Snow In December
91 promises of Hinana

..."We never know someone's destiny." (Aoyama ko)...

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After a long silence Aoi finally hugged her kneeling daughter pleading under her feet. Aoi remembered how sick it was to lose Larisa, she was like a car without a rudder just walking straight somewhere. But unlike his daughter, however, the young man his daughter loved could not accompany him for a longer life.

"Yakushoku (promise)." said Aoi softly as she hugged her daughter. Aoyama slowly approached and hugged Hinana, not thinking that Hinana would do such a stupid thing.

"Why are you following along." Hinana hits Aoyama for hugging, but Aoyama can still hug Hinana and Hinana's father.

"I also want uncle to hug me and promise."

Aoi also hugs Aoyama, she already considers Aoyama like her own child even though she failed to adopt due to some obstacles.

In the evening Hinana woke up because she was thirsty. Hinana looks at her father sitting in the living room by opening Hinana's photo album.

"Did dad's insomnia recur?" hinana asked in a joking tone, she brought her drinking water and approached her father.

"It seems so, look at Hinana. Your smile is very similar to your mother's. Kawai (cute)."

Aoi opened the photo album when Hinana first joined the training to become a model.

"Where did you take that photo album?"

"Your room, I saw your painting too. Well done, who drew it?"

The question from her father made Hinana pause for a moment, she was confused how to tell her father.

"Someone you met in the hospital, he's the one who drew."

Hinana was sitting next to her father, looking at his face. Back when he failed to get married, his father followed him wherever Hinana went. He knew his father was worried.

"Will you hear Dad's story."

Without answering Hinana knew that her father would tell Hinana everything.

"When you were born, I shed tears and said "yokatta (thank God)". I remember when I was standing in a very tall building. If only your uncle hadn't come in time, I could never have seen you."

Aoi chuckled as she recalled her old youth, how foolish she was because of love.

"When you say "thank God" of course you've been with the person you love and you've been waiting for ten years. But Hinana Chan, it's not gonna happen to you. Ten years, twenty years or until fifty years you wait, Hinana Chan will never live together."

Hinana's father lowered his head and let out his tears. And without realizing the clear liquid also fell from the eye saddle Hinana.

Hinana knew what her father meant, and she would never live with Ren. Although Hinana waits for Ren but he will never be able to unite.

"I wouldn't be as stupid as Dad. Otousan (father) You can keep my promise. I won't do anything stupid you've ever done." said Hinana, wanting to calm her father down.

"What if you break your promise?"

"Emmm, hate me for the rest of your life." Hinana chuckled and wiped her tears.

To be honest, he had no thoughts of ending his life as his father was worried. But because of her father's words, Hinana begins to think about what she should do when Ren actually leaves.

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"Ohayouhozaimasu (good morning), how are you doing." Seto greeted Ren who was seriously drawing in the note book.

"Ohay..." Ren is surprised when doctor Seto comes with Aoyama, honestly he is still angry considering his cruel words.

"Good picture, is that your imagination?" seto asked by controlling Ren's blood pressure.

"A memory, I once went to see hanami and I wanted to draw it." Ren replied without seeing it at Dr. Seto or Aoyama.

Just as Aoyama was about to check the heartbeat, suddenly Ren's hand instantly prevented it. Their eyes looked at each other. Aoyama immediately retreated her steps she knew very well that Ren was still angry with her.

"I'm going to go to the next room, here's the medical record" Aoyama said, giving a medical note, then left Ren's room.

"Eh why don't you finish first. What's wrong with her?"

Seto asks Ren, but he doesn't care.

"Hey aren't you two friends? Is there something between you?" ask Seto back.

Without answering Seto's doctet questions, he instead gave a back question.

"I-it..... Look at your condition later." said Seto half in doubt, he also scratched his head. The situation was helped because there was Arimura who came to see Ren.

"Ohayougozaimasu.(good morning)."

Arimura came to bring a series of chrysanthemums that are yellow.

"Sorry to interrupt the examination."

"Oh not at all, I'm done too. All right, I'll go first."

Seto came out of Ren's room, but soon he heard someone calling him. He stopped and turned his steps.

" What's up?"

"Anoo, did Aoyama sensei work today?"

Arimura asked and adjusted her breathing as she ran after Seto's doctor.

"Oh sure, but he came out first from Ren's room."

"Are they both okay?"

"Em." Seto recalled the moment Ren refused to be examined. "Matte's."

Seto prevented Arimura who turned away, he felt that something was unknown to him.

"Miss, can you tell me what happened to those two?" seto asked and held Arimura's shoulder. He invited Arimura to sit in the waiting room so as not to interfere with activities in the hospital.

"Kino (yesterday), I accidentally heard the two of them fighting." Arimura started the conversation without any pleasantries.

"Eh really?" Seto is shocked, despite knowing that Aoyama cannot seduce a patient in the hospital.

"If you know, what are they talking about?" ask Seto again.

"Sorry, I don't listen too much. But I saw Ren coming out of Aoyama's room with a pinch of his hand. Sensei can you tell me where Aoyama sensei is?"

"Em usually he's in his room. Didn't you go see Ren?"

"I'm done, he just dropped the stuff when I got here. Sensei I'm going first." Arimura immediately blacked out and left.

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"Ohaiou." Greet Ren as Hinana opens the door to her apartment. Of course it made Hinana very surprised and closed the door again.

"You're not going? Or is something left behind?" shouted her father who realized Hinana was closing the door.

Without caring for his father, he took a deep breath before opening the door again. What makes Hinana very surprised is when her forehead accidentally hit on Ren's lips.

"Ohayou, why did you close the door?" hello Ren came back and smiled as usual.

"You surprised me." replied Hinana half-nervingly.

Suspicious of Hinana's attitude, her father approaches her and meets Ren.

"Ohayougozaimasu (good morning) Arizawa san."

Looking at Hinana's father who was about to come out, Ren immediately said good morning.

"Eh I told you my margaret is not Arizawa, just call me Aoi" replied Hinana's father in shame because Reh always called him lord of Arizawa.

"Eh, you guys.." Hinana's mouth opened because she saw her father and Ren seem to know each other.

"Tousan told him." Hinana was surprised.

"No, I didn't tell you anything. Your friend knows it for himself. Really, I'm not lying." Aoi replied before Hinana was really mad at him.

"I hear you love chrysanthemums so much, they're picked on their own in my yard." Ren gives the chrysanthemum flower arrangement to Hinana's father. The flower that Arimura brought was indeed Ren who asked for it.