~ 3 is not a lucky number~
"AYA-NO!!!!!" her twin yelled from downstairs "DINNER!!!!" "Hai!"Ayano folded the note and headed down the stairs. As she walked into the kitchen her family yelled "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!" Ayame walked up to her and they held hands. "Together?" Ayano suggested "Yep…always…" and so, together the twins blew out the candles on the cake. Little Sumiko their younger sister squished in between them and smiling the three of them posed for a picture, which their father took smiling all the while.
As Ayano lay in bed she thought about Akira, her youngest sister. Akira was born two years after Sumiko, and when she first came to the world the Tsukiyomi family all fought to gain her attention, it was hilarious! But then something terrible happened, when Aki was four they went down to the small lake behind their cottage and they all swam together. At that time Mama was away shopping, but Naoki was with them. Ayano didn't swim because she was afraid of water, but she watched sitting on a rock. Then Aki's foot slipped on a rock and she struggled to keep afloat and her strength was lessening because of her fever. Aki yelled out to the closest person to her "Ayano HELP!!!" Ayano had no clue what to do, she thought about jumping in and saving her sister, but she though well maybe I 'll be a burden…I don't even know how to swim. As she thought about it Noaki rushed past her and rescued the drowning girl. She came down with a very high fever.
At the hospital Amu cried so much and thought she was going to lose Aki. Even when Ayano explained the situation, Amu didn't yell at her she just told her that she was being a good sister, but she should be more careful. Even thought that was years ago, Ayano still couldn't get over the fact that she had almost killed her sister, she thought Aki also wouldn't forgive her for neglecting her. Ayano thought back to the time when her mother had said that the four of them were her lucky clover, but now without the special fourth leaf Ayano felt… that the family was just like a regular 3 clover leaf.
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At that same moment Tsukiyomi Aki looked out the window of her aunt's penthouse. She stirred the caramel flavoured milk in her favourite yellow cup while flipping through a magazine casually. "Aki, today's her birthday…do you want to talk to her?" her aunt Utau called from her room. Aki closed the magazine and set down her drink. She went to her aunt's room. "Why would I want to say happy birthday to her?" she said icily. Utau frowned, gently she replied "Aki, it's been 5 years already…why don't you two talk?" she suggested. Aki glared menacingly at the phone "How would I know she's not gonna throw me into another river?" she walked out the door and walk silently back to her own room. She laid down, closed her eyes and dreamt of playing in the park with her perfect "sisters"