Saving Luhan

8 The Surprise

Eula's POV

I stayed overnight at the hospital, watching Suho. He was removed from intensive care at midnight to my relief and was transferred to a private room. Luhan insisted on paying and I just shut my mouth knowing that I can't afford to say no. And remembering that he almost...

"Eula? What are you doing here?" Suho sat up still rubbing his eyes with the back of his hand. I sat on his bed and gave him a big hug.

"I missed you Oppa." I said through his shoulder. He laughed weakly.

"I missed you, too. But aren't you supposed to be at work today?" He said pulling back from the hug.

I just shrugged not really willing to tell anything more. He doesn't have to know the kind of job I have... that I have an evil pervert to take care of and that I'm living with a bunch of other boys. I'll be coming back to him soon anyway.

"Oppa, please take care of yourself, okay. I already bought your medicine. The doctor said you might have skipped your dosage that's why you had an attack." I ran my hand through his hair.

"Yes, mother." He beamed at me knowing that I hated it. "Now I'm jealous at that kid you're taking care of. How is he?"

My heart skipped a beat. I'm not really good at lying to my brother.

"He's... you know... an or-ordinary kid doing ordinary k-kid stuff." If Suho noticed my stuttering, he didn't say.

He just nodded and smiled at me. Why am I lying to my only brother?

"Suho oppa, I have to go now. Call me when you need anything okay?" I said after arranging all his medicine in his med pouch. He's gonna be staying with Ms. Kim for a while.

"Okay. See you soon." He said smiling at me.

I closed the door behind me and sighed. Should I tell him about Luhan? Maybe not. At least, not yet.

**

"Eula! We've got a surprise for you." Lay announced as I was entering the kitchen.

Four pairs of eyes looked in my direction which made me stop dead on my tracks.

"Shh. Lay-hyung. Don't tell her yet." Chanyeol whispered loudly.

I just stared blankly at them for a few seconds before I found control over my legs again and went to the fridge to get some water. Four of them were huddled at the far end of the center island whispering things.

"Eula will love this." Lay exclaimed making me turn towards their direction.

"Why am I here again?" The young looking boy said crossing his arms.

I tried recalling his name but I couldn't. I replaced the pitcher into the fridge and saw some cold bacon inside. Bacon.

"Baekhyun!" I shouted, immediately regretting it.

Baekhyun looked up with his eyebrows up. I silently hoped the ground will open up and eat me whole.

"What?" He said with a slight annoyance in his tone.

"Eula likes to think out loud. Maybe she was thinking of you Baek." Xiumin said winking at me. I must have died right then and gone to heaven.

"I'm sorry. I was just trying to recall your name. And then I saw bacon in the..." I trailed off seeing Baekhyun's face turn red.

"Told yah. Your name sounds a lot like bacon." Chanyeol chuckled and all the others joined him except Baek.

I walked towards them, apologizing to Baekhyun. He just nodded but I can almost see the smoke coming out of his nose. My mind worked hard to think of a topic change.