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"Are you sure about this?"
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"Sure about what?"
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"Are you really going to go through
with this?"
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"I have to."
The rather plump woman lowers her hand
with the scissors in it. The woman's hair was long with cornrows nicely done on
her left side of her head. She is wearing a leather jacket and her neck is full
of gaudy necklaces. Her left ear was decorated with a earring chain connected
from the top of her ear to the bottom.
"Jun! I don't understand why you have
to do this. Your beautiful long hair! You know that blonde looks so much better
on you than any other Japanese girl," the plump woman exclaimed, "It
should be a crime... and I committed it." The plump woman put her head in
her forearm.
"Miki! It is fine! I asked to you to
do it!"
Sitting in the chair in front of the plump
woman, Miki, is Junko Takaki. Junko is a thin women, in her 20s, also dressed
in a leather jacket but under the jacket is a white shirt showing
her midriff.
"Jun. Please at least explain to me
why you are doing this again..." Miki tried to say calmly. Miki and Junko
have been friends since they were in elementary school. This is the first time
she has seen her friend so such a dramatic change.
"Miki, do I really have to explain
this too you again?" asked Junko, after a slight pause she continued,
"My brother hasn't contacted me in five months. I am really worried about
him."
"That is the part that makes sense,
but why do you have to cut all your hair off and go as a boy?" Miki asked
as she looks at Junko, as she starts to clean up the hair on the floor.
Junko ignores the question and explains,
"My hair was very long! Look it is like 18 centimeters long!"
"JUNKO! Please answer my
question!"
Junko stops and looks at Miki, then
flashed a smile. "My brother was in a dorm, I won't be able to figure what
happen to him if I can't access all the places he was. Plus, I don't want him to
recognize me!"
"But Jun... you guy are not
even..." Miki started but Junko interrupted her.
"Miki, that doesn't matter. My
brother always contacts me once a month. He hasn't called asking for money
either. I know there is something wrong."
Due to the fact that Miki has grown up
with Junko, she understood how important this is to her. Junko and Miki have
always been outcasts in their families. Miki was born into a family full of
thin and sexy women and was never able to achieve the same type of body. When
she lived with her parents she was always compared to her older sister and
cousins. Because of Junko she was able to feel confident in herself.
“Jun… remember in Junior High School, when
you just came to school with all your hair blonde, the whole school was freaked
out about it?” Miki asked as she lies down on Junko’s bed.
“Haha! Yep, I remember that!” Junko joined
Miki on the bed, “That felt so good. On top of that, the rest of Junior High
School felt good!”
“Was that when you found out?” Miki asked
as she looked up at the ceiling, “When you found out that you are not related
to them?”
Junko continues to look at the ceiling
with Miki, the atmosphere becomes heavy so Junko popped up from the bed and
said, obviously avoiding the subject, “We should have a going away party for me…
oh wait… maybe that is not a good idea, people will ask me why I look like this.”
Two weeks later.
“Next station is Tokyo station.”
Junko looks out the window at Tokyo, “So
this is where I will live for now on.”
