His Little Butterfly

36 - Suspicions

The closest hospital they could go to was the one where Irene's parents were. The hospital staff were quick to attend to them the minute they entered the emergency room. Jin briefly explained how the women got injured while the doctor checked on them. Irene's cut was  so minor that the doctor simply asked one of the nurses to attend to it. Yuna's wound, however, was so deep that it needed stitches. There were also fragments of the broken bowl still stuck to her hand. She had to be given a shot to numb her hand so that the doctor could remove them before he closes the wound.

Before Yuna was given the anesthesia, her hand was stinging with pain. The smell of blood made her feel woozy and she tried to breathe through her mouth the whole time they were driving. She also had to ask Jin to open the window to make her feel less nauseous. Cuts and wounds are her weakness but that didn't mean she was going to cry about it. Jin held her uninjured hand while she was being treated. The doctor wanted him to leave earlier but she begged for him to stay. After seeing her face and how Jin was holding on to her, the lady doctor gave a brief smile and gave her approval for her request. The doctor looks very young, she probably just got off from med school.

"Excuse me sir, you need to fill up some forms...Jin?" A female voice came a few minutes after Yuna's cut got sutured. Both Jin and Yuna looked up and found Yoo-Mi, Hoseok's girlfriend, standing in front of them with a clipboard in her hand. 

"Yuna, what happened?" Yoo-Mi asked as soon as she saw her hand.

"She suffered from a severe laceration which needed to be stitched close." The doctor answered with a smile. "Do you know them Yoo-Mi?"

"Yes, Doctor." Yoo-Mi answered. "They're friends of Hobi's."

The doctor's smile widened. 

"Well, aren't you both lucky to be dating such sweet men? He wouldn't leave her side since they got in. " She tells Yoo-Mi before giving out a long sigh. "I will let you finish dressing her wound. I've given her shots for tetanus and antibiotics. I'll be writing her a prescription for pain which she might need after the numbness in her hand wears out. I'll come back to give you instructions on the aftercare treatment."

When the doctor left to attend to the other patients in the emergency room, everyone's eyes were still on her.

"She's so nice." Yuna commented.

"She is. Not all the doctors around here are as friendly as her." Yoo-Mi hands Jin the clipboard she was holding. "Before I forget, can you please fill out this form? They need Yuna's information." She then starts to follow the doctor's order in dressing her wound.

"I forgot that you work here." Jin tells her. "I've been here a few times but I didn't see you. Irene's parents are upstairs. Oh, and she's here too, she also got treated earlier for a minor cut."

"Oh really? I just started my shift, and you guys are my first patient to help." She responded before continuing.  "This is the department I work in and I was off from work for two days after being on the morning shift, that's probably why you haven't seen me." She explained to Jin. 

She then focused her eyes back on Yuna. "So what happened that both you and Irene got injured?"

Jin left Yuna retelling the story about what happened that night with Yoo-Mi. He already had filled out the form so he could take it back to the counter. He would have to let Ji-Woo know what happened to her daughter too. He called Miss Ahn, so that she could relay the message to Yuna's mother. Even if he knew Ji-Woo's number, he was told not to call her directly 'no matter what'. It didn't surprise him anymore because he is already aware of how things were in Yuna's family. 

 Yuna laid back on the bed as she waited for the bag of iv fluid that was given to her to get finished. Yoo-Mi can't stay beside her the whole time because she also has other jobs to do. Her mind went back to what happened earlier. Things had happened so fast, one minute she was bending to pick up a broken piece and the next thing she knew was Irene was bumping into her making her off-balanced. And how did Irene cut herself? She wondered. Did she get it while trying to get that broken piece they were both going after? Her eyes went to her bandaged left hand. Their flight will be in two days and she could already see her mother not pleased with her injury. Ji-Woo doesn't like her plans being disrupted by anything.