(Len's P.O.V.)
She's gone. She's really gone. I'll never see Rin again. Rin is gone and is never coming back.
"Hi," Miku's cheerful voice rings as she sits next to me. "Where's Rin?"
"Not here," I answer. "She's gone, and she's never coming back."
"I doubt that," Miku says. "You were gone for a very long time, but you came back. I'm sure Rin will be back before you know it."
"You don't understand," I say quietly, "I was missing; Rin has disappeared. I saw the doctors take her down the hall."
"Down the hall?" Miku repeats in a confused manner.
"It's in the opposite direction of where they normally take us," I explain. "When I was seven or eight, I saw the doctors take this guy down the hall and I never saw him again. To this day I still wonder what happened to him."
"So since Rin was taken down the hall," Miku says to make sure she understood, "we'll never see her again?" She looks so sad that I'm sure she is hoping I'm wrong.
I remain quiet but nod to confirm her. I could never figure out a pattern to who was taken next. Sometimes the really crazy people would be taken and sometimes, like that guy, perfectly sane people were taken. It just seemed that they picked at random.
"Why did Rin have to be taken?" I say to myself.
I started to feel my hair being pulled, so I looked over and saw Miku taking out my ponytail. After she succeeded in getting it out my hair falls all over my face. She brushes my hair out of my eyes before she grabs me by the shoulders and forces me down. When I come to rest, I am lying on my side with my head on her lap. When she starts stroking my hair I laugh.
"What?" she asks but continues on undisturbed.
"What are you doing?" I ask.
"It always made feel better whenever you stroked my hair," she answers.
"So now you're stroking mine?"
"I couldn't think of any better way to comfort," she says. I see tears fill her eyes, but she blinks them back before they can fall. We sat in silence for a few moments before she speaks again. "I'm going to really miss Rin. She was my best friend, even if she was a little crazy."
"I think she was smarter than us all," I say. Rin may have acted crazy, but I knew she was still intelligent. More so than me, I'm sure.
"But you figured out everything the doctors were doing," Miku says.
"I guess so," I say. Then I ask, "What about me? Am I also your best friend?" I wasn't exactly sure what a "friend" was, but I felt something when I heard Miku call Rin her "best friend." I think I know what that feeling is called. Was it . . . jealousy?
Miku giggles. "Of course you are. You are the kindest and most caring person I have ever met. Our friendship means a lot to me, Len."
I felt tears filling my eyes. "Our friendship means a lot to me, too."
Then I lost it. Between losing Rin and Miku's kind words I could no longer keep my tears back. I allowed myself to cry.
"Let it out," Miku said as she ran her fingers through my hair. "You lost your sister, you deserve to grieve."
I began to cry even harder. I continued to cry into Miku's lap while she attempted to comfort me.
Author's Note: I think in the future I will merge some chapters because each chapter is just too short. I'll think about it; I probably won't get around to actually merging the chapters, but I'll think about it.
"What has happened to Rin?" you may ask, well you'll have to wait to find out. Some of you probably couldn't care less about Rin-Chan, but you will still have to wait for the next chapter. Either way you have to wait. So, um . . . yeah.
-Ray
