<span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Just hearing her little sister apologize was enough to push a soft ring past the woman's heart... this wasn't something that she should've needed to apologize for in the first place. "I guess that makes two of us." Her overly warm hand moved to cup her little sister's cheek, giving if a few loving caresses as she notified the girl of just how long she was waiting out here for her. If nothing else, she just wanted her face to be the first one the girl saw after coming out of the car. Once she finally managed to push the girl's heads so that their eyes locked, her lips softly pressing against her forehead lovingly. "We'll talk inside, alright? I'm sure that there's so much pent up in you... and I have so much to talk to with my beloved baby sister. We're family after all." She meant real family, not the two whom had just left her before continuing on their own lives though she was absolutely sure it would weigh on her mother's conscious quite a bit.<br/>
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Keiko would lead her little sister out from the assaulting rays of the sun, taking whatever bags her little sister might've been struggling with as they were both graced with the gentle breeze of air conditioning in the lobby of Keiko's apartment. "Did Mother at least allow you to take all of your belongings before you left? If there's something you were forced to leave behind I'll go to get it before anything happens to it." While she was sure her mother wasn't the petty type of woman to steal, she truly didn't like the type of character her step-father was... and they were just as estranged as two family members could possibly get from one another. The soft tap of her older sister's sandals navigated up the stairs before they finally arrived to the proper room on the third floor, her lock slipping in and opening the door. Even Keiko's home seemed to be air conditioned... just how much did this apartment cost her?<br/>
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Once the two were inside, instead of letting Circe start to unpack... she tightly gripped the girl's hand before navigating her over to the nearby sofa, taking a seat down onto it while waiting for her little sister to join her. "Circe... Do you feel bitter for what happened? Do you think that Mother is being unfair or that she truly hates you?" Keiko desperately tried to keep eye contact with the girl, trying to make sure she could look the girl in the eyes whenever she heard her answers. <br/>
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"...Do you hate me for being your older sister?" The woman's real question finally came up... if Keiko was never her older sister, she would never have been compared to anyone in the first place... maybe she'd be treasured more thoroughly by her mother as well. The painful, apologetic smile on her older sister's face told about the level of guilt the older woman was clearly feeling... but she shook her head after a few moments. "I'll always love you, you're my precious little sister after all... no matter what you might feel for me. I'll provide the family that was taken from you, I promise." That serene, soft... charming smile of her older sister graced the room as she reassured her one last time that she wasn't just some annoying obligation... that her older sister wanted her here.</span>