Sisterzones
What is this feeling?

Daniel opened his eyes, the white ceiling he got when he first looked. A place no stranger to him. Hospital outpatient room.

"I'm in this dream again" murmured Daniel.

He waited for a while, counting the time by constantly staring at the same ceiling. Daniel realized he was in a dream state. He had this dream several times and was almost used to it.

"Hm? Why haven't you come?" Daniel tried to shift his reclining position, looking for the door of the room. He was obviously waiting for something. The same thing would repeat itself, and he never minded experiencing it many times.

"What did you see?"

A small and sweet voice greeted his hearing. Daniel looked at the other side of the bed. A girl was staring at him with big round eyes in black. Her hair that was as clean as her eyes was neatly braided.

Daniel tried not to smile.

"Ooh! Lookyour eyes! It's dark blue, it's beautiful" said the boy, moving to take a closer look. Before long he closed his mouth, looking frantically at the door, but then breathing a sigh of relief. "I can't be too noisy. Since you just woke up today, Mom and Dad would be surprised. I'll let them know sooner before the nurse comes."

"Your eyes are so cool, yeah. But thankfully you're my sister. Hi, Daniel. I'm Alia. You should call me Brother. Brother Alia. I'm eleven, I like it..."

Daniel remembers, he did not listen to this child. Back then, his mind could only digest a single word.

"Angel," murmured Daniel, mimicking himself first.

I'll see you anytime, Daniel'll remember it like that. Amidst her confusion, Alia came like a little angel giving light. His smile and laughter are amazing. Daniel can't remember anything, not even himself. The presence of Alia gives calm and a place of holding.

Alia will always be a special person for him. Until anytime. A great Brother. The only person who amazed Daniel.

But does Daniel really admire Alia as his sister?

Or has he always admired her as an angel?

To this day, Daniel keeps a meeting of that question. There was a foreign impulse that made her unable to reach Alia as far as her status as a sister. I don't know... Daniel felt he could not be so close to Alia as his brother.

"Eh? Ahhhh!" yelled Alia suddenly.

Daniel was shocked. There's never been this before. Alia looked much more surprised than she was.

"What?" ask Daniel. At that moment he realized his voice was back to how it was. Not the voice of the eight-year-old.

"No! You're not Daniel! Little Daniel and he's my brother. You're who?" screeched Alia with bulging eyes.

Daniel was confused too. He saw from his perspective, his feet and hands were not as small as the first he saw. Daniel reflex tries to reach Alia, intending to calm her down.

"No! Don't touch! I want a little Daniel. I don't want Daniel to grow up!" shout Alia. He bit Daniel's hand that was directed at him.

At that moment Daniel opened his eyes. The dark room was the first to be seen. He rubbed his face. "Geez, why did the ending get so weird?"

Daniel sat up, holding his head. She contemplated her dream before standing up and walking into the kitchen. Throat's dry. He wants to get some water.

Daniel's step slowed down when he realized someone was in the kitchen. He resumed his steps when he noticed the dark blue ribbon that was tying the man's hair. There was only one person who wore it. He was also the one who asked Daniel to return.

"Sister?"

Alia turned her head quickly, widening her eyes as she saw Daniel walking towards her.

"Daniel?"

"What meda?" ask Daniel. He approached and saw the piece of onion that Alia was working on.

"Sister wants to make breakfast. It's preparing the materials" Alia replied. Back busy cutting.

Daniel raised his eyebrows. Glancing at his watch. "Prepare breakfast from five in the morning?"

Alia laughed a little. "You know this hour is indeed the usual time to wake up. I felt like I had to do something rather than just lie in my room. Oh yeah, these are the ingredients from the fridge, do you mind if Brother takes some of it?"

"What question is that? Use whatever is here to experiment. I did deliberately fill it up for it" Daniel said, shaking his head.

"Thank you." Alia smiled broadly. He remembers talking about his dream first about the flexibility to experiment to make a variety of cuisines. "You seem to be watching every Big Brother's words first."

Daniel did not answer.

Daniel nodded, stood up and took the glass. He almost forgot his purpose for coming here. "I had a weird dream."

"You want a story?"

Daniel gulped the water down the toilet at once. After which he looked at Alia closely, then shook his head slowly. "No."

"Did you dream of a woman?" Alia asked again. Directly laugh at the change in Daniel's face that looks uncomfortable.

"No. But little girls." Daniel took a breath. "The cute one" he added in a soft voice.

However, Alia had already turned her body and brandished a knife. "Little girl? Daniel, jesus. Are you ped-"

"Ck, I don't" Daniel cut immediately.

Alia breathed a sigh of relief, she put down her knife and turned again to Daniel. "May that be true. Do you know, Carla even likes you."

"I already know."

"Do you know?!" Alia shrieked stifled, her eyes widened.

"He doesn't really like me. Just a word," Daniel said calmly. "Did he not tell you?"

Daniel finds out that Alia actually met Carla yesterday. He was even able to survive without being driven there for nearly two hours. A record that no one in this house can achieve.

Alia shook her head slowly at the question.

"Don't you want me to tell you about it? The boy had an unusual background" Daniel asked again.

Alia looked at Daniel, thinking about the offer, but then shook her head. "no need. He's not gonna like it. If it's something that's really important to him, let him tell me himself."

Alia's answer made Daniel smile faintly. Isn't this what makes Alia special?

Alia came back with her work. I thought Daniel would go back to the room. But the man approached him. Stand behind Alia.

Daniel at the back began to pull the dark blue ribbon that bound Alia's hair. Make each strand of her hair fall out. Daniel didn't know his purpose for doing that. He is not the kind of person who likes to be snooped.

"Hey! What the hell are you doing? Jesus, Daniel. How could Big Brother tie her again with these dirty hands. Fast fast fast!" alia's orders, annoyed by Daniel's messiness.

"Let it unravel more cant-good."

"No-no, this is disturbing. Tie it again." Alia is still unfinished, so don't want to wash your hands faster.

The order made Daniel unable to hold back his smile. Strange, he had never smiled this wide before. Daniel no longer answered. He began to do the command.

Daniel gathered each strand of Alia's hair together. Once twice his fingers came into contact with Alia's neck and behind her ears. Daniel did not understand.His heart began to pound strongly until he was worried that Alia could hear him. Daniel's fingers started to shake thinly. He could not describe his head that was about to explode due to the heat.

Sounds terrible. But this is the foreign thing Daniel enjoys the most.

What is this feeling?

It feels very foreign, but also fun. Daniel completes his bond. Shaking his hand made the bond so not so neat. Only this time Daniel had trouble tying his hair. Weird, really weird. He's never felt like this before. Tying Alia's hair was not a foreign job to her.

"Have you?" Alia looked at Daniel.

Damn to Daniel. His heart rate that had begun to subside was now back in a stronger race when his gaze met Alia's black iris. He did not answer the question, just stared at it intensely.

"What's up, Daniel? Uh! Your face is red again. Yesterday was like this too. You're sick, right?" Alia's tone became panicked.

Daniel felt his chest, felt his heart hammering. "Eitherway. My heart was weird too."

"You should see a doctor." Alia looked worriedly. "Drink first."

Alia deftly poured water to drink, then handed it to Daniel.

Daniel received a glass from Alia, but did not drink it. He covered his heated face with one hand, before sighing.

What exactly is going on?