Story: 30 Nights of wonder (all chapters)

Watching her

I’m standing in the dark and watching her through the window. Again. If Yoshino would know about this habit, she would be angry with me. She thinks I’m overprotective anyway.

She hates her ill health and sometimes also the ones, who try to help her. But I can’t sleep, before I know, she is safe in her bed. She needs her sleep so much. Her health is one of the most precious things to me, just because it’s so weak. Never leaves me the thought, that something could happen to her.

She could exhaust herself or could get a flu – there’s so much, which could happen to her. And every night, when I stay here, this dangers try to suffocate me. To be able to breath I have all the things that make me smile set against the fears. Yoshino smiling at me, Yoshino wearing the new cardigan, I made for her. Yoshino praising my cooking and my kendo skills. Yoshino telling me, that she loves me more than everything else.

It’s now a week that she’s wearing my rosary. Since I first entered the Lillian nursery, I knew she would be my petite souer. Another bond between us. Cousins, neighbours, sisters – each step we come closer to each other and each step is precious to me, because I share it with her.

The others think, I’m cool, I’m strong, I’m brave, but I’m only strong, because, she is at my side. She is my strength, my braveness, my smile, my hearth. I’m nothing without her. And because I know that. I stand here every evening, when the days slide into the night to be sure she is safe.

Being watchedI´m cold and that´s not because of the wind. I´ve seen a shadow and I know, who it is lurking in the dark. Oh yes, it´s not only today that my angel with the black wings – or should I say, my darling Rei – is watching me. She has always been there, since I can remember. Staying, keeping watch over me and my well-being and fighting against anything which could possibly harm me. Sometimes I think she wanted to be good at Kendo not because her father is a Kendo teacher, but because she can better protect me as a fighter. She tries to protect me since I can think, but against the worst danger even she has no power. Oh, how I hate my weak hearth, my ill health. How I wish I could run like everyone else, do sport instead of watching it, be foolish, not to have to think before everytime, if I’m really going to make it. I want to spend enough time with my fellow students to actually make friends. The only one I have and ever will have, is Rei. Rei, who is not only my confident and my cousin, but my older sister, my grande soeur. Sometimes I catch myself wishing my rosary would have came from some mysterious, exciting stranger. On the other hand I know of course, that there isn´t anyone else I would want to be bound to. Even when I wish for a more exciting souer I know exactly that Rei is my other half, my sun and my moon. I can´t exist without her. Not because I´m fragile, not because I need a knight but because she completes me like no one else, because she is the one I love more than everything else in the world. More than my family, more than my health – for her I would do anything and everything.

Story: 30 Nights of wonder (all chapters)

Chapter 1

Chapter 2