I Would Marry You

"If you see Yui, say hi to her."

A baseball flew through the air, smashing a bedroom window, and rolling across the top shelf before stopping beside a blue stuffed dinosaur. The bedroom belonged to a girl with long pink hair and big eyes. Sadly, this girl was paralysed from the neck down, and she was unable to live her life to the full. Her name: Yui.

A knock on the door, and voices from another room. A boy, around 17, asking if he could retrieve the baseball. Yui's mom brought him through; he bowed, and lifted the baseball off the shelf.

"Why don't you stay and talk to Yui?" She then added in a whisper: "She could do with some one her own age to talk to." He looked at the pink haired girl, and then at her mother, before sitting down on the seat beside her bed. Yui's mom left the room, also leaving the two teens in a slightly awkward silence.

"My name is Yui! It's nice to meet you!"

"It's nice to meet you too. I'm Hideki." Another silence.

"Thank you for talking to me. Not many people do."

"Oh? Why not?"

"I can't really leave the house, you see. Only in a wheelchair, with a minder. I was… hit from behind by a car, and now I'm paralysed." She looked away.

"And that's why you're in here, in this bed that moves up and down so you can eat."

"Yes… it can be quite boring sometimes. All I can do is watch the TV."

The two teens chatted for a long time. Hideki talked to her about his baseball, and how he wanted to get on a county team. She told him about her dreams: playing in a girl band, scoring goals at soccer, hitting a home run a baseball. Soon enough, however, Hideki had to leave, but he promised to visit Yui again tomorrow.

True to his word, Hideki came, day after day, to talk to Yui, and keep her company. Always at the same time; 19:00, after baseball practice. A few days, he took her out in her wheelchair for a walk. Soon enough, they had become best friends.

Hideki began to notice every little detail about Yui. Her pink eyes sparkled whenever they went out. Her hair was the same colour as her eyes; it was straight, but flicked in around her face. Two of her teeth were pointy; this gave her the impression of and imp, and she had soft pink lips. He was almost certain: he falling in love with her.

The same thing started happening to Yui. She loved the way Hideki flicked his fringe out of his blue eyes. The way he tapped his fingers against the edge of her bed. The way he sniffed his nose at the people who said he shouldn't be taking her out. She was definitely falling for him.

It had been two years since they'd met. Hideki was planning on taking Yui out of her house, and to his own, to help remove the "burden", as Yui described it, from her mother. He told her how he felt about her, and she told him.

To this day, they are happily married.

Yui still wants to fulfill her dreams, even though she is still paralysed.

And Hideki never gave up on the county baseball, but started spending more and more time with the girl he loved.

"No matter what you were like…"

"I SAID NO MATTER THE HANDICAP! Even if you couldn't stand and walk, even if you couldn't have kids, even so I'd still marry you. I would! I wanna be with you forever and ever! The Yui I met her wasn't a fake. You're Yui. No matter where we met, I would've fallen in love with you. Even though it's a one in 6 billion chance we'd meet. Even if you were already paralysed when we met. I'd marry you, and I'd make you the happiest woman alive. If only you'd say yes to me…"