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party in tokyo
Tayayu sat groggily as her alarm went off. As she lay there, irritation swept over her, until she realized that today was her birthday. And not only that, but she also remembered that for her birthday, her parents planned to take her to Tokyo. Although Tayayu’s parents had originally come from Japan, she never had been there after her parents moved to America. By the time Tayayu and her parents were on the plane to go to Japan, she had already gotten a black and white chevy camaro and the whole complete vampire diaries series. When they arrived in Tokyo, they were met by Tayayu’s uncle, who was a cop. Ever since she was little, Tayayu dreamed of joining the police force, and whenever she got the chance she would ask her uncle what it was like and always listen to the cool stories he had to share about it. As she and her family met up with her uncle, she noticed he had his hand behind his back. “Happy Birthday”, he said as he reached out his hand with a small rectangle shaped package. Tayayu took the gift and and opened it to reveal the Breakfast club movie. “And that’s not all”, Her uncle exclaimed, as he held out tickets in his hand. Tayayu found out they were concert tickets to her favorite band Abandon all ships. But then all of a sudden she felt a mattress underneath her and she sat up in her bed, silently taking in her surroundings like it was the dream instead, and then she began to wail as she remembered today was her mothers funeral.