For every promise, there is price to pay. ~Jim Rohn
"I want Ryou to read it, momma!" Amane cried.
"Amane," her mother scolded, "I don't even know what letters we got today, so just hold your horses,"
"But it's been almost two months since his last letter! It has to be here, it just has to! Doesn't it Ryou?"
"Amane," the boy in questioned said, mimicking the tone of his mother.
"So kids, no letter," their mother said and by the looks of her devastated children hastily added, "Your father has a very busy and important job. He'll write when he can,"
"I'm going to be an archeologist just like daddy," Ryou boasted and gave Amane a bright smile.
"Oh," she mumbled, hiding her eyes behind her white hair.
"What's wrong?" he asked, tilting his head.
"It's just daddy never writes when he goes away – but you'll write, won't you Ryou? Forever?" she stared up at her big brother with wide green eyes. He laughed.
"Of course Amane, I'll write to you every day!" He reassured her, but the anxiety didn't leave her eyes.
"Promise!" she demanded, stopping her foot.
Ryou chuckled and then wrapped his sister in a tight embrace. (She smelled of violets.)
"I promise, forever,"
A/N -The drabble was originally going to end with 'Two weeks later she was dead' but I don't know, I took it out. Was that a bad call on my part? Review!
