A Star's Embrace

The Wanderer's Secret

The sounds of monitors, running, discussions, cries, and happiness surrounded me at every step. It didn't matter what came first, or last, these were the sounds always present whenever I visited here.

Alongside it, was the distinguishing smell of medicine and chemicals that made me nauseous the first time I came here.

I can't deny that I was curious about what a hospital would be like compared to those in shows, however, that only lasted for the first hour as I soon realized how depressing this place truly is. Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful to Sensei, and the nurses for all the care they've given me, but I won't take another step here if it isn't for something major.

(Now that I think about it, I should ask their numbers so we can meet up since they've helped me a lot with raising children.)

Ignoring that amusing thought, I was adamant about not spending another second here after my checkups. Even if I felt bad about having these thoughts, it never deterred my decision to leave early.

That is until two weeks ago.

Archer, a young man who is one year older than me, woke up over three weeks ago and was diagnosed with a severe case of amnesia that he can't remember his full name at all, and yet, surprising as it may sound, also holds a secret.

It didn't matter how well he faked it, how he managed to hide it with his smiles, or how he never acted like he was hiding something, I knew he did.

If someone had asked me how I knew this, I wouldn't have been able to find an answer since I couldn't find a good reason to explain it. Since it's just feeling more than anything.

A feeling that, unlike many others, I've met, made me think about it.

Granted, it's more like a curiosity than anything else, but it has been on my mind since I first met him.

To this day I still don't understand why I decided to act the way I did and reveal information about me to a total stranger at the cost of my career, and my unborn children's lives. But I did, and after two weeks of seeing him, he's maintained his word about not revealing my pregnancy. 

Even though part of me wants to think that it's due to Ichigo-san threatening him with legal action if he decided to do so. I believe that he hasn't done it due to him being a kind person.

Now that brings up another aspect of him that always astonishes me. His sincere kindness.

Of course, even in the show bis there have been people who are genuinely kind and only want the best for both us and their project. But his kindness, though, feels different.

So different in fact, that makes his mystery even more intriguing. I say this because to me it feels as if, he's hiding something with his kindness. And the funny part is that it isn't like he's faking it, no, he's completely and utterly sincere with every action he does.

This has caused the nurses to talk about him a lot lately, ranging from gratitude to gossip, he has accomplished all of this without any hidden motives.

Well, any underhanded motives that is, since unlike them, I noticed something that none of them, not even Sensei managed to pick on at all until I told him about it.

He hasn't slept.

I don't mean like for a day or two days, I mean that in the past two weeks that I've known him and even before that, he hasn't slept at all.

I don't know how he accomplished this without showing any deterioration in his health, and even managing to fool the staff during this time, but he couldn't hide this fact from me.