Hi! It’s me! Lily!!!
So… I told Emiko today.
I know where Emiko lives, so I popped over to some out of the way place near her house and visited.
She didn’t react how I expected her to.
I told her. She just looked at me. Then she burst out crying.
“Why are you crying?”, I asked.
“I… if I hadn’t done what I did, you wouldn’t have…”
She was right. That’s objectively true.
But… but I’m not angry anymore. I haven’t been for a long time.
I just hugged her and let her cry it out. And I told her I wasn’t angry anymore.
“Even though I was the one that… let those horrible people adopt you?”
I nodded. “Even though.”
“I don’t deserve you,” she said softly.
“No, you don’t,” I said. “But no one really deserves good things, do we? But we have them, anyway. You want any treats from Japan?”
I got her some daifuku and some bubble tea.
Anyway… that was a little draining. I asked her not to tell Aika and Mika. I’m not that close to them, and besides, they’re a bit young to understand what all’s going on, and might blab. You know how girls that age are, anything to be popular…
Though Sabby would say the same thing about me.
And maybe she’s right.
Maybe she’s right, after all. Though, clearly, this doesn’t count.
Jack and I went on a date tonight. We did it the old fashioned way. He took me somewhere for dinner. We talked about a lot of things. I mentioned that I can come visit him whenever I want, and he said he’d like that, but maybe it’s best that we not semi-live together like a married couple.
Smart boy, I mean, man… I actually agree. Just because we can, doesn’t mean we should. I’m staying in housing in Japan unless there’s an emergency. But there’s nothing stopping us from going out on dates or whatever. It just means it’ll be morning for me, I guess.
Anyway… so far so good.