Disclaimer: You all should know the drill by now.

By the way, if you didn't know, Mai means May in German (you'd have to be incredibly dense not to figure the out)

Everything went wrong about 8 years ago. It was the summer when Mai and I were 11. The heat was driving me up the walls (both literally and figuratively). Mai, being the considerate sister she is, came up with an idea.

"Kurt, wanna go with me on a hike in the mountains?" she asked me one day.

"But ve shouldn't. Vhat if someone sees us?"

"Then we'll just have to go on the rocky side. Is that a problem for you?" She smiled.

"Of course not! You know I can beat you to the top!"

"Fat chance little bro." So we left to climb over the cool rocks in the cool shade. It was like a gift from heaven!!! See how nice my sister is?

Unfortunately, someone say us leaving our house. We didn't notice and just went off to have fun. But when we came back our parents were terrified. And furious.

"What were you two thinking!!! You know how dangerous it is!! You know better than to pull a stunt like this." Don't get the wrong idea here. Our parents are caring and nice and everything. They were just so angry and scared they didn't even bother to make sure they didn't scare us. They kinda did.

My mother glared at me. "Kurt, how could you do something like this?" She had tears in her eyes.

"I...I just needed some air. I didn't mean to hurt anyone."

"I'm very disappointed in you son," my father told me.

"It's not Kurt's fault," Mai said. Everyone looked at her. "It's mine. I saw how the heat vas affecting him and I felt sorry for him and tryed to figure out how to help him. I guess I got a little carried away and I wasn't thinking and I'm really sorry." She said this all very fast while looking at the ground. Then she looked up to see our parent's faces. "But we shouldn't have to hide from the world. We're just as normal as they are, they're just too single-minded to realize it! They don't take the time to get to know Kurt." She looked at me. "He's so sweet and kind and generous. He's a much better person than they are!!" She looked back at our parents. "They just run away screaming. Or they run towards us wanting to hurt us. I don't know how much longer I can live like this!!" Mai started to cry. My mother started towards her to comfort her, but Mai just shifted away.

I reached over and put my arms around her in an embrace. I wanted to take away all the pain she was feeling. I was more angry at the people who hated us than I ever had. And not because they tried to kill my on a regular basis, but because they wanted Mai dead. I felt her tears on my shoulder. I felt something wet on my face and realized that I was crying.

We just held each other for what seemed like forever. I could feel our parents just watching us and heard my mother sobbing as quietly as she could. I doubt Mai heard it, but I have exellent hearing so I could tell. At the same time I could hear feet running and shouting voices. "Someone's coming!!" I said urgently.

"Quick, everyone get into the basement!!" My father ushered us down the stairs.

Just then there were several loud knocks on the front door. "Open up!! We know you're hiding demons in there!! Give them up and we might spare your lives!!!!"

I love cliffhangers!!!! Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!! Please review!!