15th
April 2025
Hello
little diary. My name is Kyoko Moto. I found you in an old box of books in a
storage cupboard at school 2 days ago. You were all empty inside, not one word,
and looked completely forgotten like no one ever owned you. I asked a teacher,
Mr Saitou, if I could have you and he said it was okay since no one had claimed
to have lost a diary. Believe it or not I actually like writing in diaries; I
get to write down my true feelings about when things happen to me, especially
when I’m angry and upset. I have written in diaries ever since I was 8 because
of my parents. I will tell you the reason some other time.
Since
we have become friends now I will give you a name, like how that girl Anne
Frank named her diary. I will call you Kiki because it sounds cute for a
diary. So let me tell you somethings about myself Kiki. First of all I am fourteen
years old and I am an 8th grade school student. The school I’m
attending, well actually living in, is the Kurai
Jinsei Boarding school for boys and girls. This school goes on from elementary
school to high school, so I won’t be leaving this school till I graduate high
school which I can’t wait for. I have been at this school since I was nine.
I
share a dorm room with my two friends Shizuyo Sakuma and
Yuko Yanagino;
both my age. We became best friends with each other ever since we first met
three years ago because we all have two things in common; bitter pasts and
hatred towards our own parents. I’ll explain about it another time. All I can
tell you now is we are happy to be at this school and with each other. Shizuyo likes
anything to do with fashion, Yuko likes to do sports and I like to do painting
as well as writing. As we are best friends with each other it makes people
think we are sisters, despite we’re not. We do all sort of things together; we
study together, hang out together and we even complain about someone or
something together.
I
must admit to you though Kiki when we first met I didn’t feel like making
friends yet because of my troubled past. But when Shizuyo and Yuko told me
about how they hated their parents like I hated mine it was the start of a
beautiful friendship between us. I have made many other friends at this school
too, but Shizuyo and Yuko are my best friends.
There
are three more students who I call my best friends too. Three boys in the 11th
grade called Hiroshi Masui, Tatsuya Aratani and
Kouhei Takayama. Shizuyo, Yuko and I met them during the first year we attended
Kurai Jinsei. How we met is a long story which I’ll save for another time as
well. Hiroshi is in the baseball club, Tatsuya in the kendo club and Kouhei is
in the track and field team.
As
Hiroshi, Tatsuya and Kouhei are three years older than Yuko, Shizuyo and I, they
are like older brothers to us. But truthfully we have crushes on them; I like
Hiroshi, Shizuyo likes Tatsuya and Yuko likes Kouhei. That is a secret I’m only
telling you Kiki.
Kiki
you have now become one of my new best friends and I will be more than happy to
fill all your pages with anything I wish to write about to tell you whenever I
have time to write.
