"How did this happen?" he asked worriedly with anger.
"I broke the mirror that was in the bathroom. It came loose and it fell and I was trying to get out, but I slipped on some water and I stepped on a piece of glass," she explained with a strained _expression as the nurse continued to try to remove the glass.
The glass was too small to be seen which gave the nurse a lot of trouble of trying to remove it, but they soon got it out and Karin and Koji made their way home. Like the night before, neither of them could sleep, but Karin fell asleep before her brother did. He pondered over the broken mirror and the black cat from the day before.
"Maybe it is true? No..there is no such thing as bad luck," Koji stated before yawning and falling asleep.
Koji made his way to school again and heard the students counting the last two days before Friday and he decided to ignore them. The classes didn't go by any faster than they had been the last couple of days and after school, Koji made his way to the middle school to pick up his sister like before and like before, Karin hadn't come out like she usually would and so he decided to talk to the same woman behind the desk again.
She simply said, "Nurse's office," with an irritating look on her face, but he decided to ignore her and made his way to the other office again. He peeked in and saw someone lying on the bed and immediately rushed inside.
"What happened?" he asked, wanting an immediate answer.
"Shhh," the nurse calmed him, "your sister is asleep. She was--"
The nurse wasn't able to finished because Karin woke up and Koji rushed over to her.
"I'm sorry big brother. I was in charge of lunch duty today and I spilled the salt. I went over to clean it up, but I slipped on the soup that spilled earlier and I guess I fainted," she explained as she felt the bump on her head.
"Come on, let's go," he coldly said as he forcefully pulled her off of the bed and they headed home.
The rest of the day went by without either one speaking a word to each other, but both were not able to sleep at all until a few hours before they had to get up. The next morning, except for the pouring rain, the usual things happened throughout the day. In the morning, the people talked about how tomorrow was the real bad luck day and how they are preparing themselves by doing a lot of things to bring them good luck instead. Koji ignored most of this because of how tired he was.
After school he slowly made it to his sister's school feeling as if he would drop the umbrella he was holding at any given moment. He knew he was late because most of the kids already left and decided to head towards the nurse's office so he could ignore the annoying stare he seems to be always getting from the woman behind the counter.
Koji walked into the office and looked around and didn't notice anyone until he heard some voices coming from the bathroom.
"Owww...that hurts!" said a familiar voice.
"It's Karin," Koji realized as he knocked on the door and out came the nurse and his sister.
Koji noticed the blood dripping off of the scrapes on Karin's arms and legs. He sighed and asked the obvious, "What happened this time?"
"I opened the umbrella inside the classroom instead of waiting outside to open it instead. I slipped on a puddle and scraped my arms and legs," Karin replied with a look of guilt.
Koji twitched in anger, but clenched his fists to keep himself from yelling at her. He let out a sigh and said, "Come on. Let's go."
The nurse bandaged her scrapes and the two left to head home. The two didn't say anything to each other on their way home. Karin could feel the pain from the water seeping through the bandages and onto her open flesh, but kept her pained face hidden. That night, neither one could sleep knowing that the next day was the day that everyone has been talking about the past week. Luckily, the new day was cloudy, but it didn't rain like the day before. Even a nonbeliever like Koji was glad that it wasn't raining on a day like this. He made sure his sister made it to school safely and headed to his own school, prepared for anything.
As the unlucky day went by, Koji noticed all the students trying to make their luck good by carrying around horseshoes and wearing four-leaf clover necklaces, rabbit's feet necklaces and wearing some type of clothing with the number seven on it. Koji just shook his head over the whole thing, but deep down, he felt as if he should've worn something to give him good luck or at least do something that was lucky. The day seemed to go by faster than the week had gone by and before anyone knew it, school was over.
"Wow, this day went by rather quickly. It's almost as if this was just a normal day," a girl told her friend.
Koji smirked as he watched everyone realize that there was really no stupid omen that everyone had to be prepared for. Koji proudly made his way to his sister's school, ready to rub it in her face, telling her how this was just a normal day like all the rest and saying some common phrases like, "I told you so." However, Koji's egotistic moment was cut short when he saw a paramedics car leave the school grounds in a hurry. Koji immediately rushed into the nurse's office and asked where his sister was and when the nurse slowly came up to him and laid an arm on his shoulder to calm him down, he immediately took off to the hospital. After what seemed like 15-20 minutes later, Koji had made it to the hospital while panting hard.
"I want...to see...my sister...Karin," he said in between pants.
The nurse grabbed her paperwork and told him where her room was. He ran as fast as he could to her room, but he seemed to be jogging because of how tired he was from running all the way to the hospital. He had finally made it to her room after some time and slowly opened it and leaned on the door for support so he wouldn't fall. He saw the doctor and he motioned for him to come over.
"I'm sorry for having to be the one to tell you this, but we aren't quite sure if your sister will make it or not," the doctor explained and lowered his head.
"What do you mean by that? What happened?!" Koji yelled over-excitedly.
"Calm down," he sighed and began to explain. "As some witnesses explained it, your sister, Karin, saw some flowers on the side of the building and she decided to pick them for you since they weren't there before and she believed that they grew after it rained yesterday. She saw a four-leaf clover in the grass near the flowers and she wanted you to have good luck so she decided to pick it for you. Unfortunately, a ladder was crushing part of the clover and she tried to move it and it fell on top of her, crushing her. She broke her arm, but what we are concerned about is that she may have paralyzed her back bone and it may cause her to die because the ladder collapsed on her hard. We are doing the best we can though, but there are no guarantees."
Koji stared wide-eyed into oblivion, but snapped back into it when the doctor slightly shook him back to Earth.
"Was Karin...under the ladder?" Koji asked in his robot-like state.
"That's what they said," the doctor replied.
"Then, what they said about this day was true," Koji realized to himself and a silent tear flowed down his face. Koji turned to his sister's sleeping form and the doctor walked out to leave him alone.
"She got hurt for me. She was warning me about the bad luck too. The bad things that happened to her this week, I should've paid attention, but no! I just had to argue with her. Now I might lose her forever!" Koji clenched his eyes shut as the tears began to stream down his face. "I'm sorry Karin, I was supposed to protect you. Look what I have done to you now! I do believe now, I believe in everything now."
Koji took his sister's hand in his, but felt something unusual inside of it. "What's this?" he thought as he opened up her hand. "Is this...a four-leaf clover?" he asked himself and closely examined it. "S-she was holding it when this happened to her...maybe she'll be okay?" he hoped to God that would be the case because if it were, he would do anything for her now.
Koji began to walk out of the room and opened the door after turning and looking at his sister one more time. Before he was about to step out, he heard the blankets move and he looked over with a sparkle of hope in his eyes.
"Big brother?" Karin lightly said with a sleepy _expression.
"K-karin...KARIN!" he shouted with happiness as he ran over and hugged his sister.
"Hello to you too big bro. I was going to go, but then, you believed that the four-leaf clover was lucky so I was able to stay," she smiled.
"Well, I am glad," Koji smiled back as he placed the clover neatly in his sister's hair.



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