Seventeen Imagines

Mingyu: worried sick

For about four weeks now you've been coughing and wheezing. At night you have difficulties breathing through your nose when you lay down, so you're up and down all night. For a month straight you've been sick and haven't slept well and it's finally catching up to you. Not to mention your work load has been extra compacted. Not only are you managing Mingyu's personal schedule now that he's debuting as an actor, but one of the other managers is on paternity leave for another week.

With the extra work load it's been impossible for you to catch up on sleep to get over the cold you have. You've been carrying cough medicine in your bag for weeks and drinking vitamin drinks but nothing's been working. While at work you cough as quietly as possible, wear a mask most of the time and when you feel a coughing fit coming on you run to the bathroom so that you don't disturb anyone. You're feeling worse every day and one day Wonwoo notices.

Wonwoo looked you in the eyes and recognized how miserable you appeared. He asked if you were okay and you immediately answered, saying you were fine and were just tired. Which was only half true.

You could feel a coughing fit was about to start while you were standing next to Wonwoo and Mingyu, going over their schedules for the day. You abruptly stopped talking and turned your head away to cough quietly a couple times. But that wasn't enough so you quickly ran to the nearest women's restroom. You rushed into a stall and began coughing violently.

While you were in the bathroom Mingyu and Wonwoo exchanged glances for a moment, both equally confused as to what just happened. Two employees that were nearby started gossiping quietly to each other but just loud enough for the two men to hear them. They talked about how some people were speculating that you were pregnant because you've been going to the bathroom more often and unexpectedly. They were saying how they didn't realize you were married, let alone seeing anyone.

Mingyu's face was slowly growing grimace. Wonwoo looked over at him and his eyes widened, not used to seeing his best friend react like that to gossip. Mingyu's always been one to brush off gossip of all kinds, but when it came to you he couldn't handle it.

Wonwoo tried convincing Mingyu that the information they were hearing was false but he could tell Mingyu was still bothered. The two boys knew you fairly well, out of all the members in the group, after working closely with you for so long, but something inside Mingyu was triggered and a wave of concern washed over him. Mingyu ran down the hall and to the bathroom he thought you might be in. Since it was a women's bathroom he wasn't able to go in. But even from outside the door he could hear you coughing, concerning him even more. He was thinking the rumors might be true and that only upset him more, because deep down he was slowly starting to feel something for you.

Mingyu waited for about a minute until a female employee walked by. He stopped her and urgently asked the girl to check on you in the bathroom. She agreed and entered the restroom. He couldn't hear you coughing anymore when the girl walked in, but not even a minute later the woman yelled for help.

He busted through the bathroom door and stood in front of the stall the female employee yelled from. His eyes widened and his heart sank. The woman was holding your weak body in her arms. You appeared to be unconscious. Mingyu was in shock. His body was shaking and unable to move, stuck with one hand over his mouth as he trembled uncontrollably.

The woman was yelling at him to call 911 but everything around him sounded like a high-pitched ring. And then Wonwoo appeared next to Mingyu, looking down in horror at your body laying on the bathroom floor. Wonwoo instantly called for an ambulance. He picked you up and practically ran down the hallways to the nearest elevator to meet the ambulance in the lobby. The woman started shaking Mingyu to get him to snap out of whatever trance he was in.