It was almost ten o'clock, which was Sonata's bedtime, but, her older sister Aria wasn't home to put her to bed, she'd been asked by a friend early that evening if she'd like to come hang out and she'd said yes, but she'd told her sisters that she probably wouldn't be home until eleven o'clock that night. This meant that Adagio would have to put Sonata to bed and Adagio hated putting her youngest sister to bed because she could never get her to go to bed it seemed, but it wasn't because Sonata didn't want to go to bed, it was just because she always missed Aria and wanted Aria all the time. Adagio was watching something on TV and checked the clock on her phone to see what time it was, she saw it was 9:57 so she decided she might as well start trying to put Sonata to bed. She stood up, stretched for a minute and then looked at Sonata who was sitting in the middle of the living room floor playing with some of her toys.

"Sonata." Adagio said to her sister.

"What?" Sonata asked without looking up at her.

"It's almost your bedtime." Adagio answered, walking over to stand by the open doorway that led to the hall where the stairs were.

"But..." Sonata said hesitantly as she stood up, her voice trailing off.

"But what?" Adagio asked calmly.

"Ari's not home yet." Sonata explained, walking slightly closer to her older sister but then stopping after taking two very small steps.

"Sonata, Aria told you she wouldn't be home until eleven and that I have to put you to bed, now let's go." Adagio explained flatly, crossing her arms at Sonata's reluctance to go to bed.

"But.. ok" Sonata said quietly, knowing better than to argue with her oldest sister.

"Thank you." Adagio said, following her sister upstairs and to her room.

"Ok, you get changed and let me know when you're done." Adagio explained to her little sister, waiting outside her bedroom while her sister changed.

Sonata nodded before closing the door and presumed to change in her pajamas. Adagio waited out in the hall while her sister changed. Sonata changed and put her dirty clothes in her laundry basket and looked at her bed for a minute, knowing that Aria wasn't home and she'd have to sleep in her room, luckily Adagio'd picked her up a nightlight that she could use now so she wouldn't be so scared of things. She sighed heavily before turning back to her door and opening it.

"I'm done changing Adagio." Sonata said when Adagio looked at the opening door.

"Ok." Adagio said, she followed Sonata over to Sonata's bed and waited for Sonata to crawl into her bed.

"Ok, I'm not sure how you like being tucked in so I'll do the best I can and then you can fix it after if you're not comfortable ok." Adagio explained to her little sister as she began to tuck her in.

"Um ok." Sonata said, watching Adagio tuck her in.

"There, well, goodnight Sonata." Adagio said without playing with her hair or doing anything Aria did, she turned on Sonata's nightlight and walking towards Sonata's bedroom door.

"Night." Sonata said, she rolled onto her right side so her back was facing her door after Adagio shut off the light and shut the door to her bedroom.

Sonata laid on her bed for a few minutes and thought about how Adagio hadn't put her to bed at all like how Aria usually did, she played with the corner of her blanket while she tried to fall asleep. She could hear Adagio watching something on the TV downstairs but knew she couldn't get up to go get her because Adagio wouldn't do anything to help her, she'd just send her back to bed. A couple tears began to run down her face as she remembered the fact that her sister wasn't there a few minutes later, she decided she'd wait until Adagio came downstairs and then she'd sneak downstairs and text Aria using the iPad that the girls had that Sonata was allowed to play on. Adagio came upstairs a few minutes later and Sonata waited until she was sure Adagio was in her room to go back downstairs and text her older sister.

Sonata quietly got out of her bed and tiptoed to her bedroom door, quietly opening it so it wouldn't creak open, she made sure the coast was clear before stepping out of her bedroom. She quietly closed her bedroom door once she was in the hallway and then quietly but quickly walked downstairs to the living room. Adagio'd turned off all the lights except the hall lights both down and upstairs so Aria'd be able to see when she got home, once Sonata was downstairs, she walked into the living room, turned on the lamp beside the couch and grabbed the iPad off the bedside table and unlocked it. She went to the texting app after unlocking the iPad. Once Sonata was in the texting app, she clicked on Aria's contact and then clicked on the little bar on the bottom of the screen where she could write her message to her sister.

"Ari when are you coming home?" Sonata typed into the little bar and then pressed send after reading it over a couple times.

Sonata waited a couple minutes for a reply before she got one from her sister.

"I'll be coming home in about twenty minutes. Why?" Aria texted back.

"Because I miss you." Sonata answered her sister's text immediately.

"I know you do Nata, where are you right now? Are you in bed?" Aria typed back quickly.

"No, I'm in the living room on the iPad." Sonata answered.

"Ok, I'll come home now then and you can sleep with me even though you aren't supposed to anymore, but I know you aren't going to like it if you can't since you miss me." Aria replied through her text.

"Ok, I'll wait for you in the living room." Sonata typed back.

"Ok. See you in a bit then Nata." Aria texted back after a couple minutes.

Sonata turned off the iPad and set it down on the side table and sat on the couch, waiting for her sister. Aria pulled up to the her and her sisters house about fifteen minutes later and locked her car after she got to the front door. She quietly opened the front door of the house and stepped in, quietly shutting the door behind her once she did. She was taking off her shoes when she heard soft footsteps come around the corner, she knew who it was because she'd been expecting Sonata to come and greet her when she got home.

"Hi Nata." Aria said once she'd taken off her shoes and had stood up again.

"Hi Ari." Sonata replied before walking over to her sister and hugging her.

"Alright, lets go up to bed now ok." Aria suggested as she began walking to the living room to set her phone down after Sonata finished hugging her, Sonata followed her closely.

"Ok." Sonata replied.

Aria turned off the lights downstairs and then walked upstairs with Sonata and to her bedroom. She told Sonata to wait in her room while she changed into her pajamas and turned out the hall light when she was done. Once she was back in her room, she and Sonata got comfy on her bed and they soon both drifted off to sleep after saying goodnight to one another.

Author's Note

Here it is, the second last chapter and this chapter is probably my favorite out of all the chapters. I love how unique it is from all the other ones and how it ends and how it starts. I'm proud with this chapter and I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did.