C8 Finally Japan

Anticipation makes them stay put in their sitting position with wobbly excitement. They sit on a metal long chair in the waiting area while relaxing, looking around at beautiful scenery where hanging fresh red roses are spotted in front of them and tristellateia australasiae at the opposite, the same line on each corner. They arrive at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 4 o'clock in the morning with triumph smiles and exciting aura written on their faces. Feeling her throat drying, Anne sips a neslo which has a perfect combination of coffee and chocolate malt or Milo, much to her liking. Whilst Raja is watching anime and Farah is scrolling on her Instagram. Their luggage was done brought to God knows where after an inspection before their torturous waiting time. Doubtless not caring where their stuff is, they keep minding their own business. D*mn these sweethearts. Their plane is onboard after hundreds and twenty minutes of standby.

They walk side by side with their bags at the back until reach at the gate. They have to do another inspection before they could proceed to walk to the plane. Stepping onto the stairs one by one, they instantly put a smile on their faces the moment they see stewards and stewardesses waiting behind the doors and seats nearby. Three of them are in awe, leisurely pace and search for their seats. Raja and Farah place their bags in the storage bins above them first then Anne. In Awe, awe and awe once again. This flight will take 6 hours and 51 minutes to reach Japan from Malaysia and they are going to spend 4 days and 3 nights there. But then, there is an argument going on at the front when Anne's organ of sight admiringly wanders upon all sides. Aargh! Who’s ruining the moment?

"I wanna sit there!"

"No, I CHOSE it first!"

"Uh-uh, like there IS your name marked or even engraved on it, big cat. When?"

"I'm the EARLIEST one here, you coney!"

Her two best friends were making a fuss about the seat meanwhile Anne now is thinking where to seat in serenity. Who will seat near the window? Hmm. Some people lose it dyingly just to seat beside it. It is like a special spot in every single aeroplane on earth. Kind of poppycock but it is the truth. Who would not die for it? Who? But there is this one person who undeniably the fact that wants to sit there. Too.

"Um, so... where should I sit?" She mumbles.

'Such dramatic brats. You chits! I want it TOO... but never mind. These brats obviously won't back off easily' She thought and rolls her eyes after hearing two familiar voices fighting like a kid.

She trying to shrugs it off but there is still an ongoing quarrel. She moves forward and suggests they exchange their seats either Raja sit there at this moment or Farah sits alongside it the time they go back to the homeland country or vice versa. Their choices. So, end up Farah is the one sitting next to the window while Raja is in the middle and Anne is on the right near the path. She quietly sighs and shakes her head for the commotion they made. She then spacing out after hands rubbing the temples.

'This is going to be a long journey. My oh my'

6 hours passed with all of them sleeping soundly as they woke up at 2 in the morning which was odd and unusual for them. It was too early to wake up from their great dreams. Anne is having a bad position when she tries to have a little kip. Yet eventually fell asleep since she had not enough sleep yesterday. She only slept for 2 hours. Added one hour and it would be Farah and Raja’s. That would explain why they were sleeping for hours on the plane like there is no tomorrow.

The two fell asleep easily as the cold temperature made their eyes shut at a rate of knots. Raja came around when she wants to pee or poo while Farah sleeps like a statue. The latter had a dream where she married a good-looking and understandable Japanese man which was nice and heaven. Aw. She dreams in the dream of getting one as well as having one at some time in the future. But. Does she has no bladder or what? Allah. 6 hours without going to the loo? Yikes! Incredible. Just incredible. And literally how she silently sleep with no movement at all? Anne once thought that she was already slumbering, looking at her back and saw she was not moving but the fact that she actually was scrolling on her social media when she got back from the bog and aghast at her ability.

They slept peacefully though without moving much unlike Anne. She barely got sleep spesh when she slightly bumped her beautiful face on Raja's huge collarbone every d*mn hour. Tch, tch! Bloody h*ll! - this aeroplane! Her posterior was hurt and felt like she leaned on a rough chair. But it was just her. Her posture seemed like she was going to study and who sleeps in a vertical position? No one but Anne.

They spend another 51 minutes waking up stretching and drinking some water together with soft drinks. Farah is overexcited since it is her first time going on a vacation together with Raja and Anne to a foreign country. She is certainly thrilled. Meanwhile, Raja is feeling nervous and delighted to meet her crush albeit not this very day and there is Anne, peepers roaming around while yawning as she did not get any sleep just now.

