11. Finally

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❝ finally ❞

THE tension was real in room 191. Three people were there, the patient, his doctor and the nurse. Minsu was changing his bandages while Jihyun was looking through his recent reports.

Not being able to make an eye contact with the nurse, Jungkook sat there nervously.

Suddenly, Jihyun grabbed the bottle Minsu just took from the table. "What are you doing?" Jihyun asked in disbelief.

The nurse was about to use a wrong bottle carelessly. "I'm sorry." She bowed at the doctor and grabbed the right one before applying it to Jungkook's near to healing wound.

The patient just looked at either of them in confusion, no idea what just happened just.

The whole time, Jihyun eyed the nurse until she finished her job. "Meet me in my office," Jihyun told the nurse and walked out of the room.

In the office, Jihyun waited for the nurse to come. A few minutes later, with head hanging low, Minsu walked into her office room.

"What was that?" Jihyun asked with a straight face.

The latter stayed silent, still with her head low. "How careless can you be with a patient? You know that you can get fired for this," Jihyun raised her voice at Minsu.

Those words only made her tear up in front of the doctor, "I'm sorry." She tried to control it but the further shouting from the doctor only made her cry more.

"WHY THE HELL ARE YOU CRYING?" Jihyun shouted in frustration.

Calming herself, Jihyun let out a long breath. "I noticed you were zoning out today. Is everything alright?" she asked.

Minsu wiped her tears away and spoke, "Everything's alright." She gave a forced smile to Jihyun.

"You can share with me as a friend. I won't eat you," Jihyun tried to make her feel comfortable.

For a few moments, Minsu hesitated to speak but she eventually did. She had been suppressing those things inside her which she needed to let out.

"I was so stupid to let him play with my feelings," she finally spoke.

Meanwhile, Jungkook had an uneasy feeling after finding out that they were going to meet again in Jihyun's office. He was scared about Minsu telling the doctor about them, so he decided to go there as well.

Letting out a long sigh, Jungkook slightly pushed the door and watched them talking to each other.

"Who's that guy? Do I know him?" Jungkook heard Jihyun's voice.

By now, he was already sure that the guy about whom they were talking was himself. He glared at the nurse whose eyes met with his.

Minsu might have told the doctor that the guy was none other than her only patient but she was scared of losing her job, so she lied, "No, he lives in my neighborhood."

Jungkook sighed in relief but got nervous after hearing the words of the doctor, "I hate these kinds of guys. What do these players even think of themselves?"

Sure enough, he knew that she was talking about him, indirectly.

"Are you okay now? You can go home and rest for today if you are not feeling well. I don't want that mistake from earlier to happen again," Jihyun asked Minsu.

"I'm sorry for earlier. I promise it won't repeat again," Minsu reassured the doctor.

The guy who was busy eavesdropping jumped when he heard his name. "JUNGKOOK?" It was his doctor's voice.

"What are you doing here? Go and wait for me in your room," Jihyun ordered him.

Like an obedient child, he listened to his doctor and walked back to his room.

The incident from earlier was still playing in his mind while he waited for Jihyun. For the first time, he felt different for being called a player. He didn't like to hear that from her mouth.

"Now stop it," he scolded himself and shrugged off the thoughts.

Jihyun came back and gathered the reports from earlier. "Good news for you," she spoke, making him curious.

"You can go back home tomorrow," she said, making his eyes went wide.

"What? Why so soon?" he asked with an annoyed voice.

"It's already one and half months. On top of that, you're recovering fast," she said and walked out of the room, leaving him alone.

Jungkook called his manager and asked him to come for the discharge formalities tomorrow before going to sleep.

Later, when he woke up, it was already dark outside and Jihyun was sleeping on the couch. There was only one thing in his mind, he was getting discharged tomorrow.

"I don't want to go back." He groaned and walked to his doctor with the help of crutches.

"Doctor, I'm bored. Let's go out." He poked her cheeks, making her knit her eyebrows in irritation.

"It's my last day here, please." He pleaded her.

"Okay, fine." Jihyun woke up and went to the restroom to wash up.

Both of them walked out of the room and took an elevator to the ground floor. The only place they could go was the hospital garden.

Sitting on a bench beside each other, they watched the water fountain together. Neither of them dared to start a conversation until one did.

"You won't forget about me, right?" Jungkook asked nervously.

"What do you think?" Jihyun asked.

"You will like you said that day." Jungkook pouted.

"Don't you think things have changed from that day?" she asked which immediately brought a huge smile on the latter's face.

Jungkook got excited out of nowhere and asked, "Really?" Jihyun laughed at his sudden outburst.

"I mean we're friends now," she exclaimed.

The change in his expression was kinda expected by her. "Oh," was the only response he showed.

Again, silent. The sound of water was only audible since there were very fewer people present in the part of the garden where they were sitting.

"Why? Aren't we friends?" Jihyun asked nervously.

"I wanted us to be more than friends," he finally said it.

Those words were enough for her to suddenly feel nervous. No wonder what the feeling was but something was going on inside her body. A strange feeling.

"Jihyun?"

Upon hearing her name, she turned to side only to see his face only a few inches apart from her. "I like you," he whispered underneath his breath.

Everything happened so fast that she didn't even realize that Jungkook gave a soft peck on his lips. "I'll wait for your answer," he said and grabbed his crutches.

Finally, she realized and touched her lips while her eyes were still wide. She watched him walking away from the place, still couldn't believe what just happened just.

"My first kiss."

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