Refresh [Izaya X OC ff]

Chapter 30

The hospital was a bit crowded than I thought. There were a lot of people with minor injuries like bruises and small bleeding as if they just came back from a fight. They were all sitting in the waiting chair and complain about stuff I couldn't understand. The funny thing was that they were high school girls.

"That bastard! I will kill her later!" One of them cursed.

What's happened? I tried to avoid seeing them and sped up my paces. Once I was getting near to the front desk, my anxiety came again. Oh, no. How should I ask the nurse? Do you still remember about Azami? Do you know her? What if she forgets about her since she's no longer the patient in there from several years ago?

"Excuse me..." I greeted with a small uncertain voice.

"Yes?" Oh, God. All the words that I just prepared a second ago suddenly disappeared into a foam in my memory. The nurse smiled back at me, waiting for my next sentence.

"Do-Do you happen to know a patient he-here?" I stuttered. Relax, Keiko, relax. You just want to ask a bit about Azami. Once this over, you can go home.  "Her name is Azami."

"Azami?" Her forehead wrinkled. She looked like she didn't feel familiar with the name.

"Tokugawa Azami." My face turned red. It would be embarrassing if she didn't know about Azami. Then again, who would still remember former patient when there are so many patients coming in here?

"Tokugawa-san?" 

Out of sudden, behind the nurse, a middle-aged nurse walked approaching us. She put back the folder she's been holding on and started to get interested in our conversation. She looked anticipated with Azami's topic.

"You know her?" The nurse that I just asked earlier turned around as she raised her eyebrows.

"Don't you remember? She's a patient that nearly jumped from the rooftop years ago. She's the reason why the rooftop is locked today."

Deg! My heart stopped beating for a second. Every time someone mentioned Azami's attempted suicide, I would get triggered.

"Where is she now?" The nurse did not know about Azami at all. She wouldn't ask for her whereabouts if she recognised Azami.

"She died a long time ago because of Leukemia." The old nurse' eyes saddened for a second before her serious expression turned back again. "Anyway, why are you bringing her up suddenly?" 

"This person asked about her." 

The senior nurse turned to me. "I'm sorry but Tokugawa-san is no longer a patient in here." She deeply apologised to me as she bowed down. I waved my hand.

"It's okay. I'm actually here to learn more about her during in here. Do you happen to know her?"  I asked again. I felt more at ease after knowing that one of the nurses remembered Azami.

The nurse nodded. "I may never talk to her at all but I know about her well."

"Are you busy right now? Can we talk about Azami in somewhere?" I begged. 

"Who are you?"

"I'm Asagao. I wanted to know what's happened to her in here." I introduced myself shortly since I was impatient enough to start the talk.

The nurse looked objected at first, but she decided to come along. She asked her junior to take over her shift place and brought me to the small park behind the building through back door (We had to take a long walk from the front desk. It was so awkward to walk behind her back without any conversation between us). There, some patients usually take a walk or visitors just sat on the bench or smoke. But since it was night back then, the park was not crowded. We sat on a bench below a tree.