Our Promise ~ 2yeon

12

Irene pulled up outside and I helped Jeongyeon to get out of the door to the car. I had cleaned most of the blood off of her foot but the bleeding didn't stop.

"Hey Jeongyeon. I'm Nayeon's roommate Irene."

"Hi. Sorry about the blood in your car."

"Don't be sorry silly. It's not your fault."

We drove to the hospital as quickly as we could.

When we got out of the car, we took one of her arms and helped her hobble into the entrance of A&E. I helped her get checked in and we took a seat in the waiting room.

"I'll wait outside in the car. Tell me what happens ok."

~~

5 minutes passed and Jeongyeon got called in. I assumed it was so quickly because it was bad.

She struggled to tell what happened so I helped her along the way. After seeing her foot, she was taking to a bed where she would be seen shortly by a doctor and would have the glass removed.

To get there, she was put in a wheelchair to make it easier for her.

"Hi Jeongyeon, I'm Dr Myoi. Can you tell me what happened?"

She tried to explain but the doctor could see she couldn't very well.

"It's ok Jeongyeon you don't have to explain if you can't." She said to her

"Nayeon right?" She asked me.

"Yes."

"What happened?"

I explained what happened and she took one look at her foot and knew it was bad.

"I'm going to have to take the glass out of your foot Jeongyeon. It's going to hurt a lot but I promise it will hurt less in the future."

"Hold my hand Nayeon." She said to me, trying not to cry again.

I held her hand tightly and let her squeeze it too. She closed her eyes and I tried to distract her from the pain.

"What's your happiest memory Jeongie?" I asked her in an attempt to let her forget about what was happening.

"When you  kissed me for the first time" she smiled before quickly wincing at the pain of the glass leaving her foot.

"What about your favourite childhood memory?"

"Hmmm. Maybe when me and my friend Chaeyoung played jumped into the leaves during autumn when we were little."

"Ok they're out!" The doctor said to us.

"Wait really?" Jeongyeon asked

"Yeah! Just need to clean and wrap it."

~~

"Hey Nayeon can I talk to you outside please?" Dr Myoi said to me.

"Yeah!"

"If you didn't get home when you did, this could've been much worse. She's lost a lot of blood but it could've gotten bad very quickly if you didn't bring her in."

I walked back into the room, shocked at how bad it could've gotten.

As Dr Myoi was telling us how to take care of the injury, the world began to go fuzzy. Sounds were muffled, I couldn't see clearly and my chest began to hurt.

I felt myself stumble and I fell to the floor.

I heard lots of voices but I couldn't identify who's they were or what they were saying.

"Nayeon. Nayeon. Wake up."

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"Will she be ok?"

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"What happened?"

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"Nayeon"

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"Call her mother."

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"Hello Mrs Im"

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"Get her on an IV"

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