"Close your mouth with your backhand, you genius. Do you want satans to get interested in you, no? So, hid it with your left backhand as soon as you yawn next time' Farah says with sarcasm in her voice.

"Oh, yeah. Sorry... MOM. I forgot hehe" Anne playfully banters.

They finally arrive at the Tokyo Airport at the exact time, 12.11 pm. Anne feels jet lag after the sixfold bumping incident. On the other hand, Raja is happily throwing punches at Anne's left forearm all of a sudden. Sh*t. That hurts to the bone. ‘What’s wrong with her? Why I’m always the victim?’ She thought and pouting in unsatisfaction. While pouting, she treads behind Raja and Farah, making space for the others and fixing look upfront. Suddenly, a man accidentally crashes a slight into her. He is wearing a cool black shade, grey hat with a white stripe at the bottom, a black SpongeBob hoodie and blue jeans. She gazes at him for a second but brushes aside as soon as the other two are on foot ahead of her. Not wanting to be forsaken, she jogs forward. She only could see his wide lips, Nubian nose and Adudu’s shape with a light tan skin tone.

They mindfully walking and search for the agency's tourist guide leader, Aziz, to come and pick them up at the Tokyo Airport. Later, Raja sees an exotic brown man holding white cardboard with her name on it at the side of a path. She waves and smiles at him. He informs them about the tour guide’s car for tomorrow, the hotel and a tad about Tokyo especially the buildings. Looking at the landscape vista along the way makes Anne feels much better although dizziness makes her a bit moody and shell-like wheezing too at times. Whilst Farah taking some photos around her albeit exhausted as the nice dream caused it and Raja asking about places and cultures in Tokyo until they arrive ahead of his Toyota Alphard.

Farah is waiting for Anne to help to put their luggage at the rear as her luggage is kind of heavy and Anne is stronger than her. Raja also asking for Anne to help her as well while still chatting with Aziz at the side of the car. Anne voluntarily does it and tells Aziz she could do it after seeing him quietly wincing in pain while massaging his hind upper body along the spine. She knows he has been waiting for them for long and starts lifting her bag. While waiting, Farah spins 360 degrees angle feeling different and unexpectedly sees this one little Japanese kid after her first round who curiously staring at her with his mother beside him and 23 metres away. She stares and smiles sincerely and dimples at him. “Aw, he’s cute” She praises him even he could not hear it. He smiles back and makes her in awe but more like gawking when she realises the boy has pretty eyes and face plus thin lips. He also got a fair pointed nose with pale skin and a side quiff hair. “Astaghfirullah, what am I doing?” She says and cautiously looking around if anyone saw what she did. “Alhamdulillah, no one saw it. Fiuh” She sighed in relief.

She wants to wave at him but she just remembers she needs to tell her parents and elder sister that she already arrives before entering the car together with Raja and Anne to the passenger seat. They spend time exploring Tokyo and its wonders in astonishment every time they saw advanced technologies in stores, the decorations on each building and house and the cleanliness in every area. They gain Nature Place hotel after forty-five minutes of exploring. Raja feels jiggered and craves to eat some bread she bought yesterday and desires to take a nap before dinner as they have no other schedule for the day and night. They could rest since they just reached their destination with jetlag consumes nearly all of their energy.

It is now Anne's turn to capture videos at the hotel since the decoration in the lobby is surely beautiful. Plus, taken lots of pictures too. Shiny grey ceramic tiles with light brown ceramic round shape in the middle and birds statue fountain near the inquiry counter took her interest the moment she steps into the lobby. But the most wonderful thing that draws her attention is a long and small fish pond next to the bird fountain and behind it has 3D beautiful green nature wallpapers on the walls. It is a perfect location and background for photographers to snap tons of amazing pictures. After check-in, they enter the lift at the left corner and head to their room on the fifth floor joyously while finding the room with the number 51 stated on the card in Raja’s hand. “There’s the room! On the left” Farah says and show it with her right thumb. Raja scans the card until it makes a ‘teet’ sound and turns its colour from red to green. They get into the room with mouths agape in awe at how pleasant and expensive the room looks. The interior design is outstanding with green and black colour. “Subhanallah, it looks much better in real life though. Bapak ah... I don't wanna go back home” Raja comments amusingly. 'Bapak ah' means father, ah to say that is amusing. “Then, don't” Anne monotonously replies to make her irritated. She squints her peepers to shut Anne's lips and throwing foul words at her inside for ruining the moment. “I’m just kidding, bruh” Anne adds. She raises both hands, surrender from the teasing and saying “Okay, sorry”. The three of them then neatly fold untidy clothes and other stuff and place them into the closet.

