Chapter 66

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*knock knock*

"Kook, I made Kimchi jjigae. Do you want to come out and have some?" Jin softly knocked on the maknae's door.

"I'm not hungry!" Jungkook shouted from the other side of the door.

Jin sighed, "Kook you're always hungry, come on you haven't left your room in days. Hyung's worried." He waited but no response. Jin disappointedly made his way to the room next door.

"Tae?" He knocked on the door. "Are you in there?" He called again.

Soon after the door opened to reveal a disheveled Taehyung, he looked like he hadn't had sleep in weeks. Jin was honestly surprised to see him, he hadn't seen Taehyung much and only briefly when he left the house and back into his room or vise versa.

"Tae, I made kimchi jjigae would you like to have some—"

"I don't eat spicy food remember." Taehyung cut him short and closed the door in his face.

Usually Jin wouldn't have any of that but he honestly couldn't blame any of them either. He disappointedly made his way back to the dining room. Sitting there on his own.

"I guess more for me." He mumbled to himself, eating directly from the pot.

His head hurt constantly, memories of her laugh, her smile replayed in his head over and over again. He felt like everything was a dream, a nightmare he couldn't wake up from. He couldn't get the image of her of that night out of his head; the night of their performance, the way she keeled over, pain shooting through her face as she forcibly coughed and cried. The look in Sena's eyes as it met theirs. The hours of waiting, seeing her brother fall apart in front of them. All of it scarred onto his mind.

But sometimes he would think about her, the time where he taught her how to act, the time he saw her for who she truly was.

The most beautiful girl he had ever laid his eyes upon.

The time where she cried with him, when he stupidly broke his wrist; And especially the time when they sang together, just the two of them as he played the guitar.

The day they shared their first kiss.

Jungkook cried and cried every day, everything reminded him of her and it's caused him so much chaos. It hurt everywhere.

He loved her so much, he loved her more than words could fathom, and just like that, she was taken away from him.

Until that day, everything felt surreal, as if she would never disappear from his side, it felt impossible. Even when he found out how much time she had left, it still felt like it was years away. But this was the first time Jungkook experienced real grief. Real loss of a loved one.

He let out a loud cry, as he curled into himself on his bed. The tears wouldn't stop.

"Please don't leave me.." he pleaded, "I need you Hana, please come back." His voice broke as he cried and cried.


Taehyung sat on the floor. His back was pressed onto the door that separated him and the hallway outside. He covered his ears when he heard Jungkook's cries, as clear as day in his ears; it tore his heart to shreds hearing Jungkook unable to cope. He couldn't stand hearing him so he left, he left whenever Jungkook cried.

"Taehyung?" Jin called seeing him walk to the front door before hearing it close with a bang.

Taehyung bundled up and wore a mask, pretty much obscuring majority of his identity with a cap on too. He decided to take a walk in the night, it was late and had less chances of people recognizing him on the streets. He passed streets lined with trees that were shedding its leaves for autumn. Nights were getting very cold and days were getting shorter.

He never knew where he went, he would just keep walking until he couldn't walk anymore before taking a cab back, or stopping by a PC bang that was opened 24 hours and stay there playing games all night to take his mind off things.

He did anything to keep himself away from Jungkook's cries. He couldn't sleep. It wasn't like he didn't want to comfort the maknae but he didn't know how to, the first few days the hyungs tried but it was out of their control. Jungkook was far too gone to be helped and only time would heal him.

Taehyung didn't take her death well either. He always had Jimin, his best friend to rely on and now that Jimin wasn't here, he didn't know what to do. Sure he had his other hyungs but it wasn't the same. He wasn't one to express openly unless it was with the right people.

Suddenly he stopped abruptly.

I'm such an idiot.

He cursed himself as he managed to mindlessly walk his way to the front of Seoul General Hospital.

A place none of them went close to.

He stood in front just observing the nurses, doctors and patients pass by through the halls as if he were in a trance.

"Taehyung?"

A voice broke him out. He turned to look at the familiar nurse he didn't want to see.
She reminded him too much of her.

"Taehyung? Is that you?" She called again, now closer. He wanted to run away but he couldn't move.

He slowly turned around to face her; Sena stood before him. She was not in her Usual nurse attire but her own, bundled up in a coat and had a genuinely concerned expression plastered on her features.

"Noona." He spoke, his voice low and much raspier than normal if that were possible.

"Taehyung." She had a small smile on her face as she reached out to grasp his hand in hers gently. "It's good to see you dear."

