Chapter 9

   I hop off my motorcycle and look around until I see Yooki standing in front of a man and woman I guess possibly his parents. I walk up closer to them, I notice that their yelling but Yooki is yelling and crying, I walk closer to hear what they’re saying, the woman is yelling that it’s Yooki’s fault, and Yooki is yelling that it's the woman’s fault, and the man is yelling at them to stop. I walk up to them and wrap my arm around Yooki. 

   “And who is this? A friend?” the woman asks.

   “Close,” I say with a smirk and Yooki looks up at me with a look I can read perfectly, the ‘what are you doing? Are you crazy?’ look, but I ignore it.

   “Boyfriend?” the woman chokes on her words as if she’s disgusted to say it.

   “Yup,” I said with a nod and looked back down at Yooki smiling but he looked back at me with the ‘you're a complete moron’ look and then he looked down at his feet. The woman grabs him by the wrist and slaps him. 

   “Ahmya!” The man yells at the woman. Yooki pulls his arm away and runs off and I follow. I find him sitting against a tree and I sit next to him. He grabs a small frame out of his pocket-the frame says ‘siblings for life’ and it has a picture of him and his sister-he stares at the picture and starts crying so I hugged him and he hugs me back. I see Eli, Elly, and Ming start walking toward us but I shake my head ‘no’ and they nod and walk away.

   When Yooki finally calms down we go and finish the funeral and Yooki sets his picture on Sakura’s grave. I look at the dates and try to do the math to figure out how old she is. Yooki catches me counting on my fingers and laughs. “She’s 19, 4 years older than me,” he says, making me do a subtraction to guess his age and when I got the answer I was surprised.

   “You’re 15!?” I ask.

   “Yeah?”

   “But I'm almost 17.”

   “I skipped a year.”

   “Oh” we both start laughing and walk down to the park. Yooki keeps getting snow in his shoes so I carried him most of the way. 

   “Yooki is that really you?” a girl from behind us said and Yooki jumped off of my back.

   “Blossom!” Yooki yells and hugs her, she looks around Sakura’s age. 

   “Kinkay this is Blossom, she’s my sister's close friend, Blossom this is Kinkay he’s my boyfriend,” Yooki says, his sunshine smile on full show.

   “Boyfriend eh?” She walks up to me, her eyes piercing. 

   “If you ever do anything bad or mean to him I’ll make sure you can’t even walk.” after she says that I get an idea and smirk.

   “So in other words I can’t even lay a finger on him?”

   “Yes,”

   “Ok, then so I can’t even do this?..,” I grab Yooki by the waist and pull him close, his body pressed to mine, I kiss him making a tomato like Eli,  I feel a hand claw into my shoulder and I turn around to see Blossom glaring at me so I take off running.  I look at Yooki still running and notice that he’s laughing which makes me smile.  

   The next week went slow, like extremely slow, slow enough that I could count and keep track of the days, so I did but not because it went slow but because I had a feeling something was going to happen good or bad.