I Like You, Natsume-oniisan
Chapter 29: Jab
It was Health Class againand it was the first Health lesson of the week.
Everyone knew what it meant...
It was time to receive the 'best' of all times- injection.
"No! I want to die! Someone, please kill me before that freaking needle attacks me!" Anna screamed and the girls in the changing room stared at her in terror.
"Anna-san is right. It is going to hurt us. I don't think I can stand the pain either."
"Let's escape this lesson. I don't want to be injected with big fat needles!"
"Big fat needles? Oh no! My beautiful arm is going to be punctured by it. I'm going to cry now!"
Mikan tugged her white outdoor tee shirt into her track pants and tried to comfort the girls. "Don't worry. It won't hurt. It will feel like an ant pinching your arm."
"And you will have lots of benefits," Hotaru added. "They will inject you two times. One on your left arm and the other on her right arm. I have heard from a senpai that they can help you to prevent bird flu and hepatitis."
The room was filled with shrieks, sharp screams and cries. It was so obvious that Hotaru was trying to scare their wits out of them. This was how sadistic she could be.
"Ruka-kun is so lucky! He did not come to school today! I wish I could stay at home and escape from this torture!" Nonoko winced.
Mikan frowned. Did Ruka purposely skip school just to escape from this Health lesson?
When all the girls were done, they left the changing room and headed to the infirmary. The boys were already waiting outside the infirmary for the girls to arrive. For some reason, most of the boys were extremely excited about this...
"Look at that nurse! She's cute!"
"Her skirt is so damn short! Wait, wait, wait! She's bending down! Look..."
"Perverts!" Yuka shouted and hit a boy's head. "Those nurses are crossdressers!"
The boys' jaws dropped as they looked at the nurses laying out needles and syringes on the table. Some boys covered their eyes in disbelief while others continued to stare at the pretty nurses in horror. It was like they were watching a horror scene in front of them. It was not the needles which scare them; it was actually the nurses whom they really thought were crossdressers disgusted them.
"Just kidding, folks!" Yuka laughed and patted the same boy's back hardly. "Let me give out some instructions before I allow you to go into the infirmary. I will let the boys to go in first, then the girls will be next. Only five students are allowed to enter into the infirmary. When a person walks out of the infirmary, the next person who is waiting outside will enter into the room to join the remaining four. Get it?"
The class immediately responded, "Yes, Yuka-sensei."
Five boys entered into the infirmary as instructed while the others sat on the floor outside the infirmary. After a few minutes, a boy finally stepped out of the infirmary with a huge grin plastered on his face.
"How was it?"
"It's pretty normal, guys. I felt nothing at all!" The boy laughed and walked to a side.
Slowly, the queue shortened as more boys were being injected. Just then, they heard a loud piercing scream coming from the infirmary which scared most of the girls.
"Tobita-san, calm down! Let's go outside and take a rest, okay?" Yuka's comforting voice was heard.
Yuka walked out of the room with Yuu shivering next to her. He sat down while Yuka went to get some warm water for him to drink.
Anna cried, "Even Tobita-san is knocked out by the needles! No way!"
"Come on. You are exaggerating things," Mikan whispered to Anna who was already weeping uncontrollably.
"Needles are scary!" Nonoko cried too.
"But not as scary as being stabbed by a knife or shot by a bullet," Hotaru interjected.
Suddenly, a nurse called out, "Hotaru Imai-san, Anna Umenomiya-san and Nonoko-san, please come in."
Anna and Nonoko looked at each other and cried even louder. Hotaru grabbed their arms and dragged them into the room using a lot of force as they tried to struggle to break free and run away.
"I will go first." Hotaru volunteered and looked at the two crying girls. "Stop crying. Just look at how I go through this process without fear."
Just when she said that, the nurse lifted up her right arm with a syringe in her hand and then pushed the needle into the flesh. There was no response from Hotaru at first but when Hotaru purposely made a cough sound, Anna and Nonoko were startled by it and flinched dramatically.
