The Rejected One (Woosan)

Chapter Nine

(Merry Christmas and other celebrations)

Wooyoung watched as the sun went down and went behind the horizon, causing it to be dark outside. A nurse had come in a few minutes ago and offered to turn the light on, in which Wooyoung had yes to because he didn't want to sleep just yet. As much as he didn't feel welcome at the centre, it felt weird to be staying the night somewhere that wasn't the centre. The new environment was something that was contributing to him not being tired. He didn't want to use his phone now since he didn't bring his charger with him, though he didn't intend to stay in the hospital over night originally. But then again, Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome did tend to decide to act up when it wanted to and sometimes at the worst times.

There wasn't much to do and because there wasn't much to do, he often switched from looking out the window and through the doorway. Well, there were possibilities of things that he could do but he didn't want to risk getting up in case he had another episode of his heart racing and passing out on the floor again. He briefly looked at his phone, debating if he wanted to use it or not. He hadn't charged it overnight and he didn't want to risk it dying on him. No one ever messaged him but what if he needed it for something else? Wooyoung debated it for a minute or two before he ended up deciding that he was going to use his phone for a little bit. He picked up his phone and went through Instagram.

He had remembered the Instagram handle for San's account. San's account appeared when he had typed in the Instagram search bar. He went onto the account and it had instantly loaded with photos of the male teaching students of different ages and nationalities. Wooyoung scrolled through the account, each one relating to the martial arts school that the male worked at. From the look of things, San seemed to be a good martial arts teacher because of the amount of successful students that he had and the amount of praise he got in the comments of each photo. He had to say, Wooyoung was impressed because it was clear that the male was a good teacher. With this in mind, Wooyoung pressed the follow button, though he wasn't expecting a follow back. With that, he turned his phone off again and placed it on his lap.

***

Since getting home to his apartment, San had a shower, put his work stuff away and was now having some dinner. It wasn't something big, something that was simple and small. He didn't feel like having something big, so that was the main reason why he went with something small. He sat on his bed and turned the tv on, the first channel that came on was one of the crime channels since it was the last one that he had been watching. Deciding that he didn't feel like watching true crime, he went through different channels to see what else was on. There were the usual shows such as Friends, 90 Day Fiancé, Euphoria, The Tale of the Nine Tailed, Descendent of the Sun and many more. He ended up settling for Descendent of the Sun because he didn't want his dinner to go cold while he was choosing something to watch.

As soon as he selected the show that he was going to watch, San placed the remote down and began to eat what was in his bowl. The show was mainly on so that there was noise in the background instead of eating in silence. He hated eating in silence because it made him aware of every single thing that was happening around him. So, that was the main reason why he had the tv on in the background. He watched the show as he ate, not eating too fast nor too slow, just at the regular pace that he normally went. As he was eating, he had noticed that he had received an Instagram notification. It had basically said that he had a new follower.

With his bowl in his lap, he typed in his password and went into Instagram, wanting to see who the new follower was. He went onto the new follower's account. He wanted to see if it was one of his newer students adding him because that seemed to happen whenever he had new students. Though, to his surprise, it wasn't a new student this time but instead, the literal person that he had helped earlier that day. He had recognised the name in the bio of the account. 'Wooyoung'. Before following him back, San had a look through the photos that the male had posted, even though there weren't that many. He had to say, the male had good photography skills as all of his photos looked professional.

And for a brief second, San did think that the photos were professionally done either by Wooyoung himself or someone who was offering to do a free photoshoot. In some way, he wasn't wrong. Wooyoung had taken the photos himself but not with a professional camera, instead with his own phone. San figured this out by the caption on one of the photos, which was 'old phone = good photos? idk'. He found himself chuckling a little bit at the caption as he found it funny. Once he had a good look at the photos, he went back to the top of the account and pressed the 'follow back' option, happy that he didn't have to search for the account himself. He turned his phone off and went back to eating.

***

"Would you like the light off, sir?" a nurse asked, standing in the door way.

"Yes please," Wooyoung answered. With a nod, the nurse turned the light off and walked away without saying another word. Within a second, he was alone again with silence in his room that was now somewhat dark. There was a little bit of light coming from the light within the hallway and the little bit of moon light that was coming from outside. He had one last look at his phone, seeing that he had one Instagram notification. It had seemed that San had accepted his follow request. He briefly went onto the app, just so that he could get rid of the notification on the home screen.

Though, it did make him smile at the fact that at least someone had followed him back. But, there was one small part of Wooyoung that made him belief that the male had followed back because of some pity for him. Wooyoung tried not to think about it that side too much because he already somewhat hated himself for the most part. He turned his phone off for the final time for the night and placed it on the moveable table that was next to him. It was better on the table than on the bed. It was already an old phone that was just managing to hold its charge and not fall apart. If anything, he was lucky that it was still holding its charge and still intact. Wooyoung was left with his own thoughts for a little while, but it was something that he had done numerous times already.

Wooyoung's thoughts mainly consisted of how would the staff at the community centre would be reacting right now. Would they be freaking out that one of the people that they are supposed to be looking after didn't return? Or will they not care that he hasn't returned. More or less, he had a feeling that it was the second thought. Instead of thinking about it too much, he made sure that he was comfortable before he pulled the blanket up to his shoulders. Wooyoung was ready to sleep for the night.

***

San had finished his dinner roughly half an hour ago and he was only now putting his bowl into the dishwasher. He was more or less getting really interested in the episode that he was watching. It was the reason why he procrastinated putting his bowl into the dishwasher. At least he didn't wait to do it tomorrow. If it meant that he had a few extra seconds to do what he wanted, putting it into the dishwasher rather than later was the better option.