5th January, ~still winter~
This day’s break time, I spent it with read some books in this Hospital’s library. I bored to went to the canteen all day.
Suddenly Dr. Abarai came when I was reading.
“Do… Doctor. Um, you wanna sit here?? I’ll be…….”
“Ssshhh, shut up. Just read it. I won’t get in your way,”
Then I was silenced. It was very made my heart beaten so rash. I couldn’t get the concentration toward the book. I just could quiet, and only can heard the sounds of the opened books, his breath, my heart’s beat…
“Hey! Why are you just silenced??”
“Um,”
“Read the book. A few minutes later, we’ll be back to our job,” said him.
Then I read the book. I tried to be concentration, but I can’t.
“Hey, do you still fear toward blood??”
“Um, a little,”
“That’s great. If fear no more, you can come to me to the next operations,”
Ah, He’s smiling…
This is the first time I saw He was smiling. Very handsome.
“Thank you,”
Then, the break time was out. I had to back to the work.
“Aihara, sort this documents,” He gave me a box of old documents.
“How??”
“See this date of the document; sort it by month and year,”
“Hai’ Doctor,”
That day we spent in the Hospital’s shed.
Dr. Abarai said that He searched the one old document.
“Remember it again, Doctor. You maybe putted it somewhere,”
“I don’t know! And I didn’t remember it,” said him who were keeping searching.
Huh…
I just could obey his order.
“Oww,” my finger was injured by one of those documents. The dust made this all paper’s edge became sharp and injured my finger.
“What happened??” said Dr. Abarai.
“Oh, nothing,” I answered and tried to hid my injury.
“Open your hands,”
Then I opened my left hand.
“I said, Hands,”
I opened my both hands.
“See, you’re injured,” He took my left hand.
Then, He took something like bandage from his coat’s pocket.
“Hold on,” then He winded my wound by that. I felt my hands warm. I didn’t know. Was it because of the weather, or his hand??
“There,” He has finished winding my wound.
“Thanks,” I touched the bandages.
“Um, you’d better wipe your face,” He stretched his hand and gave me a handkerchief.
“Why??”
“It’s very dirty. Especially, this part,” He pointed his forehead.
I took the handkerchief, “Thank you. Um, maybe I’ll return it after I wash it first. Hehehe… my sweats is very dirty,”
“No need. It’s for you,” He smiled at me, and back to his activity.
“Oh, Aihara,”
“Yes, Doctor,”
“You may took a rest,”
“But, Doctor. You haven’t been……”
“Finished. I know,” He waved his hands which meant, “its okay, and go now,”
I came out from the shed.
Ufh, in there was so dusty. I couldn’t stand about it.
Then, I decided to enter our room which means office.
When I was busy to looking for my work-paper, I found a barren paper on the cup board.
I read the written on the paper.
‘Augusts’ Document, 31st August, 1980’
This is the document that Dr. Abarai was searching right now, isn’t it??
Then I ran to the shed. Found him who has been dusty and dirty.
“Doctor, is it that you’re searching??”
He looked at me and approached me, “What??”
“The ‘Augusts’ Document’??’” I raised the document from the distance.
“Really?? Where did you find it??”
“I found it on the cupboard that you always usually used for saving something unimportant,”
“Oh! I must be stupid to putt it there,” then, He come out from the shed with me.
I saw a lot of sweats swirled on his forehead. I just could look at it as long as we were walking.
“What are looking at??”
He woke me up from my day-dreaming, “Nothing, Doctor,” answered me nervously.
“Hei, my forehead is sweating. Would you like to wiped it out??” He asked me while holding the document.
“Why don’t do it by your self, Doctor??”
“Hey, look at this!” He showed me his hands up front of my face, “It’s dirty! How come I wiped my face with these dirty hands??”
“Okay, Okay… I’ll take the towel,”
Then I took the towel above the shelf, and He was sitting on the sofa in the one of this room’s corner.
“Here we go,” I opened his bandages. There was seen by me his forehead who full of tattoos. I was rather bit surprised about this. A Doctor did this??
“Why are you stopping??”
I didn’t answer.
“The tattoo, huh??” He looked at me.
“Why? Is it because I am a Doctor may not do this towards my forehead??”
“Um, nothing,” then I wiped the sweats from his forehead.
I’ve never been so close like this to a man. I was very panic and tried to calm down, and He was very calmed and kept reading those documents.
“Doctor. May I ask you?”
“What?” He pulled his eye-glass down until it reached his nose.
“What kind of that document??”
“Secret,” He closed it and pull the eye-glass up.