Hotaru lifted her left arm in front of the other nurse, allowing the nurse to sterilise a spot on her arm with alcohol. After that, she received the second jab and left the room without saying a word, leaving the traumatised Anna and Nonoko with the nurses.
"Mikan Andou, you're next."
Mikan went into the room and gulped. Though she claimed to be fine with needles, she would never forget that day when a nurse from her elementary school actually jabbed four times on the same arm using the same needle as she could not find her veins. No doubt it was painful. Having four holes on her arm was traumatising as well. It was just as good as being stabbed four times in a row on the arm.
Mikan sat down and the two nurses seemed excited to jab her with the needles. She had this weird feeling as they kept smiling at her and telling Mikan to calm down. Maybe she was just imagining things.
She felt the needle pierce through her skin and into the flesh.
Another weird thing was happening.
The tip of the needle was moving in circles under her skin.
"Ouch! What was that for?" Mikan yelled as the needle was pulled out from her bleeding arm.
"I'm sorry. I was looking for your veins. Yours are not visible at all," the nurse apologised and jabbed one more time at the different spot.
Again, the needle moved under her skin!
Mikan saw the nurse tilting the needle up and down and also made the syringe move in circles. She really saw the incompetent nurse doing it in front of her eyes! The two holes were already bleeding profusely and finally, the nurse tilted the syringe at an awkward angle and pushed the piston down.
When the needle was pulled out, the nurse used a cotton wool to clean off Mikan's blood. It was scary to see that the nurse needed two cotton wools to clean up the mess and the cotton wools were totally soaked with her blood.
Suddenly, the second needle pierced through the left arm. Luckily, the nurse pushed the piston down as soon as she jabbed her arm. After that, Mikan was told to leave the room with an apology from the two nurses. She looked at her right arm. It looked so pathetic. She wondered if she could slot two fanciful ear studs into the two holes, just like what many people would do when they went for body piercings.
Mikan slumped her back against the wall next to Hotaru and sighed heavily. The pain was worse than ant bites. Well, at least better than the one which Rei had stabbed her on her thigh.
"I could hear you yelling just now, you wimpy ninja," Hotaru teased and poked Mikan's cheeks. "I thought you aren't scared of needles."
"No, I'm not scared of those needles," she protested and showed Hotaru her right arm. "Gosh! Look at what the nurse did to me! She jabbed me twice on this poor arm of mine and she kept twisting and turning the syringe, drawing circles under my skin! You should see how much blood I lost in that few minutes!"
"Sue them," Hotaru said.
"But it's my fault that my veins are 'invisible'!"
Hotaru shook her head hopelessly and stared amusingly at Anna and Nonoko. They had not stop crying since before they even received their injections.
"Andou-san."
Mikan looked around and saw Yuka walked towards her with a few worksheets in her hand.
"Yes, Yuka-sensei?"
"Nogi-san has been sick lately and hasn't been coming to school too. As his friend, I want you to pay him a visit and hand him these worksheets," Yuka said and passed her the papers.
Mikan flipped through the papers and asked, "Wh... Why me? I don't know where he lives."
"I will give you the address later when we return back to class. Anyway, I thought you and Imai-san are good friends of him so..."
She paused and laughed sheepishly, expecting Mikan to fill in the last part of that sentence for her.
"Okay," Mikan answered and Yuka walked away to join Yuu who was still shivering.
Mikan looked at the worksheets again. She remembered his confession and felt bad for not answering him yet. She was still thinking about it. She did not know why the more she thought of it, the more hesitant she became.
She liked him and he said that he liked her too. That meant that their feelings might be mutual.
But why?
Why couldn't she accept him, though she wished to have a boyfriend and her wish was coming true right before her eyes?
"Luna Koizumi-san."
Luna turned around and noticed a nurse standing outside her office.
"Come in."
The nurse nodded and walked into the room. She took out a transparent plastic bag from the medical box and handed it to Luna.
Luna looked at red cotton wools in the bag with a smile.
"Thank you, and you may leave now."
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