As soon as it is finished, Raja eats her chocolate bun on a comfy Daisaku Choh chair while Anne standing at the balcony spinning 180-degree angles and eyes roaming around the hotel. She gazes at the bright blue sky with dramatic monologue slips in her mind equate to her condition. 'This is so refreshing... the air here too... I don't know. It felt different being here. The air in my area is not as good as here and I like it here more but still, alhamdulillah' She thought while taking deep respiration countless times. Farah, on the other hand, is calling with her mom as her phone ringing when she was just sitting and almost taking a bite of her chocolate biscuit beside Raja.

Anne is feeling better after 13 minutes of looking around and decides to come inside and sees Farah is calling someone. She peeks at her at the rear and seems somewhat jealous of her. Farah's parents always call her asking about her wellbeing and other stuff meanwhile Anne's parents occasionally call her. She does not want to disturb them as they were busy with works and house chores. Plus, her social skills are as bad as what some people thoughts of her as cold and cocky mute. But she always prays for her parents and will stalk them on social media or ask her siblings what they are doing during her leisure time. She had her own reason why she hardly communicates with her parents but it is another story.

She feels outright better as Farah's parents cared about her. She smiles with gratefulness praying Farah and her family will be happy till the end of the day. She hears everything Farah's mother asks such as how she is doing, how is the flight, how is the hotel, what she eats, already pray or not and what time is it now. In the last question, her mother asks how is the food in Tokyo though honestly, Farah did not even know. She barely gets to taste any Japanese food yet but just thinking about it makes her drool.

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Birds outside are chirping and the sky is still light blue but add with dark and grey as well as half black. Hence, it seems like semi-darkness. Or maybe not? Anne is confused. Sunset is still a couple of minutes away. She hopes she could see it from here. She has been dying to go to a beach here for the sunset and wants to see it in front of her eyes but is too lazy to move her rusty-dusty as Raja is soundless asleep and Farah is rolling on the long and wide comfortable sofa bed. 'Strolling alone in a foreign country for the first time? Hmm, but we already promise to go there together. But she's sleeping right now. I bet she's worn out. Never mind then if not now, the night will be' She wonders and sits on Daisaku Choh chair, crossing legs and checking her videos and photos before uploading in the google drive afterwards.

Farah discontinues rolling and begins scrolling her Instagram instead after feeling slightly giddy. Why did you do that in the first place? Facepalm. Anne decides to shower first as she does not have any idea what to do other than scrolling on her social media and looking and watching the videos and photos she took earlier back and forth multiple times. "Argh! Boring!" She whispers in exasperation. But then, there is a sleeping beauty who gets a kiss from her well-proportioned prince waking her up from her long bad dreams. They happily hug each other feeling lost as they got separated by forced a few years ago. Phooey. 'Oh my prince! I love you so much. Please don't leave me again' Raja send a reply through telepathy to her hero for saving her.

Farah calls and pats Raja's leg fourfold to wake her up but still no movement. She sees her blinking and thinks Raja is already awake so she resumes back scrolling on both her Instagram and Tik Tok while waiting for her turn to take a bath. After a quarter of minutes of showering and dancing in the bathtub, Anne gets ready to wear her plain green shirt with a towel on her waist before she gets out. She then put on her printed strawberry pink trousers and dries her hair. Farah clicks on the upper side of her phone and begins to walk to the bathroom with a set of clothes and undergarments. Feeling strange, Anne spins and sees Raja is still dozing.

"Wait, why is she is still zizzing? Woohoohoo... Is she forgot we are here in Japan right now? We ain't got time to waste, bruh. No, no. Ey, this girl" She nags while pacing to her, shaking her head unsatisfyingly.

"Raja... Raja...” She nudges her left forearm twice and continues her waking up call. “It's almost maghrib. Get a shower, you stink. You said you just wanna take a nap. This is not napping, sleepyhead. Ohoi, Raja" She nudges one more time and shakes her body. She is going to splash water on her countenance if she still did not wake up from her dream at any moment. But then, she stirs a bit and blinks thrice.

