Disclaimer: Same as the other chapters. I'm too lazy to repeat it, sorry.
My thanks to Fuu-Clover for pointing out my mistake in chapter one. Thanks, I'll keep that in mind, even though it's too late to renew that mistake. I'll have to continue it that way then. I'll try making the chapters longer.*sigh*, I'll do my best since time seems to be against me right now.
A Wilting Nadeshiko Chapter 3: A Horrible Discussion
Nadeshiko went over to the kitchen to take the boiling teakettle off the stove. She walked over to Sonomi at the table and poured the tea.
"How much sugar would you like?"
"That's fine, I'll do it myself."
Nadeshiko put the teakettle aside and sat across from Sonomi and was puzzled at the suspicious expression she was giving her. "What's wrong?"
"Oh, so he didn't tell you?"
"Who didn't tell me what?"
"Nadeshiko, the main reason why I came here is because Fujitaka told me that there was something important you had to tell me," Sonomi said nicely, but firmly.
Nadeshiko looked down, thinking, "Why did Fujitaka do that? Hmm.He must have thought that it was for the best. Oh, I hope she could forgive me for not telling her sooner. Here goes."
*Sonomi's POV*
"Something must be really wrong to make Nadeshiko this worried. Ooh, I swear, if Sensei [I think that's how she refers to Fujitaka, I dunno, I heard her say it in the second movie -_-"] had anything to do with this, he will regret even dating Nadeshiko!"
*End of POV*
"Umm.well, there is something I have to tell you."
"What is it?"
".."
"Oh for goodness sake, Nadeshiko, tell me! Honestly, if I was able to get through you marrying that.that," Sonomi was standing up, and tried to contain her anger, "that man!" she said finally, turning her head to Fujitaka in the living room, who was obviously just ignoring her, "This news surely can't be as bad. Nothing can be as bad as that!"
Despite the present situation, Nadeshiko couldn't help but sweatdrop. Sonomi's everlasting grudge against her husband was just so typical. She was so used to it, that neither she nor her husband ever took it offensively. However, the hollow feeling came back again as Sonomi sat back down and gave her the 'look'. The kind of look where her eyebrows would be raised in expectation and say something like "I am waiting; just tell me now and get it over with".
Nadeshiko tried to look at Sonomi straight in the eye, but she found herself talking to her hands instead as she said in a voice hardly above a whisper, "Well, do you remember how much I had a hard time breathing when I was a little kid?"
Sonomi's usual snobbish, annoyed look disappeared in a flash, to be replaced with a look of worry. No, even more than worry. "What is something wrong? You're sick? You should be in the hospital!"
Before Nadeshiko could say anything or stop her, Sonomi ran to the door of the kitchen and opened it, screaming into the living room, "FUJITAKA, HOW DARE YOU! YOU'RE WIFE IS SICK, SHE SHOULD BE AT THE HOSPITAL! WHEN I FINALLY ALLOWED YOU TO MARRY HER, I WAS HOPING YOU WOULD TAKE BETTER CARE OF HER THAN THIS! WHY YOU-"
Nadeshiko ran up to her and tried to drag her from the doorway. She can see the bewildered expression from her husband across the room. "It's okay," she said sheepishly, "excuse us."
"EXCUSE US? NADESHIKO, I HAVE TO TEACH YOUR HUSBAND HERE A CERTAIN LESSON! WHY IF I HAD ANY OF MY BODYGUARDS HERE I'LL ORDER THEM TO-"
"Come on! Let's just talk this over shall we?" Nadeshiko tried to calm her cousin down.
"Fine," Sonomi said through gritted teeth. She gave Fujitaka a death glare until she sat down. Nadeshiko closed the door and sat back down.
"Since when did this happen?"
"Well, you already know that I had trouble breathing ever since I could remember. But, after Sakura was born, for some reason, these attacks became more frequent. Fujitaka and I decided to get a check-up at the doctors and." "And what?"
"Well, they discovered that I have this sort of lung disease called cystic fibrosis."
"What! Why wasn't this seen before?"
