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Chapter #6
During the ride to Nemu's house.
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Nemu was quite chatty during the ride and relentlessly asked Danieru questions about his home back at America. Where did he live? What did he do? How was the weather in his American hometown? He could hardly keep up.
But he didn't mind. She had already told him how grateful she was that he had decided to stay with her for the vacation and had even told him that if he saw anything in any shop he had all but ask, and she would buy it for him, to which he profusely refused.
Although her accent was thick, her English wasn't only passable, but could also be understood clearly. Danieru was afraid he would get stuck with a family whom he could hardly communicate with at all, since he himself didn't know anything about the Japanese language himself, aside from the odd honorifics. But they bridged the language barrier easily and got along very well during the ride to Nemu's house.
Nemu was as kind as she was beautiful. Her asian features accented by her sleek short hair in a blob style. Her eyes the steriotypical flattened and stretched as associated by the Japanese and often ridiculed by westerners. Danieru found her eyes gorgeous, dark brown pits of mystery. She wore the attire of a professional business woman; dark navy-blue jacket and knee-length skirt, white-collar shirt with a pretty tie, and stockings beneath the skirt to her semi-high heeled shoes.
Danieru was surprised to see her wearing such...what? Normal clothing? In his cardinal stupidity Danieru had almost expected an 18th century geisha to pick him up. In fact he was surprised to see so much of Japan reflecting the modern westernised world.
Streets, signs, cars, buildings, everything looked similar to back home, if you only replaced billboards and signs with the characters of the japanese language and the citizens with the Japanese.
If anyone was the odd one out it was he. Many Japs gave him the odd second look, never having seen a westerner outside television. He smiled at them, especially the children in the cars next him, who gaped in awe at him at every stop sign. Much to his delight many smiled and waved back back proving they weren't the asocialites perceived by westerners. One bloke even held up his camera phone and indicated he wanted to take a picture, to which Danieru gave the shap sign (thumb up), and he gleefully took his picture and thanked him profusely with his hands together.
This horrified Nemu, who didn't realise that Danieru was quite happy with having his picture taken and told him with concern that she didn't want him insulted or badly treated whist in her care.
Danieru further learned from Nemu that her husband was deceased and that she had inherited his multi-million pharmaticules medicine company. Her husbands board of directors wanted to push her out, but she firmly held control of the corporate directorate.
Danieru was surprised that Nemu would express such obviously private information with a stranger such as him and when he expressed this she replied kindly:"But you're my daughter now; we don't keep secrets in my family."
Darieru was taken aback at the simple statement. To be referred to as someone's child almost succumbed the 16-year old orphan. But he was also confused, didn't she mean son? But he dismissed this as just another one of the language barrier mishaps between them.
He further learned that Nemu had 2 daughters: Nami( aged 13) and Suki(aged 15). He would be meeting them at Nemu's home , where they eagerly awaited to meet him.
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