"You off to meet that Sumika girl you're always writing about?"
Kani's face was beat red, "Mom.. Please.. I'm going to go have fun in the snow, stop reading my journal! Just because I'm not here doesn't make that okay! I'm not some kid anymore!"
"Okay okay, have fun I was just messing with you, bring your sled why don't you?"
Kani hadn't even thought about the sled, she was too frazzled in this moment to remember such things. She just needed to get out of there as quickly as possible.
"Okay mom, love you byeeeee" she said as she turned and took off for the park.
She immediately wished she had brought her sled after reaching the park, as the hills were covered in that fresh powdery snow that would have been perfect for it. Some of the children from the neighborhoods were already taking off on their sleds and crashing down at the bottom with thunderous laughs. She didn't know those children though, so she definitely wasn't going to start a chat or ask to borrow their sleds. So she would have to just watch and hope that maybe someone she knew came along to change that.
She was hoping to see some friends of hers, or at least some of those she'd consider friends. She was always quick to assume someone was in fact her friend, only really needing them to tolerate her around them, it was just her way of being. She wasn't a judgemental person, and got along with a lot of different people, so maybe she could make some new one's here today.
'No don't be silly, these kids aren't like us. They're just normal kids, not shinobi. They probably don't think like us or think we are weird.'
[wc 366]