Scars {G-Idle}

Chapter 8

"Yuqi?" Soyeon poked her head into her hospital room. "Can we talk?"

Yuqi's eyes slowly opened and she winced. "I-I guess so."

"A-are you okay?" she murmured as she closed the door. "Is it Minnie or is it something more?"

She sniffed. "I-I don't know..."

"Are you sick, love?"

"Yes..." She swallowed. "I-I got too stressed..."

"Yuqi, is there something I don't know about with you?"

She swallowed. "I-I've been sick for a while, but I haven't told anyone."

"Sick? How so?"

"I-I've been throwing up... f-feeling shivers and a pain in my stomach... it really hurts and I-I didn't want to say anything because of what Minnie is going through..."

"You have a fever too, right?"

"Y-yeah... I want to take off my gown, it's so hot..."

"What's going on, sweetie?"

"I-I don't know..."

"Doctor?" Soyeon turned to the one who was coming into the room. "What's going on with her?"

"We're still trying to figure out the cause, but ma'am..." Doctor Yongsun sighed. "She has sepsis and it could end up really bad if she goes into shock."

"Sepsis? It's quickly treatable, right?"

"Yes, but it could have been a bit worsened by high blood pressure resulting from stress. Is there a reason she'd be stressed enough for this?"

"Of course..." She swallowed. "Our friend Minnie... she's in the mental hospital upstairs. She was cutting and she had been raped by many men beforehand. That had to have caused it..."

"Minnie? Oh, I know her." Yongsun bowed her head. "Poor girl, she's been getting worse and refuses to take her medications. They don't want to have to, but they could potentially need to put her in a straitjacket."

"A straitjacket?" Yuqi squealed. "No, Minnie can't handle that! She was tied up by them, I know it!"

"Wait... how would you know that?" Soyeon tilted her head. "You... did you know?"

Yuqi gulped and looked away. "No... b-but someone once sent me a picture o-of her tied up... I-I thought it was just photoshopped, but now... I think it wasn't... and it was from a burner phone so we couldn't trace it..."

"Oh no..." Soyeon's eyes widened in horror. "Oh my god, Minnie... no, it can't be... she-she'll be relentless..."

In a panic, she dashed out of the room, aiming for the mental hospital. And when she got there, it was just as she'd feared. Miyeon, Shuhua, and Soojin were gathered around Minnie, who was struggling against a nurse attempting to pin her down.

"No, no, no, no!!" she shrieked, clawing at her. "Please, please! Don't do it! I-it hurts to be tied up like this!"

"No, let go of her!" Soyeon yelled. "You'll make her hurt herself!"

"Nooooooo!!" Minnie slammed her head down against the floor. "Make it stop, make it stop!"

"Minnie!" Soyeon lunged into the circle and pushed the nurse away, grabbing Minnie's body and pulling her away. "Oh, Minnie, baby, I'm here!"

"Soyeon unnie, I'm scared!" she squealed, burrowing into her chest.

"Honey, you need to calm down. Don't you have group therapy today?"

"I-I don't want to go..."

"You need to. I want you to get better, Minnie. Would you like me to come too?"

"I don't want to go!!" Minnie shrieked. "I can't do it, I can't!"

"Why do you think you can't?" Miyeon asked.

"I-I can't... I can't face them... not after I was belittled by her..."

"By who?"

"Chaerin... she's another girl here... she's so m-mean..." Minnie shuddered. "She kept saying that everything happens for a reason and that I'm just good for nothing if this happened to me..."

"Oh god, why would she say that?" Soyeon gulped and held her close to her chest. "That must mean the same is true for her if she's saying that-"

"But she doesn't care! She hates me! I don't wanna go to group!"

"Please, can't you do this for me?" The leader cupped Minnie's face gently. "You're not theirs anymore, understand?"

"I-I need you with me, unnie... I really don't want to do it..."

"Oh, Minnie..." Soyeon sighed and went silent, rocking Minnie in her arms. "My sweet baby, you never deserved this."

"D-do you have any update on who they are yet?"

"No... but I did want to get your consent on using your panties as evidence. I just want them to be caught, but your clothes that have been touched by sperm are supposed to go in the evidence and I wouldn't let them do it without your consent."

"Why do they need those... and not any of my other clothes?"

Soyeon swallowed. "That's where your... where your genitals touched and if they can confirm the DNA is yours and another man's, they can have plausible evidence for an arrest."

"B-but..."

"No buts, honey. Do you want them caught or not?"

Minnie's head drooped and she closed her eyes. "You can do it..."

"Want me to let you sleep?"

"P-please..."

Soyeon ushered the other G-Idle members out and they all headed back to the dorm. They spent the night with each other and when Soyeon's phone rang in the morning, Miyeon almost jumped a foot in the air.

"Hey, relax," the leader laughed as she wriggled out of her blanket. "It's probably just a wrong number." She picked up the phone. "Hello?"

"Jeon Soyeon?"

"Yes, this is she."

"This is Nurse Hyejin from Rosebud Hospital."

Soyeon started chewing on her lip. "What happened?"

"Soyeon, I'm so sorry, but... Minnie attempted suicide last night. And she... she almost succeeded."