Your mind continues to contradict itself. You had a sister, right? No, you grew up in Japan as an only child. But these memories are just too real - you DO have a sister! Right? You barely make it through the conversation, juggling reading and responding to the translator while trying to remember your sister - which you weren’t even sure you had!
Eventually, the girls decide to put on a movie, but unfortunately, there are no Japanese subtitles, so you have to rely on your basic understanding of English to scrape by. From what you could tell, it was some kind of cheesy rom-com that was probably typical of American sleepovers. Not like you would know, despite watching many American films dubbed in Japanese back home in... where was it, exactly? It couldn’t be Tokyo or Osaka, it wasn’t a very large city... but what could it be? You concentrate, your headache only getting worse as new memories flood in of growing up in a small fishing village - Tsukumi, perhaps? Yes, that sounded right. Everything started to get slightly clearer. You were Nariko, a Japanese foreign exchange student from a fishing village who was trying her darndest to learn english.
With this newfound confidence, you come back to the dilemma of who your sister is with a clearer mind. However, your mind starts to cloud again. You... DID have a sister! A twin sister, at that. Her name was Ma.. Masa...? No, that didn’t sound right. You pondered for a moment as memories further inundated your mind. All of a sudden, it came to you. Her name was Masako! And she came with you on the foreign exchange program! Despite solving this issue, you were still confused. Where was Masako? She didn’t stay at home - she was the one that convinced you to come along!
This issue plagued you until you looked over to see that Amber’s complexion had become darker - or was that just the light? You also noticed that she, too, was wearing a yukata. Why on earth would an American girl be wearing that? Was it a sign of inclusiveness, an attempt to make Nariko feel more welcome, perhaps? No, that couldn’t be, Amber was your sister, right? So it was only natural that your sister, who was from the same place as you, would also be wearing a yukata, right? You shrugged and turned your attention to the movie again.
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It was some time later that the movie concluded. You had done your best to understand the plot, and had had a genuinely good time, at least in comparison to earlier. You glanced over to Amber, and did a double take. What you saw was a near carbon copy of you, albeit in a different-colored yukata. But... she was always like that, right? Yeah, she was! She was your twin sister, Masako, who had come with you to America on the foreign exchange program! How could you forget? She was the one who was better with English, so she had arranged this sleepover at your... house? That’s right, you had never left your house, and were watching this there.
Your sister spoke some words in English, some of which you couldn’t quite catch. She then walked over to you as the other girls were blearily standing up. (Author’s Note: means Japanese speech) You said, standing up, yawning, and stretching. You don’t know why you thought you had never had a sister, but those thoughts weren’t in the right state of mind anyway.
You walk to your shared bedroom, where you had set up cots and a futon on the floor for the other girls. Tuckered out, you all slowly drift off. You wonder what what was going to happen tomorrow.