Jun stood at eye level of the thing on the other side of the tall white bars. She looked at it angrily and it blinked back at her, like it had no idea what it was doing. Naturally the fact that it did not know that it was doing anything wrong in the first place never crossed her mind. She was just very annoyed and very angry and very, very cranky.

"Now listen, you." She pitched her voice that same way her mother and father did when they were angry and wanted her to know that she did something wrong. "You woke me up very early this morning, and I couldn't take my nap because you screamed all the way through it." Jun paused, partly because that's what kaa-chan and tou-chan did, and partly because it made her feel very grown-up and partly because she wasn't supposed to be in the nursery and needed to listen for her parents. "So tonight, you are not going to make a peep and let me and kaa-chan and tou-chan sleep! I don't care if you're hungry or if your diaper is itchy or anything. You just have to wait until the morning. Do you understand me?"

The thing behind the bars – Jun's newborn baby brother in his crib, actually – squinted and blinked, but stayed quiet. Jun nodded to herself, happy that her plan to keep the stupid baby quiet for once would work. Quickly, Jun slid out of Daisuke-chan's nursery and into her own room across the hall. She should have been in bed ten minutes ago, but she had to talk to her stupid baby brother first.

Five minutes later, as the loud cries reached Jun's ears, the loud, scary, impossible-to-sleep-through cries, the little girl wondered if he would make a habit of not listening to her.