The Hospital Adventure
It was late December, just two days after Christmas. Iya and Hoshin went to their local bar to talk, until Iya would have to go to work. They met there at six o'clock, when the bar was barely starting to fill. Iya gently stirred her Passoa. "Are you sure this is good?" Iya asked Hoshin, staring into her drink.
"Yeah, my friend Stephan introduced me to them, they're great!" She replied enthusiastically, and took a quick gulp of her Bollinger Champagne.
Iya slowly brought the glass to her lips, letting the sweet liquid into her mouth. She swallowed, arching an eyebrow as she did so. Then she stirred the beverage around a few more times, before drinking down the rest. "Good, isn't it?" Hoshin grinned, knowing that she had liked the drink.
"Good doesn't even describe it, what's in it?" Iya shouted.
Hoshin lifted up a small menu, placed next to a basket of pretzels, "A coral-red liquor made by Cointreau (Spain) with a fresh scent of passion-fruit and citrus. 20 per cent alcohol by volume."
Iya smiled in reply. "Wait, what time is it?" Iya glanced down at her watch, answering her own question, "Oh man, I have to get to work!" Quickly she stood up, grabbing her purse from the floor. She said her good-byes to Hoshin and rushed out the door.
Hoshin let out a sigh, "Damn, that means I am going to have to pay. Well, I guess I do owe her..." She reached up, scratching her cheek.
Suddenly, a loud beeping sounded from her purse. Hoshin nearly fell over in surprise. Who had set the damn volume so loud on her pager? She reached into her purse's pocket and took out her black pager, it was Samisu's cell phone. "What on Earth, she never calls me."
Hoshin stepped over to the pay phone and inserted some change. Her pointer finger quickly pressed the designated numbers and she pressed the phone closer to her ear. In an instant, Sam picked up. She was breathing heavily, her voice was panicked, "Iya?" She answered quickly.
"Is Iya there with you? It's an emergency. Yumi is in the hospital."
"Oh God, what happened? No, Iya left a minute ago."
"I can't. I mean, she left for work."
"Can't you drive after her?"
"I don't have the car, she does."
"Shit! Well, get a taxi down here."
"Wait a second, did you try her cell phone?
"Yes, but she left it at home as usual."
"Here, I will call her and then I'll meet you guys at the hospital."
The two hung up and immediately Hoshin got to work. When she finally arrived at the hospital, Iya was already there. She was sitting down, her hands folded in her lap.
"What do you mean you won't let me in?" Samisu screamed at a nurse. The nurse was dressed in a hideous white shirt with a colorful stethoscope pattern printed all over it. She was glancing over her computer, towards Samisu. "Listen," the nurse replied lowly, "only direct family are allowed to visit him right now."
Samisu slammed down her fists and walked away, "dyke," she mumbled under her breath. She seated herself next to Iya, who didn't make any notion of moving. "Listen, Iya. You have to go tell the nurse that you are his wife. Or they won't let us in."
Iya nodded slowly and stood up. She slowly made her way to the nurse who had gone back to typing. Slowly Iya lifted her purse onto the desk and sighed, "I am Yumi Shimo's wife, may I visit him?" She asked.
"Wife? It says under his marital status that he is not married."
"We're newly weds, only a few weeks ago. Please."
"I'll need a marriage license, and identification."
Hoshin rushed over to Iya, pushing her aside, "Ma'am, we have an emergency. There is a pregnant lady outside in the snow. She passed out. I tried to get her up be she was too heavy."
The nurse looked at Hoshin, "Yes... I'll get the doctor as soon as possible." She stood up and raced across out of the room.
Iya turned the computer monitor to her, "Yumi Shimo, male, room 4B53."
"You go, I'm getting myself out of here. " Hoshin pushed herself out the of the hospital and raced through the parking lot. "Shit, I don't have a car!" She screamed. She ran onto a patch of ice, immediately she lost balance. Her feet just seemed to slip from under her and she fell through the air, slamming down onto the ice, from there, everything went black.
Meanwhile, Iya was racing down the halls to find room 4B53. Then she came across a vending machine. Needless to say, it took priority. "Damn dollar..." She jammed it into the machine again. But alas, it just popped back out. "Please..." She tried it again, and out it came. "Stupid machine!" She screamed, and kicked it.
Suddenly, the machine went berserk. Snacks by the dozen poured out from the vending machine. "Score!" Iya grabbed her findings, cookies, chips, everything!
Two nurses walked by. They starred at the girl who was stuffing her face, and continued to walk. "How can she eat all that junk and keep her figure?"
The other nurse looked back at Iya, "Look, it's all going to her hips."
Iya glared, taking another bite into an Oreo. "Baka desu..." She pushed herself against the wall, opening a bag of Fritos, "Yumi would like these..." she said to herself, tossing a few into her mouth. "Yumi!" She stood up quickly and brushed the crumbs off of her blouse. "I almost forgot!"
"Out of the way, miss!" a man shouted.
Iya jumped back against the wall as four doctors pushed a stretcher down the hall. Hoshin was in it! "Deep breaths, miss. In and out." A woman said to her.
"Help me!" Hoshin screamed as she was rushed down the hall.
"Oh... No..." Iya said softly, and proceeded on her way
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