They lived at Disney Land now.

Well not really. At the end of the day, after the fireworks show, they had to go home. They had a car waiting for them. Mob didn't know if the car even went anywhere. Dad always said that when they got bored they should just head back to the car and they'd go back to the apartment. She wondered if the weird aura guy got bored sitting in the car all day. She didn't know.

And Sho didn't care.

He was just happy to be outside. They lived at Disney Land now, maybe, which beat being stuck inside all day. Dad hadn't punished him for going outside, before, he had just told them never to do that again. Then the very next day he had someone drive them to Disney Land and gave them a bunch of money and told them to exercise and have fun. They weren't allowed to use their power, or tell anyone that they were there alone, but aside from that they could do whatever they wanted. This was a pretty fun place. Mom would have liked it…

They weren't supposed to talk about mom.

Or think about her. They had to pretend like they had never had a mom in the first place. Dad all but said so. Sho…he wanted mom back…but he also didn't want to get punished. Besides, he knew why she left. It was because of him, why else? She was gone and now he was alone with big sis and dad and…and at least they got to spend the whole day every day at Disney Land.

Until the moved again.

But he didn't know when they were going to move again and neither did big sis. All they knew was that they got to spend the whole day at Disney Land, no school or anything like that, and it was fun. Even if she liked boring things it was still fun. Besides, they mostly just did the stuff that he liked. Like the shooty thing. He liked the shooty thing a lot.

"I'm sorry I shot you in the eye." Said Sho. Big sis was blinking a lot. He really hadn't meant to shoot her in the eye. Even if it was just a laser it still hurt. He knew, he had shot himself in the eye just to see if it hurt. Turns out that it did.

"It's not that bad." Said Mob. The spot in her vision was getting smaller, that was what mattered. She hoped that it wasn't permanent. There were some things that even Fukuda couldn't fix, he had said, and Mob had no idea if eyes were one of them.

"I'm still sorry and I still didn't mean to." Said Sho. For once he hadn't been trying to be a jerk. Well he never set out to be a jerk, he just sort of acted like a jerk to her sometimes. Sometimes he just got so mad for no reason…

"It's ok. It was an accident. I'm sorry that I got more points than you." Said Mob. She shouldn't have beaten him even though she had told him a thousand times that if he wanted to have the best score he should have aimed before he shot. He usually just shot over and over and over again and only got points from luck. If you weren't going to play right then you shouldn't have played at all…at least that was what mom would say when they would play Wii and Sho would just mash buttons and then get super upset when he lost. She wondered if mom would have had fun, too, if she had come with…but of course Mob had no way of knowing if mom would have had fun or not. Maybe she would have, Mob didn't know, and she had no idea if she had ever really known her mom at all.

"You didn't." said Sho. She didn't win, she never won. She was scared of dark rides. That was why they couldn't ride the Tron thing, she got too scared. She only wanted to do boring stuff. Girls were boring like that….or maybe just she was. He didn't know. It wasn't like they were allowed to play with any of the other kids. Dad had said so.

"I did. But it's ok, we can get back in line and try again." said Mob. She wasn't bragging that she had beaten him, she was just stating a fact. She was older and she played the game right so of course she was the one who scored the highest. Not that she was braggy about that or anything.

"No, I'm bored of this part." Said Sho. They had been in Tomorrowland all day. He was starting to get bored. He had been at Disney Land all week. He was starting to get bored…but it was better than being trapped inside all day.

"Oh, ok. Do you want to go to Fantasy Land again? I think Elsa is going to sing again. The show is usually at the same time every day unless it rains. It rains a lot here." said Mob. She looked up at the sky as she said that. Cloudy. She hoped that they didn't get rained on again like they had the other day. She felt her bag, she had an Elsa bag now, and the rain ponchos that she had packed were still there. They had rain ponchos and water bottles and a lot of money. They'd be ok.

"I just said that I was bored. I don't want to be more bored than I already am." Said Sho

"What's boring about Elsa singing? That's my favorite of all the shows." Said Mob

"She sings the same song over and over again. She's not even as good as she was in the movie." Said Sho

"All the shows are the same over and over again. We've been here for a week and it's all been the same over and over again. If one thing is boring then it's all boring." Said Mob

"No, some things never stop being fun. Like the pirates thing, that will never stop being cool no matter how many times we ride it." Said Sho

"That's true." Said Mob even though it was kind of scary. Sho liked it though and if he liked it then she liked it. Besides, it was a whole lot better than being inside all day.

