The first weeks of summer grew hot as the small breezes provided a brief relief. The sun rays shining over a beautiful flower garden behind a small clinic located away from the rest of the city.
Standing in a peacefully summer afternoon as the workers were having a relatively calm day. Two of the younger staff nurses stood outside in the rose garden as they attended to it. Sweeping away fallen leaves of the trees near by. The youngest of the two with short wavy hair sighed dramatically stopped in her work as she placing her hands on top of the broom. Leaning her face against her hands with a frowning pout.
"What is it now?" The other nurse question having heard the sigh. Already grown too used to the girl's behavior she confused with her work watering the plants.
"It's no fair, We've had such a young handsome doctor working with us for a few years now. It was a stroke of luck for me and now he's been swept away by one of the patients."
"'A stroke of luck for you?'" The nurse working questioned with a small chuckle.
"Yes, for me! There are not that many cute guys around here. And Doctor Mikage is so different from all other guys. It's no far." The younger nurse pouted with a stomp of her foot.
"And she's so pretty too. I'd give anything to be half as pretty as her."
Hearing the last muttered words the second nurse stopped in her work. Brushing her long hair behind the ear.
"I wouldn't say that. After all, remember she came here in such a state as well. And now she has no friends, or family that we know of." The second nurse spoke out with pity in her voice as she gazed off into the distance.
"Oh right, I forgot about that." The young nurse frowned sadly as she stood up straighter.
"I wonder if she was homeless before she came here. It's odd no one showed up after it became a case with the police and her accident was published in the news." The short haired nurse added with a frown as she swept away at the fallen leaves.
"I don't think she would be homeless. Or that she doesn't have family out there. I remember when she first got here, the first time she woke up from her coma and wondered off into the garden. I found her crying as if she had lost something important. When I went over to ask what was wrong she muttered she could find him anymore. She couldn't see him, she kept muttering she was sorry."
The long haired nurse recalled with a look of pity, remember the true sorrow that seemed to swell up in the poor girl's eyes. Like she couldn't grasp the light that was shining so far away from her.
"Who do you think that person is? An old lover?" The short haired girl questioned as she leaned forward eagerly.
"Who knows." The long haired nurse frowned glancing away not wanting to fed the curious gossiping nurse who whined loudly.
" Awe, come on you must know! Doctor. Mikage assigned you as her nurse."
"Even if I did know something I wouldn't tell you, you gossip much more than you work."
"Awe, come on! Don't be a meanie."
Up in one of the open window facing the garden the white curtains shifts as a loose tree leaf floated in.
Laying on the hospital bed the said young lady slept silently. Her long eyelashes brushing against her cheeks as her breathing remained calm. On her lap laid a hard cover fairytale book that the long haired nurse had gifted her. Her hands placed over it as she hugged it close, guarding it even in her sleep. One of the now only things she possessed in this new life.
As the leaf floated in it landed on the side of her cheek. The touch becoming so brief and almost tender that it gave the illusion someone was gentle caressing her cheek. The ghost touch bringing forth strange feelings as her eyes began fluttering open.
From the darkness of her mind a small light cracked open as a single word slipped out of her lips.
"Yue..."