Chapter 2: Waking up…and a new family

Notes: Well…quick isn't it?! I was so bored at home (exams just finished and my birthday is tomorrow, 10th April. Kami-sama must be happy enough to get me a day off! Arigatou!) Hope you'll enjoy it! ^^

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"Andy! Wake up now! You're going to be late for school if you don't hurry up!" A lady's voice called from the bottom of the stairs.

From upstairs, a sound was heard like something was hurled onto the wall in reply. The lady smiled and walked up towards the room where the young boy slept. "I'm going in! Whether you like it or not!" She called out as she opened the door. Just in time, she dodged a flying pillow in her direction. She quickly scooped up the pillow and walked towards the bed where a figure was clearly seen shaking beneath all those sheets.

"Not again…" She thought worriedly as she gave hug the shivering body.

"Now…you must have been having those nightmares again, about…your parents…isn't it?"

"Father…mother…they died again!!! Again and again!!!!! Doushite?! Once is enough! Doushite!!!!???" The boy cried out between sobs. The lady hugged the boy even tighter than before. Tears was seen rolling down her pale cheeks…

"That was the same…it's been 2 years already and he haven't got over it…nightmares almost every night, as his guardian now…I really failed his dead parents!" She nearly wanted to shout it our loud, but knowing that it would make the boy feel even more worse than ever, she could only recount all those memories in her mind…

"Are you really sure that you can take care of him Sayuri?! After all, he's only a 9 year old boy whose parents just died!"

"…I…I would want to take care of him. He's already so young when he lost his parents, and now what?! His memory?! He really needs someone to take care of him, to listen to all his problems and to love him! Ever since I saw him collapsed on his mother's body and his cries for her to wake up…I felt that he was also just like me…"

"So? If we give you the chance, would you really swear that you'll take good care of the boy and be his guardian?"

"I, Nurse Sayuri Tanaka, vow that I'll take care of Andy Won and love him until the day I died…just like his mother…I'll fulfil her wish of not seeing Andy cry anymore…"

Thinking so, she pulled off the bed sheets, revealing an 11-year-old boy curled up in a foetus position. Tears were flowing freely from his eyes and he was trying his best to stop them. Sayuri looked at the boy and gave him a slap across his tear-stained face.

"Look here! You heard what your mother said before! She told you not to cry!!!!! You won't follow her wishes just before she went to Heaven!? That was very unlikely of you Andy Won!" Sayuri choked out the words, glaring at the surprised face in front of her. She continued in a whisper "I vowed to take care of you…try to let you forget about all the misery you faced in that day and just accept what fate have given you…and what would fate install for you. So please Andy…try not to dwell on the past anymore and get all wrapped up in it…you should get on with your life…remember what your mother said? 'You'll become a great person someday…' and I believed her. Show me that she's right…"

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I gave a small sign as I remember Sayuri oneechan's advice…I remember that the reply that I gave her was only a smile and got up to get ready for school, and that really made her back into her cheerful self again. I could never forget those tears on her face. Those were the first ever tears I saw since I woke up from my coma. They were tears of happiness and sadness, happy that I was still living and sad that I did not intend to carry on living with my life. She would always be there for me…to support me in whatever I do, to take care of me and listen to my sorrows. To love me…

Arigatou, Sayuri-neechan…

~ End of chapter 2 ~

Notes: I can't believe that I'm writing a sad fic…*still sobbing from writing all those sad stuff* Please review!!!!!