Mai smiled for the first time all week.
“Still keeping that spot warm for you,” Yuna said, tapping the hook. my sweet elder sister series
Mai rolled her eyes, but she was already planning to buy a new umbrella tomorrow. Bright yellow. Exactly like Yuna’s. Mai smiled for the first time all week
They walked slowly, not because the rain was heavy, but because neither of them wanted the moment to end. Yuna told her about the noisy dormitory, the terrible cafeteria curry, the stray cat she’d named “Little Mai” because it was stubborn and refused to be pet by anyone else. Bright yellow
The rain came down in thick, silver sheets, turning the familiar walk home from school into a river of shallow puddles. Mai huddled under the narrow awning of a closed bookstore, her schoolbag clutched to her chest like a shield. She’d forgotten her umbrella again. Again.
She sighed, watching the droplets race each other down the awning’s edge. It had been three years since Yuna, her elder sister, left for university in the capital. Three years of silent breakfasts, of doing her own hair (always lopsided), of walking to school alone. She was sixteen now, perfectly capable. But capable wasn’t the same as okay .