Rin's POV

Well, this is it. He walked in the door. He is staring at me. Everything is silent. Including myself.

The tension is killing me. The silence is suffocating.

But I can't say a thing.

I don't know how to start this conversation. I know I need to come clean, but I do not know how. Is this like ripping off a bandage? Faster is better? Or do I need to slowly explain everything?

I just don't know.

"You could have explained through text you know." It seems that he didn't like the silence either. Now that it's broken, the tension lets up a little, not much but enough for me to process.

"I know, but I felt it would be nicer in person."

"Then, who is Leon."

"Leon is one of the later additions to the Vocaloids. He isn't a good fighter, is somewhat nice, and is kinda funny I guess."

"Anything else?"

"Yes. He is… Your replacement I suppose, Cramone. He is Miku's boyfriend."

"I see."

Meiko's POV-A while ago

It has been a rough couple of days. On the bright side, Rin is back, safe and sound. The reason she disappeared was because her vocalizer was broken. No biggie, we had it repaired and everything was fine.

I hear that everything was normal when she arrived, smiles and happiness all around. I unfortunately missed that, as I was at the rehearsal. When I arrived, I caught a slight glimpse of the arrival, but it was short lived. Leon came over and gave a quick kiss to Miku. It was cute and made Luka and my hearts swell, but all that came crumbling down when Rin saw it. She hid it real well, but at that moment she broke. All of the ones who have known her since the beginning saw it immediately, but not a single one of us questioned it. I was planning on talking to her about it after everything settled down, but she went straight to her room.

I am the only one up and out in the living room at the moment. Just closing my eyes makes me see Rin's broken face and it is making me stressed. I want to wake her up, but that would be rude and she probably needs her sleep. So I will just sit here drowning in stress until I can talk to her alone.

Because I was sitting in silence, I was able to hear the door open.

Acting on instincts, I crouched behind the couch I was sitting on. Why I did it, I don't know. But as soon as I saw who came out, I was glad I did.

After all, it was Rin.

She seems to be trying to sneak out. This will be my chance. I can talk to her now.

But where is she going? Does it have anything to do with how she looked earlier?

Those thoughts are an infestation. Something that I can't ignore or get rid of. It is because of these thoughts that my body started to move. As she snuck out, I crept behind her. As she entered the real world, so did I. As she approached the house, I wasn't far behind. But when she pulled out a key and entered, I didn't. Whose house was this? Why did she have a key?

I have so many questions and not enough answers.

But there isn't much I can do now but wait.

And I didn't have to wait long. Not too long after we arrived, someone else did. Honestly, he looks vaguely familiar, but I am pretty sure I don't know him. But I don't think he was expecting to see what was inside. He paused for a moment and didn't even close the door fully.

This is my chance.

I creep up next to the door to see if I can hear anything.

"Yes. He is… Your replacement I suppose, Cramone. He is Miku's boyfriend." I hear Rin say softly.

Wait. Cramone?

"I see." The boy says. That voice. Those looks. I do recognize him.

He is my little brother. The one who is supposed to be dead. The one who was dating Miku.

That explains Rin's look. She knew Cramone was alive. And Miku is now dating someone else. Is that cheating? No, we thought he was dead. Either way…

I slam the door open.

I can see the look of shock on Rin's face. She was obviously not prepared for my entrance. Cramone however, he reacted. Much faster than I had time to react a gun was pointed directly at my face. All I could do is blink. "Who are you?" I heard him ask the question. But words simply wouldn't come out of my mouth. The tears fell though. It was him. It really was. I was looking at my dead little brother.

"WaIt, stop! That's Meiko!" Rin frantically yells behind him. I see him glance at her before looking back at me. With a sigh, he raises the gun and puts it somewhere behind his back.

"I told you to make sure you weren't followed, Rin." He gives me a quick once over. I can't tell what he's looking for, but it didn't take long for him to turn around and start walking away. Rin looks worried, glancing at me then Cramone and back, but she seems to be at a loss for words. Then again, so am I.

I see Cramone sit down on a couch and lean back, He seems to be deep in thought. I can't tell if he is happy to see me or not. The way he reacted seems to say the latter, but I hope he wanted to see his family.

Mustering up the effort I still have, I take a tentative step forward. Rin is watching me closely, silently, but doesn't do anything. Cramone doesn't budge. He isn't saying anything.

Is he allowing me to come in? If so, I will oblige. A little less worried about him turning me away. A little more comfortable.

That was all I needed.

I surge forward, nearly tackling Cramone off the couch. I cling to his side as tightly as I can. I can feel the tears spilling even faster now, I am probably soaking his shirt. But I don't care.

I just got my little brother back.

AN:

It has been a long time. And honestly, I haven't forgotten about the story. I just have been struggling with writing more of it. I have picked it up and put it down through years of my life by now. The problem being that my style has changed a lot since I started writing this thing. The direction is something I don't mind, but wasn't what I originally planned and is making it harder for me to write. The style I chose to write this in is starting to bother me. I don't really like writing in the first person and I feel like I keep messing up whether I am writing in past or present tense.

Its things like that that cause me to struggle with the story. I kinda want to re write it, but I also don't want to scrap everything I have written. If I were to redo everything, it would probably go a different direction, but I don't want to lose this one. So I am thinking about starting a new story similar to this one and letting it go the original plan and continuing this one as is.

I just wanted to explain a bit for why this takes me so long to update.