"And Fantasy Land will never stop being boring." Said Sho

"That's not…well if you think it's true…" said Mob. She didn't want to fight with him. He was a boy, of course he thought that all of the stuff that she liked was boring. She knew that she should have thought that all of his stuff was boring and that he was gross, because he was a boy and that was how boys and girls were supposed to feel about each other. At least that was how a lot of the girls at school were. Mob was weird like that, that she liked being friends with her little brother, even though he thought that all the stuff that she liked was dumb and boring.

"I do. Now come on, let's get more cake. I'm hungry again." said Sho. He wasn't really hungry, not really, but he could tell that he was starting to be a jerk again. He didn't want to be a jerk to her or to anyone. Dad was enough of a jerk for all of them. He wasn't dad even though he looked just like him.

"But we just ate." Said Mob. They had gone crazy at the bakery when they had come here for the first time and they had gotten sick. She had just gotten a stomach ache but he had thrown up. They needed to eat healthy food…not that there was a lot of that here. The chicken and vegetable and rice thing was good…even if they only gave you chopsticks. She and Sho had always used either forks or kid's chopsticks. They were out of practice. Dad had even said so.

"I know, but I want another one of those donuts that looks like Mickey's head." Said Sho

"Don't you want something healthy to eat? Remember the last time you ate too much junk food and then you threw up on the Honey Pot thing?" asked Mob

"That's just because you spun it too fast." Said Sho

"You asked me to spin it that fast." Said Mob

"Just come on. I'm hungry." Said Sho. He started walking. Big sis followed. He wasn't afraid of her not following, she'd be the one who got in trouble if he got lost. Dad put her in charge again. He was always putting her in charge. Dad even said it was because she was older. That was why she got to hold on to the money and stuff, too, even though it wasn't fair. Sho needed money for stuff….not that big sis didn't just give him money whenever he needed it…

He could use more T-shirts.

Especially since his shirt was still kind of wet from when they went on the rapids ride thing. She hated that one. She hated all the fun stuff. She just wanted to walk through the maze and meet princesses and watch them sing. So boring.

They could have been bored at home.

They could have been a lot of things at home but they had no idea when they would be going home again. Back to the castle. They still lived in the castle, they had always lived in the castle, and one day they would go back to the castle…right? They had to. They had to because…because it was their home. Besides, mom might have thought that they left her if she came back to the castle and then everyone was gone. If she came back. He had no idea if mom was coming back or not…

And he wasn't allowed to ask.

"Do you want to go to the parade after this? If you want to skip the Elsa show?" asked Mob as they got in line at the bakery. Well it wasn't called a bakery, it was called something else here, but if it was a place that sold cakes and cookies and other baked stuff then it was a bakery.

"We can go to the Elsa show if you want." Said Sho. Walking had helped. He had out walked, out ran, jerk Sho. Jerk Sho was always mean to his sister…and he did not like being that sort of person. He was a big kid, he was six, and he had to be better. He had to be a good little brother. It wasn't like she was even doing anything. She was just doing what dad told her to do. She even said that she didn't like it when dad put her in charge. Mom was the one who should have been in charge…

But mom was gone.

"No, it's ok. You're right, we've seen it before and we're heard the song a million times. We can do what you want." Said Mob. She had to think of him and what he wanted to do. She was his big sister and she didn't want him to leave. Mom had left. If moms could leave then little brother could leave too…and then she would be all alone.

"I don't care. Let's just go to Fantasy Land and see Elsa again." said Sho. It wasn't like it would have killed him to do what she wanted to do. He should have been nicer. What if she left too? Not now, they may have been big kids but they were still just kids, but one day she would grow up and he would grow up…and then she could leave to. She could leave him alone with dad…or maybe she and dad would leave him. Both were equally awful.

"I know that you do. We can do what you want to, Sho, I like to make you happy." Said Mob. He didn't need to do things just because she wanted to. It felt nice, being thought of, but there was guilt to it, too. She should have been the one to make him happy, not the other way around. She was the big sister, not the little sister, and it was her job to make him happy. It was her job to take care of him. Dad had said so.

