My return

About 7 years ago I left my small home town in Japan, to go to America to become the CEO of my own company. But I left something behind, or more accurately some one behind. The women I loved more then anything, Nana, we knew each other since we were kids and grew up together. When the time came for me to make a choice between leaving for America to achieve wealth and staying here with her but settling for a average life in a little town. I chose to leave her and break her heart, after seven years I have returned to my town as the CEO of a million dollar corporation.

I returned to find her and see if I can some how convince her to come to America with me and live a better life with me. Honestly though I haven't been in contact with her since I left, for all I know she could be married or dating some body else and be perfectly happy. But even if she is, I still want her by my side, I need her with. Even after all the years that have passed and I haven't seen or talked to her, I have never forgotten her and I have always loved her.

I left the air port and hoped into a taxi to my parents house, when I left here I also left behind my parents, but they pushed me to go they wanted me to have a better life. They told me they would take care of her while I'm gone but they just kept telling me that she was good while I was away and nothing more.

I can't wait to see her again and see how she's grown and changed, I know she loves this town a lot so I'll buy a nice house here with a good view of the water so she can come back any time she wants. I shortly arrived at my parent house, "Hello sweet heart its so good to see you again, how are you?" my mother said as she walked out the house. I hoped out of the cab and went to hug her while the cabby got my bags.

"I'm good mom, how are you? Where's dad?" I asked

"He's inside and I'm good. Come grab your bag and lets go inside."

I grabbed my bag and headed inside, took off my shoes and left my bag by the stairs. As I entered the house memories of playing with Nana came back to me, I could almost hear her laughter echoing through the house. I entered the living room to find my dad, "Hi dad, how have you been?"

"I've been good son. It's good to see you again, you really look success full. I couldnt be more proud of you my son." he said with a smile across his face, with a nearly tears flowing from his eyes.

"I'm gonna go make some dinner, why don't you go unpack and we can catch up over dinner." My mother said

"Alright, I didn't bring much with me since I can't stay long. Sorry I can only stay for a week, I wish I could stay longer but I have to get back." I stated as I stood up and walked to the door way.

"Dont worry about it, we understand how busy you are, you ahve a lot of responsibilities in America that you cant just leave." My mother contiued to say "I hope you knwo we are very proud of you, we are so happy for you."

"Thanks mom, dad. I love you guys." I turned and walked to the stairs, grabbed my bag and headed upstairs. My room is still the same as I left it all those years ago, looks like my mom has been cleaning my room for me. I opened my window and looked down at the city, I felt so nostalgic looking out this window at the town. I remember all the times Nana and I looked out it and dreamed of the future we would have together, today I've finally returned to make all those dreams a reality for her, what ever she wants I'll give it to her. I'm gonna make sure she has everything she desires, I'll make her the happiest women on the planet.

I finished unpacking my stuff and put it all back into my closet and dresser, looked through a few of my old books and found my old high school exercise books, notebooks, my high school album, and my family photo album. As I flipped through the pages of my photo album I found all the pictures of Nana with her short brown hair and beautiful brown eyes, I even remember loving the little mole she had next to her lip. I can't wait to see her again, I wonder if she grew out her hair or kept it short.

I looked at the clock and realized I had been staring at album pictures so long that it was really late, I had planned to go see her after dinner but it's too late to go see her, plus I do want it to be special. I'll go see her tomorrow, I went down stairs and ate a traditional dinner with my parents and paid my respects to my grandparents. Afterwards I headed upstairs to go to bed early so I can get a early start at figuring out what to say to Nana tomorrow when I see her.

Funny how I've had so much time to prepare and yet for the life of me I have no clue what to say to her. I have no excuse for leaving her, my reason was to make money, in the back of my head I guess I figured I could give her a good life with it, so she can be happy and have anything she wants. But honestly that doesn't seem like a good enough reason, and it wasn't my reason at the time. I was an idiot when I left and thought that maybe I could just move on and be a typical guy dating some beautiful American girl, but no matter how many I dated I never forgot her and with everyone I remembered her and felt as though I was betraying her. Like I hadn't already done that by leaving her, I tried my hardest to forget her but to no avail, I always though about her, the thought of her made me smile and feel calm inside.

I laid down in my bed, and closed my eyes, my heart raced in excitement as the thought of seeing Nana tomorrow flowed through my head. I slowly drifted off into sleep, more relaxed then I had ever felt and with the sole thought that no matter what, I'm going to be taking Nana back to America with me to be my wife.