The Odd Doctor Out | A Drama | S. 2

238 🩺 Hard Decisions

'Yunho, I'm so sorry, but the theatres are short staffed and I've been pulled for a laparotomy. You've only got forty-ish minutes left of your shift, just go home.'

Feeling sick, Yunho nodded gratefully. 'Thank you, Saem.'

Nodding politely, Yunho watched as his preceptor hurried off down the hall, leaving him behind.

Feeling nauseatingly guilty and itching to just fix something, it only took Yunho a few moments to pull out his phone and start making for the locker rooms.

Yunho
Hey, we need to talk.
Is now okay to ring?

Making sure his phone wasn't on silent, Yunho tried to suppress his nausea at seeing their previous texts, and shoved his phone into his pocket.

It didn't take long for him to get a reply.

Rose
Omg hi~ 😇 🌸
Are you at the hospital? I'm really close, we could meet instead?

Yunho groaned, feeling like he might throw up. He really didn't want to see her.

Yunho
You really don't have to. A call would suffice.

Rose
It's really fine!!
I'm just at the florists across the street
Meet u at The Coffee Corner in 10~ 😊 🌺

Yunho stopped in his tracks. Groaning, he rand his hands roughly through his hair and ruffled it up far past what would be considered as messy. In his tantrum, he ignored the two nurses that walked past him, giving him strange looks as they whispered between themselves.

'Fuck,' he spat through gritted teeth. 'Fuck.'

Staring at his phone screen until his unease became too much, he groaned again loudly, rolling his head around on his shoulders as he pulled at his hair. 'Fuuuck.'

Sighing heavily, he didn't even bother to reply. He felt sick, and if meeting her now, meant getting it over and done with, then good riddance. The sooner, the better.

Changing out of his hospital scrubs, he grabbed his bag and shoved his books into it. However as he was about to close the door, he glanced to his left to the locker he knew was Mingi's...

Min let me explai-

Please don't...

Yunho groaned helplessly. How had this happened?!

Ding.

5:26pm
New Message: Rose
I finished up earlier than I thought~
I'll see u when u get here 🌸😇🌺🐶

Yunho cursed under his breath. He'd never felt so guiltily sick before, and he hated it.

But as he stared at Mingi's locker, he became more and more determined to fix it. He didn't want this complicated shit infiltrating his life. And he really didn't want to experience whatever the hell had happened here not even an hour ago...

And so heading out of the hospital, he gathered his resolve and his words for a swift ending to a relationship that, in his eyes, had never started at all.

-

The café was quite busy with hospital staff getting off shift, but despite that, before Yunho had even stepped foot inside, he could see Rose sitting at a table next to the window, reserving a seat for him.

She had a number of bouquets of flowers sitting before her, and as she tinkered away on her phone, Yunho couldn't help but notice her long, perfectly filed nails - bedazzled with what was probably a grand waste of money's worth of polish and jewels.