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Anime / Manga © by Higuchi Tachibana
Fanfiction story plot © by MiaHitomi
► A Great Way To Care ◄
► Prologue ◄
Inspired song : "Love With No Regrets" : Raymond Lam
I was from a poor family. Many had tried to court me and the moment they knew about my background, they stay away from me and we would break up the next day. Life was so ironic. My life at least. I'm only nineteen and I'm working in the biggest hospital in Tokyo, Japan. Before you jump into conclusions, I am no doctor. I'm a nurse and I have many great friends that didn't care about my family background. I'm still schooling in college. Being a nurse is something like a part time job for me to earn my allowance and to buy medicines for my alcoholic mother. After about five to six people that tried to ask me out and ended breaking up the following day, I kind of gave up on dates and love and stuff or anything along those lines. Somehow though, I have a slight crush towards one of the doctors working here, Doctor Hyuuga. All the nurse here swoons over him. Not only the nurses, the female doctors too. Once, I saw Doctor Koizumi - the best psychiatrist doctor in town - flirting with him.
One phrase – who wouldn't have a crush on a guy which looks extremely handsome? He has alluring crimson eyes, raven jet black hair and a perfect body shape with muscles – oh wait, I mean; abs! As far as everyone knows, he's still single and available. He was probably afraid of all the girls that gets around him. He started working here two years ago and gaining the female popularity didn't really push up his status. Did I mention that he's a gynaecologist doctor? Well he is. He has liking for small kids. He never smiles to anyone of us or anybody else. But every time I see him with a kid or a child, he would smile his heart-breaking smile. He jokes with them and those sorts. Whereas, when he's having a meeting or drinking coffee or walking out of the office, he has this frown that would be stuck on his face. I'm probably blushing when I say this but I wish to be the girl that could make him smile to everyone – not only to young children or babies, but to everyone that he knows and meets.
Anyway, done with the ogling towards Sir Hyuuga. I have friends too. Hotaru Imai, she's a doctor as well, a psychologist and we call her Doctor Imai. She's the only one in the group of girls which doesn't have a tinge of liking towards Doctor Hyuuga. She finds him very arrogant and intimidating. Whenever Anna, Nonoko and I start talking about Doctor Hyuuga, she rolls her eyes and walks back to her office room. In short, she doesn't like Doctor Hyuuga at all. But if she does, her boyfriend would be really jealous. Her boyfriend happens to be our friend as well. He's a doctor, Doctor Nogi. Full name is Ruka Nogi. He's a veterinarian and also Doctor Hyuuga's best friend since elementary! That long! They even worked in the same hospital. He's one lucky and a nice guy and Hotaru must be real happy to have him as her boyfriend though she never shows it around.
Nonoko Ogasawara, Anna Umenomiya and I are just nurses working here; like me. They have their darlings whereas I was the only lone ranger which remains single? Once in a while, I catch them making out just right outside the lavatories and I have to fake up a cough so I could enter the toilets without the urge to throw up. Sometimes, I never really understood the need of having a love of my life. I understand about having a crush like how I feel towards Doctor Hyuuga but it's not like I planned to marry him or something. It was probably because I had failed numerously in love games. Maybe I should consider myself as an unlucky girl.
Reasons, I don't have a permanent boyfriend. My dad passed away when I was only three. My mom, as you know, is an alcoholic, I have no siblings, my friends are doctors or from am averagely rich family and I don't even have a car to drive from home to work or to college with the amount of money I get as my pay. My house is forty-five minutes away from the hospital and every time I reach home, it's almost eight and it's already very dark. I've met all type of people, thieves included. But thankfully enough, no rapist. My house looks like a jungle full of trees. It used to be really beautiful when I was younger. Now it's like living in a jungle or a forest. So much for going green, huh? The trees are huge and tall that it blocked all the sunlight possible. The gate to my house was lose and rusty and can't be used for safety reasons any more. There were cracks on the walls of my house. If the exterior was bad, the inside was worse.
The only thing I loved inside the house was my own bedroom which I maintained neatly. The living room was scattered with broken glasses, wine bottles and plates strewn everywhere. It was much worse living here than living in a farm house or a barn. I rather live with a dog in it's kennel than live here. My mother was at her chair holding a bottle of wine with a glass full of the red liquid. My mother used to be really beautiful especially with the smile on her face. But now, she looks like she had been punched constantly in the face every single day. It hurts me to see her this way. I told her once, but I wasn't sure whether she remembered it – that I would get married to a rich man that loves me. Sadly, until now, I had never met anyone with that qualifications – a good man and one that cares for his family.
You might be thinking how I paid for my college and tuition fees. Actually, I had to borrow money from Hotaru. It didn't feel nice but I had no other choice. She said that she didn't mind paying for me, but I insisted on paying her back every time I get my pay by installments. Life was pretty hard for me but I went through it. I have to wake up everyday at four in the morning to prepare breakfast and lunch for myself and my mother, dress up and go to college for classes. After class, I would walk to the hospital and work until seven. When I get home, I would need to cook dinner for the both of us again and I would study until one in the morning. Yes, I have lack of sleep and usually, I would get sleepy in class and get scolding by my teacher especially Jinno.
The students at college always kept their distance from me. Some were worse, they bullied me. I used to be offended and sad, but I'm used to it now. I only have one friend at college and that's Nobara. She's really sweet and she's the only girl that would sit with me during breaks.
Well then, I guess that this is my life as Sakura Mikan.