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Prologue: Y/N, Origin

THE SKY WILTED EBONY as it turned six o'clock. Deafening thunder reverberated through the air, as purple storm cloud swirled upwards into a dome. A crack of thunder lit up your bedside window as the door creaked open, revealing your adoptive sister.

"Sora..." As she came closer you noticed the solemn look on her face. "Sora, it's not true, is it? Please tell me it's-"

"Stop." She snapped. "Listen. It's the only way I can make sure you guys live comfortably. I'm almost 18, and none of us are adopted. All three of us can't live of my minimum wage for the next four years." She sighed. "I have to do something."

"But...Your leaving us behind? Here? Sora-"

"Just let her Y/N." Your other elder sister scoffed. "She'll receive her penance." You could tell that there was some sort of underlying message in her comment, but you were too overwhelmed to even start trying to decode it.

"Gin..." Sora mumbled, her bottom lip jittering with fear.

"Sora, please!" You pleaded. "Please don't go. We can all find a home together- I promise!"

"I've had enough with promises, Y/N." She spoke with utmost seriously, silencing you almost immediately if it weren't for your shaky breaths. "They promised us all a good life, but the only thing they've done is kept a roof over our heads. Y/N, can't you see?! Gin can't even read!"

"Leave her alone, Sora. She's too young to understand-"

"I'm old enough Gin! Stop treating me like a baby!"

"I wasn't, I was just-"

"Can you two, be quiet for a second!" The two younger sisters glanced to the floor at the eldest's outburst. "Please." She let out an exhausted sigh before continuing. "When I come back, I'll find you both, and maybe by then Y/N will old enough to go to school, and Gin-"

"We get it." Gin stated, seemingly having used the silence to make up her mind. "So go. Pick up your bags, and leave. I will support Y/N, if it means I have to sacrifice everything. So go, and don't look back."

Sora let out a relieved smile, slinging her duffel over her shoulder. "Gin, thank you so-"

"Don't thank me." She hissed. "Once you walk out that door, I never want to see your face again. And Y/N?" She glanced back to your figure which gazed longingly out into the thunderous night. "That's up to her to decide. But right now, I don't think you're her favourite person. So go, before it's too hard. Before she starts begging you again."
Sora frowned, nodding. She cast a guilty look at her two sisters, before disappearing out of the door, and sprinting off into the storm.

"Don't worry Y/N." Gin sat herself down beside you, wrapping an extra blanket around you both. "We have each other, right?" You let your head fall onto her shoulder, as you both huddled together.

"Yeah." You shivered, it only just hitting you that Sora was gone. "Thank you Gin." You finished, before letting out a sob.

The next few months at the orphanage were hard. With Gin just turned 17, you only had a year to find somewhere to live before she got kicked out onto the streets — and you weren't even working age yet. Neither of you mentioned Sora after that night. You hoped she'd remember to come and find you, when she finished her work, but it seemed Gin didn't share the sentiment. The lively chatter which once filled the room of the three adopted sisters was now thrusted into silence, with Gin now starting to return to the orphanage late at night. One night especially, it was wild. Just like the night Sora left, you thought, but you pushed the memory away watching as your sister dragged herself over to her bed. She was ghostly pale. Her eyes wide, and disturbed, with her hands shaking like crazy. That night, after she had wrapped herself up in blankets and turned off the lights, all you could hear was her pained sobs as rain splattered against the windows. The scene repeated itself for weeks on end, until suddenly — it was quiet.