Distant Friend

Chapter 15

Today is Saturday and I'm the only one left in our house because my parents have an appointment for their medical examination. I spent my day watching television and listening music. When I was going to get a chocolate from the fridge, the doorbell rang so I opened the gate. I saw a blonde guy of the same age with me. You can easily know that he's a mailman because he's holding letters of different colors.

"Good morning Ma'am, where's Mrs. Dalton?", he asked.

"My mom is not here. Why?"

"She has a letter from Mrs. Mariko Kawabata" he replied. He gave me the blue letter.

"Okay. I will just give it to her later" I said, and then he left.

Mrs. Mariko is the pen pal of my mom since high school. I smiled at the idea because she's old enough to have it. My mom told me the story on how she knew her. She was in the Central Park sitting on the bench. She is still high school that time then she saw a group of Japanese adult guys looking around the park, maybe observing the place for business purpose, my mom thought. One of the Japanese guys sat beside her. He asked my mom her school and that's the start of their conversation. He told her that he has a daughter of the same age with her and my mom reminds him of her. He gave the name and address of his daughter to my mom and he'd asked her to write letters to his daughter. Then, that's the start of my mom's and Mariko's friendship.