My Dearest Mai,

I would like you to remember that I will always love you no matter what. My sweet little Mai Mirohata, how you have grown up to be so big and so strong into the 14 year old girl I see now. I will never forget you. Please...find yourself again someday...

Sweetest Dreams

Waking up this morning, I had looked around in a sort of confusion. I was in a bright sunny park that was so silent it might as well have been night. It was clear that the time period was in one of the harshest parts of winter as the morning dew have frozen harshly into frost, glinting dully in the sunlight but not showing any signs of melting; sometime in early February perhaps. It did not help the fact that I was feeling a funny sensation buzzing around in my head; as if my life had been erased away. Clutched in my hand was a note, covered in dirt and grasped in my fingers tightly. Only upon actually reading it did I finally find my name; Mai. That sounded right at least. I got up and found myself to be dressed heavily in a dark navy blue coat with black buttons and a hidden zipper, a hood pulled over my head. Whoever had left me here indeed wanted me to be warm...didn't want me to suffer from hypothermia. A woman in a dark white pinstriped suit was by my side with a desolate expression across her face, like I had committed some sort of wrong act by just being there. She had on black rimmed squarish glasses and by the looks of it ate heartily but did not care of how she looked out in public as her light brown hair was pulled messily into a haphazard bun threatening to fall apart.

"I see that you are finally awake." She spoke, a little harshly, again with the tone and manner of an accusation. I simply stared at her, pocketing the note immediately and standing up off the bench of which I had been laying one. Who the heck was this woman looking at me like a criminal. She didn't know me...then again I didn't even know who I was. That was a quite disheartening fact. Furrowing my brow, I continued stare right back at her, though in a slightly less harsh way than she was staring at me.

"What are you staring at?" she snapped, breaking the silence that I wanted to stay there. I flinched, taking an involuntary step away from the crazy woman. Her mouth pulled into a very thin line and my only conclusion to her manner was that life had not treated her well. "What were you doing on a night like this? Sleeping outside!? What a stupid thing to do! What's your name?" She spoke, her voice not any less harsh as it had been since she spoke her first word to me. Idly, I let my mind wander to the note hidden in my pocket.

"Mai Mirohata." I answered in a low voice in a way that would let this weird woman know that I thought she was crazy and that I was in hopes of her leaving me alone. Looking at the ground, I obviously did not want to see or hear this horribly sour woman again. It was like I had been sleeping here on purpose because I wanted to push up some daisies; which I hadn't.

"Well Miss Mirohata, I suggest you tell me where you live. I'm going to have a nice talk with your guardians about your actions." She spoke scoldingly. I glared at her, this woman, who was so completely oblivious to the obvious.

"I'm sorry, but I don't remember where I live." I spoke truthfully but I couldn't resist placing a bit of sarcasm and annoyance into my voice. Who the heck did this person think she was, bossing me around when I had questions of my own that needed to be asked and answered.

"What do you mean you don't remember?" She asked disbelievingly, eying my like a lunatice, brown eyes peircing my skin like needles. Slowly taking it out of my pocket and carefully unwrapping it, I shoved the piece of paper in her sorry little face, throroughly pissed off at the moment.

"This...is the only way I was able to recover both my age and my name. Anything else I don't remember and now it is my turn to ask some questions. What year is it? Why are you looking at me like I commited some heinous act. Where am I for that matter?" I asked her, gazing straight into her angry eyes with my own cold blue ones. My only response was a darker stare.

"Is this some kind of joke?" She hissed. I could see it in her eyes. She thought I was a troublemaker. Someone who just wanted to play with the minds of strangers and adults. Obviously she despised those sort of people; so did I.

"Why would someone make up something like this when they are cold much less hungry and confused on top of it? Do you think I am a frickin fool? I know better than to sleep in a park during winter! That's just plain madness!" I shouted at her face before sinking down back onto the bench that I had slept on and looked to my left idly as the woman sat down beside me. I turned to her and was suprised to see that she had an entirely different look on her face. It was caring, sympathy and harsh confusion etched into the hard stone exterior of the skin.

"The reason that I've been disbelieving you is because this is a private park." She explained. I stood up, thinking that anything would be better than were I was.

"If it's private then I might as well leave." I said, starting to walk out of the park, approaching the exit rather slowly. Just as I was about to set my foot down outside the glass boundary onto the sidewalk and reach the street, something big shocked me and sent me flying backwards to whence I came. The woman quietly came to my side and helped me up, brushing me off as I did so.

"Mai...no one can leave this park. Or this city for that matter." She said sincerely. Her voice irked me as she said this with it's dripping sensation of common knowledge and pity. I think I actually prefered Miss Grouchy better than the kind woman before me now. I sighed heavily, placing my head desolately in my hands.

"And why is that?" I asked, demanding an answer.

"I will explain that tomorrow. Right now I want you to go to sleep." She told me. I looked at the sky for a moment.

"But it's not even noon. How-" I couldn't say anything more as a pressure point was hit just then, passing me out into cold dark unconsciousness.

OO I can't believe no one has commented you on this yet!!
Anyway, I loved it. I wouldn't change it a bit.

....Wow, thanks....this gives me motivation to actually finish the second chapter ^^