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13. Ramelteon And Insomnia

For the whole morning Maena felt light-headed, because of the amount she drank last night. She had few lectures in the morning and she tried her best to focus, but this time her light-headness made her thoughts to drive away often.

Last night, Bora really was with one guy from the get together and she told that to Maena. "I think I'm in love, Maena. He was so nice and all.", Bora eaxcitedly noted in the cafeteria.

"Bobo, you've known him for a day. You can't be in love.", Maena convinced, feeling tired of her continuous blabbering about that guy.

"Okay, well you're right. But I still like him a lot. What about you, though? What did you do last night there?", she then asked, finally changing her topic.

Maena again remember what she did with Jisung. She didn't want to remember it, because it's like she still feels quilty about that. "I got tired, so I went home earlier.", she just answered.

Bora nodded, totally believing her. "Oh, I got something to ask by the way. I was just wondering.. that am I getting an invitation to the wedding?", she asked in the hope she definitely would.

"Oh, hell yeah. I ain't attending there if you aren't.", Maena replied without hesitation. Bora just chuckled to her reaction. "But seriously, I hope so. It's still my wedding and all my close ones should be invited, right? I'll still ask my father about it."

"Yeah, good."

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After a school day Maena spent the time for studying. She sat by her desk for hours and trying to catch up all the stuff she has fallen behind, and tried to do all necessary notes. Her major was urgent too, she should've started a new design like weeks ago but she still haven't gotten that done yet. It just feels like a lot for her now. She can't believe how her work has loaded like this.

She accidentally bumped her elbow to a small fake plant that she got from Bora as a gift, because she apparently wasn't able to keep real plants alive. The plant fell to the floor and the pot cracked a little. "Oh no.", she muttered and picked it up. The pot had just cracked and it probably would be fixed with just tape. But she didn't have tape with her.

"Could he have tape?", she wondered and stood up from her chair. She exit her room and started looking for tape in the house. She didn't seem to find one and she had a high feeling that maybe Sunghoon's room might have one.

He wasn't home yet, so she just went to his room and opened few of his drawers to look for a tape roll. She just thinks maybe he wouldn't mind that she goes them through and well, he doesn't necessarily need to know. Her attention was caught by a small jar in one of the drawers. There was some kind of pills, so she picked it and started observing it.

"Ramelteon?", she asked herself in confusion. She looked at the piece of paper around the jar, which is the prescription.

"Park Sunghoon. Most importantly to treat the patient's Insomnia. One tablet every night before going to bed. Issued on November 17. 2023.", she read the prescription aloud.

"November 17? That was months ago, and these have barely been taken at all?", she noted to herself and looked inside the jar just to see it being almost full. 

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Maena didn't go back to study anymore. She sat in the living room and thinking. Sunghoon had insomnia. And for some reason he doesn't treat it. Honestly, now if she thinks, it was seen in him. He was often tired, and maybe because even if he was tired he couldn't sleep. Another thought crossed in her mind too. What if he drinks at night so he would pass out to sleep?

After some while she heard the door open and she stood up from the sofa. She waited quietly as Sunghoon took his shoes off and put his keys on a top shelf. He saw her standing in the living room, just observing him.