When Rin awoke in the morning, she was still deeply shaken by the dream. Even though she reassured herself that it was only a dream, it still haunted her. She decided that maybe her dream had had some truth to it, and resolved to call the boy later, even though he most likely wouldn't want to talk to her.

Breakfast passed uneventfully, and once she was done, she made her way to Kiyoteru (her new therapist)'s office, and knocked softly on the door.

"Come in." He called from inside. Rin pushed the door open, revealing a spacious office with a desk against the back wall and an armchair facing a sofa in the stood up from his desk, picked up a few papers, and took a seat in the armchair.

"Have a seat, please, Rin." He said, and she obliged, sitting down on the edge of the sofa. "So, how was your experience yesterday? The first day here is a little hectic for most people."

"Um, I don't know. It was a little crazy, I guess. The food was better than I expected." Rin mentally slapped herself in the face, knowing he didn't really care how the food was. But for some reason, Kiyoteru had an atmosphere that made him very easy to talk to.

"Before you came here, you were living with your aunt, correct?" Rin nodded. "What is she like? How does she behave?"

"Well, a lot of people say she's kind of like a movie star. She always wears a lot of makeup, does her hair really crazy, and wears a ton of jewelry."

"I see. Were you particularly close to her?" Rin shrugged halfheartedly.

"I guess you could say she's a hard person to be close to. She's not usually home, mostly at work. But we never fought or anything; we got along." Rin couldn't really think of a good way to describe her relationship with her aunt.

"So, I take it you were fairly distant. And... What was your family situation like before your parents decided to get a divorce?"

"My parents, my twin brother Len, and I all lived together." Rin tried not to say Len's name with too much contempt, but only succeeded halfway. "You know... You seem like you already know pretty much everything I already told my friend's used-to-be therapist." Kiyoteru smiled a mysterious smile.

"You mean Gackupo? Yes, he and I go way back. We met in college and have stayed close since then. He told me quite a bit about his visit to you, actually... He said he thinks you're in denial." Rin was utterly confused by his last few words.

"In...denial? What?" Kiyoteru seemed to be enjoying her confusion.

"Yes. But he was quite mistaken. You are obviously right here in front of me and not in the Nile at all. (E/N: sorry I just had to make that joke!)" He chuckled at his own joke, but stopped when he noticed his patient was not amused. He cleared his throat and continued, "Currently, what your denying is irrelevant- Maybe I'll tell you another time."

Rin crossed her arms in frustration. "That's not fair! If I'm here to 'talk to you and confide in you'-" Rin held up air quotes "-then shouldn't you answer me?" Kiyoteru shrugged.

"We're here to talk about you, though- Not what an old friend and I brought up in casual conversation." Rin sighed, unable to come up with an argument against his logic. When the therapist spoke again, his voice was back to being cool and businesslike.

"Now, Rin, do you have any ideas of what you could do, on your own time, to help yourself recover, and eventually leave the ward?" Rin thought about it for a moment.

"Well, I was sort of planning to call Len later, maybe?" Her statement of what she'd already decided to do sounded more like a question than a declaration.

"That's a good idea. Any other calls you were planning to make?" He looked as though there was an answer he was already expecting.

"Oh... Well, I promised my friend Mikuo I'd call him as well." Kiyoteru nodded in approval.

"Maybe tomorrow or sometime soon, you should talk to your parents. I'm sure they'll want to hear from you after all that's happened." Rin was mildly surprised that he had suggested that.

"I will. But I think I'd rather write to them. Separately." Kiyoteru nodded again, wrote something down on his notepad, and said,

"Alright. I think we've had a good conversation for today. Make sure you get those letters written, okay?" He stood up, and Rin understood that to mean that they were done for today.

"I'm supposed to come here every day, right?" Rin asked, with one hand already on the doorknob.

"For the first few weeks, yes. Once you're closer to leaving, it'll be less often." Rin bid him a hasty goodbye, before deciding to head to the common room and make her phone calls since she had a while before lunch. The room was surprisingly empty, which Rin was relieved about.

She leaned against the wall and, and picked up the handset. She entered Len's cell phone number, put hesitated to hit the 'talk' button. What if he didn't want to talk to her? What if he absolutely despised her? What if he told her that she should have died?

Rin put the phone down, unable to summon the courage to talk to him. She decided to call her aunt first, since she'd promised to do that as well. She knew she was procrastinating, and would have to call him eventually, but took the easy way out and called her aunt anyways. She dialed her number with much less hesitancy, and heard her aunt pick up after only two rings.

"Rinny?" She sounded more than a little worried about something.

"Hey, auntie. You told me to call, so... I'm calling."

"Have you talked to your mom?" Rin was starting to wonder if something was wrong, since Ann definitely sounded distraught.

"No, I haven't really had time-" Not technically true "- Did she have something to tell me?" Her aunt sighed audibly.

"Well, not her, specifically. She called me a while ago and said Len called, and needed to talk to you desperately." Rin was more than a little surprised by this statement.

"Really? But, I- He..." Rin wasn't sure how to reply.

"I don't know, honey. But the message got passed on that you need to call him as soon as you can, alright? You apparently have time now, so you can call me back some other time." Great, there went her brilliant excuse for procrastination. Rin's aunt hung up pretty quickly after that, leaving Rin with no other option but to dial Len's number again, this time not letting herself hesitate.

Ring...Ring...Ring... Rin took a deep breath, releasing it slowly in an attempt to relax herself.

"Rin? It's you, right?" Despite her worry at what he might have to say, she was relieved to hear his voice.

"Y-yeah, it's me. Mom said you needed to talk to me?" there was a brief pause before Len started to speak.

"Look, Rin, I'm really sorry- About everything. I just- I was an idiot, and then I hear you tried to kill yourself and-" His voice cracked, "-And I can't help but think it was my fault somehow. I'm really, really sorry. I swear."

"It... I just..." Rin was shocked by how differently he was acting. Well, he was acting like the protective twin he always had been, which was the polar opposite of what she'd expected after how much time had passed.

"I can't say that you weren't a little, tiny part of the reason why, but... Please don't blame yourself. It was just... Because you weren't there, I guess..."

"Rin, I'm so, so, so sorry. I shouldn't have left in the first place, and now this happened and I... God, it's all my fault. I've been gone for so long, and now you're locked up there... I guess I should let you know, Neru and I broke up, I'm coming home, and I'm coming visit as soon as I can." Rin felt her heart skip a beat at the news.

"R-really? But... Does mom know?"

"Yeah. I'm staying with a friend from school now, I'll be home tomorrow." Through her joy, Rin realized a flaw in his plan.

"But, are you even sure you're allowed to come here?" Len sighed in mild agitation.

"I don't care if I'm allowed or not. I'm coming to see you."

The two talked for another half-hour, catching up on what had been going on in each other's lives over the past few months. Rin mentally questioned multiple times how she had managed to function for so long without her brother in her life. It wasn't exactly like she'd been reunited with a long-lost friend, really, more like she and her other half had finally been able to meet again.


A/N- I had this already typed, so I'm uploading it now. But that doesn't mean you guys can't still review your guess on the title :D