Forgotten Night

Chapter 6

13 August 2018 (same day), 3;15 PM

I got back in the van. Hyun's next schedule was a meeting with an advertisement company director. I checked my mobile to make sure of the time. And Hyun seems to be on phone with somebody. "Hm Nuna... Thank you..." Hyun was saying on the phone. The time to go to the meeting was correct. "Okay, Tae Ho, Let's go to the advertisement company," I told him. But when I looked at TaeHo he looked a bit pale. And he did not start the van.

"TaeHo ya..." Hyun called him from the seat behind us. "Go to Tae-Han hospital."

I looked back at Hyun, confused. We were supposed to go to the meeting and he knew that. I had told him earlier. But when our eyes met, I could immediately detect that something is wrong.

"We have the meeting." I reminded him.

"Cancel it." He said plainly. "And Yoon Tae Ho," there was so much rage in his voice. "Didn't you hear me? I said, let's go to Tae-Han hospital. Now will you drive, or should I??"

I have never seen Hyun this angry. Hyun by nature never gets angry. I mean he gets irritated at situations like any human and sometimes does yell at people. However, he was not an angry person by nature, and I have never ever seen him 'this' angry. It felt like this is not the Hyun I knew.

TaeHo said, "yes, Hyung," in a troubled voice and started the van at once. I looked at TaeHo to get a clarification. He seemed flustered and nervous. My mind flickered for a second... And I looked back at Hyun, who had sat back and started to stare out of the window. He had a vacant stare... Like he was in distress. And his eyes looked slightly red at the edges of his eyelids. Like he had cried???

"Why are we going to the hospital?" I asked in general. I kind of knew though. Because the logical explanation was that Hyun knew.

"Nuna, I am sorry." TaeHo blurted out. "I could not keep it to myself... And Hyung insisted."

Oh damn... Damn it. Damn it. Damn it. Damn it....

I sat back, ad felt like all the blood is rushing out of me. What will I do now? What am I supposed to do now??? Think, Yu Bin...Think Think.... But there was no use now. my first instinct was to get angry with TaeHo. I wanted to just kill him. How can he tell Hyun? But there was no use in getting angry with TaeHo now. Because the secret was already out. I looked back at Hyun. He was still looking out of the window. And I could not come up with anything to say.

He will not know the whole case, right? He will just know what happened yesterday and what TaeHo told him, right??? If he knows the whole story, what the hell am I going to do??? What can I even do if that is the case? For the first time in my life, my insides began to fill with a brooding fear.

4:10 pm

We stopped at the Tae-Han hospital. I looked back at Hyun. This was a very big hospital. He was not going to do this. If he even gets out of the van people will surround him.

"You can't do this..." I whispered to him. "People will know. It will get big. Your name will come in. It will be a scandal."

"I have talked to MinSeo Nuna." He said. MinSeo Unni was his cousin sister. She was a doctor in this hospital. "No one will know. It will be a secret."

But...but...

He took out his mask from his pocket and put it on. Then he put on the glasses and a cap. His usual disguise. "Come on out," he said to me in an ordering voice. I had no choice.

5:00 pm

In a little while, I was admitted to the VIP room of Tae-Han hospital. The VIP room. Those rooms cost such a huge amount for just one night. Hyun and TaeHo were nowhere around and I could not even sit still on the bed because of nervousness and a jittery feeling of not knowing the exact situation. I had changed into the patient gown the nurse had provided me, and now I had to wait.