What could be better than making her little brother happy?

He was her brother and she was his sister. They cared about each other. Even if he didn't always act like it. Even if he could be downright mean sometimes. Even if he sometimes said things that hurt so much that she thought, maybe, that he didn't like her….he still cared about her.

"Here. I want to make you happy, too. I don't want to be a jerk. I don't like to be a jerk." Said Sho. He gave her half of his donut thing even though he wanted the rest of it. That was what you did when you loved someone. You gave them the ears from your donut even though they didn't also they had all the money in the world so they could buy all the donuts in the world which would have been cool but also would have been kind of a jerk type thing to do which meant that even in his own head he was a total jerk-

"You're not a jerk, you could never be a jerk, you're my little brother. Little brothers can't be jerks. You're also my best friend, too, you know. If little brothers can count as friends." Said Mob as she took the top of his donut and traded him half of her really long cinnamon sugar bread thing. He didn't ask but it was fair that way. It was important to make things as fair as possible even though life wasn't fair. Dad had said that.

"I'm your only friend." Said Sho. That was one of the worst things about moving…sort of moving. Well the very worst thing was that they didn't have a mom anymore but the second worst thing was that they didn't go to school anymore. No school meant nobody new to play with. Nobody new to play with meant that he was stuck doing boring stuff all day….and also he didn't get to see his old friends…but at least he didn't have to go to the first grade.

He hadn't wanted to go to the first grade.

Because the uniform sucked and you had to walk much farther and also his friends from kindergarten were all going to different schools. Also big sis had a lot of homework and it looked like it was really hard and he had better things to do with his time after school than sit down at the table and just do more school work. At least now he didn't have to worry about school work anymore…

Maybe even never again.

"That's true." Said Mob. She didn't know how to feel about that. She hadn't ever had any real friends, not like Sho had anyway, and she couldn't have imagined a better friend in the world than Sho. Even if he could be mean sometimes. It wasn't like she was going to be making any other friends, anyway. Dad said that they were only allowed to be friends with other esper kids and there weren't any other esper kids.

"So come on, let's go see Elsa sing for the millionth, billionth, trillionth time." Said Sho. He was going to sit through it for her. He's sit through it again and again because like he had just said, she was his only friend. Well he was her only friend and it worked both ways. She loved that show and that song and he had to be less of a jerk so he would be nice to her.

Besides, she went on all the rides that he liked.

Even the dark rides. Even the scary ones. She was always there for him. She'd be there for him today just like she would be tomorrow and had been yesterday and would continue to be for the rest of their lives. Also as long as this trip lasted. He knew that dad's trips lasted a long time. Sometimes even months…months and months and months…

He hoped that they would be back in time for his birthday.

Because even he was starting to get bored. They got there at opening each day and they stayed until closing. It had been a whole week. He didn't think that he ever could have gotten bored…but he was starting to. He wondered if they would go somewhere else. Somewhere like…home. Because even here the trapped in feeling was getting to him. Even though he was in no way trapped, not inside a place anyway, he was still trapped. Stuck here in a place that was supposed to be fun…and was fun…but it still wasn't home. He still barely understood what people were saying, he knew very little English and no Chinese whatsoever, and he didn't think that it would have bothered him as much as it did. Maybe that was why dad always said how glad he was to be back in Japan when he came home after a while…

Would they ever go home again?

Dad only came home because mom and big sis were there. He had said so. Now that mom was gone and dad had taken them with…would they ever go home again? They should. Mom might…she might have come back. She might have been back home waiting for them and…and she might have been worried because they were far away and….and….

And he was just imagining things.

She was not back. She would never be back…and neither would they…and he had to at least not be a jerk about it. Big sis didn't ask for this to happen and neither did he. This was just…a thing that happened. It had happened and now…now they were here. At least 'here' was fun. Even the parts with the princesses and the singing.

"Come on, Sho, you sing too. It's more fun that way." said Mob. She knew that he didn't much like this song or this movie, he said that nothing happened even though a lot happened, but it was more fun if he at least tried to have fun. She knew that he was sad and she was sad too. There was a lot to be sad about. They were far from home and their mom was gone. That was a lot to be sad about…but they could at least make the best of it.

Even if they could never go home again….

At least they got to live at Disney Land now.