A tall black haired woman steadily walked into the lounge of the building. Each step she took had to be perfect or else everyone will look down on her. She felt like sprinting out of the building. How did she even get here? Who even cared about her? All she ever did in her life was wrong. Everything she did was wrong. Satsuki always screwed up everything. So why even bother repairing what can't be fixed? The elevator ride up made Satstuki shake with fear and anxiety of revealing her dark past to a complete stranger. As she reached into the office where her prescribed room was located in, she noticed her younger sister reading a magazine in the waiting room.
"Hey Satsuki. You ready?"
Not at all. I'm ready to go kill myself again that's for sure.
"Yeah" Her voice trembled. How was any of this going to help her?
"Oi Satstuki. I know you might be nervous."
The understatement of the year.
"But don't worry"
Too late.
"We've always been there for each other. I'm not leaving you. Hell I left work early today so you wouldn't have to walk in here alone."
"Thank you Ryuko but I could've gone in by myself yknow?"
Stop lying.
"I know you could've but I'm here for you. Come on I'll walk you to your room okay?"
Please don't.
Lead me out of here instead.
After receiving the room number for Satsuki's appointment, Ryuko grasped her older sister's hand to show support. She could feel Satsuki's heart rate increasing every step they took. She was obviously nervous. Ryuko couldn't blame her though. Knowing what her older sister has been through, she needed help from professionals. There was nothing Ryuko could do to help her. Satsuki was slipping out of her caring grasp each and everyday. Especially last Tuesday. Ryuko almost lost her sister to heaven's welcoming arms.
Finally the two siblings were just outside the therapy room. Satsuki didn't want to be here. She wanted to go hide from the world around her underneath her sanctuary blankets. She'd rather be dead than to be reminded of her past.
"Hey Satsuki. We're here now. You... you can go now." But the lankier woman didn't flinch. She was as still as a statue being lost in horrifying memories and repeated phrases.
Suddenly there was a warmth dragging her down. Satsuki was almost sure that her demons were finally taking her to hell for all the awful mistakes she'd committed. No trace of fear was found in her mindset in fact, Satsuki welcomed it. However, there was something wrong with this fire. It was too warm to have belonged to the many cold flames of hell. This warmth was caring and filled to the brim with love and support.
As Satsuki snapped back to reality, she turned to her peripheral vision and found Ryuko leaned in close to her face giving her a kiss on the cheek to ease her tense nerves. Her little sister always knew how to comfort Satsuki even by the most smallest actions. Ryuko then put her heels back on ground level never leaving her gaze with her older sister and gave her the same toothy smile she's been comforting her older sister with all these years.
"Hey you'll be fine okay. We'll fix this together. We can move again once Nui isn't a threat anymore."
"Yeah... let's do that. What do you think of America?"
"Bleh. My English isnt that good... um... H-hello... How do you doing?"
"It's How are you doing? Ryuko."
"Psh whatever! Haha. Well I gotta go back to work. I'll see you back home ok?"
Satsuki then waved goodbye at her younger sister. A little hurt that she left but she knew is wasn't her fault. Without a second thought, Satsuki opened the door.
