Four Corners
Chapter 1 The Stubborn Patient
It's been a 9 months since the war has ended. The space and the earth are almost done reconstructing by the use of advance technology. Every one has already started living a normal life but still carry on with them the scars of the war. One of them is the crimson-haired girl lying on the hospital's bed pretending to be asleep. The sound of the metallic door being opened echoed the room.
A brown-haired guy stepped in and walked beside the bed and placed the basket full of fruits and the bouquets of roses on top of the side table.
"Fllay…" he sighed. "There's no need for you to pretend. I heard from the nurse that you refuse to eat your meals and drink your medicines."
"…"
He continued, "If this goes on, Fllay. Your condition will get worse."
He held her cold hands but she slips it away and sat on her bed facing the window.
"Who cares?"
"I do," he replied.
She said emotionlessly, "Really? You only care about Lacus and not me."
"It's not true, Fllay!" he exclaimed.
They paused when the metallic door slid opened and a nurse entered the room with a tray of a glass of water plus Fllay's medicines.
She shyly said, "um…excuse me if I interrupted you both. Ms. Allster, its time for you to drink your medicines."
"No." she said sternly.
"Ms. Allster!" the nurse exclaimed." Dr. Hayden, recommended you to drink these medicines and you must follow."
"She's right, fllay." Kira agreed.
Fllay gave a deep sigh. She stood up, walked 3 steps towards the nurse with closed eyes, and roughly whacked the tray with the medicines and the glass of water against the metallic wall, startling Kira and the nurse.
"Fllay!" Kira bawled. "Why did you do that!"
The broken glass pieces and the almost-melted tablets were picked up by the nurse and went out of the room. She just looked at him with a painful remark in her gray eyes. She tried to avoid his purple eyes by turning her back at him without apologizing. She climbed up on her bed and covered her legs with the blanket, leaning onto her huge pillow. She looked out of her window gazing intently at the blue sky of the neutral planet of the Plants.
"Kira…" she softly called.
"Huh…what is it, Fllay?"
"An apple…I want to eat an apple…" She continued, "Peel an apple for me…please" with a small smile on her lips.
"Sure." He smiled back.
He grabbed an apple in the basket, washed it before he peeled it and sliced it into four. She stares at his face with a soft smile on her pale lips. After he had finished, he placed it beside Fllay's thigh.
"…thanks…" she took a slice by a fork and stood up walking towards the glassed window, letting the blanket fall, exposing her flawless legs.
"Thank you!" she abruptly faced him. "I'm so glad that you came to visit me. Even though I've caused you so much trouble. I'm sorry."
He shyly smiled scratching his cheek with his index finger and said, "Ah…that's okay with me."
Tears of joy and sadness overflowed her eyes. Suddenly, she felt pain in her chest and clenched her fist tightly onto it. Then, she started coughing.
"FLLAY!" Kira screamed worriedly and rushed beside her. "Fllay, get a hold of yourself! I'll just call the nurse. I'll be right back!"
The metallic door opened, and closed after he ran out of the room calling the nurses attentions. Back in Fllay's room, she was coughing severely and fell on her knees then enormous droplets of blood drips on the cold floor. The metallic door slid open and came dashing in Kira and the doctor followed by 4 nurses. Into their shock, Fllay has already collapsed on the cold floor breathing heavily.
"FLLAAAY!"