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Accident Aftermath

I don't feel the warmth of the sun on my eyelids, I don't hear the birds chirping. I hear the constant beeping as if it's a machine holding my life together. Then I realize that it is exactly what it is.

Why am I here and not in my bed? I'm going to be late for school. I- Wait. I already graduated. That means I'm supposed to be at the road trip right now. Now I remember. We crashed. We crashed, meaning I wasn't the only one injured. I can't move. I was in the farthest seat too. Imagine Hye Mi and Baekhyun. I can't feel my emotions, I feel like, I'm drifting off.

And just like that, I fall into darkness again.

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"I can't live without her s-she's my sister!" Hye Mi? Is that you? How long has it been seen I've heard your voice? It feels like I drifted off for a minute and suddenly you're here.

I focus hard. Slowly but surely, I feel my index finger lift up as well as the rest off my fingers. "Omo! Doctor she's moving!" I hear her say. My eyes flutter open and I greeted with a white ceiling that soon is covered by my twin sister's face. "Oh my God Hye Jul!" She brings my hand to her face and softly sobs on her knees. "I thought you'd never wake up." Hye Mi weeps.

I feel a tear escape my right eye and flows down my temple and into my hair. "Y-Yah, gwenchana, h-how long have I bee-"

"Six months Hye Jul. Six months." Hye Mi cuts me off. I've been in a coma for six months? It felt like such a short time.

"What about Baekhyun?" Hye Mi looks at me with the most saddest eyes.

"He's been in a coma just like you, and we don't know when or if he'll ever wake up." She begins to sob again. Suddenly I remember my wish. The words that I had said before we were hit. How am I supposed to be happy like this?

The doctor comes in with a clipboard and a few papers. "Ah, Kim Hye Jul. Nice to see you're awake." I bow my head before awaiting his next subject.

"Now you haven't suffered severe injuries. But for some unknown reason, you and Byun Baekhyun have been or are currently in a coma. You both have not had any impacts to the head but you have fractured a few bones. Yet the reason for the coma is unknown." My eyebrows furrow. Thats quite odd. I turn to Hye Mi.

"How about you? Did you go through a coma? You were in the front seat."

She shook her head. "Ani, I just woke up with a fractured arm and thats it." That really is unusual. But I have I feeling our comas are tied together somehow.

"Doctor-nim, when am I able to leave or go through physical therapy? I'd like to walk as soon as possible."

The doctor chuckles before looking up at me. "Who said you couldn't walk? You healed quite quickly and you haven't suffered from any injury that prevents you from walking. So I don't see why you can't try now."

I give a look at Hye Mi and she smiles and nods. I grab her and I slowly slide out of the hospital bed, making sure the needles are where they were before. Hye Mi brings the machinery behind me as we start walking. "You two can take laps around but do not go outside till further notice arasseo?" We both nod before leaving the room.

"I still can't process that it's been six months. It doesn't feel like it." I say out loud. She gives me a look.

"The accident was all over the news. By the way looked, they said that all three of us were supposed to be dead by the impact." Hye Mi shrugs as she says this.

"Don't you think it's weird that we got into a coma for no reason?"

"Ne, its awfully strange this incident. I've just been stressing out because Baekhyun hasn't woken up yet. But now that I know you've woken up, I have high hopes that he'll wake up soon. I can't lose the both of you."