"So then. We'll see wewe tomorrow too, right Shun?" Elaf asks when we are nearby our apartment.
"Huh? Yeah, sure," he says with a cold tone.
"We can meet right here," I say and they both agree with me.
Our sekunde siku in Japan, almost over. We had fun. But thinking about that it's only two weeks left, makes it less fun than I could've ever imagined. Time runs so fast, why?
***
"Teddy," Elaf comes to me as I'm watching TV in the living room. "Could wewe spare me a minute, please?"
"Of course. What is it?"
"I wanted to talk to wewe about that girl we saw back there."
"I see. So you've been thinking about that too?"
"Well... not that much. I just felt uncomfortable after seeing her," she takes a kiti, kiti cha inayofuata to me in the sofa and continues. "Do wewe think she's still there?"
"Who knows?"
"Is it even possible that someone would stay there so long?"
"Possible, yeah... But I don't think you'd do it without any reason."
"So what kind of reason could she have had?"
"I don't know. Could be anything."
"I guess..."
"I don't think wewe have to worry about it so much. If wewe want, we can go to that bridge tomorrow again after have met Shun," I turn off the TV, park the remote controle on the coffee meza, jedwali and rest my back to the sofa. "Now if she's going to be there, that is..."
***
No, she is not there. I knew she wouldn't stay there that much, but Elaf was so eager to find out. I suppose that girl - whoever she was - just wanted to rest alone yesterday. Of course there could be a special reason, but we don't have to include ourselves, do we?
"Okay, so, what are we gonna do next?" Elaf turns around and starts to walk backwards in front of us.
"I dunno, what about going to the others?" says Shun. "I had a chat with Dan yesterday online and he alisema he wanted to see the two of you."
"Really?" I say. "Well then, let's go."
While walking Elaf whispers something to me and I start to think quickly. Is it really a good time to ask Shun? Yes, because it's better if we ask him before meeting up with the others. But also no, because I have no idea how to express the question. Suddenly Shun turns around when we start to walk behind him.
"I want to ask something," he says and we stand still as though he just read our minds.
"S-sure," I say uncertain.
"Are wewe Bakugan brawlers?"
"Huh?" I hear it comes out from Elaf who must be as uncertain as I am.
Bakugan brawlers? Actually I expected something else...
"No, we're not," Elaf says.
"But we'd upendo to be," I laugh.
"Elaf, you're from Sweden, right?"
At first she doesn't say abything and I can see that she is thinking about something. Then she says: "Yes."
"And wewe Teddy," Shun says. "You're from Holland?"
"Um... Yeah...?" it slowly comes out of me.
How does he know?
"How do wewe know that, Shun?" Elaf asks and he keeps quiet to begin with, but then says: "I just know."
"How?" Elaf persists.
"No, never mind."
"What do wewe mean 'never mind'? Of course wewe got to know somehow."
inayofuata sekunde I finally understand what Elaf is up to. She's trying to find out what she and I wanted to ask Shun just a moment ago.
So this is the case, I think.
"You don't have to know," Shun says.
"Is that so? Well, actually I've got the right to know since it's about me. And Teddy has the right to know as well cuz it's about her, too."
"What are wewe so eager to know anyway? There wouldn't be any changes if I told you, would it?"
"We never know," she says. "Now, Shun. Tell us. Also, why did wewe come to us the first time wewe saw us? It's obvious wewe wouldn't do so to anyone. Do wewe really know who we are, Shun?"
At first he sighs, but then he says it and my moyo - of some reason - makes a flip.
"I have seen you. Before. In whether a dream au a vision, I don't know..."
***
That's not the only surprising thing that happens. When we head back nyumbani around eight o'clock, when it's dark that is, we find that girl sitting on the brigde again. Then I really start to wonder...
Who is she?
