY!!!”  i could feel the tears starting to form, and I couldn’t hold them back.  She opened the door, and I launched myself into her.  “Sabby, I… I… I SAW HER!!!”

But I lost my words right then and just started wailing.

Sabby took me downstairs so I didn’t wake everyone else up and just held me while I cried it out.  “Sabby,” I hiccuped, “I had a dream.  I saw her.  I don’t know who she was, but I saw her…”

“Who?”

“HER,” I said.  “I think she was my previous mother.”

“She… your…”

“Yes!  Oh Sabby it was a nice house and there was a dog named Marie and she was kind of plain but pretty and she kept telling me she was sorry and she loved me and… and… and she gave me a red spider lily!  Kind of like the one Jack gave me! And she said it wasn’t supposed to be like this.”

“Do you remember her?”

I frowned.  “No.  But I remembered the dog.”

“We’re calling the psychologist in the morning.”

I nodded.  It only made sense.  It was a small memory.  Just the dog’s name.  But it’s the first memory I got back.  The only memory.  A dog named Marie.  If it’s a memory at all.

Sabby finally took me back to bed, but I couldn’t sleep.

And…  and it got weirder!!!

Because I got a package!!!

And when I opened the package…  it was from that person that sent my the information for my trust account!  And… and… IT WAS THE LILY!!!

OMG!!!

It came with a note.

“Lily, this has recently come into my possession.  I can’t tell you how I got it or where it came from.  But it belongs to you.  And you should have it.”

And that’s all the note said.

It was a beautiful lily.  The one Jack got me was beautiful, but this one was far more beautiful and far more intricate.  It seemed to shine with a light of its own, but it was just reflecting and diffusing the light.  It came in a little but extremely fancy box and I was almost afraid to take it out.  It wasn’t quite soft to the touch like the one in my dream, but it was just as intricate and beautiful.

A lily.  A red spider lily.  Lycoris Radiata.  And a dog named Marie.

OMG.

We called the psychologist and damned if she didn’t clear out her schedule for me, we’re talking tomorrow.

Love you all!!! ❤

Hi!  It’s me!  Lily!!!

I’m sad.

Emiko and her family went to the waterpark this morning, and i guess the girls had loads of fun.  Well, of course they did!  It’s a waterpark!  Anyone who doesn’t have fun at a waterpark is a silly billy!!!  They smell like chlorine now.  Which isn’t a bad thing!  Chlorine smells like fun!!

Anyway, after they got done at the waterpark, they came over here, and that was about the time I came home from work.  It was a nice enough time.  I think Emiko has accepted me as part of her family (well, she’d kinda better) and Bill seems to have at least come to terms with my existence.  He even offered to show me some stuff on how to make this site better!

But every time I see Emiko, I think of what might have been.  No, she’s not a better mother than Sabby.  I mean, the fact that she gave me up automatically makes Sabby the better mother, because of the two of them, Sabby never gave anyone up.  At least as far as I know.  But she’s a different mother than Sabby.  Sabby expects a lot from us, but I wouldn’t really call her strict.  Emiko is pretty strict.  She has high standards for her children and expects them to meet those standards, but she’s not mean about it.  She’s kind of like Liz’s parents in that regard – Aika and Mika have things they have to learn.  Like they have to know Japanese (they’re actually pretty fluent, unlike me!), they have to study hard, and learn a musical instrument.  I think Emiko is secretly a little proud of me because I can play the piano, even though I have no idea how I know how to!  And she’s impressed that I know as much Japanese as I do!!! But… how different would life be?  How different would life be if she hadn’t given me up?  Or if whatever happened to my “other” adoptive parents hadn’t, well, had whatever happened, happen?  I feel like my life just kind of happened to me, and it could have been so different.  Maybe not better, but…  different.

I love Sabby!  But… but would I love Emiko?  Like I do Sabby?

I don’t know, because she never gave me that chance.

And that’s what really hurts the most.

She’s really trying.  I really appreciate that she’s trying.  She wants to rectify her mistake with me.  And I appreciate that too.  I really do.

But it was a big mistake.

