Title: Solicitude
Pairing: Aizawa/Shiraishi
Summary: Shiraishi Megumi was very satisfied with her life and her childhood best-friend played a great deal in it. She could live like this forever, or so she thought.
Notes: A highschool!AU in which our favorite doctors were next-door neighbors and childhood friends.
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Shiraishi Megumi was tired, all the homework and the extra lessons took all her energy. She could very much use a can of coffee, but she had her share of the day on lunch so she couldn't get more (her mother's ridiculous rule, for a high-schooler she thought it was). Her best alternative to it was her cozy bed, but she needed to work on her other piles of work (that was due like, 1 months away but she's too visionary what could she say) so she couldn't risk sleeping in her own bed for she know she'll sleep all the way through the night if she did so.
She sighed inaudibly, feeling somehow terrible. It must have been the chill, the weather was getting colder these days. She hugged herself, fastening the pace of her steps heading towards her home.
Before she entered her house's terrace (she had even opened the fence) an idea popped up in her brain and she decided to go to the house next to hers. She opened the gate without ringing the bell with a playful expression on her face, getting in as if it was her own home. Her shoes went right in the vacant space on the shoe rack (she'd like to think was specially prepared for her) as she entered the home.
A smell of sizzling hot curry hit her nostrils and she absent-mindedly walked towards the kitchen. She found an elderly woman cooking dinner in peace she didn't want to disturb her but she needed to, such a pity. "Kinue-baa-chan," Megumi called her softly and nod her head courteously.
"Ah! Megumi, you're here! He's upstairs, as usual, would you like some dinner?" The elder gleefully welcomed the teen, her face lightened up at her.
"I'm alright Baa-chan, I don't want to trouble you! I'll be heading up then." She went up the stairs, heading towards her childhood best-friend's room, slightly excited.
She opened the door to his room without knocking it first for she knew he wouldn't mind. As she entered the room casually, she put her bag next to his on a corner near the door and plopped down on the bed. The owner of the room didn't even turn his head to acknowledge her as he was immersed in writing something on his desk, right across the door.
Megumi took off her uniform blazer, hung it on a hook on the back of the door with his neatly hung uniform. She was getting her perfectly tucked-in uniform shirt out as it kind of stuffed her and she reached out to her back inside her blouse, unclasping her bra when the owner of the room finally broke the silence, "So why are you here today?" in a nonchalant intonation.
"I think I need a coffee-nap but sadly the coffee part was already done at lunch so now Iet me sleep and wake me up exactly 20 minutes after this," she replied as she get up and opened a small drawer next-to his cupboard, taking out a shorts for her to slip into.
As she was slipping the shorts unto her legs, she absent-mindedly wondered to herself, "Why am I so tired today, even when the workload was very much the same as every other day?" and she sighed, one the boy could hear before she settled herself comfortably in his bed. She fell asleep right then as fatigue took over her completely and missed the moment when the owner of the room finally turned around to face her just to find her already fast asleep.
Aizawa Kosaku would be lying to himself if he didn't admit he's quite, if not, just slightly, bored. He's been studying on his own after school in his room, not in some private institution or the likes of it because he knew he didn't need it and he was not going to trouble his grandma more than he's already done. Some sort of distraction for him to take a breather would be very much appreciated but he didn't know what to do so he just continued on reading the textbooks and doing the homeworks, the things normal high-school students would hate to the core. But he's not really a normal guy so he did those things in favor of other meaningless activity.
Half an hour after he kind-of admitted he needed a breather, he noticed a movement in his terrace through his windows just right in front of him. When he noticed what was happening, he couldn't help but smirked to himself (just enough for anybody else seeing it to went berserk and throw a party because he never have any other expression other than his stoic glare, really). His mood lighten up considerably and he continued on doing the chemistry problems in front of him with much more concentration than before.
As he did his works, he also counted the minutes of her arrival in his mind. Any seconds now, he thought and just right then the door of his room was opened by the girl. The sound of her movements gave him a sense of tranquility he didn't know he needed. He knew better than to face her immediately though because she would certainly did things a normal grown, high-school girl wouldn't do in front of any boys but what could he say, she didn't think of him as a boy. He's just Kou-chan, her best-friend who's been with her since they're in diapers.
