Sayuri Says....
The picture to the left of this text is a person backstabbing another person. I know you're probably wondering what it's for, or better yet what is it's purpose. Well in the eyes of Pumkpin that's what I am, a backstabber or even better a deceiver. Let me tell you why. When I first came to the okiya i was nothing more than a maid, and pumpkin was in training to become a geisha. For years i had thought that I would be trapped under the supervision of Hatsumomo and Mother. But that changed after a while :) One day Mameha a very well-known and successful geisha came by my okiya to talk to mother about me, and why I havent been training. Mother was shocked that Mameha would even have asked about me, none the less wanting to take me under her wing as her little sister. And that's where the trouble began. Over the years I had become quite popular and was no longer the house maid of the okiya. Mameha knew all the ropes and tricks to the geisha world, while Hatsumomo tried her best to keep me down. Eventually her tactics to ruin me became tiring and no one in Gion believed her lies any more.Once I started blossoming into a beautiful butterfly, the caterpiller in me died. So you could say that my light of success brightened up a horizon, leaving pumpkin on the back burner to fade into the shadows of MY sunset. All her life she was told that she wouldn't amount to anything, so it's a good thing that she was in the okiya, she had someone to guide her even if it was drunken Hatsumomo. Pumkin had always dreamed of becoming a Geisha. But once I became popular her dreams of being succeful got deferred. After my debts were all paid off, Mother thought it was best that I became the adoptive daughter of the okiya. Which was promised to Pumpkin when she was younger. And ever since that day I've felt horrible. I had never seen pumpkin so distraught, it really bothered me on the inside. I would never intentionally hurt Pumpkin, but in her eyes I decieved her and she wouldn't rest until she settled the score and got even with me. My transformation from Chiyo "the catepillar" to Sayuri "the beautiful butterfly" caused a lot of joys in my life, but in the end it caused me to lose what I considered a "friend".
