The death of her father should have caused her upset, it should have been a shock but to Elise she didn’t appear phased by it one bit. In fact, the first words she had thought was I told you so. It was seemingly cruel but again she had spent years living with him, watching her father deteriorate into worse behaviour and it sickened her. How someone could go from having a good life to throwing it all down the drain from his addiction to alcohol. To her it was not her father she had lived with, he had died years ago when he first started changing. The now upheaval of her life however was a different story, to say she wasn’t at least concerned or scared would be a lie. With little personal possessions she was now one of the few students who needed to be placed into some sort of care. 

The school had arranged with various parents to take in the few orphaned students, at least until something more permanent could be arranged. It was a temporary measure whilst the town regained its feet from the destruction the tsunami had caused. Crime had been on the rise as the police force was stretched thin with the clean up of the town, some force members had been on duty and injured when the tsunami had hit. Chaos was ensuing and order needed to be restored but there was very little authority to be able to do that, it was becoming quite the issue as of late. Everyone was seemingly in some sort of panic and no one wanted to admit that nothing was going right, to them putting on fake smiles and covering things up was going to be far easier with keeping the peace than telling the truth. 

Sighing softly to herself holding a bag of her personal things she stood outside the Yagami’s door, they had arranged her to stay with them for now until further notice and a part of her was anxious. She felt like she was intruding into someone else’s life, but it couldn’t be helped. Gripping the handles of he bag tighter she bit her lip as ice blue eyes stared at the door in front of her, she had yet to knock to disturb the family. Glancing back into the street towards the sky she could see the sun setting, it was coming up to teatime and she knew she couldn’t waste anymore time. Taking a deep breath, she knocked on the Yagamis door waiting for an answer. She could hear the shuffling behind it and faint voices, she could feel the butterflies in her stomach rising and she couldn’t help but shuffle her feet as for a split second the thought of running crossed her mind. 

[i][color=a187be]Stop that, you are overthinking things, it will be fine.[/color][/i] Shaking her head as she brushed the thought of being nervous aside, she put a smile on her face as she waited at the door.