Sukiyaki

By Amina Harrison

Ashante Lyles a woman, who owns her own business will become a little bored though not with her seemingly good life. The owner of a boutique known as Sukiyaki she named it so because at one time Ashante lived in Osaka, Japan when she was a child. Ashante yearns for something a little newer in her life and she will obtain what she wants by the way if an romantic encounter with a wealthy, businessman from the land of the Red Sun. Miss Amina Harrison revised her novel entitled, Sukiyaki a story of romance when the West meets the East also a woman,who will consider moving to Japan to be with her Eastern man.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Amina Harrison
• Release date: Jan 30, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224779604

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SUKIYAKI

AMINA HARRISON

CHAPTER 1

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He has gone home,

Will I ever see him again?

I wished, he called.

As she is trying to rest in her bed and although it is only a late Saturday afternoon, however whenever she will have a free day of a weekend; she would go out to either shoo, or meet friends or she would get ready to go out when the sun sets during the certain Saturday. At the moment, as Ashante with her head nestled deep on one if her Vera Wang pillows, Ashante is sensing like a deep loneliness she had sensed since Ashante broke up with her very first love at the time Ashante attended college and she also the certain man had talked marriage and growing old together. It is not a long ago lover who is having Ashante to feel so down in the dumps. Almost a few months earlier, a good looking man, full of the most Asian persuasion, Ashante believed could have been good for Ashante if only she and him could have started something such as good, luvun thing.  Get your wanting a—-, back with Gerrell, a friend of Ashante said to Ashante when she had called the friend so Ashante could talk about the most persuasive Asian man, Ashante had met.  Bad mistake, Ashante thought most of all about the moment when she had called her friend.  He did say perhaps he might visit New York again someday, Ashante thinks as she slowly gets herself up out of bed for after all, Ashante have a business to operate. Something she have always wanted to do ever since she had graduated from a university in the state of Arizona.

He might not could have been the man for you, Ashante mother had said to her daughter when almost a week later, Ashante called her mother for a little understanding. She isn’t no better than Zarana, Ashante assumed when after she called her mama.  Though Ashante had lived in the country of Japan when she was much younger all because Ashante Liles father had served in the US Army in Osaka, the moment Ashante had met the businessman from Osaka; she could not stop talking about her younger years to the man also he acted so interested.  "I only had one friend in grade school when I lived there. Her mother was Japanese and her father was a black man enlisted in the military then. Would you believe over there in Osaka they identified my friend and I as military kids?"  she had said to the Japanese businessman at the time Ashante had met him at a Sushi bar located near her shop known as Sukiyaki.  He even wanted to know what really inspired the beautiful, ebony woman to name her business after a very, rich dish known in his country of Japan.  Well, you might say I liked living in Osaka with my parents if course. After moving back home to the states the Orient influence stayed with me. After graduating college and then moved to New York; I was able to start my own business. Inside my shop is items with an Oriental flair but I also sell other items. You could say, my shop is like a world bizarre inside another world bizarre, Ashante said.

To your success, he said in his native language. Now, the Asian persuasion has returned home.  All the while of Ashante inside of the shower stall if her bathroom; Ashante hears her wireless rings the mobile is inside of her purse and the purse is in the bedroom.  Damn, she mutters to herself as Ashante will quickly step out her bathroom shower stall and with her body dripping wet with water and perfumed suds when as soon as she hurries into her bedroom to answer her mobile the wireless fon stopped ringing. Next, Ashante flips the mobile open and she observes it is her one-time lovelorn, who had called. Not the Asian gent from Osaka, Japan.

After arriving to her shop Sukiyaki, she walked inside her shop all in the nick if time. Though the sun was shining as Ashante was driving to work all of sudden it is now pouring down rain. She sighs as she walks to the counter of her shop and after she unlocks the cash register though inside the cash register is only a few coins, Ashante will think about as to what her lovelorn, who have came back to Ashante had suggested. Baby, why don’t you hire an assistant? the loving Gerrell had implied then again he and Ashante were enjoying countess, and very hot minutes of entwined in bed the two legs locked in a passionate embrace. As well, Ashante and Gerrell talked about not only Ashante should hire an assistant; she would need one when after Ashante and Gerrell married.  She next closes the cash machine and perhaps because of the rain; Ashante should close her shop for after all she might not have too many customers to stop by Sukiyaki.  Her shop though is located in a shopping center with fifty or more shops the rain might keep the customers away from the other businesses as well.

I've got to get up, she thinks as Ashante while laying her bed also As hangs will have to go to work for after all she owns a business and the bills will not stop arriving straight into her mail box. Ever since the gent from Japan has been away, Ashanti will try to even think about the one fleeting, and hot, wild also restricted lovemaking she enjoyed with Makino Sultan and following the moment she and Makino laid close together talking sweet, pillow talk as Ashante and Makino were at one time lovers from sometime ago and have met again. Or was it during another lifetime?  Now, Ashante will slowly get up out if her bed and as she walks to her spacious and upscale bathroom at the moment Ashante will turn on first the hot water faucet next she turns on the cold one. Stepping in slowly into the shower stall as the lukewarm water flows over her slim body; Ashante will think since the sudden exit  of the man from Japan, she had not heard from her very, first love  Gerrell.  When she is finished with her freshening, Ashante will think perhaps Gerrell might know at all. With her robe wrapped around her body as Ashante is walking out the bathroom she hears the ringing tone if her cellular. Rushing to answer the device the Fon is on her bed as the device has been for a main reason. After lifting the cellular fon, Ashante observes it her mother calling from Phoenix, Arizona. When Ashanti mother years earlier decided to move away from Osaka, Japan; Mrs. Lyles decided on the city if Phoenix. Mr. Lyles agreed with an idea to finish out his tour if duty in Japan. Then later, Mr. Lyles returned home to Phoenix to stay on with Ashante and her mother. Before Advance finished her university studies; Mr. Lyles died from a deadly form if cancer. At the present, Mrs. Lyles believes she has been spared from the deadly C because Mrs. Lyles despite her years of smoking while living in Osaka as soon as Mrs. Lyles returned home she began a ritual of drinking thick, malt like vanilla shakes to keep her lungs in the clear.

Hello mama, Ashante say although she sounds as if some part of her live is seeping away.

"What is wrong with you? That thug you fooling around is still hanging around bothering you?" Mrs. Lyles asks and the mother coughs as she waits for answer from her daughter. Ashante never did understand why her mama talks about Gerrell in such as way also Mrs. Lyles always views Gerrell as an thug, even though Gerrell wallet houses his six figure income.

What if I decided to marry Gerrell? Ashante asked.

Hope you don’t. Anyway I called to find out if you are coming home for Christmas? Mrs. Lyles asked and again she coughs as she talks to Ashante.

I might, Ashante said though she did promise Gerrell perhaps she and Gerrell should go to Colorado for Christmas. Ashante has always wanted to go to a ski lodge owned by an African-American couple.

Well, I hope you are able. Feeling kind of lonely out here.

I asked you sometime ago to move here to New York, Ashante said.

Hell no, Mrs. Lyles said during the remainder if the time if the mother and daughter talking; Ashante over looks her mother hacking like coughing. Though she did promise her mama about coming home for Christmas