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“Aizawa Kousaku, do you take Shiraishi Megumi as your lawfully wedded wife?”
“Yes ,i do”
“Shiraishi Megumi, do you take Aizawa Kousaku as your lawfully wedded husband?”
“Yes, i do”
“Shiraishi, you’ll be late for the conference” Aizawa Kousaku her husband reminded her upon peeking at their clock inside their room. It has been three years since they married each other. Right after Aizawa came back from Toronto Med he decided to confess his feelings to Shiraishi, it didn’t take longer as Shiraishi returned the feelings she hid for almost a decade for Aizawa. They receive constant feedback from their workmates especially Hiyama-sensei who is very emotional when the two got married though she's married to Ogata, her former patient back when she's still inside Lifesaving.
But today it seems the atmosphere between them is just plain quiet. This atmosphere goes on and on after a misunderstanding at work a few months ago and Shiraishi no longer the woman that cheers Aizawa up to his fullest. Shiraishi’s routine everyday is going to work, stay at work, check if her husband had eaten lunch and going home if she have time thus leaving their marriage almost falling of to the cliff.
“Hai! I will go first” Shiraishi said when she fixed herself after taking a shower and Aizawa is left with their empty home feeling restless after a 48 hour surgery, he transferred to Neurosurgery once again but juggling time inside his wife’s Lifesaving Team. The interns they had before left Lifesaving to pursue some deeper and challenging roles in medicine, Yokomine was inspired by Aizawa so she took Neurology to master, Haitani still remains at the Lifesaving to become a flight doctor while Natori followed Hiyama-sensei's footsteps to perinatal.
Aizawa sighed deeply at the thought of everything that is happening, he cannot even recall what went wrong to their marriage, he loves Shiraishi but he feels like he is just trapping her with all the stuffs, he blames himself of what is happening to their marriage even if not a single argument was made back then.
His phone alarm rang and it is time to go to work once again he felt relieved that he’ll see his wife inside the hospital. Shiraishi refrained from talking inside ever since their misunderstanding a few months ago. That hurted Aizawa because he felt they are strangers inside the hospitals and even though Tachibana-sensei lectures both of them and even talks to Shiraishi but nothing seemed to happened to the both of them it became more cold and freezing.
Instead of using car Aizawa decided to walk to the hospital there he saw Shiraishi assisting a pregnant woman going inside the hospital, he was about to help her when he realized they are not in good terms. He was followed by his friend Shinkai who bugs him on what is happening between them and Shiraishi and he just looked at Shinkai and not say a word but Shinkai wanted to somehow lighten his mood a bit so he asked what is wrong.
“Wow, Aizawa what happened?” Shinkai asked.
Aizawa sighed and acted stoic but the truth is he is not, Shinkai patted his back knowing that his friend is going through a tough time.
“I am going ahead first” Aizawa said and left Shinkai wondering what really happened.
LUNCH
“Shiraishi, aren’t you being too hard on Aizawa?” Fujikawa asked while they were eating lunch, he saw what happened in the morning anyway so it made him asked what happened to them clearly.
Shiraishi ignored Fujikawa’s question instead asked something about Saejima’s pregnancy she still cares and love Aizawa of course.
“Fujikawa-sensei, how is Saejima-san? Is her pregnancy going well?” she asked worriedly.
“Now, Shiraishi that is a very different version of you i see there. Hey we are talking about Aizawa here not my wife” Fujikawa said.
“I do not know... “ Shiraishi began.
“Is that because you saw him with Junko a few months ago?” He asked.
Shiraishi shooked her head. Definitely not Junko, she's not the reason.
“Ah! Do you mean the....how come he didn’t know that?” Fujikawa asked.
“Why would i tell him? It will look like we failed” Shiraishi said.
“You know you both should talk about this especially your....” Fujikawa didn’t finish what he was saying when Aizawa appeared in front of them but instead Fujikawa left and excused himself to see Saejima.
Shiraishi then pulled out a bento box beside her that was meant for Aizawa, she still cooks food and take care of him and that will not change.
“How is the eel?” Shiraishi asked.
Aizawa took his first bite and immediately entertained the question.
“Ah, it’s good” he replied while looking at Shiraishi’s facial expression.
“Thank goodness, i’m relieved! I woke up so late earlier. You still have duty today?” Shiraishi asked once again realizing that a little bit of her old self is coming back.
She stood up and brought her tray with her, "Come home early, let's have a talk" a faint smile slipped out of Shiraishi's lips even if that's just a mere seconds she knows it can calm Aizawa down.
Aizawa was left on the hospital canteen and went to his duty for the day. A slight smile was seen on Aizawa’s face because on the first place this is what he wants. But he never knew that it will just be the start of everything.
For the half day Aizawa never saw Shiraishi, he thought of coming home early because he doesn’t have any patients left for the day, Saijo-sensei adviced him to come home if there is something urgent so that he can meet and talk with his wife.
Upon coming home Aizawa misses that moment where Shiraishi will wait for him outside their door, they were okay back then but even if how many times he recall he never do anything unless that time where Shiraishi saw her with Junko Watanabe.