Day Dream • Na Jaemin

5

With heavy lids, Suji slowly opens her eyes. She feels disoriented as she gathers her bearings, and her body feels weighted down.

Taking in her surroundings, she discovers that she is in a hospital room. The air is sterile, and beeping is coming from a nearby machine.

Familiar voices catch her attention and she slowly moves her head over to her left. Jaemin and Jeno are sitting next to each other on the cushioned bench under the window.

The duo looks haggard, but relieved all at the same time. They are keeping their voices low as to not disturb Suji. Although, she is no longer slumbering.

"J-Jaemim?" she murmurs, finding her voice.

He almost gives himself whiplash from moving his head too quickly. He makes eye contact with her and relief washes over him.

"Suji!" In the blink of an eye, Jaemin rushes over to her side and holds onto her left hand with both of his. "I'm glad you're awake, sleepy head."

Suji's mind is trying to process what happened. "I'm alive?"

His expression softens as he nods. "Definitely."

"I'm not dreaming?"

He gently squeezes her hand. "It's real"

Since the married couple has had their little reunion, Jeno makes his way over and stands at the foot of the bed.

He views Suji as a sister and wants to see her awake as well. "You're in the clear."

"Am I?" Suji asks.

Jaemin slightly tilts his head to one side. "You don't remember… ?"

"Remember what?"

"Do you remember what happened with Doha?" Jeno asks.

She is completely drawing a blank so she shakes her head.

The guys exchange a glance.

"When I was asleep, I had a dream where"-she gulps-"he shot me." Obviously, that moment had not been real.

Jaemim's face ashens at the very idea of that being a reality. Jeno seems disturbed by the idea of that being the real outcome.

Suji recalls what happened towards the end of her dream. "You guys took him down after that. While"-she decides against using the term body-"I was being zipped up, you both and the team went into the house. Jaemin went into our bathroom and–" She cuts herself off. Does he know what she left in that room?

"What?" Jaemin asks after a moment. "What's wrong? Don't remember what happened next?"

Suji ends up shaking her head. "I guess not…"

"Hey, why don't you ask for water for Suji?" Jeno suggests. "I think she'll like that."

Jaemin is eager to keep his wife comfortable. "I'll be back," he says, gingerly smooching her head. "So sit tight."

"All right," she says.

Jaemin waves goodbye before he leaves the room and disappears from sight.

"So I'm going to get you in the loop of something certain," Jeno says, speaking softly so he is not overheard. "Bunny Breath doesn't know about the pregnancy test."