AMI

Amu's Little Sis

(Ami is 15)

The person at the door seemed to not get that there was no one in. I was lying on my bed on my stomach, it was mainly being too lazy to get up and opening the door holding me back than my parent's warning about not letting any strangers into the house. They had gone to some concert with Dad's photography mad friends and were staying over in a luxury hotel. Lucky, lucky them. The knocking kept on coming till I got the strength to roll off my bed and get down to the door, which all took about 10 minutes.

'Yes' I mumbled grumpily as I opened the door. I squinted at the two figures standing in the doorway.

'Amu...?'

The last time I had seen Amu was five years ago. I was yet to become a teenager at 10 but Amu is a good five years older than me, the same age I am now. It was a hot summer, Japan was suffering a heat wave. Most people stayed indoors in this sort of weather but Amu certainly wasn't like most people. We were lying out in the front porch sunbathing, well she was sunbathing I couldn't stand the idea of just lying down in the sun, to me that was just like sleeping in the daytime which didn't make any sense at all to my 10 year old self. As the evening drew in, Amu put down her magazine,

'Ami...what do you think of Ikuto?' She blushed, a common trait with Amu.

'Well. If you like him I do to. It's as simple as that. But why are you asking me now? I know you've been seeing each other for like two years ago..oops..!' I pressed my lips tightly together as Amu gave me the look.

'Who did you hear that from?' she asked. If she had said that a month or two ago I would I have pointed out that I mean, how obvious can you get with a secret relationship? Not that it was very secret. Kukai had accidently told me about it but as I knew before hand after seeing Ikuto take countless visits to her balcony it just confirmed what I had thought. Amu and Ikuto were dating. I have to truthfully say I was a bit hurt, it was the fact she had kept this from me the whole two years dug in deep and I remember the many times where I had accidently said something about her and Ikuto, luckily most the time she didn't notice. I suppose we weren't actually that close when I think about it now. We never had been. I guess it was the age difference, when I was six, seven she was eleven, twelve. She was a kind of punk chic girl while I was more of a girly girl. That didn't mean I didn't adore my big sis to pieces! She was the girl I looked up to, my future image, the cool and spicy onii-chan! But in that summer everything changed.

It's like in the stories isn't it? An ordinary girl + long summer hols = something is bound to happen out of the blue. Remembering all this now I wish I could of pieced all the clues she dropped together and realised what she was about to do. If you've ever met Amu you would that she's strong willed and protective of the ones she loves. I knew that Amu would protect us no matter what. I knew I was wrong when I saw Amu walking out the door late at night. Amu should of realised especially after I had blurted out that I had seen Ikuto's late night visits that there would be a 99.9% chance that I would spot her going out. If only I had woken ten minutes earlier then I would have seen her sneak into my room and put that note on my beside table then sneak out again. It makes me laugh to think of Amu trying to 'sneak' out of the house, she's one of the most clumsiest people I know, constantly falling over anything in her path. But she managed without waking our parents, I had to congratulate her on that. As I watched her walk towards the waiting Ikuto and disappear into the night I tried to persuade myself that she would come back. I managed to convince my head but in my heart I knew she was gone. It was worse the next morning.

My mum and dad went beserk when they found out, they put up posters everywhere in the neighbourhood, they rung up friends and family to ask where she could have gone but they avoided ringing up the police. I think they had realised that she ran away not been kidnapped from the very beginning. After a month or two we received a letter from Amu saying she was alright and was safe. She wouldn't say where she was, I suppose so my mum and dad could not send countless letters pleading her to come back or track her down. We got a few more letters from her after that but two years later she stopped altogether. I know this sounds strange but my parents weren't as fussed after that, after all she was 15 nearing adulthood and by now we had given up trying to find her. At least she was safe my mum told me when I was twelve and the letters stopped. I could tell in her voice she still missed her Amu-chan but that was only natural for a mother to worry after her daughter.

When I was 14 I grew to forget Amu although she was still there in the back of my mind. I wished I could of gone and stopped her and that if I would see her I would tell her how much of an idiot she was before saying how much I missed her. I had grown to be a tough girl, I could stand up for myself. Mum even commented once that I was becoming more and more like Amu, I have to admit that pleased me a bit. One night I was lying on the floor of Amu's balcony looking up at the stars knowing somewhere Amu was seeing the same stars.

'I will never forgive you, Amu Hinamori.' I whispered.

END OF CHAPTER

In the next chapter will Ami decide to follow her heart or her head? And is Ami destined to follow the same path as Amu? All is revealed in the next chapter! XD