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Chapter 13: Turning Point, Enter Rena

Beep!Beep!Beep!

The sound of my alarm clock once again disturbed my nice sleep like it usually did everyday, loud, annoying, and unforgiving. I cracked open one eye and reached my hand out from under my comforter and pressed down on the snooze button; bringing the room once again into a calming silence, with nothing to be heard but the cars that drove by my house and the occasional SEPTA bus.

Yesterday had been a nice day, we invited a good amount of people over, we got to see our uncle and cousin after what seemed like forever; and the girls had a pretty good time, too. All in all, it was a great party hands down, I'm sure Ant' would agree with me on that.

"Best, party, ever," I uttered into my pillow with a small smile. I was still partly tired, not only from the skate park, but from partying so hard, plus add the fact that I was kinda sleepy to begin with. I was probably paying for it now. I thought of getting up to make breakfast, but just shrugged it off since it didn't sound like anyone else was awake through the door.

And even if they were, I'm pretty sure Kim would take over for me even though it was my day to cook.

Sighing, I turned over to my left side, stuck my leg out, letting it hang over the bedside. A couple hours more of sleep wouldn't hurt, besides someone will call me if there's something I need to do. With that thought in mind, I rolled back over to my right side and stretched my arm out to get more comfortable on the queen sized bed I was laying on.

That was when my hand brushed up against something, I moved my hand back and touched it; it was soft, slender, almost like ...an arm covered by fabric, right under my comforter. A nightshirt, maybe? I sat up quickly, the comforter falling off of me in the process, and looked over at the other side of my bed.

Blue orbs starred right back at me ...it was a girl, the expression on her face was a mix between shock and surprise, as well as fear.

She blinked.

Then, I blinked. The only thoughts going through my head was who the hell was this, and what was she doing in my room, in my bed of all places?

That's when she opened her mouth. "Kyaaaa~!"

"Ahh!" I jumped back in surprise at her scream and fell off the bed, almost hitting my head into my nightstand. Scrambling, I stood up, turning my attention back to the girl on my bed, she had on a pair of light blue night pants and a long sleeved button up shirt that was the same color. I had no idea what the hell was going on, but I was going to find out either way.

"W-who are you, and w-why are you in my bed?"

I mouth almost fell to the floor ...was she serious? "Excuse me, your bed? Sorry to tell you, but, this is my bed, my room and my house you're in!" I spat, gesturing around the room. This girl had some nerve.

She looked around, the look on her face telling me that she just noticed I was telling the truth. She looked familiar; I'm pretty sure I'd seen her before, that hair style, those eyes, and she was obviously Asian. I just couldn't quite put my finger on who she was, though.

"B-but ...I don't understand," she stuttered out, still glancing at all my stuff. "How did I get here, get here?"

"Why don't you tell m-." I stopped in mid-sentence, noticing what she just said, or rather how she said it. "Wait ...did you just, say the same thing twice?" She blinked at me; not answering my question. Why didn't I see it sooner, the hair style, her eye color, her voice. There were like a thousand different thoughts going through my mind at once, but out of all of them there was one thing I had to ask. "Y-your name wouldn't happen to be, Ryugu Rena, by any chance, would it?"

Please say no, please say no.

"Y-yes," she answered, nervously. "How did you know that? Have we met somewhere, before?"

My mind went blink, but only for a moment; how in the world did this happen, I was pretty sure I put up the only object that could even make something like this happen and it in ...my ...closet. "Shit!" I stormed over to the far side of the room the moment the realization hit me, I threw open the closet door and searched in the box in the back where I usually kept the hunted and cursed items. "Rabbit's foot, cursed doll, spell book, voodoo doll," I muttered. I checked off everything in my head, but the monkey paw, it was missing.

And there was only one person I know who'd seek into my things in the middle of the night.

