I'm sorry this is so late! I had issues with my computer and a splitting headache that wouldn't go away no matter what I took. Sooo two chapters in one day! Horrah!
Day Four: Hospital Visits
"Boo-yah! I totally got you, Aaron!"
"No fair, you cheated!" Aaron frowned, setting the controller on his lap.
"Nope, it was fair and square shooting." Taylor laughed. "And I won with my superior skills."
"Bullying a child, are you that bored, Taylor?"
Taylor's face immediately brightened. "Saguru!" She cried out in excitement, turning in her wheelchair. "You're here!"
"Of course," He leaned down to kiss her forehead. "How are you feeling?"
"A bit tired. You know, the doctor said that it's severe enough I might get to walk with a cane for awhile if my legs don't heal properly while I'm on crutches. Isn't that cool?" Taylor's grin increased.
"I suppose- but I doubt that you would want to be crippled for any longer than you have to. You're already getting antsy being cooped up here for so long." He pointed out.
Taylor gave him a look. "I know the seriousness of the situation, Saguru. Just play along, please?"
He sighed. "Canes are pretty cool. You can look pretty sophisticated with one."
Taylor grinned again, obviously wanting to point something out and finally getting the chance to say it to him. "Plus, you know, cane guns."
"You're not getting a cane gun." Saguru shot down immediately, back in business mode. She pouted and he placed an arm on either shoulder. "So it's not permanent?"
"No, it'll just take forever to heal." Taylor sighed again and leaned back. "Which will be a pain trying to get around school."
Taylor was part of a major car accident on the highway. She was just trying to get on her way back into town after shopping for birthdays when a car from the opposite lane swerved and crashed through the middle grass area and into her. The car was hit in the back, fortunately, but it still sent her spinning and crashing into another car, which in turn was hit by another car. The highway entering Ekoda was shut down into one single lane.
Saguru thought his heart stopped when he heard about the accident. He rushed to the hospital and waited impatiently until he could see her, and then was forced to wait even longer as she was unconscious for days on end. He made many promises to her that he swore to keep if she woke up. Seeing her everyday was one of them, and that was exactly what he did, even when she was unconscious.
But now she was okay and mostly healed and willing to change the conversation. "I'm playing Aaron here in Mario Kart- he's convinced I'm cheating because I keep hitting him with green shells."
"Just accept your loss, kid." He said, looking at the young boy. He seemed to be about ten or eleven. "She always manages to do that. The most you can do is lay down a bunch of bananas, she'll always hit them."
Taylor gasped and lightly hit his arm. "Don't tell him that! I might not get first place now!"
"Good," Aaron grumbled. "Then I'll get it."
"That's exactly the point! I'm gonna get first place as long as you don't get any more hints from my dear boyfriend." She shot Saguru a glare.
"If you've managed so well so far then you should be fine."
"Except we just started."
"We're playing all of the levels," Aaron said, coughing slightly. "We just finished playing Rainbow Road. You wanna join?"
"I would rather sit and watch for now." Saguru said. He lifted up some packets. "I have some work that needs to be done anyway."
"Mmkay. Ooh, look, it's the treetop level!" Taylor exclaimed. "You know the secret passage in the tree?"
"Duh." There wasn't really a conversation between the two of them, only cheers and arguments whenever one got ahead of the other.
Taylor, however, felt that Saguru was being left out and didn't want that, even though he was fine without conversation. "Whatcha do all day, Saguru?"
"I solved a murder at the mansion on King Street. The master of the house died by poisoning." He replied, flipping through his documents. "The killer was-,"
"The butler?" He looked up and she motioned to Aaron with a grin. "Did the butler do it?"
"No, the daughter did." Aaron groaned and Taylor laughed.
"Get used to disappointments, kiddo. And you," She glanced at him. "You solved it kinda fast, don't ya think? You might have made a mistake."
"She confessed- and even if that was fake I know the rest of the evidence wasn't. It was an easy case." Taylor fell off of the tree. It really was an easy case, ensuring that he would finish it fast enough to make visiting hours. The universe seemed to be on his side. He nearly laughed. If that sort of thing was real. "Did you get your homework done?"
"If I don't have to turn it in right away then I'm not going to do it." Taylor said, biting her lip as she concentrated on the game. Saguru sighed and took her controller, pausing the game. "Hey!"
"Aaron, you win by default." He set the controller down as Aaron cheered and Taylor objected. "Taylor, you have work to do."
"What? No! I don't wanna!" Taylor pouted. "Why can't I just stay here and play video games?"
"I don't think your college professors would take very kindly to that," Saguru said. "So you need to do your homework."
"Homework is boring."
"All you have to do yet is read a book. You got the rest of your homework done." Because of me, he thought.
"Yes, but a really bad book." She sat up confidently. "When I'm a teacher I won't make my students read really bad books."
"You need to do your homework if you want to go through with your plans."
Taylor leaned her head back to stare at him. "Well, maybe if I have some motivation I can get into the mood to work."
"That's how it tends to work, yes."
"But not just any motivation- like, a kiss motivation."
"I don't think a kiss will get you motivated. In fact, it'll just probably get you distracted even more."
"Aw, you don't know that!" He pushed her into the room and helped her into bed.
"Yes, I do. That's exactly what happened last time I kissed you before you started to work- which was three days and thirteen hours ago." He pointed out. She groaned and leaned back into her pillows, extending her hand.
"Fine- gimme the damned book." She took it from him with false anger and flipped eight pages to where she previously was. Saguru picked up his work and was right about to sit down to work again when he paused.
"Taylor?"
"Hm?" He kissed her, soft and sweet and tasting like tea. She flushed and he pulled away.
"Get better soon." She nodded furiously and looked back down at her book, unable to concentrate on the words. "And I told you so."
She threw the book down onto the bed and he laughed.
Cane guns are the coolest thing to ever exist, besides for hidden rooms and underground pools you can look into from the basement.
I would love to have a guy like Saguru making sure I can do my work on time. Maybe I'll finally get my work done on time and get everything done with my life that I wanted to get done. Scientists need to get stuff done on time.
