When I woke up the following morning, I went to check on Bow. I knew that he had been upset with school recently and I wanted to make sure that he was okay. I was his older sister and I loved him and despised the fact that anyone could make Bow feel upset. He deserved better than that. I didn't have to be anywhere in particular but I knew that Courtney would be visiting later in the day and I was excited to see her again. I was glad that I had a lot of free time in the morning because it would give me a chance to spend some time with Bow.

Once I got to his room, I found him cuddled up in his blankets.

"Bow, are you okay?" I asked him.

He looked towards me with a slight glossiness in his eyes.

"I'm okay," he said, "Play with me?" he asked.

"What do you want to play?" I asked him.

"Let's play...trains!" he said.

It didn't surprise me that he wanted to play trains. He had loved the train set that he had got for Christmas ever since he had received it.

I nodded my head in agreement and the two of us went to sit upon the carpeted floor of his room so we could begin to play together.

It was mostly me moving my train around the tracks while Bow seemed insistent upon crashing his own train into mine.

"Hey! Play fair!" I told him and released a soft laugh as Bow began to giggle away. Clearly, he was finding this especially entertaining.

"Thank you for playing with me, Phoebe beanie," Bow told me.

"Always, Bow. You know that I'm here for you," I reassured him.

Bow gave a slight nod of his head, before his attention returned to the little green toy train in front of him. I was glad to see that Bow looked a little happier, now. I had always been incredibly protective over him. Callie could be pretty protective over him too, at times. I was glad that he had the two of us to look out for him. We were especially good sisters. At least, I liked to believe that we were.

"I always here for you too, Phoebe! That's what little brothers do," Bow said.

"Yeah? You're going to look out for me, Bow?" I asked him.

"I would fight dragons for you, Phoebe," he told me.

I felt my heart warm at that statement. Bow could be entirely too adorable.

"Well, I certainly feel a lot safer knowing that I have you to look out for me, Bow," I told him.

"And you always will, Phoebe. Always. I'm never going anywhere," he told me.

I was so incredibly grateful to have him. After our dad had left, times hadn't been the easiest but I was so glad that I had two amazing siblings to look out for me. I knew that I would always look out for them in return, too. I supposed that I had always wanted to look out for other people and take care of them when I could. That was one of the reasons why Courtney was so important to me. I knew that she struggled with her parents at times but I was never going to allow her to get hurt. She was far too important to me for that to ever happen.

Although it had been raining all morning, I could hear that it had become much quieter outside and as I took a glance out of the window, I saw that the sunlight came shining through the spaces between the clouds. The day was beautiful.

"Do you want to go and play outside for a bit, Bow?" I asked him.

"Yeah!" he said.

I was glad to see that he was back to his usual enthusiastic self.

Bow and I made our way out into the garden where we could spend some time together.

Bow tended to run around the garden like some kind of hyperactive squirrel, while I took a seat upon the grass and watched him with a smile upon my face.

As I sat there, my thoughts began to drift back to Courtney. My feelings for her had sort of sneaked up on me but I was ever-so thankful that I got the chance to meet her. She had allowed me to realise how much I could care for someone. She had made me realise how much I could like someone and be liked in return. Although I had feelings for Emmy in the past, they were nothing compared to how I now felt for Courtney. I looked forward to being able to see her later.

"Hey you," my sister said, as she joined me in my room.

I looked up to meet her gaze and smiled back at her.

"Hi. How are you doing?" I asked her.

"I'm all good thank you. You have this sort of glossy look in your eyes. Who are you thinking about?" she asked me.

"Take a guess," I replied.

Callie's eyes lit up with amusement.

"I'm guessing that you're thinking about Courtney, right?" she asked me.

I nodded my head in response to that. Recently, I had thought of little else.

"Yes I am," I replied.

Callie grinned back at me.

"She'll actually be visiting soon," I told her.

"That will be amazing!" Callie said, "I wanted the chance to get to know her better."

"And you'll get that chance," I assured her.

"If the two of you don't go and hide in your room, that is," Callie said, as the corner of her lips twitched up slightly. "I understand, though. Young love and all that."

I felt my heart warm at that. I wasn't sure whether I could describe what I felt for Courtney as love. Love was a complicated feeling but I did know one thing for certain and that was that she meant so much to me. She always would.