I put the lid back on the box, then pushed it back into the closet. I was beyond pissed, not only did he go into my things without my permission, he did something as stupid as to bring Rena here ...into our world, making things even worse. Closing the closet with a slam, I turned to the dark orange haired girl sitting on my bed, trying to give her my best smile, despite being angry.

"Rena, can you come with me please?" I asked, walking towards the bedroom door.

Rena looked sorta reluctant. "B-but, you still haven't told me where I am." She said, shifting shyly on the bed. "I don't even know who you are."

I sighed. "I'll explain that down stairs. For right now, though, you need to trust me, I'm not gonna hurt you, promise." I looked her in the eyes and held my hand out to her, letting her know that I was being honest; she glance at my hand, then slowly took it, then I gently helped her off the bed. I smiled, her night clothes were really cute. She had quite the taste in style.

I let go of her hand, and turned towards the door. I knew she would follow me out, so I opened it and walked out into the hallway, then walked down the steps. I was going to give that theft, brat brother of mine a piece of my mind.

"Antoine! We need to talk! Now!"

~ ~(Part2)~ ~

Once we got to the bottom of the steps, I let Rena take a seat on the living room couch; which still had a blanket and pillow on it. It was obvious that Ant' slept on the couch late night playing his new PlayStation 3, the proof was on the television screen, because one of the new games he had gotten with it was paused and the black controller was left on the coffee table.

So, where was he hiding?

"Antoine! Get your ass in the living room!" I yelled loudly, he was somewhere in the house, so he had to have heard that, if not then he was probably ignoring. "Antoine!"

There was the loud sound of plates clanging together, coming from the kitchen. Then, a few moments later, Antoine came walking out the kitchen hold a bowl of, what looked like, dry Cinnamon Toast Crunch a small smile.

"Morning, bro ...what's up with you?"

"Don't 'what's up with you' me, brat, stop acting innocent," I replied. I walked over to him, crossing my arms over my chest and tapping my foot. "I don't know if you're just stupid, or just really hardheaded, but when I say don't touch my things, I mean it."

"Uh, I didn't take anything."

That had to be the weakest lie I'd ever heard, hands down; Ant' just did not know when to tell the truth sometimes. "You do know that a horrible lie, right," I said, plainly. "First of all, if your going to take someone's stuff, put it back was after your done with it, and second of all." I turned sideways, pointing towards the orange haired clever girl sitting on the couch, starring at us. "Why the hell would you bring someone else here! Are you an idiot?"

"I thought that it'd be cool, I mean, Rika and Hanyu are here, it can't really hurt to add one more person." The dreadlocks styling per-teen said, "and I wanted to surprise Rika ...she been a little, well, homesick lately."

"Really, she's been home sick?" I asked, surprised.

Ant' nodded. "Uh-huh. She told me when we were playing the game after you went to sleep; Rika said she missed her friends, so I thought it would be nice to bring one of them here, that way she wouldn't feel as bad." He explained.

The thought of Rika being that homesick never really occurred to me, before now. But it made sense, the girls had been living with us for a little over a month or so, I'd be feeling the same way if the wish I made to bring them here had been reversed.

I sighed, and shook my head. "Ant', look, I know you had good intentions when you made that wish, but you made our situation five times worse then it was when the girls came here," I said, rubbing my forehead, closing my eyes. I had just waken up, and I was already started to get stressed out. "Rena has no clothes, not even her own toothbrush, plus, we're a little short on money this month as is, not including what we spent for your party yesterday."

"Ah ha ha~ that's the good part about the wish I made!" Antoine laughed. I opened my eyes and saw that he had a huge grin on his face. "I'm not the smartest kid in the world, but I for damn sure ain't stupid, ya know! I added a few things to wish I made to bring her her, plus I made an extra wish for all her clothes and things to be brought here, and appear right in my room. Not only that, but I made the room, like, five times bigger, with another bed and everything! It looks like the room was made for a fuckin' mansion!"

