Chapter 4

That night, I had a long dream. I dreamed of the sweet memories from when we first met.

When I was in kindergarten, new neighbors moved in next door. They had a son a year younger than me.

From the day they arrived, I had a little shadow with a runny nose following me around.

Every day when I went to kindergarten, he wanted to come too, but the teachers wouldn't let him in. So he begged his mom to let him go to kindergarten as well.

I remember when I first started kindergarten, I cried my heart out every day, missing my mom terribly.

But Ethan, from the day he started, never cried. He just happily followed me around.

Because he was younger, the teachers gave him special treatment. Whenever he said he wanted to find his "big sister," they would let him sit next to me.

Even though he was in the toddler class, he learned everything we did in the junior class, and he learned it faster than me. He even helped me with the crafts the teacher assigned, so I could finish them.

During games, while others paired up one-on-one, we were always a team of two against one...

This went on, with him skipping grades to be with me in kindergarten. When I graduated and was about to start elementary school, he still had one more year of kindergarten left.

Every day when he went to kindergarten then, he cried his heart out, worrying his mom to no end.

His classmates in the senior kindergarten class teased him: "How come you're still not used to it after three years? We stopped crying in our first year!"

Ethan, sniffling, replied, "I got used to having my sister with me for three years in kindergarten. Now I'm all alone, that's why I'm sad."

Finally, Ethan started elementary school, but this time the teachers wouldn't let him sit with me in the second-grade classroom.

So every break, he'd run to my classroom, bringing me snacks, stickers that little girls liked, and all sorts of little trinkets. He spent all his pocket money on me.

My classmates all thought he was my real brother and called him the "sister-doting maniac."

Later, when I started middle school, Ethan's family had to move away due to his father's job transfer.