Notebook

Yamapi woke up from his sleep and found Yuki asleep on the sofa. He knew that Yuki was pregnant and he carried her back to the ward where her husband Shige was fast asleep. He covered Yuki up and went off.

He went outside and called home. “Yamashita residence,” his mom answered.

“Kasan,” he greeted.

“Tomohisa! How is everyone? Linda, the baby, Yuki,” she asked anxiously.

“They are fine, kasan. Linda still has not woke up yet. The baby is gaining weight slowly and more energetic. Yuki is fine. Shige is by her side. Kasan, I took some time off from work to be here for awhile. I will come home and see the boys though. How are they?” he asked.

“They are fine but they keep asking for the two of you. Akira is awake. I’ll let you talk to him,” Kasan said and passed the phone to the 3 year-old boy.

“Papa?” Akira greeted.

Yamapi smiled. “Hai, papa here. How are you?Have you been a good boy?” he asked.

“Hai.When papa coming back? Mummy?” he asked innocently.

“Papa coming home later. Mummy is sick so she has to stay in the hospital. Papa will bring you, Takahisa and Takizawa to see mummy soon, ok? Do you want anything? Papa will buy for you,” Yamapi replied.

“No. Akira wait for papa,” he answered.

“Ok, papa going to hang up, ok? Hang up first,” he said.

“Bye bye,” Akira said and hung up.

Yamapi heard the dial tone for several moments before he ended the call. He missed his boys. He would get home that afternoon and buy something for them. He snapped back from the trance and walked back to the ward.

He saw a notebook on the sofa that Yuki had left behind.He picked it up and flipped through it. He realized that she had been reading the journal that Linda and Yuki shared to write about their life ever since they met. He found that Yuki had stopped to the part where Yuki was told to understand the meaning of the song and also the part where Linda and him were having one of their fights. Yamapi smiled at the memory. Yamapi murmured, “I really hated you back then, Linda."

He read everything , laughing and crying in whatever that had happened to his wife and Yuki. He closed the book and kissed her forehead. “I have never ever regret being forced to marry you,” he replied.


He opened the book again and started to read from where Yuki had left off...