You Promised…Remember?

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Chapter Two

Broken

It has been three years since we left that horrible village. Mio was afraid to leave my side, as if she were worried I would go away again. Don't worry, my sister-I'll be here as long as you keep your promise to me.

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Mayu Amakura watched her sister throughout the entire reception. She looked so beautiful…Smiling and dressed in white lace and silk-like an angel. Her dress swayed with her as she danced in the arms of a handsome young man.

The whole thing had happened so suddenly. Mio had announced she was going to the school dance with someone and had ignored her sister that whole night. Mayu had forgiven her just that one time. She had heard nothing of the man her sister had gone with until after their graduation…when she announced she was getting married.

Mio had been so preoccupied with the wedding plans, she had not even noticed her sister's state of despair. Once Mio got married, she knew things would change forever between them, even though Mio had tried to assure her otherwise. Even if they were all living together under the same roof, Mio would have less and less time for her once she had taken a husband.

Mio…Once you get married, will you forget about me? Will your new husband replace me in you life? Will you love him more than me? That is my greatest fear. I don't want to be apart from you…But, even more, I don't want to be number two in your life…

It had been a small wedding-just a few friends and family. Mayu had never felt more invisible, even though she was the Maid of Honor. Everyone fawned over her sister-how pretty she was and how lucky she was to have found true love so early in life. And they all loved her husband, Shiro Kunakida. He was wealthy, kind, and handsome, and Mio was crazy about him.

Everyone was crazy about him…except Mayu. Her sad eyes hid her blazing anger as she saw that man dancing and laughing with her sister. She wanted to go over there and scream at him for trying to steal her sister away, but her frailty and fear of making Mio upset with her held her back.

As she walked her sister and new brother-in-law to the limo they would leave in for their honeymoon, she held in her feelings of sorrow and hatred and smiled at her sister. "Hurry back." she said, holding tightly to her sister's hand. "And…" She looked away. "Don't forget about me…"

Mio smiled softly. "Of course I won't forget about you. You are the most important person in my life."

This made Mayu smile. She squeezed her sister's hand even harder. "Then, you won't break your promise, right?"

Mio cried out and pulled her hand away. "You're a lot stronger than you look, sis. See you in a couple of weeks!" She ducked into the car with her husband and it drove off, leaving Mayu staring after it in schock.

"Mio..." She looked down at her hands for a moment, then clasped them together tightly, tears welling up in her eyes. But as she looked up, her eyes became filled with a fury that would strike fear into the bravest of men.

You promised you wouldn't let go.