Yumiko continues to smile with the compliments. "I sure hope I'd be able to go to the Academy and see Onii-chan."
Yumiko takes a sip of her tea. "I've been pretty much stuck in this house for the past year. Watching people hang out with their friends, and going places.", Yumiko sighs. "I used to live with my true family until a year ago, before my family went on a trip to go to Mount Fuji. It was my birthday, and it was supposed to be a surprise. My mother and father took me to the train station while I was still asleep, and my brother was the one who carried me the whole way. On the train, I was apparently in between my mother and father. I was kind of groggy up to that point, with all the moving around, and then finally went back to sleep on the train.", Yumiko pauses as she takes a cookie from the plate and eats it.
"The next thing I knew, I was in the middle of a train wreck, with both okaa-san and otoo-san hugging me. Their hug wasn't warm though, like it should have been. It was cold, and everywhere else was cold. I started to nudge my parents, to wake up, because they looked like they were sleeping.", Yumiko said as tears started to flow down her eyes.
"And I could see onii-chan nearby as well, but he wasn't moving either. I just kept nudging my parents to make them wake up. I lost track of time, and the next thing I knew, a group of men were taking me away from my parents.", Yumiko says before she cuts off because of her tears.