Music Playing: Snow by Kokin Gumi

A week after that one time, Mom decided to take me to St. Catherine's. I could take my piggy plush but I couldn't take Iori or Nui with me. Like that one time, when Sis was in the hospital, I had to get dressed up all nice, except my dress was a different color. It was a long while before we got there and that was my first time riding a bus but we got there. St Catherine's looked like a nice place, kind of like the Home, almost, except it was different for reasons I didn't really know.

According to Mom, St Catherine's is a special kind of "apartment complex". I didn't know what that was, besides the fact that Sis lived in one and she did but was different than other whatever those things were and this place was more like a hospital or an old folks home (which I haven't seen before) . Sis was in a complex for others with "certain needs". Sis lived in second floor, second door to the right, Number 8.

A nurse came by and opened the door, as Sis doesn't normally open the door herself. We didn't know why but the nurse said she didn't know why, either. We found her, curled up sort of on the bed, lookin' at a book. Her room here looked pretty nice, if not a little boring. Sis' hair was frazzled and she had tubes but ones I mostly saw were in her nose. She wasn't hooked up to too many of those tubes, as besides the ones in her nose, she only had one and it was in her arm. She also had rings under her eyes and she looked really tired.

Mom nudged me towards her and I didn't really have many things to say to her, actually, I didn't have anything to say, so I just sat down next to her. She wasn't looking at her book at that point but I knew she didn't have anything to say to me, either. It was quiet, aside form hearing her breathe and her breathing sounded funny, especially since she was mostly breathing out of her nose. It was quiet for awhile, even when she pulled me into her arms. She held onto me a long while before Mom and me had to leave.

Mom didn't have to pull me out of her arms because Sis let go. I didn't have a good feeling about that, honestly.

But, the way Sis looked at me told me things would be okay.