Music Playing: "Tsugumi" by Yasuharu Takanashi

I wanted to hear about Sis but I didn't want to get bad news. I was sitting in my room at the Home playing with Mako, Nui, and Iori with Legos and such, when Sugi and my social worker came in. They asked to speak with me alone but said I could bring my piggy plush.

They brought me away from everyone and sat me down. They asked if I was comfortable and such, to which I told 'em I was. The social worker looked at Sugi and Sugi looked at me before he said, "This is hard but, unfortunately, I'm not going to sugarcoat it." I asked him what this was all about and he told me. He told me that a neighbor or somebody went to check up on Sis and her door was unlocked. I thought that was weird because Sis never leaves anything unlocked but then he told me something worse.

He told me that they found Sis and she didn't seem "right" and that she had a few candles lit. He told me that the neighbor called the hospital and the hospital came and got her. She didn't fight it when they came to take her, even though she hates the Outside. He told me they didn't know what was wrong with her but that she'd be staying there for awhile. "If all looks well, maybe you'll be allowed to visit her." he sighed.

I didn't play more after that whole conversation and the other ones knew why. I told 'em anyway, saying, "Taking me away killed Sis." Nui asked how and I told her that Sis was in the hospital and that I didn't know but I knew it was bad. "How bad?" Iori asked me.

"Bad enough that she even left the door unlocked and that she didn't fight it when they came and got her."

"Oh..."

"She hates the Outside, Iori, and she never leaves the door unlocked. She only left it unlocked that one time and that was it."

"How long is she going to be in the hospital?"

"I don't know, just that she's gonna be in there for a while."

"Will you get to visit her?"

"He said if all looks well."

Nui turned around and around before asking, "Why does she hate going outside?" I told her that I didn't know and Iori said, "Maybe she got sick sometime in the past and the whole thing traumatized her, so she stays inside. Since she didn't fight being taken from home, I would guess that she probably knows how sick she is."

"Do you think she's gonna make it?"

"That I don't really know, I mean, if she's in the hospital, she's probably very sick but I doubt that she has anything fatal."

A week and a half after that, I got dressed up nice and Sugi brought me to see her. She had these tubes in her and such. I had to be quiet. She woke up and looked around, scared, but then she saw me and she seemed to be fine. We sat for a while looking at each other before I told her that I was being really good, that I had my birthday, and that I made a couple of new friends but, most of all, that I missed her. For the rest of visiting time, I clung to her before Sugi told me it was time to go back to the Home.

While he was pulling me away, Sis started to scream again and the nurse who was there said something about us getting her upset, turning up her nose.