And, deep in my heart of hearts, I’m not sure I’ll ever truly forgive her for it.  I know I said I do.  And I mean to.  I want to.  I won’t hold it against her.  But can I actually do it?

In happier news, we set a date for going to Japan!!! I just hope the virus doesn’t screw that up.  I think when I’m there I might call myself Yuriko Nakamoto.  Not because I want to take the name, but…  it just seems to make sense, right?  I have to practice how to say it.

Love you all!!! ❤

Hi!  It’s me!  Lily!

And we had a PICNIC!!!

The whole group went over to a park today!  Liz and her parents, my family, Crystal and her family, and Maria and Diana.  Oh and Emiko and her family also came by!!!  Allison and her parents too!!!  After work Sabby came to pick me up and took me to the picnic too!  Dave and Bill and Liz’s father and Crystal’s father all stood around the grill and grilled!!!  OMG so much food!!!!

And after we ate, we played games!!!  We played tag!  And volleyball!  And badminton!!!  And a fun game where Dave was “it” but didn’t know it, so we kept running from him!  HAHAHAHA!!!!

So we played and ran around and had fun until it got dark!!!  Emiko and her family are going to stick around the area and go to that indoor waterpark tomorrow!  I wish I could go too but I have to work.  They’ll come over later tomorrow and we’ll have some “family” time.  Well, both families, I guess.  They do have a waterpark in Houston but not that!!  I just learned the one here is the third largest in the US!!!

FUN!!!!!!!

But the picnic was fun too!  Sooo much fun!!!  I’m glad Emiko and her family can have some fun here too.  I don’t know how I feel about Emiko and Bill and Aika and Mika sometimes, but they’re a family too, like mine, and they deserve to have family time too, right?

Honestly, Houston doesn’t have that kind of waterpark!!!  It’s only here!  In my city!!! I’m a lucky girl!!!

Well, I’m lucky in many ways.  Many, many ways.  For the low, low price of all my memories before I was 14.

Sigh.

I… I don’t know whether to be happy or sad when I think about that.

I lost sooo much.  But I gained sooo much too.  And I don’t know if I’d have what I have if I hadn’t lost what I did.  Isn’t that how life is sometimes?  You have to sacrifice something to gain something?  But I don’t know what I sacrificed, so I don’t know if it was worth it.

Life is so unfair, and yet, somehow it works out, right?

Love you all!!! ❤

Hi!  It’s me!  Lily!

It’s FRIDAY!!!!!!

YAAAAAAyYYYYYYY

And it’s GIRL PILE NIGHT!!!!

So all the crowd came over tonight!  Liz!  Crystal! Diana!  Allison would have come but she had a movie to watch at school!  No Aika and Mika, but that’s just because they’re in Houston.  Awww.  We watched a movie!!!  Allison really likes Encanto, and Diana wanted to see it, so we watched it! Sabby grumbled a bit, she’s not happy with Disney right now for some reason, but we watched it anyway.  It’s about…  a hispanic girl, I guess.  Diana really liked it!

Oh and Diana made tacos!!!  YUM!!!!  Sabby doesn’t really like people in her kitchen but Diana’s tacos are sooooo good that she lets her do it!!! And they are!!! Crystal just created a very efficient plate to mouth transport mechanism by way of her digital appendages, and Liz was a little more, umm… reserved.  But even she thought they were delicious.  That’s why Diana got to choose the movie!!

So now we’re going to play games and make a girl pile!!!  Jack, Liz wants me to tell you that our girl piles are completely innocent and the tacos might make things a bit challenging tonight!  hahahahaa!!!!  Diana thinks you’re a bit of a heel but I told her you’re a good guy, just… no sisters.  She seemed to understand.  She’s an only child.

Oh and I video called Grace!!!  YAAAAAYYY!!!!  She’s having a good time in Ohio!!!  Oh!  They got her a doggie!!!  YAAAAYYY!!!

Love you all!!! ❤

Hi!  It’s me!  Lily!!!

I am such a Lily that I’m a…  Lily!!!  Isn’t that cool?  I’m the Liliest Lily that ever lilied!!!

