Hi to all my readers. :3 Happy Labor Day! (well, in a few days anyway xD) On account of my going away this weekend, I decided to upload two whole chapters this Friday. :o Woohoo, I feel accomplished! xD Anyway, here's the first one. I hope you like it!
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:: twelve : stupid sisters : davis ::

I was pretty sick of this whole stupid getting up early thing, but whatever. At least I'd get to walk to school with Kari. Yesterday, when I'd been playing soccer with Tai, I'd asked him if I could go with them too. So now it was going to be one big group of us walking, but that was cool. Tai and Yamato would probably talk a lot, and if I wanted to I could talk to them too. But I was looking more forward to talking to Kari. Miku and TK would probably be talking, if she was into him anyway, so that was one of Kari's friends out of the way. I wasn't sure about Kaoru.

If only Kari knew that I'd been trying to ask her out yesterday. When she'd asked if she could bring her friends, I knew she was either trying to avoid going out with me or had no idea I was asking her out. I hoped it was the second one, but it also meant I'd have to be a lot less subtle. Not that I even was.

I got up to shower, but the bathroom that my sister and I share was already taken. The door was locked, and no matter how hard I banged on it, there was no response from inside. Stupid sisters. "JUN! Open up!"

"No way!" she shouted back, finally. "Davis, it's my first day back at school and I need to look my best for Yamato. Don't you understand? Well, never mind. You wouldn't. Your idea of looking your best is probably running some mud through your hair."

"At least girls still like me however I look!" I hoped Kari did. But what girl had ever rejected me? Jun was like the opposite. "What guy has ever liked you?"

"Lots of them! Like Yamato!"

"Yeah, sure. Jun, can I just shower? I'm walking to school with some people and I have to get to their apartment – "

"Ooh, a new girlfriend?" Jun snorted. "Let's see how long that lasts."

"Jun, come on! Open up! What are you even doing in there, shaving your eyebrows?" I banged on the door again. Sisters were impossible.

"You don't shave your eyebrows, Davis." She spoke to me like I was some annoying little kid and she was a patient mother. Stupid sisters always make you feel like you're so dumb and so much younger than them.

"Well, you did once. Remember? You wanted to make your big caterpillar eyebrows smaller, so you shaved them all the way off!"

"Davis, that was an accident." She sounded even madder behind the door. "And you will never, ever tell that story again, are we clear?!?!?!?!?!"

I thought for a moment. How to get her out of the bathroom? Well, like that insane Yolei girl had done yesterday, I could always use blackmail. "Jun, I'm walking to school today with Yamato Ishida. And if you don't get out of there now, I'm so telling him the eyebrow story. With all the nasty details like how those hairs got infected or whatever."

"Ingrown!" she yelled, correcting me. Luckily, she also flew out of the bathroom, almost knocking me over. "Go ahead, take it, you disgusting little worm!"

"And thank you," I said, grinning at her. Insane girls like Jun and Yolei are easy to handle if you have the right leverage. Or maybe I'm easy for Yolei to handle if she does? That didn't make me feel much better, though. I was not looking forward to being her slave or whatever. How long was that supposed to go on anyway? Forever? Knowing Yolei, probably. But I didn't know what she wanted me to do yet, so it didn't seem too bad. As long as she didn't spread the rumor that I liked Kari.

Duh – as soon as I told Kari I liked her and as soon as we were going out, I wouldn't have to be Yolei's stupid slave. It wasn't like she'd be so dumb – though she was, especially if she had failed a year of school… I hadn't even done that! – that she'd actually spread it around the school that I liked Kari. People would just look at her like she was even more insane than before. Actually, she reminded me a lot of Jun. And judging by the way Yolei was checking out all my friends when we'd gone to the store she worked at, she was probably as boy-crazy as my stupid sister. Maybe they could double date, and Jun could be with Yamato and Yolei with Tai. But I knew those guys would never go out with them. They liked girls like, oh I dunno, Mimi Tachikawa. She was like one of the hottest girls in the school. And unlike Miku, she was actually nice. Not that I'd talked to her much. Tai, Yamato, and Mimi were old friends, from middle school. Along with all the others who aren't Tai and my soccer friends but who are still old friends with Tai and Yamato.

After showering, I came out of the bathroom to find Jun, glaring at me. "Took you long enough," she said.

"Your turn!" I told her, moving my arms towards the bathroom. I hadn't wiped up the water from when I'd gotten out of the shower, and the mirror was still fogged up. I heard Jun groan as I went into the kitchen, whistling. Mom had made me breakfast, and I wolfed it down as fast as I could. I had to hurry if I wanted to walk with Kari and the others, since my apartment building was kind of far from theirs. We were supposed to meet at her building in about fifteen minutes, and I still had to brush my teeth.

After Jun finally left the bathroom, I ran in to brush my teeth really super fast and then ran out again to grab my school stuff. When I was ready to go, I yelled out, "I'm going to school now!" Luckily, all the embarrassing things that mothers do were done. Meaning my mom took pictures of me in my new uniform and gushed over it all yesterday. Now she was just in the kitchen on the phone as usual, but yelled back, "Bye!"

I walked towards the door, then realized Jun was standing there, leaning against it, her arms crossed and an evil smile on her face.

"Dude, Jun, don't do that! Don't you know how scary it is to see your ugly face anywhere, especially all hidden in the shadows like that?"

She just continued to smirk at me.

"I guess your face in the shadows might actually be less scary, though, y'know? Like you can't see it as much."

"Davis," she said slowly, "I'm walking to school with you."

"What?? No you're not! I am not walking to school with my stupid sister!"

"I thought your friend Taichi was going to walk to school with his little sister."

How did Jun know this stuff? Did she eavesdrop on the conversations I had on the phone or read my email or what? "Yeah, but… that's only cause they live in the same apartment building! I gotta go!" I tried pushing her aside, and even though soccer and weight training has made me pretty damn buff, Jun was pretty unmovable. Probably because she's so fat (well, actually she's too skinny, but I tell her she's fat).

"When we went to Hawaii in the sixth grade, you wet your bed."

I stared at her. I'd tried to erase that from my memory! "JUN! I was sick, and that's so not fair!"

"Oh, yes it is," Jun said. "I'm walking to school with you, little brother, and there's nothing you can do about it. And if you try and tell anyone about the eyebrow story, I will tell Yamato the bed-wetting story and all about how you cried during the Gilmore Girls series finale!"

"Jun, I hate you!" I didn't know anything else to do. "Fine," I said. "You can walk with us."

She jumped in the air happily. "Yay! Okay, let's go!" She opened the apartment door and almost raced out.

I followed, a lot more slow. "Oh no. Jun, wait up. I wouldn't want you to get lost." My voice was flat.

The worst part was having to walk the distance from my apartment to the Kamiya's because the only person I got to go with was my stupid sister Jun instead of the cute girl of my dreams Kari. Life was so unfair. And so was Jun with her dumb blackmailing! She reminded me even more of Yolei now.

"That series finale was sad," I told Jun as we walked. "Rory had to leave Stars Hollow. You cried too!"

"Well, I don't mind telling them that I cried. And you do. So obviously my crying doesn't matter."

Stupid sisters. I couldn't believe Jun was trying to mess up my chances of getting with Kari here! Maybe Yamato would be willing to adopt her as her sister. After all, that way she couldn't stalk him anymore cause they'd be related or whatever. I knew nobody was going to be happy when they saw that my stupid sister was with me. Kari would probably think I was such a loser.