"I don't know. But, now it's getting worse, and they said that..that," Nadeshiko's voice was trembling now, and tears were filling up her eyes. "That I don't have a long time to live."
Sonomi sat still at these words. Nadeshiko said it so plainly, but she still couldn't accept the truth.
*Sonomi's POV*
How could this be? Nadeshiko is dying? I always knew she isn't the strongest woman for her age, but dying?
"So you are saying that you are dying?" I heard myself say.
"Yes."
"How long have you got to live?"
"The doctors say that if I'm strong enough, I could live until the end of this month."
*End of Sonomi's POV*
"I'm really sorry for not telling you sooner."
Sonomi wasn't able to say anything.
"Um.shall we go outside?"
"Nadeshiko, you're dying! How can you take this so lightly?"
"Sonomi, there's nothing we can do. It's too late for any surgeries now. The doctors can't do anything."
Just then, the doorbell rang. Nadeshiko looked at the kitchen clock and saw that it was already a quarter past one. "Come on, let's go outside." Nadeshiko walked with Sonomi out into the living room. Sonomi's expression remained empty.
"Please, Sonomi, don't tell anyone. I want Sakura's party to be perfect, especially since." Nadeshiko wasn't able to finish the rest of her sentence. She knew that she could die anytime, even in the middle of the party. However, she forced her face to be cheerful as her husband admitted the guest into the room.
"Today has to be perfect," thought Nadeshiko, "I will not ruin this party."
Okay, so how's that for the third chapter? I hope it was more suspenseful. For the next chapter, I will be talking about the party, and I am planning to add a cliffie at the end of the next chapter.
Oh, and about the cystic fibrosis stuff, I hope that disease didn't sound so weird. My mom's a nurse and I asked her about different lung diseases. I know that the most commonly known disease is lung cancer, but Nadeshiko doesn't smoke or anything (at least I hope not), so I didn't want that. The closest for my story is cystic fibrosis. For any who is interested, my mom said that it is a sort of disease someone was born with and could make you die eventually. So, yeah, it is real and I didn't make it up.
Please review! It really means a lot to me!
My thanks to Fuu-Clover for pointing out my mistake in chapter one. Thanks, I'll keep that in mind, even though it's too late to renew that mistake. I'll have to continue it that way then. I'll try making the chapters longer.*sigh*, I'll do my best since time seems to be against me right now.
A Wilting Nadeshiko Chapter 3: A Horrible Discussion
Nadeshiko went over to the kitchen to take the boiling teakettle off the stove. She walked over to Sonomi at the table and poured the tea.
"How much sugar would you like?"
"That's fine, I'll do it myself."
Nadeshiko put the teakettle aside and sat across from Sonomi and was puzzled at the suspicious expression she was giving her. "What's wrong?"
"Oh, so he didn't tell you?"
"Who didn't tell me what?"
"Nadeshiko, the main reason why I came here is because Fujitaka told me that there was something important you had to tell me," Sonomi said nicely, but firmly.
Nadeshiko looked down, thinking, "Why did Fujitaka do that? Hmm.He must have thought that it was for the best. Oh, I hope she could forgive me for not telling her sooner. Here goes."
*Sonomi's POV*
"Something must be really wrong to make Nadeshiko this worried. Ooh, I swear, if Sensei [I think that's how she refers to Fujitaka, I dunno, I heard her say it in the second movie -_-"] had anything to do with this, he will regret even dating Nadeshiko!"
*End of POV*
"Umm.well, there is something I have to tell you."
"What is it?"
".."
"Oh for goodness sake, Nadeshiko, tell me! Honestly, if I was able to get through you marrying that.that," Sonomi was standing up, and tried to contain her anger, "that man!" she said finally, turning her head to Fujitaka in the living room, who was obviously just ignoring her, "This news surely can't be as bad. Nothing can be as bad as that!"
Despite the present situation, Nadeshiko couldn't help but sweatdrop. Sonomi's everlasting grudge against her husband was just so typical. She was so used to it, that neither she nor her husband ever took it offensively. However, the hollow feeling came back again as Sonomi sat back down and gave her the 'look'. The kind of look where her eyebrows would be raised in expectation and say something like "I am waiting; just tell me now and get it over with".
