Chapter One
Athena's POV:
"Athena, what's taking you so long? Are you almost done in there?" I hear my friend, Olivia ask from on the otherside of the bathroom door.
"Yeah, just give me a few more minutes," I respond, applying on a dark shade of red lipstick.
"Well, hurry! I would like to get to the club before all the cute guys get snatched up," she says. I shake my head, rolling my eyes.
Tonight is our first night in Osaka, Japan. My friends, Olivia and Faye and I had this trip planned since the ending of last year. For years, we talked about coming here for vacation and thankfully, we did a pretty good job saving up for this trip. It took us a while, but together we finally achieved our mutual dream and I couldn't be anymore happier.
Unfortunately, neither one of us can speak Japanese all that well. The only thing we know are the basics such as "hi", "how are you?", "thank you" and a few more that I'm not about to sit up here naming. Luckily, Faye came across this one translating app, which happens to be pretty useful. So if we were to encounter a Japanese person who doesn't speak or understand English at all, all we'd have to do is speak into the mic and it will easily translate the sentence in Japanese. Same thing goes for them. Once they speak into the mic, the app will translate their sentence in English. Pretty awesome, right?
"Athena, let's go!" Olivia says, pounding on the door. "Alright, alright. I'm coming," I say, feeling a bit irritated as I put all my makeup back inside my makeup bag. "My gosh."
I close up my makeup bag and snatch it off the sink counter before leaving the bathroom, joining my friends in the bedroom.
"It's about time," Olivia says the second I step out of the bathroom.
"Whatever," I respond, rolling my eyes. "Y'all ready to go? I mean, y'all should be since little miss impatient over here wanted to rush me and shit," I say, eyeing Olivia as Faye chuckles.
"Yeah, we're ready," Faye answers. "Just waiting for you."
"Well, I'm ready. Let's get the heck out of here before Olivia's head explode," I say, grabbing my purse from off the bed.
"About time," I hear Olivia mumble under her breath as she stands on her feet, leaving the bedroom. I look at Faye, shaking my head and rolling my eyes as she just laughs and together, we follow after our eager-to-get-her-groove-on friend. Dear God.
(Moments later)
"My gosh, slow down, will you?" Faye tells Olivia as Olivia comes into an abrupt stop at a red light. Thank God for whoever invented seat belts.
"Remember, this is a rental car you're driving. One scratch on this thing and we'll be paying a good mount of money," Faye says.
"Whatever," is all Olivia says, looking at her reflection in the rearview mirror. "Hey, how many guys you think are gonna hit on us tonight? I mean, I know we have plenty of time to hook up with some hot, sexy Japanese men, but you think we might get lucky tonight?"
Faye shrugs her shoulders. "It's possible. Just last week, I was watching this YouTube video on how Japanese men feel about foreign girls and I picked on some pretty positive comments."
"So there's hope for us after all. Yes!" Olivia cheers, pumping her fist in the air as I roll my eyes, looking down at my phone.
Suddenly, I hear the sound of a roaring engine. Looking up from my phone, I look outside the window and as the sound grows louder and louder a motorcycle pulls up next to our rental car. I look at the rider and although they are wearing a helmet it's not hard to tell that the rider is clearly a guy.
As I continue to stare at the mysterious rider, they slowly turn their head, seemingly looking right back at me. Most people would quickly look away after the person they stare at catches them staring, but not me. For some weird ass reason I just can't take my eyes off of this person. And as I stare at this mysterious rider I suddenly get this weird tingly feeling in my body. Like, is that normal??
I guess the light is now green, because the rider on the motorcycle drives off, speeding down the street ahead of us. Olivia pulls off and I decide to just brush off that awkward moment, looking back at my phone.
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