Two – Sick
Gou is brushing her hair out in the mirror when she sees Nagisa's sleeping form shift behind her. She's all dressed and ready to go for work. After all this time, she still wears her hair in that signature ponytail.
"Gou?" he asks, rubbing the sleep from his eyes. Without even a simple glance you'd be able to tell that he was sick. And right on cue, he sneezes.
"Do you want some breakfast before I leave?" she turns around and sets the hairbrush on the dresser.
He nods, reaching for a tissue to blow his nose. "Not a lot, though," he throws the tissue on the floor and lays back down, groaning.
She sighs at how messy he can be sometimes, but she lets him go since he seems so miserable.
When she leaves their room, one of their children is already sitting at the kitchen table, staring down at a rather large packet.
"Did you not do your homework again?"
"I forgot about it!" she says in a panicky voice, looking at her mother.
Gou tsks, but smiles. "You still have time before you need to leave. Get it finished, okay? Teachers don't like having to wait on one student." She begins to pull out ingredients for a simple breakfast while she talks. Toast with jam and some sunny side up eggs will do.
She hears a small voice when she's putting the bread in the toaster. "Mom."
"Hm?" she turns around to see her son yawning, still wrapped up in his bed sheets. He's the spitting image on Nagisa.
"I think I caught dad's cold," he mumbles, leaning again the door's frame and closing his eyes.
He does look paler than usual, Gou notices. "You can take the day off from school, then. Go back to bed."
He nods. "Can I still have some toast?"
"Of course."
It's about five at night when Gou gets home. After work she'd had a meeting, which had gone much longer than planned. Nagisa was up and around making dinner.
She purses her lips, "You're going to get the rest of us sick, too."
"I washed my hands!" he puts his hands up as a surrender before going back to cooking.
"So you're feeling better then?"
He grins and nods. "Much better!"
The next morning, Gou rolls over in their bed to look at him.
"Nagisa."
"Hm?"
"You got me sick!" she weakly throws one of her pillows at him.
"I'm sorry!" he laughs, dodging the pillow. "Do you want me to make you some soup? I still have a few hours before I have to go to work."
She sinks back into the covers. "That sounds nice. Thank you."
"Mhm!" he smiles and kisses her forehead, then leaves the room.
I don't have names for their kids yet. But they are twins! I know that much. I'm still trying to figure things out with their family. Like the twins might have an older brother and a younger sister or something I don't know yet. Gou is an elementary school teacher, but I'm not sure what Nagisa does.
I didn't really have a plan for this prompt. It sort of happened when I went to write a prompt about them in college. So I'll have to write the college one another time.
I hope you guys liked it!