"Uh... sorry... I felt somewhat somnolent... to wake up earlier" She rubs her peepers and stretching a little before gets away from the bed and prepares herself to shower.

"It's okay, I also didn't know it would make us this fatigue. And don't take too long, bruh" Anne tells.

After praying maghrib, Raja talks and recommends getting dinner outside at a halal restaurant near the hotel. It could take fifteen minutes walking from the hotel to reach the restaurant. She has done research once before going to Japan and did it again just now to make sure the location was right before asking them. Farah speedily agrees with her recommendation because she could take more selfies and videos yet Anne is contemplating.

She did feel hungry but such a pain in the neck when she has to get ready to go out which she 100 per cent sure will be the last person to be fully prepared and probably going to make her best friends mad for getting late. It takes her some time to wear light makeup and gets dress. Plus, wear a hijab too. Such a time wasted since she has to do it for the sake of beautiful pictures and videos also Farah asked her to. Why oh why. She hates last minutes plans. Ugh!

Raja goes forward before Anne and Farah as she looking for the restaurant after a quarter of minutes of walking and there is it, the halal restaurant that she mentioned just now. She chooses a table outside so they have their own privacy and the other two just follows. The restaurant serves Japanese food so Anne chooses one set of Sashimi with sky juice while Farah's choice is Onigiri Chicken with Matcha Tea and she chooses Oden with Green Tea. Such mouth-watering.

After taking a couple of hours eating dinner and snap more pictures, they head back to the hotel and directly go to their room. Raja plops her back on a pillow while studying the map given by the tourist guide names Hairi. On the other hand, Anne makes up her mind to sleep early though she wants to chew the fat with them before getting her head down. Yet did chitter-chatter nonetheless. She sleeps on the sofa bed as there is only a queen bed and a sofa bed in the room for them to sleep. She picks the sofa bed for the night thus both Raja and Farah will not quarrel again for the second time today.

"I sleep first, guys! Sleepy already” Anne lazily says while covering her mouth, yawning and her eyes too feel heavy.

“Okay! Good night!” Unexpectedly Farah and Raja say in unison.

‘How cute’ She thought.

Anne dozes off slowly after taking a little time to lock her eyelids. In the meantime, Farah is going about picking among the photos she captured in the morning and earlier to post tons on her Instagram and WhatsApp status. Not sleepy makes her tête-à-tête with Raja for a jiffy. “Raja, mind telling me more about your crush? If you're okay with that of course" Farah asks and sits beside her.

"Ah... about him, eh? Um..." She considers telling Farah but eventually did so.

"He replied to my insta story a few days ago... And we chat a bit. He told me he will treat me if I travel to Japan and yes... he knew that I came here... So... We got a chance to meet him on our last day here. And I already gave him our address. Eh, no! I mean this hotel's name and location of course. I can't believe it! He finally recognised me. Oh, ya Allah! IfinallygoingtomeethimforrealandYukiwillbeaheadofme(I finally going to meet him for real and Yuki will be ahead of me)" Raja rattles on as exuberance going higher in her system.

"Wait, wait. Relax... Slow, slow... you're way too fast. But I'm really cock-a-hoop for you. Yahoo! I can't wait to see him too this Thursday" Farah dulcifies her softly whose owns a profound jouissance at the moment and before she rouses Anne from her deep kips.

"It's 11.51 pm now. Don't you feel sleepy? I need to brush my teeth right now. And go to sleep after that since we have an early schedule to sightseeing tomorrow... on the break of day" She tells with a sudden grave tone that makes Farah taken aback but she gently answers her.

"Not on your nelly, not yet. After the cockcrow? You joking?" She cocks her brows and made a ‘you’re really kidding, right?’ face.

Raja guffaws and utters that she is fooling around before making her way to the bog. Meanwhile, Farah suspired slowly as the table has turned and tries to soothe her anger. She then titters the way Raja is laughing afterwards. Like a loony. She remains laying on the bed and decides to play PlayerUnknown's BattleGround as she suddenly gets a headache. As a matter of fact, she actually has migraines and makes her sleeps late at times as in right now. Thus, she always playing games or watching dramas whenever a migraine attacks her.