Nadeshiko tried to look at Sonomi straight in the eye, but she found herself talking to her hands instead as she said in a voice hardly above a whisper, "Well, do you remember how much I had a hard time breathing when I was a little kid?"
Sonomi's usual snobbish, annoyed look disappeared in a flash, to be replaced with a look of worry. No, even more than worry. "What is something wrong? You're sick? You should be in the hospital!"
Before Nadeshiko could say anything or stop her, Sonomi ran to the door of the kitchen and opened it, screaming into the living room, "FUJITAKA, HOW DARE YOU! YOU'RE WIFE IS SICK, SHE SHOULD BE AT THE HOSPITAL! WHEN I FINALLY ALLOWED YOU TO MARRY HER, I WAS HOPING YOU WOULD TAKE BETTER CARE OF HER THAN THIS! WHY YOU-"
Nadeshiko ran up to her and tried to drag her from the doorway. She can see the bewildered expression from her husband across the room. "It's okay," she said sheepishly, "excuse us."
"EXCUSE US? NADESHIKO, I HAVE TO TEACH YOUR HUSBAND HERE A CERTAIN LESSON! WHY IF I HAD ANY OF MY BODYGUARDS HERE I'LL ORDER THEM TO-"
"Come on! Let's just talk this over shall we?" Nadeshiko tried to calm her cousin down.
"Fine," Sonomi said through gritted teeth. She gave Fujitaka a death glare until she sat down. Nadeshiko closed the door and sat back down.
"Since when did this happen?"
"Well, you already know that I had trouble breathing ever since I could remember. But, after Sakura was born, for some reason, these attacks became more frequent. Fujitaka and I decided to get a check-up at the doctors and." "And what?"
"Well, they discovered that I have this sort of lung disease called cystic fibrosis."
"What! Why wasn't this seen before?"
"I don't know. But, now it's getting worse, and they said that..that," Nadeshiko's voice was trembling now, and tears were filling up her eyes. "That I don't have a long time to live."
Sonomi sat still at these words. Nadeshiko said it so plainly, but she still couldn't accept the truth.
*Sonomi's POV*
How could this be? Nadeshiko is dying? I always knew she isn't the strongest woman for her age, but dying?
"So you are saying that you are dying?" I heard myself say.
"Yes."
"How long have you got to live?"
"The doctors say that if I'm strong enough, I could live until the end of this month."
*End of Sonomi's POV*
"I'm really sorry for not telling you sooner."
Sonomi wasn't able to say anything.
"Um.shall we go outside?"
"Nadeshiko, you're dying! How can you take this so lightly?"
"Sonomi, there's nothing we can do. It's too late for any surgeries now. The doctors can't do anything."
Just then, the doorbell rang. Nadeshiko looked at the kitchen clock and saw that it was already a quarter past one. "Come on, let's go outside." Nadeshiko walked with Sonomi out into the living room. Sonomi's expression remained empty.
"Please, Sonomi, don't tell anyone. I want Sakura's party to be perfect, especially since." Nadeshiko wasn't able to finish the rest of her sentence. She knew that she could die anytime, even in the middle of the party. However, she forced her face to be cheerful as her husband admitted the guest into the room.
"Today has to be perfect," thought Nadeshiko, "I will not ruin this party."
Okay, so how's that for the third chapter? I hope it was more suspenseful. For the next chapter, I will be talking about the party, and I am planning to add a cliffie at the end of the next chapter.
Oh, and about the cystic fibrosis stuff, I hope that disease didn't sound so weird. My mom's a nurse and I asked her about different lung diseases. I know that the most commonly known disease is lung cancer, but Nadeshiko doesn't smoke or anything (at least I hope not), so I didn't want that. The closest for my story is cystic fibrosis. For any who is interested, my mom said that it is a sort of disease someone was born with and could make you die eventually. So, yeah, it is real and I didn't make it up.
Please review! It really means a lot to me!