He decided to nonchalantly talk to her as she did all what she needed to, breaking the silence between them. When he knew he was going to be her personal alarm yet again, he could only chuckle inaudibly in amusement to himself, his back still facing her. After she rambled on how tired she was that day, he took notice of the date on his hanging calendar plastered on the walls. He finally turned around to face her properly with his hands crossed in front of his chest and was going to tell her that as a matter of fact her monthly visitor would be coming very soon but when he saw that she already fell asleep, he went back and continue studying, completely absorbed in what he was doing. But he didn't forget to wake her up exactly 20 minutes after he saw her sleeping (and somehow secretly took great entertainment from doing it).
6th Grade, Summer Vacation
The hot summer air sucked. More so that he hadn't met her for a few days. He thought he finally need some other people to tolerate and play with. He totally didn't know what he did wrong but apparently Shiraishi Megumi decided she's had enough of his antics and left him on his own in the playground two days ago and ever since, they hadn't talked to each other.
Aizawa Kosaku was lying flat on his stomach in his living room, fanning himself to get rid of the heat. He sweat even when he practically did nothing, and the ominous feeling he's experiencing annoyed himself even more. He had thought of going next door to find her but he's also had enough of always apologizing first when he didn't even do anything too wrong.
He glanced at the calendar on the wall and sighed. It was barely the start of their summer vacation and if this went on, he supposed he'd have to learn to enjoy the holiday without her presence. He knew he could. Or so he thought.
In the two days he hadn't meet the girl, he didn't knew why but he had no desire of getting out of the bed. But then the room reminded him too much of her (and her absence) so he would resort to occupy his living room, like what he was doing right then.
His grandmother was in the kitchen, cutting some watermelon for them to eat. She must've sensed his distress, and she had enough of her grandson being more sulky than ever, only occupying the living room at day, doing nothing else.
"Kosaku, why aren't you meeting with Megumi these past few days?" she finally broke the silence. She waited for his answer and finally finished cutting the fruit and took it to the living room for them to eat together.
"I could live without her," he rolled his eyes, his grip on the paper fan tighten considerably.
"Sure, here, eat this," his grandmother shook her head disapprovingly, knew that he's delusioning himself. She offered the watermelon to him, and he took one and stuffed himself with it, trying to prove his grandmother he's saying the truth. Suddenly, they heard a shocking loud slam from outside the house. Kosaku jolted up instantly in alarm as he saw Megumi emerged from the front door, breathing heavily as if she'd just run a marathon. She probably just ran from her bedroom to here non-stop but the summer heat just made it worse.
Bending down on her knees, she calmed herself before she approached the grandmother and grandson. As she went closer to the living room, she could see Kosaku's enlarged eyes following her every movement, confusion clear in his eyes. She sat down next to him, flustered face came face to face with his bewildered one.
"I'm sorry for being rude, leaving you just like that on the playground that day," she apologized to him straight away, not wasting any second.
"It was all my hormones, really! It's just that my first period came," she sheepishly told him, and he didn't know what to make of the information. It's as if his brain stopped working for a moment, all of the information told was too much to handle. His grandmother was better at handling the news though, and he's kind of thankful for that.
"Ah! You're finally a woman, Megumi!" She remarked pridefully, smiled at the young girl, and pat her shoulder softly. Megumi could only nod and smiled back at her, and as she suddenly remembered she had uncharacteristically slammed the door, she frantically apologized to them with shock and horror plastered on her face.
After what felt like an eternity, his brain finally decided on processing the information. What left his mouth then surprised the three of them though, "Do you want...some ice cream?"
Notes: So this has been sitting on my draft for more than six months as I was planning for it to be a very long one-shot but then I think to make this chaptered would also be alright hence why I'm posting this now. To readers anticipating my other stories (*cough* Four Seasons *cough*) please be patient with me as I'm in my last weeks for my thesis defense preparation, after that I'll definitely complete it ASAP. In the meantime, do leave reviews! Favorites and Follows are highly appreciated too!
I really can't wait for the movie!
