Safe Or Eighteen.
Unhappy Birthday.
Ahmya
Hey Ma. I can't sleep.
Ma
You shouldn't be on your phone! I'm on the ferry, I'll be in Tokyo tomorrow.
Ma
17, I can't believe it! Make the most of it, sweetheart.
Ahmya
Ma, I AM 17. I'm going to be 18!!!
Ahmya
All that time away in Australia is really messing with you head. LOL!
Ahmya
You can't admit your 'baby girl ' is growing up.
Ahmya
Okay, okay. I got the point. I'll go to sleep.
Ma
She's seventeen, I swear.
Father
I know your tricks. She's 18. You've gone to tell her to stay in the house, huh? Pointless. Pointless, I tell you. Shi always knows. So do the rest of us.
Ahmya
Ma! I thought you wanted me to sleep!!!
Ma
Okay...so...you can't leave the house. You can't go out. Be careful. Don't do anything stupid.
Ahmya
You sound like Father. Ohhhh. This is one of his lame jokes, right?
Ahmya
Ma...what's going on?
Ma
You can text everyone...
Ma
Don't climb trees, don't drop from the climbing wall in your room to the floor. We've signed you out of the adventure centre. You are no longer a member of Acrobatics. You'll be home schooled from now on.
Ma
Actually, best not to go on the climbing wall at all.
Ma
Don't EVER go to the trampoline centre.
Ma
Especially not on the trapeze.
Ahmya
Why? Why can't I do all this stuff?
Ma
That's for us to worry about.
Ahmya
Ma! Remember what you always say?!
Ahmya
No. Well, yes. But that's not what I meant.
Ahmya
You always say 'Trust is everything. Families are built on trust. Friendships fall apart without it. Relationships could never be if not for trust.'
Ahmya
So tell me! At least give me a hint. Please, Ma.
Ma
You remember your cousin Sakura?
Ma
They all disappeared at 18.
Ahmya
You are...you're 35 though...
Ma
Your...your Dad...he...never mind. I'm here, because of him.
Ma
That's all I'm telling you.
Father
Well? How did your pleading go? I told you, no point.
Ma
She agreed. I had to tell her about a few things.
Father
Does she know about the vampires?
Father
Does she know I am one? I took pity on you? That's how you are here?
Ma
Of course not. Or our marriage was forced so I could stay alive.
Ma
Just...please. Don't take her! She's our baby.
Ma
Please! Think about what you're doing!
Father
I am well aware. More than you, anyway.
Father
Ah. Look. The clock strikes midnight.
Ma
NO! WHY DO YOU HAVE TO DO THIS?
Ahmya
Ma! You woke me up!!!
Ma
I just...I love you. I do.
Ahmya
Me too. Night, then.
Ma
And...no matter what, I'll always be there.
Ma
Goodbye, sweetheart. I'll always be with you.
Ma
You'll be safe if they take pity. If one of them seems to relent, make them fall for you.
Ma
It worked for me. I'm safe now.
Ma
And maybe...in a few years, we could meet again.
Ahmya
Ma? Fathers footsteps.
Ahmya
I thought he was out.
Ma
Remember! Remember, okay?
Ma
If one of them seems just a tiny bit wary.
Ahmya
Hello, it's Akio here.
Ahmya
Ahmya will be fine with us. Ha! Don't worry yourself, Hina.
Ahmya
You've been through this.
Ahmya
Or what? I'll leave you. And then...you won't be safe.
Ahmya
You know that isn't the way we work. We can do both of you.
Ahmya
I'll come back tomorrow.
Ahmya
Goodbye, say. Say goodbye.
Ma
I hope my advice was enough...
Desperate Mother.
Ahmya
Here. Have your phone back, Ahmya. No good it will do you. Nothing or nobody can help you.
Ahmya
Ma! Father....what's going on?
Ma
Is this you, Ahmya? Not Akio, playing a spiteful trick? It's you?
Ma
Okay, okay. It'll all by fine.
Ma
Look, your name means black rain.
Ma
When it rains black rain, start making your move on my advice.
Ahmya
I...Ma...what's going on?
Ahmya
Aww, you thought I wouldn't take your phone again? I had to check.
Ahmya
But black rain? That boy advice? Ha!
Ma
Well...the method I gave her worked for me. I am safe. It worked. Didn't it?
Ahmya
All the vampires in this camp are men.
Ahmya
Didn't you realise your own daughter is gay?
Ahmya
I arranged for it as soon as I found out.
Ma
How could she tell you and not me?
Ahmya
She just trusts me more...
Ahmya
No. I found it on her phone.
Ma
What? For real this time?
Ma
Akio always comes back for further taunts. He will.
Ma
Tell me what is happening to my daughter!
Ma
Are you going to say 'our daughter' and laugh?
Soul Sisters.
Father
I would prefer not to tell you.
Ma
Remember when her and her twin were babies? We lost her twin. We lost Sakura. And now you're making me lose Ahmya?
Father
No. It is in my blood.
Father
It was your fault for having children. You knew this day would come. You loved her too much.
Father
And the other one. I had to take it away.
Ma
But...she wasn't eighteen...
Father
You loved them too much.
Father
If I took one away you'd have less love.
Ma
She was...Ahmya's sister.
Father
She doesn't remember you. Or Ahmya.
Father
She's a daddy's girl. Ha!
Ma
You cruel, heartless...
Ma
Don't go! I need to speak to Sakura.
Father
She won't remember you.
Father
Fine. We tried. But she does. But she hates you.
Father
Your sister is arriving at the camp.
Father
You hate your Mother.
Sakura
Can I speak to them? Please!
Father
No. Only your sister is arriving. And you are not to go near her.
Sakura
Ahmya. I can go near her. To train her up to be a vampire. Better alive than dead.
Sakura
I don't look like you now though.
Sakura
Vampire's make you change.
Sakura
You will. You can't help it.
Sakura
You wouldn't understand.
Sakura
But I can help you!
Ahmya
How can I trust you?
Sakura
I don't know. You can't.
Sakura
I can't. But I'll try.
Sakura
I remember being picked up by Father.
Sakura
Taken away from you.
Sakura
You reached your pudgy arms out.
Sakura
I tried to grab you back.
Ahmya
I...I remember you. In your cot.
Ahmya
You had a pink baby suit. And a bow.
Ahmya
Father always favoured you more than me.
Ahmya
Buying you little treats.
Ahmya
Your black hair was fluffed up.
Ahmya
You still have the same soul.
Sakura
It's been eating away at me.
Sakura
Till I become heartless.
Sakura
Until I'm drifting around, feeling urge to BITE. Not being me.
Ahmya
As long as you help me.
Sakura
What are sisters for?!
Sakura
That's what we have to find out.
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