Okay, so maybe it wasn't so bad, but still. "So, let me get this straight, her clothes are here?"

"Yep!"

"And the room's five times bigger?"

Again, he nodded. "Uh-huh~!"

"And, how exactly does that work, if the rooms bigger, won't that make the house look weird from the outside," I asked.

Ant' shook his head, eating some more of his cereal. "You would think that, but nope, I checked. The house looks exactly the same outside," he answered while chewing. "I wished for it to be a magic room, sorta like on Harry Potter with the magic tents, it looks small on the outside, but on the inside it's like an entire house."

"That's a pretty good idea." I muttered, Ant' smiled at my words, then I remembered that regardless of how and what Ant' wished for, he still took it without my permission. I glared at him, and spoke in a serious tone. "But, you still stole my stuff. I said you couldn't use the paw for a reason, the same reason I keep everything else that cursed and, or, haunted, locked up in my closet."

"Look, I'm sorry, okay," Ant' uttered. It was hard to tell if he was being sincere or not. But, I'd give him the benefit of the doubt ...this time. "But, I just wanted to cheer Rika up, and bringing a friend here seemed like the best way to do that."

I groaned. He was doing it for her, for Rika, so I couldn't stay mad at him even if I wanted to; that didn't change one simple face, though. "Kim's gonna kill you when she finds out about this ...you know that, right," I stated.

Ant' gave a nodded. "Yeah, I know. But, it's worth it. I mean how often to you get to meet the clever girl, huh," he said as he walked over to me, nudging me with his elbow. "Where did she even appear at anyway? I wished her here, but I didn't really say exactly where in the house."

"She appeared in my room. Damn near scared the hell out of me," I said, glancing over at the dark orange haired girl. It was best to keep the fact that she appeared in my bed to myself, or I'd suffer from endless teasing from Ant'. "As a matter of fact, I'm hiding the paw somewhere else; cause apparently, you can't be trust not to touch my things."

"Aw, come on, I don't take things all the time."

"Oh, really." I shook my head at him, and started counted down the incidents as I said them on my fingers. "How about the time you took my PSP to school, and got it taken away cause you wanted to play it during class. The time you stole and ate almost all of my Halloween candy that one time; oh, and the time you took Kim's-."

"Okay, stop! Jeez~ I get it, alright," Ant' exclaimed. Taking a hand full on dry cereal and popping it into his mouth. "I don't just take things without asking anymore. And, I did ask you. But, you said 'no'. So I just wanted until you were sleeping a little deeper for you to mumble something that was close to yes, cause it didn't sound like a 'no' to me."

That sneaky little demon ...he got me with the oldest trick in the book. Sleep talking, really ...?

Rolling my eyes, I rubbed my temple with my hand, wondering to myself exactly what I was going to do with my little brat of a brother. I was about to say something again, when the voice of our cute loving guest interrupted me.

"Um ...excuse me, but, can you please tell me what's going on here?"

We both turned to her at the same time, she had been sitting on the couch patiently while me and Ant' talked. Rena was nice enough to wait this long, the least I could do was answer her questions; so with that in mind, I walked over and took a seat on the couch next to her, and Antoine sat down to her left, all of us right in front of the paused TV screen.

Nothing was said for a moment, until I spoke first. "So, what do you want to know?" I asked.

Rena looked around at the living room, similar to the way she had done in my room. "W-well, where am I …? One second I'm sleeping in my bed, then I wake up in your room; I don't remember how I got there either."

I took a breath, I was gonna give it to her straight. Something like this isn't really something you can sugar coat. "Okay, here's the deal, you're sorta ...kinda, in America; Philadelphia, PA, actually," I answered, simply.

"Huh! Wait, I'm confused, I was in Hinamizawa before I went to sleep! How can I be in America?"

"Your not the only one who was surprised, Rika was too, maybe even more so then you," I told her.

