Laurels Literary Magazine Fall 2014 | Page 38

my father he was a business man who owned a kimono shop, and that he was a widow, and that he’d marry me in time—after his children were past the grieving stage. I’m such a fool! (KEIKO cries.) YUNA: Don’t blame yourself, Keiko. We are nothing but a commodity to men. You just need to learn how to exploit that. Have you talked to your father? KEIKO: No, not yet. Tadashi promised I’d see him often when he took me away, but it’s been nearly two months and whenever I ask him to take me to see my father he tells me that we’ll go on the weekend . . . but he disappears on weekends. YUNA: Maybe we can go together to visit him this coming weekend if you wish. KEIKO: Thanks, Yuna. Even if I were to see my father, I can’t tell him. I was forced into this arrangement because my fa \