All of this... every inch of this town... gave off an eerie, familiar feeling. Or at least to me. Like somehow, I knew it. I knew it's name, it's streets, everything. But I'v never been here.
"Sofie!" my brother shouted while carrying boxes into our new, extravagant (in my point of view) house. "Don't wander too far from the house!" he continued, referring to my (and his) terrible sense of direction. Without answering, my footsteps still clattered noisily along the empty sidewalk.
Nerima.
After a minute or two, strong hands gripped my shoulders and whispered sternly in my ear,
"I told you to...
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