Her eyes went wide. "R-Rika," she uttered in shock. The way her voice tone was, it made me wonder if there was something going on in Hinamizawa, cause for a second it sounded like hope was mixed in with her shock. "This Rika! Does she have blue hair, purple colored eyes and a cute way of speaking?"

"Yep, that's our Rika, alright," Ant' announced with a smile. "She and Hanyu been living with our family for a little over a month now. We've all been having a bunch of fun, hell, we went to the beach just last week."

"S-so she alive, then." Rena whispered, before sighing in what sounded like relief. "Thank goodness ...we all thought she was dead, or something worse."

I raised an eyebrow. What did she mean, was Rika considered missing. "Hold on, what do you mean you thought Rika was dead ...?"

"...She's been missing for the past month, right before the Watanagashi festival. Even detective Oishi and the police had a hard time finding out where she had gone off to," She answered, sadly. "It was even in the local paper. Satoko was the last one to see her before she disappeared. And, even Irie-sensei's people helped in the search, but we couldn't find anything, it was like she just ...vanished."

I couldn't help the shocked look on my face. "Oh, man. This is, um, news to me." I had no clue that Rika appearing in the real world would send Hinamizawa on a search with a zero chance of success. I always thought that with all the multiple worlds, maybe she and Hanyu were dragged here from the sea of kakera before getting to go to the next world.

But, it would seem I was wrong.

I got up from my seat on the couch, pacing around the coffee table. "Damn it, this is not good. No, this is worse then not good!" I muttered, loudly. How didn't I think of this possibility before?

"What's wrong, Kevin?" Ant' asked me, his voice filled with worry.

"Ant, don't you get it. Did you hear what she said?" I stopped and looked at him, a mix of emotions showing on my face. "They were searching for Rika, do you understand? They were looking for her."

"Okay, how's that a bad thing?"

"Ant' ...think for a moment, they were searching for Rika, after we made that wish," I said, just before pointing at Rena. "And what do you think going to happen when they find out Rena's missing, right from under her father's nose, no less."

"Well, their gonna …," the situation seemed to dawn on him at this point. "Oh shit."

"Oh shit, indeed. We fucked up the first time, but at least they didn't know Hanyu was around yet, so they only searched for Rika." I started to pace around again, this time around the couch. "But now Rena's here, their gonna search for her, and keep looking, and the longer they stay here, they longer their going to look until the police give up and they're considered dead! Damn it, they were probably looking for Rika's body as is," I said, before pausing, turning to Rena. "They were looking for Rika's body, right?" I asked.

The young orange haired girl, nodded. "Yes, detective Oishi told us that the possibility of finding her alive was slim, and that was just three weeks after Rika vanished," Rena answered, sadly. "We were all heart broken after that, but I don't think anyone cried more then Satoko."

It was a really bad feeling, to know that my wish had caused them all so much pain. "I'm sorry, really, I am," I said, wholeheartedly. "It was my wish that caused all of this; if I had went with my gut, none of this would have happened."

"What do you mean?" Rena asked, utterly confused. "How did a wish do this, do this?"

I stopped pacing and sat back on my spot on the couch. Sighing, I began with telling about the monkey's paw, what it could do, and the wish I made that brought Rika to the real world; of course, she was sort of confused when I said 'real world' so I had to explain to her everything that I had told the girls the first day they got here.

She didn't believe me at first, but after a little proof, via, the When They Cry mangas I had, she saw that what I was saying was true.

"So, why don't you just use the paw to send us back …?" Rena asked. She was still looking through one of the mangas, it was the one where Keiichi killed Satoko's uncle, and who could blame him, the guy was an asshole just waiting to be put down. "Wouldn't that be easier then looking for another why?"

"Well, yeah, but I don't want to take the risk," I answered. "With the paw, there's a risk that you might not get sent to the right world, well …the world would be the same, it's getting you to the right fragment that bothers me."

"Fragment?"

