Ami's POV)

It was raining, silent tears falling from heaven on this day, I just sit here, looking out into the abyss of the ocean that lay out in front of my sapphire eyes. It was calling to me, wanting me to come to it, calling my name.

She was dead, I had lost my only friend, my blood, my sister. I would never see her beautiful face again. Never look into those eyes of endless green, no more midnight chats. I am completely lost without Michi. She was everything I wanted to be. Beautiful, smart, and loved by so many. Her death affected so many people, in so many ways.

And you know what, today is my birthday, that is why I am thinking about her again; it has been a whole year. They say that time heals all wounds, they were wrong. I feel mine growing. Will it ever end. Every thing has changed. Our parents, sorry, now just my parents, they have become distant, almost scared. They watch me so closely. Probably why I am sitting here at 3 in the morning instead of at a decent hour.

Where is the closure that comes with the funeral, there was no body, they couldn't find it. I have no details; my parents won't even talk about it.

I need her; she is the only one who understands me, anything about me. We were so much alike.

I move my eyes toward the one other thing in the world that ever listens to me. Orion, yes I talk to the constellation, he never says anything back, he never makes fun of me for the way I feel, and he is there for me. Never telling me that I am wrong I could do better. He listens and that is it. Yes, I am a weirdo. Think what you will, it helps, try it some time.

The grass is so soft underneath me, that I am lulled into a dream state. As my mind drifts, I feel her. She is here with me. Her green hair, huh, that's weird it was never green, it was dark blonde, but the eyes stayed the same. I guess things change when you die?

"Ames, I am always with you, no matter how far." I look into those eyes and the tears start to fall. Michi's hand comes up to wipe them away as she would do after another hard day at school. "Come back please!" I plead, I grab onto her and she fades, I lost her all over again.

"I never left you and never will Ames." floats on the air as I wake to the soft rain. I wipe my eyes, and sit up. Looking around I pull my body off the ground and head for home.

The days has begun, she crawls back through her window before her parents come back in to check on her. She pulled the sheets over her small figure. 'Just in time' the girl thought.

Ms. Mizuno walked into the room and looked at her daughter. 'Its coming, she's changing. I can't have a daughter like that' Ms. Mizuno turned to leave the small room. She glided swiftly out of the room and down the stairs to talk to her husband. This was important. Nothing would be allowed to spoil the family name.

"Honey." she called out. "Yes dear?" a man with short black hair and dark brown eyes asked. "Its happening, we have to test her, this can't happen again, why us, what did we do so wrong?" she asked as she collapsed into her husbands arms. "How can you tell, we couldn't tell with Michi. How do you know?" He held her and smoothed her black hair down as the tears soaked through his nightshirt. "I can feel it, she's wrong. She's a freak like her sister, we can't have that." She looked up into her husband eyes, he could see the fear, fear of the unknown.

'Not again' he thought. "We will take her today, as soon as she wakes up, I promise it will be o.k. she's not a freak, she is our last hope." He kept trying to sooth his wife's tears, till late in the morning.

(Few hours later)

"Mom, Dad" She yelled through the house. Black hair hanging down to mid back, bobbed up and down as she walked through the house. Turning her head from side to side, she looked for her parents. When she turned to the right, she saw them cuddled together on the couch, holding each other in a loving embrace. 'They love each other so much' she thought to her self. She walked over to the couch and laid a small pale hand on her mothers shoulder. "Mom, wake up." she said softly. Ms. Mizuno slowly came around, rubbed the sleep, dried tears from her eyes, and looked into her daughters deep blue eyes. 'Why us' she thought. "Ames I need you to get dressed, we need to go somewhere." she stood and hugged her daughter in a tight embrace wishing that it won't happen.

"Sure mom, I'll go now." Ami raced up to her room and threw on her favorite pair of jeans and a small blue tank top. Running back down stairs she waited at the door for her mother.

"Dad, you coming to?" she asked, in a chipper voice, as she looped her arm into his. "Yeah, your mom will be here in a minute" he said as he pulled his arm away. 'What is going on' Ami thought as she watched her fathers abruptly rip his arm away from her.

"Mom there you are, where are we going?" Ami asked moving toward her mother. It seemed as if the air was getting colder by the minute.

"We're going to the beach sweetie." She said smoothly.

The family piled into the car, pulling out of the drive way, and passing by the trees and happy things that hang around on them. Unfortunately it was not a happy day for one 16-year-old girl.

(Ami's POV) "We're here," my mom said as we pulled into one of the many parking spots on the secluded beach. "Why are we here mom?" I asked, I had no clue why they took me to the beach. Since Michi died they wouldn't even let me go there. That's why I always snuck out, something was going on.

"Ames, this way" my father said, his voice was so cold. I know he is still upset about Michi, but what in the hell is going on. I followed him and my mother to the end of stretch of the soft sand, and onto the rocks. What in the world is going on, kept running threw my mind.

"Come over here Ames" my mother and father said at the same time. So I slowly walked toward them. Each one grabbed onto one of my arms. I looked into both their eyes, did I see fear. No my parents don't get scared. They walked me down to the water, behind some of rocks. Things just keep getting more and more weird. "Mom, Dad. What are you doing?" I ask in a slightly shaky voice.

"Just come this way, don't ask questions, and just follow." My father commanded, he never spoke this way.

"Mom, what's going on, you guys are scaring me." I said, by now I am nearly shaking. What are they doing? The next thing I know, we are in the deeper part of the ocean, my feet are barely touching the bottom. "Please, stop" I scream.

Their grip was just getting tighter. My head was now completely under water. I can't breath, I start kicking, I know not to scream. I wouldn't be able to breath. But, I can't keep my breath held any longer. I start moving around and try to get away, but they are stronger than me together. What's happening why are they doing this? Then it happened, I had to release my breath. Then I did, I thought that I was going to drown. Then the most amazing thing happened. I could breath. I was breathing water. I was so overwhelmed, I just wanted the water to get away from me, let me have natural air. The next thing I new, There was no more water. I had a circular ring of water around me. I could see the sand of the ocean floor.

My parents started screaming, then my mother started to cry. My father screaming, "She's a freak" I can't believe I heard that coming from my father's mouth. I thought he loved me, I thought he would be happy he didn't kill his last daughter. Then I finally realized that they weren't holding me there any longer, so I started back toward the beach, the water parted for me. This was a miracle. Why were they still screaming?

I made it back to the shore and fell down, trying just to calm my nerves.

I sat there as they walked toward me. Then it happened. "We never want to see you again, leave don't come back." he said and pulled my mother away. I just sat there. I don't understand, its a miracle I wasn't dead and they didn't want to see me. They didn't want me.

"MOM" I screamed. Finally coming to my senses, I started running after them. When I finally caught up with them, my father turned around and raised his hand, it struck my cheek hard, and I fell to the ground. "Leave, and never come back." he sneered, throwing some money in my face. "That's all you will ever get from us." I sat there tears streaming down my cheeks, I couldn't think, I couldn't move. As they walked away I started screaming out I didn't stop until they were out of my sight.

I stayed on the beach for the rest of the day, sorting through all my emotions, trying to figure out what has just happened, Why they didn't want me.

The sky was darkening to a deep midnight blue, as I picked my aching body off the ground. I slowly walked to were the cars were, noticing that there was no one around.

I am alone, will I always be?