Whoo-hoo! Next chappie! And screw the disclaimer, it's not like you really believe that I own this stuff anyway! Also, it has been brought to my attention that I had two sets of arguments in the first chapter. Sorry! I didn't even notice it!

Misty's POV

As we stood, standing, listening, watching helplessly, Keimi walked forward. My legs, which had been mysteriously devoid of all movement, suddenly were un-spelled. I ran forward, Ash, Brock, and Kairi with me, but as we approached the cliff a sudden gust of wind shoved Keimi back up over the edge. By now we had reached her and, though she struggled to finish what she had started, held onto her.

"It's a good thing she doesn't have control of her power yet!" Kairi yelled over the wind, which was still blowing. As if in response, Kairi went flying. Ash, Brock, and I dragged her backward, away from the cliff.

"No, no, NO!" she screamed, "Lindy! Why did you stop me? Why? It isn't your problem!" The form of a young woman, about three years older than me, by the looks of it, materialized in front of us. Her hair was a deep brown, and her eyes were a rich green colour. The strangest thing of all was that she was slightly transparent. Oh yeah, and she was floating in the air. Another girl, exactly the same except for the clothes materialized on the ground in front of us. They had a strange resemblance to Kairi and Keimi, except, like I said, their hair was brown, not black. Lizzy and Lindy! I thought incredulously.

"Because, Little Sister, it isn't your time to die," answered the one on the ground, probably Lizzy.

"Lizzy! Stay out of it!" screamed Keimi. I was right I thought.

"But she's right," Lindy said, "It isn't your time. You must learn to live before you can truly die."

"How can I live? I'm a freak of nature!"

"Kairi lives."

"Yeah, well I'm not her! Lizzy killed herself with her power! I don't want that happening to me, even on accident!"

"I chose too. That's the only reason the electricity affected me."

"Without even caring who was watching! You went outside and stood in the grass! I looked out my window at you, and you zapped yourself!" She was bordering on hysterics now.

"So that's why she would never sit in that window seat again," Kairi whispered softly. I looked at her in surprise; there were so many things that I didn't know about them.

"I'm sorry about that, I didn't know anybody was watching."

"Sorry just doesn't cut it Lizzy. It just doesn't. You both left us, left ~me.~"

"You have issues Keimi. Let your friends and your sister help you work them out."

"I do NOT have issues!" Keimi shouted at their fading forms, sobbing. I couldn't do anything but watch as Kairi tried to comfort Keimi. Ash and Brock looked as helpless as I felt. Geez. What if that had been one of my sisters? I started walking away, to give them more privacy. When Ash and Brock looked at me strangely, I motioned for them to follow. They did, after a moment's hesitation.

Keimi's POV

Inside I felt years of repressed emotion fighting to break out. No! I am stone, I am stone, I am stone… I'm not stone! I can't handle this!

"How are you supposed to handle this?!?!?!?!?" I wailed, not realizing that I had spoken aloud.

"How are you supposed to deal with suicide? With illness, betrayal, DEATH? How?!?!?!?" A calm voice answered me.

"By sticking it out. Letting it heal. Helping each other. ~Not~ trying to commit suicide when things get bad." It took me a moment to realize the voice was Kairi's.

"What do ~you~ know? What do you ~know?~"

"Don't you think Lizzy's and Lindy's deaths hit me hard too? Don't you think that part of me wished that we could be close like our sisters were? But another part of me was happy, ~happy,~ that you kept your distance, because I didn't want to end up committing suicide if you died? Why do you think I never tried to reach out to you? I could've helped you deal, but I chose not to! What kind of sister do you think that makes me?" Kairi demanded, as emotional as me.

"You just knew that I wouldn't let you even if you tried, so you didn't bother. I don't blame you. It's all Lizzy's fault. She couldn't just let us lose one sister; no-o, it had to be two!"

"Don't say that! She wasn't thinking about us!"

"Well she should have been!" I said fiercely.
"Were ~YOU~ thinking about ~ME~ when you stepped off the edge of a cliff?"

"Well, no…" I admitted, "I just wanted to get away from everything."

"Don't you think that's what Lizzy was feeling?"

"Well, yeah, I guess…"

"And she didn't have the ghost of an older sister to save her, did she?"

"No-o…"

"Keimi, I really think that you wouldn't have gotten this if you hadn't been suicidal enough to try and kill yourself."

"What do you mean?"

"You would've still gone on blaming Lizzy, wouldn't you have?"

"Well, yeah…"

"So now that you've put yourself in her shoes are you really that mad at her?"

"No-o…"

"So in a way this was a good thing."

"You're saying that it's ~good~ that I tried to kill myself because otherwise I would have had issues my whole life?"

"Well, yeah, you still will." I laughed a bit; she was right. But suddenly the world didn't seem as big or as scary or even as uncaring as it used to.

"Right. Sisters?" I asked.

"Well duh."

"No, I mean friends."

"Well duh. Of course!"

"Hey Kairi?"

"Yeah?"

"You know Ash, Misty, and Brock?"

"Well, yeah!"

"But… do ya think that maybe…they could… not hate me anymore?"

"Hate you? They never did!"

"Really?"

"Duh! The only haters in this world are Team Rocket!"

"And Team Magma, and Team Aqua," I reminded her, naming two other evil organizations that were on the Hoenn news channel. Even in Johto we heard about it a lot.

"Yeah, them too."

"Hey, where'd they go?" I asked, looking around for Ash, Misty, and Brock.

"Misty probably dragged them off somewhere."

"Why?"

"To leave us alone."

"Oh. Let's go find them then," I said, and started walking.

"Keimi, they went that-a-way," she said, pointing in the opposite direction to the one I was headed in.

"Ooops!" I exclaimed, and corrected myself. We found them by a stream, eating sandwiches. There was a plate for Kairi and even one for me.

"You okay?" Misty asked me.

"Yeah, I guess."

"It can't be easy. If I lost any of my older sisters, I would be really upset."

"Really?" Ash asked, confused, "But I thought you hated them!"

"They get on my nerves, but they're still my sisters."

"Yeah, I know what you mean," Kairi said, looking at me. Surrounded by these people, one of them my sister, whom I've known all my life, I mean ~ALL~ of it, (she was born first) and these kids that I'd just met, but were slowly becoming my friends, I felt happy for the first time in a long time.

That's not the end of this fic! I spent to much work on the characters (Jordan, Kairi, and Keimi) to give it up now. It's just a slow spot…actually this is the fastest I've eva finished a chappie after the last one. I finished ch. 2 yesterday, or thursday or somethin, so 1 or 2 days, dependin on which day it was… I think it wuz thursday… so that would make it 2 days, one with school… and one with saturday morning cartoons… so record time 4 me!