Eternal love

The ship stopped moving and I knew we had arrived at our destiny, Yokosuka (Japan) on the very same day of my the tenth birthday. Japan was the place where my father had been deployed, and was scheduled to remain for the next five years.

I felt miserable.

I was only ten but I already hated life. I had left my friends back home, they promised to write but as always happens with childhood friends, they all forgot about me as soon as the summer started and they were free to play until sunset.

When I got the news of my father's deployment, I cried and begged my parents to let me stay in Colorado with my grandparents, but mother said family must stay together but love wasn’t neither in my heart or head. I hated everything and everybody. Specially my family.

After arriving in Yokosuka, I spent the following weeks walking around town trying to like it, but everything seemed ugly and confusing.

But on a sunny afternoon, I got into a shop where I found strange looking sweets, they smelled nice so I got them, and on my way out, I saw a girl, same age as me. She had big glasses, too big for her face, pony tails, and braces and she gave me the biggest smile I had ever seen. I lost my heart then and there.

She held her hand out and, without taking my eyes off of her, I took it. She showed me her school…