My older sister, who questioned me concerning the B, went home to Nagasaki yesterday morning. I cried for the second time today.
Although we're a close family, I never considered myself close to Sis A until about a year and a half ago. She was lonely, having just moved to Nagasaki and invited me down to her place for a month or two. I'd been going through some issues around that time and felt that I needed time away somewhere only my sister knew me would be just the thing. Sis A was the perfect hostess. She drove me everywhere, helped me find a temporary job, she was amazing. With her non-stop chatter, she somehow managed to wheedle out a whole different side of me. I was a shy silent type till Sis A worked her magic on me.
I was told I had to be at work yesterday two hours earlier than the actual time. With nothing to do, I took an extra long break and shot daggers with my eyes at the guy responsible. What I really hated was that my sister had to go home after a month's stay with us, and because I had to leave for work I wasn't able to spend as much time with her and her three year old daughter, (my adorable niece) as I wished I could.
We live in an apartment with 12 floors and I consider it lucky that our door is right across from the building's one elevator; I usually don't have to wait long for it. There were already several people in the elevator when it arrived. I climbed in and turned around to see the adorable niece outside elevator door.
"Aunty Seira, where you going?" I had almost forgotten to say good-bye to her.
"I have to go to work now." And the people in the elevator were waiting.
"Do you have to go to work?" the Adorable Niece is glowingly beautiful, and she knows how to use it already. She tilted her head down and looked up at me with a slight pout. I almost called my hotel right there. The woman next to me was smiling, but I couldn't keep everyone waiting.
"I really have to go, now you go back to mommy, ok?" Another reason she's so adorable, she's obedient like no other child. She trotted back into the apartment without a look back, and I told the patient woman next to me to go on and close the doors. Only right after that did I realize that was the last I'd see of them for at least a year.
I just barely managed to get by without anyone noticing my red puffy eyes.