"Okay, then we'll see you tomorrow.", Jen said goodbye to Rika as she dropped the redheaded at her beach house. Rika waved after her before she went into the house and then sighed and let herself fall onto the couch.

"Henry ..." she muttered. For some reason she couldn't forget him. How he looked at her ...

"Miau ...", it came from below and Rika straightened up.

“You?” She picked up the cat and stroked it. "I met someone today, Aki.", She said then. "His name is Henry. Maybe it wasn't so bad coming home after all." She looked up when she heard the phone ring. "Maybe it wasn't such a good idea after all ..." she mumbled when she saw the number on the display. "Yes, mother?" She asked annoyed.

"Rika, where have you been?" Came Rumiko Nonaka's voice over the phone. "I've been trying to reach you for hours!"

"I was gone, mother.", Rika answered annoyed and let herself fall back into her couch."I noticed that. Where have you been?"

"Mother, I'm 18 and I can take care of myself. But if you really want to know: I did my new job in a strip club. Satisfied?"

"Rika Nonaka, that's not funny!" Her mother shouted angrily.

"Rika?" Came it from Seiko, her grandmother. Apparently she had picked up her mother's phone because Rumiko could be heard scolding in the background.

"Hello grandmother.", Rika greeted them.

"What did you say to your mother?"

"That I work in a strip club. That was a joke."

"I know.", Seiko laughed. "But you know how your mother reacts to jokes like that, don't you?"

"Yes.", Rika sighed and rolled her eyes in annoyance. "But I just like to annoy her. She's so easy to upset."

"That's right. Where have you really been?" Asked her grandmother.

"I was with a classmate in Odaiba. She should take care of me so that I can quickly settle in here.Which is absolute nonsense, since we're leaving this year and going to university anyway. "

"They only mean well to you, Rika. Give them a chance."

“Yes, grandmother.” Rika couldn't refuse her grandmother.

"What your mother wanted to ask: Do you really want to live in the beach house? You are all alone there. You could move back into your old room."

"Grandmother, I'm not a baby anymore," the girl repeated again. "Don't worry, I can take care of myself."

"But what if one of these wongs shows up at night and-" she heard her mother say in the background and again she rolled her eyes.

"I'm staying here and nothing can change my mind."

"As you mean, honey, but you can always come here, you know that.", Said her grandmother.

"Yes, I know that.", Rika smiled. "See you then." She hung up and then looked over at Aki, who was looking at her with wide eyes. "I hope you never had such an annoying mother ..." she mumbled and closed her eyes to dream of a dark-haired boy with gray eyes ...