"Ryuuko got in trouble again." Mako tells me. When she got to an age, Dearie oft acted up. I knew why. She was left at our house when she was quite little with only a note scrawled on the back of a photograph. After that, by a certain point, we started to get checks in the mail. Dearie is somewhat aware of this but she's still hurt that her benefactor won't come and see her. She wants so much to know who she is and why she was left but I haven't any answers. All I know is that she was left here by her sister and that said sister cared for her more than she knows. Of course, being abandoned hurts.
She won't say it but I know, underneath it, she appreciates our patience with her. She doesn't remember her sister that well and we did try to find her but Ryuuko was so little back then. For the sake of it, she's called her sister "Sis" but couldn't state what her sister's name is. "Memory," she told me, once, "'cause she's in my memories, except I don't remember her real well." Sometimes, she doesn't ask why her sister doesn't return—We just wind up padding the walls before her outbursts. Eventually, we gave her a room to herself, padded and all. She was conflicted about it but she accepted it before, out of the blue, telling me, "My heart's broke."
I recall that. I didn't know what to say besides that I knew. My own heart hurt, as, for all the love we could give her, we couldn't heal her being abandoned. She was really little those years ago and, perhaps, too little to really remember her sister clearly. Underneath, I knew, she was afraid of being abandoned again.