A note from the author. Hi everyone! Sorry I've been relatively lazy with the updating... I have like the next four chapters written out in my notebook, I just haven't gotten around to typing or editing them for that matter . Anyways, R&R and enjoy the story everyone!

Chapter 3

Len

Present

It was a lie. I wasn't really going to the library. Instead, I had decided to run after her. What if she really was my sister? Or what if she remembered who I was? I could finally get some answers...

Those dreams I had last night, they didn't feel like dreams. They seemed more like memories. Almost as if I was recalling past events that took place in my life. The problem was, that before yesterday, I never remembered a single bit of them. It's as if I lived my entire life living through those events. Also, I found it strange that the oldest she's been in a memory was around nine or ten. I've never seen a present day Rin in my dreams at all. All of it... I found quite strange.

I wanted to find out more. There were so many things I wanted to know.

I finally caught up with her at the park two blocks away. Ducking from behind a bush, I watched her and her green haired friend talking and laughing. I didn't want to ask Rin directly, but maybe her friend would know something. I watched them through the small branches of the bush I was sitting behind. They had gotten juice from a vending machine and sat down nearby. They didn't seem like they were going anywhere from this park for anytime soon, so I sat down on the ground, took out a book, and started reading while looking up every few minutes to make sure that the two didn't escape from my line of vision.

A little bit later, I looked up only to notice that the two of them have disappeared. I sighed. I figured that they had already gone home. I missed my chance, and I couldn't believe it. Who knows when the next time I would see them would be? My thoughts started turning negative as I blocked out the rest of the world. This was going to bother me for the rest of my life. As I took another step, I felt a yank at the collar of my shirt. I finally returned to reality and the first thing I saw was a car speeding past me just a few inches away.

"Are you crazy? You could have gotten killed if you took another step!" I turned myself around. There was a girl with short green hair and eyes standing with her hands on her hips, and a rather annoyed expression on her face. The way she looked sometimes reminded me of Miku when she was angry. I glanced at the bright goggles that rested on her head.

Wait a minute. This was Rin's friend. The other girl she was hanging out with.

"Oh, well, thanks for saving my life," I said.

"No problem, You can me Gumi by the way," she said with a playful grin on her face. Her expression seemed to soften. "Hey, I saw you yesterday! At that ice cream shop, right? You were with your friends, the really pretty girl with the super long hair and that other blue haired boy with the scarf right?" I opened my mouth to say something, but she kept on yapping.

"I remember asking Rin, if you were like a cousin or some sort of relative. Oh, Rin's the girl I was with yesterday. Anyways, I mean, you both look pretty similar, but then again, there are a lot of people in this world with blond hair and blue eyes... but..." I took that pause as a chance to quickly say something.

"Wait, so what did she say?"

"Huh? So you do know Rin? Weird since she said that you didn't look the slightest bit familiar," Gumi answered.

I turned and walked away in the direction of my house after she said that. I ignored her calling after me as I shuffled home and went in my room. I reached under my bed and pulled out that yellow box, just to look through it.

None of this was adding up.

According to this box, Rin is my twin sister.

But according to Gumi, Rin has no idea who I am. Maybe she was lying? But what reason would she have to do that? She didn't seem like the sly smooth talking liar type either.

Let's also remember those dreams, no, memories that I'm having. Was there a reason that I could never remember Rin after around age nine? Was there a reason that My thoughts were shattered when I heard a knocking on my door.

"Len~ it's Miku! Open your door!" I heard her say. I walked over to the front door and opened it.

"You know you can enter through the back door," I said as I looked at what she was carrying. "Hm? What's this?" I asked as she put a large steaming pot in my hands.

"It's soup of course! I figured that you didn't have much time to eat, so I brought left overs from dinner," she said with an innocent smile on her face. I saw her look at me again, this time, with concern. "Well, why the long face?" she asked.

"Huh? Oh. It's nothing," I responded as I walked inside my house. Miku followed me as she closed the door behind her. I went into the kitchen and took out a bowl.

"So, it's nothing? Or nothing that concerns me..." she said as I was taking out chopsticks. I was slowly eating my soup. What should I say to her? That the girl from yesterday is really my sister, and I just don't remember her? I stared into the bowl of udon.

"Itadakimasu," I said before digging in. I spoke without looking her way. "It's just... there's apart of my memory that's kind of... well... hazy..." I blew onto my chopsticks and slurped some more noodles. "Is there a way that I could possibly be able to remember past events?" I asked her as I looked in her direction. She didn't say much. Her response was only one word.

"Hypnotism," she said simply. I thought it was only used to make people sleep. I waited for a further explanation. "I remember once, Meiko wanted to forget about an ex boyfriend, whose identity I still don't know for some reason... But, she wanted to forget that they ever went out, since I guess their break up was pretty bad. She saw a hypnotist and she was hypnotized into forgetting. Maybe the same thing would work for trying to remember..." she said. She looked at me again who was just sitting there silently.

"Hypnosis... maybe that's what I need to do," I said to myself. Maybe I could remember after that.

There was no school the next day, so Miku and I had arranged for a hypnotist to see me. The two of use had walked fourteen blocks away from our neighborhood to see who was the only hypnotist in the country. I had a couple pictures of Rin and me together in my pocket in case a picture reference was needed. I smiled slightly as we entered a sketchy looking building with somewhat faded letters on the top. The windows were tinted and it was almost impossible to see inside. I worked my way around the place until I was at the very back of the building. There, sat a woman with long pink hair. She wore mostly black with some golden accents. Her face was covered by a dark veil that covered her eyes. There seemed to be some familiar aura coming off from her too. Don't tell me that she's also a long lost sister... I knelt in front of her.

"Um, Your Luka, right?" I asked.

"That is correct," the woman answered. "What is it that you need from me today?" she asked in what seemed to be a very sincere tone. She seemed to be a rather hospitable person from the way she spoke. I couldn't see her eyes, but her mouth curved to form a smile.

"I want to remember past events. Is there a way that you can hypnotize me into remembering them? It's not just past events in general, but it's past events dealing with a certain person," I explained as I pulled out the picture of Rin and me as kids, and I and put it on the table to show her. I pointed to Rin so the woman would know who I was talking about.

She hovered over the picture for a little. Her mouth remained a smile, but judging by her tone of voice, I could tell that she wasn't very pleased.

"Please leave and never come back," was all she said.

Huh? I looked at her with a confused stare. "Pardon?" I asked. Although her face was covered and her expression unknown, I couldn't help but feel the hostile vibe that she was giving off.