Story: 30 Nights of wonder (chapter 1)

Authors: theo

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Chapter 1

Title: Watching her

 

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.

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