~3/5/2010 ~

"Heeeee~y!" a voice called in the distance, like a lullaby to her ears. She smiled sleepily to herself, the warm spring sunlight like a blanket over her cold body. Her eyelids grew heavy ad she tried to fight the sleep off. She didn't want to go yet, she wanted to bask in the beauty of this world for just a little longer. To continue gaze up at the blue sky that belonged to her 'family'.

Hurried footsteps banged up the stairs and the door to the roof was thrown open. Someone continued to run over to where she laid her head in the lap of her 'sister'. A man coughed and panted, barely catching his breath before calling her name in that familiar voice she loved so much. A tear swelled in her eye as she shifted her tired, shocked, gaze on his unreal face.

"Don't make a sick guy push himself so hard." His breathing was labored over his words. She sat up slowly to stare into his impossible grey eyes. "It's pretty pathetic of me to forget the way I did…" He inwardly chuckled, a smile of relief on his face as he took in her deep green eyes, so full of warmth. "But even then, my feelings for you were the same as always." He turned his head down and shook his coffee colored hair. " I got one thick skull, huh? The girl I saw in my dreams… it was you… You were crying and laughing like usual… haha…" He returned to her dewy grass eyes a slight moment before embracing her tiny figure, pulling her up off the bench and into his strong, warm arms.

"Shinji…" She whispered, the tear rolling down her cheek and nestling into the corner of her tiny smile. Her small hands clutched weakly at his pea coat.

"Yeah… This ain't a dream…" He tightened his right arm around her waist and held her head to his chest with his right. His face buried in her long black hair, taking in the sweet scent of her peach shampoo. "You're really here" the padding of many shoes up metal stairs rang in the two's ears, making the tall brunette chuckle. "Man, those guys sure know how to ruin a moment…"

In the warmth of her loved ones arms her mind grew more tired, and the will to fight it off soon vanished. She closed her eyes whispering only loud enough for his ears. "… I love you…"

My sister had always been the stronger one. She had an extremely high tolerance for pain, both physical and emotional, and her silver, yet honest, tongue coincided with her universe sized heart. I can't even begin to name off all the times her strength has saved me and just how much I depended on her to be there for me.

When our father left, she held me as I cried and begged for someone to bring him back. And when mother died she comforted me with the reassurance that she was still looking out for us. Then at the Iwatodai dorms she awoke her persona only to heal the broken leg the shadow had inflicted me with. But now, it is my turn to be her savior.

I stood at the foot of the stairs that led up to the roof of Gekkoukan high school, waiting for my friends to come rushing with giddy grins as the remembered the events of the last year. I had already seen Shinjiro run up just before I arrived. And I sent a prayer that what he'd find wouldn't kill him inside. It pained me so when Junpei bounded up to me and grabbed my arm, attempting to drag me up the stairs with him and the rest of our friends. But I stood still, eyes down cast.

"Wait!" I yelled. Every one stopped and looked at me, and I'm sure they all noticed the tears cascading down my cheeks. "I'm sorry…" I clenched my eyes shut to avoid having to look them all I the face.

"Ame, what's wrong?" Mitsuru's voice held confusion and concern.

"She… She's dead." I whispered, before collapsing into a sob. I could feel their dumb stairs on my back. Akihiko was the first to comprehend.

"W-what…?" His voice was full of shock. I heard Takeba let out a sharp curse then run up the stairs. The others followed suite, even I managed to drag myself up. But we all stopped dead in our tracks when we saw a sobbing Shinjiro holding the limp form of their best friend. Of my twin sister.

"How?" Fuuka squeaked. I looked at her tear drowned face and winced, holding in another sob.

"She saled herself away. " I answered, my voice shaking.

"… What do you mean?" Junpei turned his attention to me. "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN!" He screamed at me clutching the collar of my shirt in a fist.

"Your memories were the final piece she needed in order to seal death away." I averted his furious blue eyes. "…Now she can finally rest…"

Please sister… wait for me… I will find a way to save you. Just please… wait for me…