Over the sea (Open)

The hotel room Reiko was situated in was a rather quite and peaceful one. There were statues sprouting water out of them, marble flooring and chandeliers hanging from the ceilings. Most of the place was white. The inside of the room were rather luxurious. This was a five star hotel. Reiko was fortunate enough to have a travel agent for a father. That meant she and the rest of her family would get a major discount on travel expenses.

Reiko was inside of her room pacing back and forth with an angry expression on her face. "No, really, I get it. I get what you're trying to do and it isn't going to work. You wanna kn-" she stopped pacing around. She folded her arms. "You know why it isn't going to work? Hmm? Do you? Do you even know why birds shit on statues? Do you have any idea why bears scratch themselves on trees? Do you know why dogs lick themselves in places you can only dream that you could? Do you know why? It's because they try damnit! They try!" Reiko was shouting for some reason. But the object of her aggression was unclear.

She was sporting a pair of pink, blue and white star pajamas. Her barefeet carried her in circles around the room while she was engaging in her interrogation. As it turned out Reiko was giving her stuff animal which was a giraffe a stern talking to. She believed it needed this talk in order to achieve something in life. For the moment she was completely out of her mind and wanted this inanimate object to actually achieve its dream that didn't exist.

"Oh, so you're going to just sit there? Hmm? Gonna just sit there and not go be a freakin' doctor! You could save lives damnit! You could save li-" she stopped again. Reiko went behind her giraffe and applied a headlock from behind thus applying a sleeper hold. "Shhhhh, don't talk. Don't fight it. Don't fight. Don't fight. It's alright. Just gonna go to sleep for a while. That's all," she said. There was a knock at her bedroom door. "Reiko? Everything okay in there?" asked a female voice. "I'm fine mom! Just giving a prep speech!" she responded. "Uhhhh, okay, if you need anything me and your father will be just down the hall, okay? Need money?" her mother asked. "I'm not six anymore mom! I can take care of myself!" she shouted back.

Her mother was outside her daughter's hotel room door and wanted to laugh. Reiko? Taking care of herself? That was more ridiculous than two left shoes. "That's really up for debate dear errrrr, I mean, uh, sure honey. You're a big, uh, girl. If you need us you know where to find us. Keep your cell phone around. We'll call every six hours. You better answer," he mother instructed. Reiko sighed and threw the giraffe across the room. "Yes, yes, YES MOTHER!" she responded. Her mother left and kept on laughing.

Reiko, against her parents' rules, left her room at approximately eleven at night. Her curfew was ten o'clock. She was still dressed in her pajamas. In the hotel lobby she reached into her pocket and pulled out some cigarettes. Her mom and dad specifically told her not to smoke because it was bad for her health. Reiko didn't care. She needed a cancer stick just to get through the day. The way people treated her like a freak had a negative effect on her. If she didn't smoke she wouldn't know how else to coupe when her medicine didn't have create a positive outcome from her. Well, that was because she never took her medicine like her parents and her therapist told her to.

Once outside Reiko lit up a cigarette, took a pull and blew out the sweet smoke. "Nothing like a square to calm the nerves," she whispered to herself.