So I found the most amazing thing on YouTube!! Remember how we went to the waterpark a lot?  Before school started??  Well, there are two waterparks in the area.  An indoor one up north (that got hit by the tornado!!) and another one a bit to the east.  The one to the east has a wave pool, and water slides, and…. and I found a YouTube channel by the guy that runs them!!!

The actual guy that runs them!!!

So many amazing things!!! Pumps!!! Valves!!!  Electrical thingies!!!  And this big blue tank that filters stuff!!!  It’s amazing!!!  The wave pool has these blowers and these pistons that go clunk hisss clunk hisss!!!  And he even said that sometimes when people want to see the pump room he’s chill about it!!!  Maybe next time we go to the waterpark I’ll ask!!!

But my favorite thing about the waterpark is not losing my top!! hahahaah!!!!

I can’t wait to go to the waterpark again!!!

Anyway, I guess other than maid-gate it’s been a pretty slow week.  Just schoolwork and schoolwork and.. did I mention schoolwork?  Dave still takes me tinkering out in the garage, he bought me a nice aftermarket car stereo but the thing is, I have to install it!!! So I’m learning about that stuff.  And I’ve been driving too!!! I can’t get my “real” license yet but I got a little night practice!!! It’s scary!!!  Oh oh oh and I’m practicing for my recital too!!!  I’m doing a piece by Chopin!!  And one by Debussy!!! And… and a hard one by Liszt!!!

I wonder if he had a shopping liszt to get food!  Hahahahaahah1!!!!!

…. I’ll be over here.

It’s still a bit hard to read music but I’m learning!!! Again?  I don’t know.

Love you all!!! ❤

Hi!  It’s me!  Lily!!!

Sabby’s not mad at me anymore for wearing the maid outfit, but somehow I think it’s worse, now.  She’s disappointed.

She asked me if I’d ever seen any of those, well, unsavory sites.  You know, with women doing not so nice things.  I said I had accidentally, but it’s gross.

She asked me if those women ever regretted what they put on the net.

I thought for a bit, and said I didn’t know, but maybe some did?

She nodded.  “Some don’t,” she said, “but far too many do.  But that’s the thing about the net.  Once something’s out there, you can’t take it back, and you will never know where it is.  If you’re lucky, it’ll get lost somewhere, but if you’re not, then you’ll get people stopping you in the street. And like it or not, that’s all they’ll ever see you for.”

“But – it’s just a costume”.

She sighed.  “It is, Lily.  By itself, it’s probably not too big a deal.  People wear worse than that to conventions.  But the problem is that you don’t understand..  You just see it as something fun to dress up as.  But the net doesn’t forgive, Lily.  One mistake and you’ll regret it forever.”

I frowned. “It sounds like you”re talking from experience,” I said.

“Not quite,” she said, “but close.”  And she wouldn’t say anything more about that.

I guess I have something to think about now.

Maybe thunder tonight!  Yayyy!!!

Love you all!!! ❤

Hi!  It’s me!  Lily!

today after work I went over to Liz to eat dinner with her and her parents.  Liz spends a lot of time over at my place but I wanted to spend a little time with her and her parents.  No Beth.  Nothing against Beth at all, but Liz is my best friend, not Beth’s.  Besides, Crystal and Diana came over this afternoon to spend some time with Beth.  She’s got friends!! YAY!!!  They went to the mall and did stuff that fourteen year old girls do at the mall.  Like…  giggling, I guess.  Lots of giggling.

Sabby took them, and I guess makeovers for everyone!!

Liz and I talked a lot.  We don’t get to talk as much as I’d like.  She has a boy she’s into, and she thinks he might be into her, but I guess Liz isn’t quite as direct as I am… she’s having a hard time finding out for sure.  Poor Liz.  I offered/threatened to find out for her and she smacked me, but there was a kind of hope in her eyes too.  So I might.  And if it works out, I won’t get smacked more.

I don’t know how to do that, though.  “Hi, random boy Liz likes.  You have a girlfriend?  No?  Want one?  NOT ME, SILLY BILLY!!!”  Yeah.  I think I need to choose a slightly more diplomatic approach.  IF I DO.  Don’t smack me yet, Liz.  Wait till I actually do something!

I’m tired.  I think I’ll go to bed.

Love you all!!! ❤