I was in the kitchen preparing lunch, when I heard him coughing in the bedroom, I was absent-mindedly humming, but I stopped when I heard him coughing like that. I put down the plate and walked to the door, my hand poised at the door knob. Then I heard it again, he really got a bad cold there. I opened the door, trying to ignore the prone figure on the bed, headed to the bathroom and closed the door. I slumped on the toilet seat, damn it, Eiri, why can't you show feelings for once! I shouted at myself, my hands over my face, I was really worried about the boy, but I don't want him to know what I feel. I let out a sigh, and tried to compose myself. I got up and walked out of the bathroom, in time to see him, sit up to control his coughing, he needed to sit up to cough. I forgot what I was planning to do and rush to him.
"Are you alright, brat?" I asked, feeling his forehead, and holding his clammy hands. It took him awhile to answer me, he was coughing so hard, he's got a slight fever. He smiled weakly at first when he looked at me.
"I'm okay, Yuki, I just caught the bug, I guess." Shuichi replied, squeezing my hand.
"Lunch is ready, you want me to bring it here or you're gonna eat with me outside?" I asked, lightly, really wanting to take him to the hospital now.
He shook his head, "No, I want to eat with you." He said, and got up, I stood up and waited for him, when he stood up beside me, he slumped and I caught him right on time, "Shuichi!" Grabbing him, as he collapsed in front of me.
I grabbed the phone and dialed for an ambulance, you're going to the hospital, brat, flu or not. I decided, wiping his face with my hand, kissing him and holding him close in my arms.
I waited for the doctor outside his room, I was so anxious, and couldn't even smoke, I rag on Tohma for driving the boy to exhaustion with all these publicities and tapings. "If something happens to him, Tohma, you're gonna answer to me." I told him on the phone. The doctor was taking so long, if it's just flu, Shuichi would be up and we would be out of there in no time, and get on with our private Christmas party.
Finally the doctor, went out of the room, "How is he, doctor?" I asked. "Are you family?" he asked, looking at me, I want to smack him right then and there.
"Am his lover, is Shuichi alright?" I replied, trying to control my anger. The doctor's face didn't change.
"You need to get his family here, I need to talk to them." The doctor said, not even sympathetic at all.
I clenched and unclenched my knuckles, before I say something that would hinder me from getting the truth out of this prick. "Look, doctor, we're both tired, its Christmas eve, I know you've got a family to come home to, but right now, I'm his family, either you're gonna tell me now what's wrong with him or am gonna make you work until New Year's Eve and make you beg me for mercy." I said, my face inches away from him.
The doctor cringed at the site of those eyes, those are not kind eyes, those eyes are cold.
"I-It's- pneumonia but I want to keep him here for a couple of days. There's an epidemic of pneumonia that's why I want to observe him for awhile. If you can inform his family." The doctor said, shaking.
"Thank you, doctor, there, that wasn't so hard, wasn't it? Merry Christmas to you, don't worry about his family, I am his family, doctor." I said, and walked in the room, leaving the doctor running to the hallway.