Meet Mikami

Travis walked into his house, almost dragging his backpack. It had been two weeks since Tiffany had made a fool out of him, and he was still hearing jokes about it from most of his friends. He was thankful that he only had one more year of college left before he was out for good. He tossed the bag on the couch and flopped down beside it.

As he reached for the tv remote, he heard a faint knock on the door. He wasn't expecting anyone and most of the guys he was friends with normally just came on in instead of knocking. He had a pretty good sized place since he lived off campus so it had become the main hangout spot for some of his roudier friends. He got up, crossing the floor to the doorway in two strides and jerked it open.

Standing in the doorway was a small woman with long light brown hair and a cute face that was clearly oriental. For some reason she looked vaguely familiar, but he couldn't quite place her. She was about a foot shorter than him so she had to look up to smile at him.

"Mister Travis?"

"That's me. Is there something I can help you with?"

Her cute face scrunched in confusion for a moment and she tilted her head. She began reaching into her purse.

"Don't you remember? You ordered me a few weeks ago. Where did I put it?"

He didn't know what she was talking about but watched as she began digging into the bag that he now realized was more of an overnight bag than a purse. It looked like it could easily make her topple over if she wasn't careful.

"What do you mean by "Ordered you?" I've never seen you before."

"You logged onto the website "Love Hunnies" and paid with a credit card right?"

"Yeah... Wasn't that a porn site?"

The girl's head jerked up and he could see her face turning red, but wasn't sure if it was from embarassment or anger.

"N-no it wasn't! It was a web page dedicated to mail-order brides!"

Travis was momentarily taken aback. He had thought that the website had been bogus when he didn't get anything, but had been too smashed to care. And now there was a girl standing here telling him he had paid for...

"You've got to be kidding me."

The girl pulled a paper out of her bag that looked a lot like a contract.

"Here it is. This is a copy of the contract you agreed to when you placed the order. It says that you would pay for me to come here, the United States, and support me, then after a three month period to get to know each other, you can either send me back to Japan or we will be married."

Travis took the paper from her hand and began reading through it, still not completely sure this was happening. But then he saw his credit card number.

"What have I gotten myself into?"

The girl put her hand out.

"I'm Mikami, nice to meet you!"