A Country Girl Goes to a Tokyo School: Volume 2

By Briana Rafferty

It sure isnt easy being a working-class girl attending to the most posh high school in town. Even more difficult is starting up a musical committee in a small classroom where every bit of music and the sound of birds carries. {Wouldnt want to flare up the aristocratic student bodys allergies.} Its a good thing that Hope Yamazaki is as tenacious and as full of moxy as they come. With her eye on the prize an adorable pet dog named Faith, Hope is prepared make friends and play some music with Lulu her pet bird by any means necessary.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jul 21, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524619763

Briana Rafferty

Briana is a new author who grew up in California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. She began writing stories in school for friends and family for many years until she was encouraged to publish her stories by a teacher. She still lives in the Bay Area with her family.

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Published by AuthorHouse 07/20/2016

ISBN: 978-1-5246-1977-0 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5246-1976-3 (e)

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Ken Kugyo: the

popular scion of the Kugyo family.

Hope Yamazaki: new student at Meio High School. Attending the elite school is a dream come true for her.

Eva Saionji: A wealthy vixen who aspires to be Mrs. Eva Kugyo. She has decided that she will marry Ken someday and is very jealous of Hope.

The story so far:

Hope is a new student at the elite Meio School. A rural country girl, Hokkaido is hopelessly out of place among the schools snobbish students who have nick named her Nature lover.

Her only defense is her natural resilience. Hope meets the handsome but aloof Ken Kugyo, the son of the school’s founder, and discovers his secret: Ken brings instruments and birds on campus even though it is a violation of Meio school policy.

Intrigued, Hope tries to get closer, only to be rebuffed by Ken, who doesn’t believe in friendship. However, when Hope is harassed for bringing instruments and a bird house on campus, he stands up for her. Ken and Hope’s budding relationship doesn’t go unnoticed, especially by Eva, who pretends to be Hope’s friend?

Eva dreams of marrying Ken, the heir to a vast family fortune. After secretly sabotaging Hopes endeavors, Eva admits her feelings, and intentions, towards Ken. Despite it all, Hope, Ken and Eva continue to work together on the musical committee, but lurking in the shadows is a stranger who despises all three of them for his own reasons.

In the morning Hope wakes up and looks at the clock and said yawning…

OH NO! I OVERSLEPT AGAIN!! KEN AND EVA ARE GOING TO KILL ME!! WE’RE STILL SETTING UP THE CLASSROOM, INSTRUMENTS AND THE BIRD HOUSES OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM!! I better hurry and…Oh, Ken’s handkerchief! Hope thinks back to that conversation when he says (You keep it. A gesture of friendship! Hmm, actually…I think that’s the first time a boy ever gave me anything.")

Hope takes her bike and Lulu her bird flies beside her. As they hurry to school she sees a lot of students and said… (What a mob! Absences are electronically recorded. You can’t fool this system.)

Hope puts her bike with the other bikes and locks it with a