イタズラな KISS ~3 ✔

Ending .3

The End of All the Epilogues: From Eight Years Ago

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"I am pregnant."

She said while I was accompanying her on the kitchen counter, eating her midnight snacks. She took a huge bite of an apple and then crushed it in her mouth and then gulped. "I am pregnant!" she yelled again... it was three hours ago that we confirmed it through that pregnancy test device and she still can't believe it. Well, I believe it.

I never imagined that this day would come, but I am glad that it did.

'We could leave the Christmas lights up 'til January...'

"Yes, you are pregnant. So quit shouting like that... just eat and then we'll sleep." I yawned... I am really sleepy though happy about the blessing that came into our marriage life. I am really glad that I chose her... I can't imagine someone else to be the mother of my children. And I'm glad it was Kotoko... I looked at her munching the apple, and she stared blankly when she finished another one.

"What's up? Are you going to vomit again? I told you to eat slowly not..." and she cried... and I panicked. I quickly went to her side just to check up on her, "Hey... Kotoko... why are you crying? Tell me where it hurts because I will..." and she quickly hugged me. Dammit... she's so clingy and fragile. I was half prepared for her tight hug that was almost choking me to death right now.

'This our place, we make the rules...'

"I'm so sad, Irie-kun," she said. I sighed... she's really different than to the previous one when she was pregnant with Kotomi. "Tell me why you are sad." I patiently asked her. "I don't know... when I think that you are going to leave me tomorrow for work... my tears got well up and... I know Tonan Hospital is just near Setayama but... I will miss you... I don't know but I will miss you... and I can't help but to feel sad." she whispered. "Okay, okay... I understand." It's no use if I yell at her... anyway it's not good in her condition. I will baby her until she's satisfied. "Really? You won't have to work for tomorrow?" her face lightened up for a bit and then I nodded not prodding to her request but, "No. I have to work for tomorrow and then... I will bring you there... if you want to but you won't work. The first stages of pregnancy are hard... we must be extra careful. You can't be stressed, Kotoko."

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"Are you sleepy now?" I said when she got silent while she's hugging me but her grip was really amazing... even if her eyes are closed... she's still not loosening her grip around me but nevermind I don't care about it.

'And there's a dazzling haze, a mysterious way about you dear...'

The way her arms all wrapped around me is kind of lovely. She's clingy and I know... that I like it. I carried her upstairs and then to the bed. She looked so peaceful in her sleep and it doesn't change to me that it's still my favorite time to watch her sleeping so soundly.

After watching her sleeping for almost ten minutes, it finally occurred to me the time and it's pretty late to sleep. I lay by her side and put my arms around her waist; I kissed her shoulder blades and started sniffing her neck until it made me fell asleep. I swear to the heavens that her scent was amazing.

'Have I known you twenty seconds or twenty years?'

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