OVER ME [ZEROBASEONE]

23.

Matthew was patiently waiting for the young girl to leave the bathroom. He was seated on her bed with his med kit opened beside him, syringes filled and ready to be shot along with bandages for the wound in her stomach. Matthew wondered if she were healed enough to even shower, but obviously he couldn't say no to her when she asked to freshen up, it would reveal too much, too much of their coverup.. Too much of their lie.

The girl left the bathroom, bringing matthew back to reality. her body was adorned in new clothes and she felt like she could finally breathe again. Her hair was still damp but dried enough that droplets of water did not slide down it and stain her clothes.

"Oh?" Yona voiced, a bit surprised to see matthew back so fast. But it was good he was here, she could complain to him about the pain in her waist and have him do something about it for her.

"Hey," he smiled affectionately, his eyes meeting hers after scanning her whole form. "Sorry for the sudden appearance." He chucked at fyona's surprised face, assuming she didn't expect him.

"Oh no its fine." She said sweetly with a small smile. That simple gesture put matthew in a trance, he felt guilty, and he knew the others did too. They were all so guilty that they can never speak about what happened, but it was for the best after all. Especially her best.

"I was actually going to ask you for something for the pain in my side, it feels like my insides are torn apart." She chuckled, thinking she was exaggerating, but he did not. He knew that that was exactly what had happened to her. But he had to keep the show running, so he forced a smile and shook his head.

"Why don't you take a seat and let me  have a look?" Fyona did not think twice to follow his orders, from what she recalled anyways, she was pretty close to him. Not as close as she were to yujin obviously, but pretty close still.

Matthew rolled yona's right sleeve to reveal a few purple and green bruises. "I think i fell pretty badly." She smiled sheepishly, she was always super clumsy, or at least her mom used to say, she can't believe she caused so much harm on herself.

At that thought, fyona was suddenly stuck, there was a sudden heavy feeling consuming her whole. She placed her hand on her heart as she tried to connect the feeling to what she said. Did the heaviness arrived after the statment or the thought? She was trying to answer the question. Something was wrong. She didnt know with herself or her life but she knew very well that something was wrong.

The male with her seemed to catch up pretty fast with her abrupt change in demeanor. "Fyona? Whats wrong?" He asked as he recapped the needle of the syringe he was going to use on her.

That brought yona out of the trace and she recovered rather quickly, "..nothing, just something weird i thought of," she smiled uncertainly but decided to not make a huge deal out of it, even when she felt like she should have.

"Does your side hurt?" Matthew changed the subject, knowing better than to dug a grave for himself, or in this case, for her. He knew instantly that she said or thought of a word that triggered her memory. it was not a good thing that she was so quick with it. Its only have been the first day and she was already going through trigger words.

They can't let her remember her past. They must make memories with her and fast, So even if she did remember, she can also remember the goods she has experienced with them.

"Yeah," she was quite. this worried matthew.

"Do you prefer pills or shots? The shots are very fast and straight forward with their job." Matthew decided to spark a conversation.