Long Awaited

Her sister was standing now, that was good. But what she asked Minna next made the smaller sister look away and she was trying to think of something she could say to try to avoid this topic. She didn't want to tell her sister that if she touched someone than her powers would hurt them. To Minna Julie was invincible. She had never seen her big sister falter or move aside for anyone. Even their parents had a hard time telling Julie what to do. Even as Minna was looking around for something to distract her sister she could feel tears beginning to well up again.

If Julie knew than Minna wouldn't be able to get any more hugs from her sister. Especially since Julie gave her the best hugs ever. "I... I..." Minna began to wipe away her tears again as they began to fall down her cheeks. "When... I..." She couldn't bring herself to say it. It was too hard to say, especially to her sister. Would she try to keep away like everyone else here at the school? Would her sister just write letters from now on? Minna didn't know how else to react in this situation.

Minna was on the verge of going to her knees in her fear of what would happen if Julie knew what she could do. She had no control over it but that didn't seem to matter to everyone around her as they only avoided her so she couldn't touch them. While her tears were still falling strong she closed her eyes as her hand tried to scrub away the tear but before she could do anything about it she felt warm familiar hands on her cheeks brushing away her tears. Just like she use to do for her when Julie still lived with mom and dad. It felt wonderful to be held by her sister again, she couldn't properly descibe the sensation. But her expression was that of being stunned.

Her sister was touching her, actually touching her. No gloves or shirts in the way to keep her from getting hurt. But here she was, her invincible sister, able to still give her all the hugs she could ask for now. Minna's hands went up to Julies and folded around them as she didn't want her sister to let go. Tears were still trailing down her cheeks but they were tears of joy now. No one else she had met could do this and so Julie was the first person she had actually felt skin contact with in almost over 2 years. "Sis... I... I don't know how... How you can do this..." Minna sniffed trying to regain her breath. "Everyone else that touches my skin... they hurt... like... a lot..."

Looking up at her sister with shinging eyes full of tears and years lacking hugs from anyone now fading away. "You might have powers too!"

Julie didn't have powers? But then how could her sis touch her cheek then? But as Julie pulled her hand back Minna felt a little bit of her heart and joy go away again. It was hard for Minna to be able to feel the warmth of her sister's hand on her cheek like before and to have that pulled away from her and asked her to explain. Blinking and wiping away the last of her tears, she was doing a lot of that recently. She was probably going to feel raw around her cheeks and eyes. "W-well... from what I w-was told. They... they said I make... all of their nerves... act up? Makes them think that... that each nerve is in pain. I-I don't know much more than that." Minna shrugged and looked away from her sister. She didn't understand most of what they had told her. It got very technical from last time she asked about it.

That was when Julie asked about mom and dad, and if they reacted like Julie did to being touched. Or so Minna was thinking. "I... I don't know." Minna looked down at her hands then and she was rubbing them together anxiously. "They... I... I was scared what would happen if I did touch them." She didn't know if Julie was going to pick up on the fact that mom and dad didn't want to risk being touched and so tried to precent Minna from getting to close to them. But that wasn't Julie problem. That was Minna's and if this whole experience had taught her one thing was that she needed to do was do what she could for herself.

Minna could tell that she hadn't been able to get by her sister. She never had been able to do that so it wasn't too surprising, though she wished Julie would be nicer to their parents. But as soon her big sister brought up that wasn't Minna heading to class that the horror hit Minna that she was now going to be super late for her class. "Oh no, oh no! I need to get to class..." Minna was about to go in for a hug with her sister but when Julie had pulled away before maybe Julie was afraid of her too, so not to worry her sister Minna gave a smile instead and then picked up her things.

"Don't be a stranger sis... I'm pretty late. Please please please come over to visit some time!" Minna couldn't wait any longer and hopping from foot to foot still wanting to give her sister a nod before she had to sprint her way through the halls to get to her first class, her heart a little heavier now but still lighter than it had been before she saw Julie. She really hoped her sister would like to spend time with her.