イタズラな KISS ~3 ✔

One Shot-5

One Shot: Believe In The Power

(This is one shot continuation to the covid cases. Sorry for the delay) This fiction is for the front liners who are giving their best to fight the virus. So please stay home and safe.

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Irie-kun said that I got this power that I should believe. That whenever we are far away, I can always make it alright. Irie-kun just left to help in finding the cure. This is tough situation for us, we aren't dealing with our relationship, we are dealing with our family's health, security and welfare... and the most important thing is... we are putting the nation above on that.

Before Irie-kun went abroad to help the World Health Organization, he was put in different studies of corona viruses... putting him in a situation where he has to see for himself how the viruses acts and spread on cells of the human body. He had been collecting vital information about the virus itself and make possible conclusion of what he just observed for two weeks. Irie-kun was tasked to focus on the worldwide problem setting aside other stuffs like personal matters... or family behind him. It was tired of me, and plus there's no way I can do it, every time, Irie-kun never left my mind. I can't contact him as I wished. My husband is bound to be a doctor, and I have no choice but to understand that he has to focus on this or this virus will continually spread and dominate this world. I believe Irie-kun will not let that to happen. I didn't marry him or chase him all the way throughout just because of his looks and intelligence, I chase him because I also believe in him.

When he left, he can't even hug the kids properly. Our four children weep until they saw their father gone. We bid improper goodbyes. The only thing I remember is his back... slowly leaving us. And the worst thing of all, aside we can't communicate ourselves from now, right from the start that he left the house to do his duties... we don't know when will be the time that we see each other again... or to feel another kind of embrace.

"Mama, why Papa didn't hug us?" Haruki asked me. His brother Kazuki is wiping his own tears. My eldest child, Kotomi, is a cold one but I see bristles of tears on her face. She hugged her little sister and lend her shoulder to cry on. I want to cry too... but I don't want my children to see me crying. This is hard... this is hard to stop your tears from falling. I sat in front of my little boy a little distance from him, who has the look of Irie-kun and I, who was made with love. "Papa has to work for a while. He is so busy... you know, Haru-kun... Papa is out there to save the world. You should believe in your Papa." And I wanted to hug the child so bad... but social distancing is making our lives hard.

Oka-san approached us, she took the kids. After we saw Irie-kun off, I drove my kids to my mother-in-law, since I don't have an excuse but to work in the hospital until the war is over, I have to be away from them too even if I don't want to. "Please always wear masks. And don't touch your face with your hands. You have to keep yourselves clean... disinfect if you just went outside. Wash your hands regularly. Kids, please... keep yourselves safe. Your Mama and Papa has to pledge their lives to protect people... and that including you." I reminded them the most important things... that I want them to abide. Because this is the last time I might see them again. I want to save this moment for the time being. So that... when I get tired of fighting at least a little memory of us being together fills my drained energy in.

"Mama and Papa loves all of you." I said before I turned away. I nodded to Oka-san... and I left a wordless goodbye to her. Wanting her to know that I want to see them all again once this pandemic is halted.

I wiped the tears that have started to soak my mask. Even if it's impossible, I have to believe in our power.