[Fifth Gear]: [Accidental Audio]

[surroundedbylolos]

Rei... what are you doing out here?

Thinking...

About...?

*sigh* I wonder how they're doing...

(Lyrics)
...

Rei...?

Turn it off...

*click*

Comments

[steamgoboom.livejournal.com]

*Miria turned it right back on her with that, though. Aside from Allen, no one had ever really said she was their friend before. She's just kind of... staring in shock.*

I'm... I'm your friend... ?

[guardianofearth.livejournal.com]

*Miria lifted her head from Rei's shoulders so that she could look the woman in her eyes, with her own tearful eyes.*

*Nods* Yes. *Is now afraid of how Rei is going to react.*

[steamgoboom.livejournal.com]

... *It does make her cry again, but amazingly she's smiling.*

[guardianofearth.livejournal.com]

*At first is confused by Rei's reaction, but realizes what is going on now. Squeezes Rei a little, and rests her head on Rei's shoulder.*

[steamgoboom.livejournal.com]

I guess... the kids on the island were friends, but, i'unno... I spent so much time with Raito that I just never got that close to any of them. Even after he got sick... I spent all my time in the garage with Uncle Iokua.

Going to Europe, though? ... heaven forbid you be different in that place. All I had was Mitch and Allen. Everyone else just... stared...

It hurt. A lot.

Racism is a new concept for Miria. Sorry. >_<

[guardianofearth.livejournal.com]

Different...? What do you mean? How were you different from them?

This'll be fun to explain then. YAY EDUMACATIONS. 8D

[steamgoboom.livejournal.com]

... I'm Asian.

*a further blank look makes her continue*

Hawai'i was an island that was mostly populated by either native Hawai'ians or Japanese. I'm Japanese. My parents moved to Hawai'i when I was about two. I never went anywhere else.

In Europe, most people are... Caucasian... Ayran. White. They don't like people who aren't just on principle alone, but being in the middle of a war? If you looked different... well, you got treated like crap.

And... *looks down at her lap* It was worse because I was with Mitch. One time I gave him a kiss on the cheek in public because we were going to school and I was saying goodbye, and some kids threw rocks at us.

Horrified Miria is horrified.

[guardianofearth.livejournal.com]

But, but! How can they do that! You're a human! Your just like them!

*Is feeling a little livid that anyone would dare hurt Rei just for giving someone a kiss.*

Re: Horrified Miria is horrified.

[steamgoboom.livejournal.com]

*Rei just shakes her head with a sad smile and looks away*

If I knew why... I'd tell you. But that's how most of Europe was. That's... how a good part of America was, too. Hawai'i was owned by it, but a lot of their ways just didn't make it across the ocean.

If you were different, you weren't right. And if you were different during a war? Then you were probably a spy.

[guardianofearth.livejournal.com]

But... its so unfair... *Once again Miria can be found giving Rei a hug.*

It's one thing if they react that way to a machine... but how can they do that to another human?

[steamgoboom.livejournal.com]

*Again, Rei can only shake her head*

I really don't know. I suppose it's the same screwed up, lolo mentality that makes them think it's okay to go and kill hundreds of people just because you're at war with another country.

There's a reason my parents didn't want to go back to Japan...

[guardianofearth.livejournal.com]

*remains silent for a moment before out right declaring:*

War is stupid...

[steamgoboom.livejournal.com]

... war is the reason I can't find my brother.

[guardianofearth.livejournal.com]

... you couldn't find your brother?

[steamgoboom.livejournal.com]

No...

He was in Germany when the worst of the fighting started. Some how... his letters stopped coming.

I went to Europe to try and find him, but it's like he's just... vanished.

[guardianofearth.livejournal.com]

*Miria looks down at her feet. After all there isn't anything she could do about it now. She just hugs tightly...*