BRIDE WITH BENEFITS | JJK

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"Where the fuck is he? I have called him like 50 times," Yoongi starts to get angry when he keeps trying Jungkook's number but he doesn't picks up.

"I hope he's fine," Hoseok says suddenly thinking what if he's in a situation where he can't pick up the phone.

"I'll keep trying," Yoongi says and keeps calling him again and again.

After sixty calls, Jungkook finally picks up. He is short of breath, doesn't understands why a man is speaking on your phone. You had his number in emergency contact and thus they called him from your number in case he doesn't picks up a call from an unknown number.

"Where the fuck are you man? Are you not the least bit concerned when your wife calls you more than fifty times?" Yoongi lashes out at him. Then takes a deep breath to calmly talk with him.

"Now listen to me, try not to panic. Your wife is admitted to gangbuk hospital. Take a cab and come here. Don't drive," Yoongi tells him.

Jungkook feels scared in a way he has never been scared before. He cannot fathom what led you to being admitted in a hospital. His mind keeps thinking of things that could have happened. He keeps praying that you and the baby are safe or whatever it is can be easily taken care of. He takes a cab to the hospital as advised by Yoongi.

Hoseok waits for him outside the hospital. Jungkook recognises him from the day he visited you at your office. The day all of this started.

"Is... is she alright? What happened to her? She's pregnant. Is our baby alright?" Jungkook asks him losing his mind over the fact that he doesn't knows why you are here.

"The doctor will talk with you," Hoseok ushers him inside where the doctor waits for him.

"Where is my wife?" Jungkook asks.

"She's in the ICU," the doctor tells him.

"What? Why?" Jungkook asks impatiently waiting to get to see you.

It feels as if his heart is being wrung out due to the fear he feels. His heart beat hasn't slowed down since he received Yoongi's call.

The ride to the hospital was the longest time he has had to wait for something. He has taken less vexing twenty hour flights. He cursed every person present in the traffic. Cursed the driver for not driving fast and not listening to him.

The driver was understanding, Jungkook anxiously blurted out that his wife is admitted to a hospital and he doesn't knows why. So the driver patiently endured all his cursing.

He was alone. All alone through it all. Just like he was all alone back then.

Hospitals induce anxiety in him ever since then. He still remembers the call he got when Sooji went to pick up her pregnancy test reports instead got diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She called Jungkook and asked him to immediately reach the hospital.

And all that entailed after that diagnosis is something which he doesn't wants to remember but will never be able to forget ever.

Days of surgery when he waited alone outside the operation theatre. His only wish was to never feel anything like that ever again. And this day has brought all of that back for him.

He saw her heartbeats come to a standstill as he was standing all alone by her bedside. It was just a day after he had proposed to her. He was told she won't be able to make it yet he proposed to her in a grand manner even though he knew all along a wedding would never happen.

"Our baby is it not..." Jungkook says with tears brimming up his eyes.

"It was an ectopic pregnancy. The embryo had implanted in the fallopian tube instead of the uterus. She is lucky to have survived. If she reached the hospital even a few minutes later, we would've been giving you some other news. We had to take her in for emergency surgery. Her fallopian tube had ruptured, so we had to remove it. She's out of danger now," the doctor informs Jungkook.

He doesn't replies to the doctor. Just says a thank you. He doesn't know what to think, feel or do. The fact that you almost died echoes in his ear.

And he was busy preparing for a celebration since you two hadn't celebrated properly yet.

His joy, his peace, his dream all was taken away in a moment.

He had totally formed his mind that he was gonna be a dad in the past few days since you two discovered.

He waits with Hoseok and Yoongi and the other employees who had accompanied you. They provide him the much needed support and strength. They don't leave him alone for a second. They understand that he is experiencing feelings of grief, loss and pain.

After a few minutes, a nurse tells him that you're gaining consciousness. He rushes to be by your side when you open your eyes.

You have got no idea what happened to you. You were unconscious and then they gave you anesthesia. You look around cluelessly. The environment immediately induces fear in your heart.

"Jungkook," you reach to hold his hand.

He stands away, in front of your eyes. You look at him confused.

"What happened to me Kook?" You ask.

"It was an ectopic pregnancy. It ruptured and you had to be taken to emergency surgery. They removed one of your fallopian tube. You were on the verge of..." He stops speaking unable to control himself from breaking down if he speaks any more.

"What matters is that you're okay now. You're alive and here. And that's the only thing that matters," he says looking in your eyes with tears flowing down his cheeks.

You start crying. No matter how much you try to control it you can't. You try to keep your sobs inside.

"It's all because of me. I should've never tried all of this. It's just not in my fate to love and have a family. Despite knowing what happens when I get too close to someone I still gave you false hopes. You almost died all because I made one reckless decision that night," he pauses. Your pain and grief turn into anger and resentment about what he's saying to you while you need him the most.

"I'm sorry. It's my fault. I let myself slip and make mistakes. I should've been more firm, I should've kept myself away from you. It's my fault I believed some miracle had taken place and changed my life," He says.

"Jungkook, stop it. We have done this before, it was me who made a mistake too. I should've gone to a doctor at the first sight of blood. It wouldn't have gotten this serious then. Stop blaming yourself. It could've happened to me with any other man on this planet," you say to him. He stands facing the wall. He doesn't looks at you.

"We'll try again as soon as I recover with proper advice of a doctor," you try to convince this isn't the end of it all. You can have another baby, maybe multiple number of other babies.

"No. No more babies for us. We can stay married but no more of all this now. No more of trying to act like a normal couple," He says gravely. His eyes are red from crying.

"Jungkook... we love each other. And I need you, don't do this," you cry but it doesn't budge him.

"I don't wanna be the reason you die." He leaves the room after speaking.

You're left alone to cry. You compose yourself when Yoongi and Hoseok come in one by one. You ask them to call your family.

Author's note
It's okay you can tell me how much you hate me, I won't be hurt 🙃