You have no idea how many ideas I had to come up with for the fake URL in this chapter. The first three I tried actually existed, which led to much frustration on my part. They were for totally random things, too. Oh well. On with the show.

Big Brother, Little Sister – Chapter Two

As the car pulled into the apartment complex's parking lot, Rin reached into the backseat and grabbed hold of her bag. Kaito found a spot and stopped the car, pulled the keys from the ignition, and nodded at her.

"Well, you're home," he said as she unbuckled her seatbelt.

"Yeah… Thanks again for driving me…"

He smiled. "Hey, it's no problem. It's what big brothers are here for."

She shivered, despite the heat. "Uh, yeah. That's right…"

They both opened their doors and headed towards the staircase that led to their apartment.

Four years earlier, Kaito and Rin's parents died in a house fire. Along with losing almost all their possessions and having to find a new place to live, the two of them were now both on their own. Being the older brother, Kaito took up responsibility for raising Rin, who was only ten at the time. He found them a new apartment, and after telling the manager their story earned them a triple discount and acceptable delays on payments. He worked two jobs starting his sophomore year in order to keep things in their lives steady, and in it all he still found time to spend with his little sister.

After graduation day, however, there was much less time shared between them, as running both jobs and finding a good college nearby proved to be quite a challenge. Having fun with Rin wasn't as high up on the priority list as keeping her fed was. Now in the middle of her own high school sophomore year, Rin found herself alone more often than not, and while her brother still took her to and from school every day, he wasn't around much to talk to. After an event over one summer vacation, she developed full-on romantic feelings for him, which only made things worse. She couldn't tell anyone at school how she felt, and she certainly couldn't tell him. The only outlet for her feelings was writing them down, sometimes on paper, but mostly on the laptop computer Kaito gave her for her birthday one year. He said he had given it to her to replace the home computer they had lost in the fire, but mostly it was so she could talk to him over chat whenever he was out for either work or school. It was expensive, but for reasons Rin couldn't understand, he seemed to trust her more with the internet than with a phone.

Ironically, whenever they would talk online, her Word documents of typed up fantasies would usually be open just behind the message box.

Reaching the last step on the spiral that led to their home, Kaito reached in his pocket and took out the key to the door marked '1320.' Turning it in the lock, Kaito opened it and flicked on the main room's light. Almost immediately, he turned to hug Rin.

"Sorry, but…" He sighed. "I can't stay any longer."

Slightly shocked, Rin said "But… I… You usually stay a little while, though…"

"I know…" Kaito said sadly. "But they need me back at work again."

Rin just looked at the ground, growing sadness clear on her face.

He put his hand on her shoulder. "I'm sorry, Rin. I'll see you in the morning?"

She nodded, still not looking up.

Kaito quickly grabbed the small tool box used at the mechanics he moonlighted at, and bent down to give Rin a kiss on the cheek before leaving. Instantly, she looked up at him.

"I'll have more time to spend with you tomorrow. I swear it."

He got up and left, softly closing the door behind him. As soon as she heard the lock turn, Rin, blushing bright as a rose, let out a happy squeal. Walking into her room, she placed her bag on the foot of the bed and unzipped it. Taking out the binder she stored the day's fantasy in, she searched through the papers and pulled it out. Placing it on the room's desk next to her laptop, she opened the computer and got ready to transfer the written version over to text.

About an hour later, she was done, and stored the original written down copy in a drawer. She saved the document she wrote into the file she put all her work in, and closed out the window. Opening up internet explorer, she typed in a URL made up of two words put together: .com. Logging on to her own personal domain, she looked at the posted list of 34 daydreams, and uploaded the new one. While she didn't actually expect anyone to look at any of them, and actually hoped vehemently that no one from her school would ever read them, she still felt the need to have them all up for the world to see, and every few days she would come back to the site and add another. She even, for reasons that she can't even comprehend, posted one of her two email addresses on the site, if anyone ever wanted to talk to her about it. She thought from time to time about why she did it all, and eventually the reason came back to being that she just wanted to tell someone that she loved Kaito. She didn't have her full name or address on the site; just her daydreams and her email on a light blue background. And she figured there had to be a fairly large amount of 'Rins' in the world, and even if she used Kaito's name in the stories- which she did for a fair few- she didn't think that anybody would ever actually recognize the writer of all the fantasies as her. She never even got any emails, for that matter. Until that day.

Checking her inbox for the second time that afternoon, completely out of interesting things to do, Rin saw a new message that struck her as a bit odd. She'd never seen that email address before, and the subject line was a bit weird.

"…'Want to talk with you'…" Rin read out loud to herself, confused and not knowing who it was from.

She clicked on it. It read,

Rin.

I know it's you. If this is what you've been writing all this time, thinking that I haven't seen it, well…

Rin's heart began racing. What if it was Kaito using a new email account? What if it was that gossipy girl from school? She would tell everyone about this! The possibilities of who had sent this ran through her mind as she read.

I think you need to talk about this. While writing these may get the whole thing out of your system every day, you need to talk with someone in person.

Come find me the day you get this. I'll be at the Freedom Dance Club from 6:00 to 8:00. I'm there every night. Come whenever.

-Circulate

Rin blinked. 'Well, it can't be Kaito, then,' Rin thought. 'He doesn't go to Freedom Dance. In fact, no guy goes to Freedom Dance. It's for lesbians.'

She rested her elbow on the desk and started to think. 'Who… Who do I know that goes there? Do I even know any lesbian girls?' She leaned back in her chair and looked at the clock on the wall. 6:30. The girl who sent this would be at Freedom Dance by now, if she was telling the truth. Rin sighed at the thought of going in there. Kaito would certainly not approve of her, a young high school girl, being in a club full of lesbians. But she didn't want whoever it was to tell anyone. Maybe if she went there, pleaded with whoever it was, maybe they wouldn't tell anyone. She could do this. She'd talked her way out of situations like this before. She was good at convincing people to do- or not do- things.

Rin just hoped she would have to make out with them to do the convincing this time around.