He hung his head low, unsure what to say to her, just being here in front of the hospital was overwhelmingly hard enough for him.

"Can we take a walk? Just to the park?" She offered kindly, he nodded in response, he couldn't refuse her.

They settled on a park bench, much like the time him and Jin had their talk. The first day they met her. It was silent between them at first but Taehyung was surprisingly the one to break the silence.

"How are you Noona." He asked politely.

She smiled sadly, her hands clasped in front of her in her lap. "I'm as good as I can be Taehyung."

"And you?" She looked up at him visibly freezing from that question. He paused, unsure how to answer before he slowly felt himself break down. Tears now brimming his eyes, the mask soaking them up.

"I'm not doing fine noona." His voice shook.

She quickly reached into her purse to pull out a napkin to gently dab his tears away.

"Noona, I can't sleep." He confessed, his eyes glazed and trained forward as she dabbed his continuous tears away.

"Jungkook he— he cries every day and night and I can't handle it." He squeezed his eyes shut.

"I miss her Noona, we all miss her. It was too soon! Too sudden!" He sobbed, his mask was getting drenched.

Sena got up and hugged him tightly to her, gently patting his head as he leaned and cried into her coat.

"Shh.. Shh.." she cooed to try calm him down. In that moment Taehyung really felt Sena was like his mom or grandmother, he couldn't hold back his emotions and tears anymore as he sobbed in her arms.

She just held him and gently pat his back until he slowly started to settle.

"Taehyung dear," she held his face between her palms. "I feel so grateful that all of you entered Hana's life." She genuinely smiled at him. "I had never seen her so happy in her years of living there." Tears started to well up in her own eyes as Taehyung continued to listen. "When I first met Hana, she was just a young girl and I was a new nurse."

"Hello, you must be Miss Hana. I'll be your nurse starting from today." Sena smiled down at the shy little girl hiding behind a curtain.

The little girl just stared up at her.

Sena looked around before leaning in to whisper, " I snuck you some ice cream, would you like some?"  And with that the girls eyes immediately sparkled.

"You bribed her?" Taehyung couldn't help but chuckle, thinking about a little Hana.

"Hey, I didn't know how to deal with kids back then so I looked it up online." She flicked his forehead.

"Ack!"

"Miss Sena?" The girl sweetly asked.

"Yes dear?" Sena smiled sweetly at her.

"Uhm, will it hurt?" Her eyes were brimming with tears, looking at the sharp needle.

Sena just shook her head, "It won't hurt I promise, it'll just be like a little ant taking a pinch!"

Unfortunately for Sena that only made it worse, "But I don't like bugs." Hana's eyes brimmed with more tears threatening to fall.

"Oh uh" Sena panicked before landing her eyes on a purple hippo with a scarf.
"Here, why don't you talk to Mr Hippo—"

"His name is Hippy!" She interrupted.

"Okay, why don't you talk to Mr hippy hippo and you won't even notice it" she smiled at the girl.

"Wow. Not only did you bribe a kid you lied to her too." Taehyung said.

She flicked his forehead again.

"Ack!"

"Okay; I can try that." The girl hesitated but started talking anyway.

"Hello Hippy, today Miss Sena got me some magical bread today, it was Sooooo fluffy and yummy! I can't wait to have it again."

"And you're done!" Sena placed a cute Pororo band aid on. "See? It didn't hurt right?"

Hana's eyes glimmered. "I didn't feel anything."

"And since then, Hana never left my side. She trusted me with anything after that even as she grew older and even when she grew out of Hippy Hippo and went through her angsty teenage years, she never let any nurse do anything for her but me." Sena smiled to herself.

"So I'm glad she let you in, and I'm glad she got to experience many things because of all of you." She turned to look at a now smiling Taehyung, his mask discarded.

"Thank you Noona." Taehyung now recalled all the good moments he shared with her.

She quickly slapped him a new mask on his chest from her purse.

"Please put that on before anyone sees you. I've already had my fair share of nosey reporters and I will lose my mind if I see a headline that has me in some form of scandal with you." She exasperatedly speaks and Taehyung laughed heartily before putting on the mask.

"Only for you Noona." He winked before she whacked him in the arm. He broke out into laughter again.

"Yah! I'm too old for this!" As she too laughed along with him. "Tell Sejin he owes me a coffee." She nudged his arm as they walked back, he nudged hers too as he decided to head home for the night.

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