"Uh," I sucked my teeth, scratching the side of my head. "I'll let Rika explain that one, it's best that you hear it from her instead of me."

Ant' continued playing the game for a little while longer, while me and Rena talked, I answered her many questions as best I could, but for certain ones, I told her it was best to talk to Rika about it. After a while, Ant' cut off the game by using the controller and got up from the couch, he took the disk out and put it in the case, placing it on the television stand.

He came back and plopped down on the couch next to me, as he spoke. "Well, I'm done playing the game for now ...wanna watch Netflix?"

"We have Netflix?" I asked.

Antoine nodded. "Yeah, Kim brought it yesterday night. I mean, it's the free trial, but still we can watch stuff." He used the controller and clicked on the Netflix icon, the screen went black for a moment; then a red screen came on that had the words 'Netflix' with a loading circle under it, before it disappeared, being replaced with a ton of videos and movies on the TV screen in rows. "So, what do you wanna watch? The Walking Dead is on here, oh, and they even have Enter The Dragon!" He said in excitement.

I thought on it for a moment. "How about we let Rena choose, she's the guest here, after all?"

"Fine," he sighed, rolling his eyes. He turned to Rena and held out the controller to her. "Um, here."

She took it and looked it, slight confusion written on her face. "Hau~ I-I don't have any idea how this works," Rena said, before turning to me. "What is this, is this?"

Right ...I guess an explanation would be helpful. "That's a wireless controller, how it works is you press on the buttons and move the analog stick, like this." I reached over, moving the analog stick a few times for her, going over different movies. "It's mostly used for games, but when you find a you do want to watch, you press the X button, and to go back, you press the circle button." I finished.

"Oh ...I see, but there are so many things to watch," Rena replied. "How do I choose?"

I shrugged. "Just pick whatever you want, it could be action, romance, even something cute; it's all up to you, Rena-san." I felt that using 'san' was the best thing to do, out of respect. She barely knew me, and in a way I didn't know her personally, I only knew about her.

"O-okay! ...Hau~ I'll look for something cute." Of course I knew she would go for that, this was Rena were talking about here; she's all about cute and cuddly things.

With that being said, the orange haired girl started scrolling through the seemly endless list of movies, after a few minutes she stop at something that not even I knew was on Netflix. Small, cute, pastel colored horse with big eyes and cute expressions ...I knew about this show simply because Erika had made plushies of them for her little cousin, very good ones, I might add.

"How about this," Rena asked, turning to me. "Can we watch this, watch this~?"

I gave her a slight nod. Rena smiled and pressed the X button, while I just sat back and watched. It was Ant' who seemed a little reluctant about watching the show. "Really …? My Little Pony, seriously!" And that's when the episode one back story ended and the opening began.

My Little Pony, My Little Pony

Ah Aah Aah Aah
My Little Pony!
I used to wonder what friendship could be
My Little Pony!

"Hauu~! So cute! I want to take it home~!" Rena squealed at the TV screen, there would probably be hearts in her eyes right now it this were an anime.

Ant' groaned, slapped his forehead. "Oh God, out of all the things to watch. She had to choose this."

I laughed at him. I was used to watching little kid's shows like this since I took that babysitting job a few years back; Dora The Explorer, Tom & Jerry, even old classics that never got old like the Powerpuff Girls. It was too bad my little bro wasn't, this was really going to damage his manliness, at least, that's what he said.

Though, there was one thing on my mind ...what was I gonna do about my big sister.

That it, the next chapter will be out soon, because I've started it already! I also got an SAO plushie of Kirito, it's awesome! I'm getting Asuna next, cause we all know you can't have Kirito without Asuna, that's like a law! I also got into MLP ...I'm not gonna lie, I've always wondered why people watched a show for little girls, but having little kids around your bound to see all sorts of cartoons; just never thought I'd like MLP, but I do, it's not better then Young Justice, but still, it's great. Remember to review and leave suggestions!

Peace~!