I started to notice her around the time I was in middle school. I had been documenting my sister's growth with a camera. Every time I looked through the viewfinder, my heart would race and she would start to look like a woman, becoming an object of sexual desire for me. On Makiko's 18th birthday, I mustered up the courage to confess. With our parents out of the house, just the two of us spent one night and two days together. We began to climb the stairs to adulthood.
