TO MAKE YOU REMEMBER
"Mi-chan!" she shouted as she ran throughout the field. "Why don't you chase me?" she teased as she stuck out her tongue.
I sighed. "I have no time for this."
"Does that mean you cannot chase me?" she teased as she skipped around. "Mikagami Tokiya is scared!"
"Stop that!" I retorted darkly.
"Seriously, you wanna die?" she threatened, showing her fist.
I was not threatened at her. However, I stood up and plastered as smile on my face. "Prepare for me now!"
"That's so un-Tokiya like!" she shouted as she started to run. She noticed that I ran slower than the usual way. She frowned and said, "Why aren't you running?"
To please the princess, I started to run and I caught up with her. I held her and started to spin her around. "Stop it!" she laughed. "I'm getting dizzy right now!"
We stopped spinning and dizzyingly lied on the grass. I kissed her gently. After we broke off, she smiled, stood up again, and told me to start the game once again.
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After playing in the field, we decided to have dinner. I was getting giddy at that time but I have to, or he'll notice.
"You know, Fuuko," Mi-chan said, as he eyed my trembling hands. "You look pale today. What happened?"
I looked shocked at his observation. "Do I – do I really?" I asked, pretending to be bemused.
"No joke," he added seriously.
I stood up without a word and went to the ladies room. Looking at the mirror, I saw how pale my face was. Scary, I thought. Anyone would notice how eerie my face looked.
Trying to figure out what to do, I got my make-up kit from the bag and started to apply it on my face to make my face back to its normal color.
"So, what do I look like?" I asked him merrily, turning around.
He looked at me seriously for a while and said, "Alluring, still." We talked for a while then he suddenly said, "Aren't you feeling well?"
Well, I thought he wouldn't notice. "Well?" I asked slowly. "I'm brilliant!"
"Fuuko," he said in a bossy tone. "I have to take you home now."
"Well, why?" I asked him, clearly reluctant on the act. If he will discover something about it, I better make it hard for him. "I'm fine! I'm telling you that," I assured.
"Well, we still have to go home. I'm tired," he reasoned.
I sighed and followed him. Was he getting suspicious?
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The next day, I decided to visit her office. She was not there. "I think I'll just wait here," I told her secretary.
"I'll just inform her about this, sir," she replied, closing the door behind me.
I paced around the room and seated by the bookshelf. Eventually, I started picking up on books. However, I saw something interesting at the back…
It carried the logo of the hospital where I work.
"Mi-chan?" a voice excitedly said. I jammed the thing inside my bag and resumed my original position. "You're here!" she beamed.
I did nothing but smile to hide my fault. She didn't even seem to notice.
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It was night. I thought deeply inside my room. What was wrong with her? I started to pace the room. I have to know everything about this. I stared at the file for a long time. Was it fraud? Surely, Fuuko won't hide it from me. it was quite understandable, but my heart doesn't understand it. It doesn't want to understand and admit it. I still have to prove it if it was really true.
I finally decided to enter her private life and try to track evidence. Creeping inside, I saw her sleeping peacefully. "I'm sorry," I whispered by her side before standing up and looking inside her bag.
I tried to search in the darkness and immediately found what I was looking for: a bottle of medicine. Without looking at it, I sped out of the room and went inside mine.
This is so weird. What is this bottle of strong medicine doing inside her bag? I turned it over and over again. This is not my specialty but I know what this medicine is for. The purse where I found the bottle was quite empty except for a piece of paper. I read the paper and saw what I needed to see.
The next morning, I went to a friend, Dr. Nidori Michiko. She's a veteran in terms of this and her name was the one that I found on the prescription.
"Come in," she said, after I knocked on her door. She looked up from her file-work and said, "Dr. Mikagami, what brings you here?"
"I want to ask about a patient," I started straightforwardly.
She stood up and chuckled. "I have about a thousand patients every clinic day!"
"Particularly, a patient named Kirisawa Fuuko."
She stopped at that and looked at me. "What about her?" she asked with a raised eyebrow.
"So, you knew her."
"Dr. Mikagami, being a doctor is not an excuse to go inside the confidential records of a certain patient," she reminded smartly. "Certainly, you know that."
"I know," I replied, my head bowed. Should I tell her my connection with her patient?
"Then give me a valid reason why would I tell you about her."
I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. "Okay," I said, giving up. "I am Fuuko's boyfriend."
She turned her head sideways. "Boyfriend? I didn't expect that. Anyway," she started, while looking at her files, "her family became my patient," she said matter-of-factly.
"Her family?" I asked. "What do you mean?"
She looked at me seriously. "Yes, my dear. Actually, her brother was my patient."
"Fuuko doesn't have a brother," I told her.
"She has, I mean, she had," she reasoned, looking at me like a kid who is completely innocent about everything. "Her brother died of cancer.
"It all goes through the blood. It has been in the genes. After diagnosing of her brother of the illness, I decided to try and check-up on the girl. Unfortunately, she had the same sickness. I totally knew everything about that. I checked about three times but everything's the same.
"I told her mother about what I've discovered and she begged that I should keep it as a secret. It was enough for a son to know of his sickness. It will be very depressing to tell Fuuko about this. She will lose all of the hope to live."
"Then, why did she go to you after this?" I asked.
"Curiosity," she sighed. "She knew that I was the doctor of her brother so she went to me and asked me about herself. Maybe she noticed that she carried the symptoms same as her brother's. However, it was all true. She has it." She sighed dramatically and shook her head.
I stood up and turned to go. "I'm going," I bade her.
"Of course," she said. I was walking towards the door but she stopped me. "Mikagami," she started.
"Dr. Nidori?"
"I often remember her childhood very well and she told me one thing, 'When I grow up, I want to find someone who will love me with all his life.' That's what she told me," she simply shrugged. "You know what to do. Do you really think that you are the one?"
I nodded at her, determined to give her what she really wished for.
"When I grow up, I want to find someone who will love me with all his life." Am I the one she is looking for? Should I prove myself that I am the one she is looking for?
Hmm… I think we're getting too far from the topic title. Anyway, I think that was better, don't you think?
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