"Onee-chan! Onee-chan!"
"What?" Hoshikara replied to Shiro's calls.
"We got a postcard from okaa-san and oto-san!"
Hoshikara ran to her sister and looked at what she was holding. "Onee-chan, they said they'll be home soon!" Hoshikara looked at Ed and ran to her room. Shiro ran after her. She got to their room and Hoshikara was laying on her bed, face buried in her pillow. "Onee-chan, don't you want okaa-san and oto-san to come back."
Hoshikara turned her head to the side so she could talk. "Of course I do," she said. "But that means that Ed and Al have to go."
"I don't want them to go. We were having so much fun."
"Exactly."
"Can't they stay here even when okaa-san and oto-san get back?"
"No! They have a job. They're in the military. They'll leave us like everyone else." Hoshikara moved her head back into the pillow and began to cry. Shiro sniffed. She ran back downstairs and rapped her arms around Ed.
"What?" Ed was confused.
"Nii-sama!" Shiro cried. "Don't go!"
"What do you mean?"
"When okaa-san and oto-san get back, you will come and visit won't you?"
"Of course, just stop crying." Shiro looked up into her nii-samas face and smiled.
"Good," she said. She wiped her eyes with her hands and wondered off into the kitchen where she stared blankly at the top cupboard. "Nii-sama!" she called. "Can you maked me a drink?" Ed walked in and found that he could not reach the cupboard. Al walked in.
"Whats going on?" He asked.
"Nii-sama is too short to get a cup out the cupboard!" Shiro said.
"WHO DID YOU SAY WAS SO SHORT THAT THEY CAN'T EVEN BE OF USE TO A SIX YEAR OLD!!!!!"
Al giggled and got three cups out of the cupboard and placed the on the worktop. Then he began to pour blackcurrant squash into each of them. Then he added water and, hey presto, drinks for all!
"Al-sama is tall!" Shiro exclaimed, playing with one of his arms.
Al gave Shiro a glass and said "Go and give this one to your sister." Shiro nodded and went upstairs with the drink.
"Onee-chan," Shiro crept into their bedroom and saw Hoshikara there, sleeping, face still buried in her pillow. Shiro put the drink on her bedside table and ran back downstairs. She was thirsty, after all. She grabbed the one drink left (Ed had taken one) and sat in the middle of the kitchen floor, sipping it. Then she got lonely and crawled into the living room and sat by the sofa which Al was on. "Al-sama, you're amazing." She said inbetween sips. Once she had finished (about an hour later) she went to the toilet. Unknowingly, she fell asleep on the bathroom floor. Ed and Al came up after a while and saw a little girl that was out of it. Al picked her up and put her on her bed. Ed took Hoshikaras still full drink downstairs with him and began to drink it himself.