The Chance To Be With You [B1A4 Fanfiction]

Chapter 23: The Light in the Darkness

 I skipped down the hospital steps, something I almost never did. But I couldn't help it, I was just in a really good mood and part of it, okay maybe all of it, had to do with Jinyoung. It all had to do with what he just told me.

"Minyoung," he said earlier when I was in his hospital room. He said it in such a tone that I found myself a bit afraid about what would come out of his mouth next. "I don't want you to be too shocked, alright?"

"Oh...um...okay," I hesitantly said. I tried not to show the worry that I was feeling inside on my face. If he had some sort of bad news to tell me, I didn't want him to think that I was going to negatively react to it. I felt like I should show him a positive image. I figured that he might be surrounded with a bit of negativity, especially because of being in the hospital and because of his limited interaction with the world outside of the stark white walls. That was why I always tried to smile and be in a good mood. While there were times when I would let down the walls, I wanted to be someone strong for him, someone who would stand there for him no matter what. It was moments like those, though, that made me realize just how much of an impact Jinyoung had had on my life so far.

"Why do you look so serious?" he wondered. I could detect the joking tone in his voice.

"What are you talking about?" I asked in an attempt to play it off. "I'm perfectly fine." I made a lousy attempt at getting the conversation back on track, one he probably took note of, but he didn't say anything else about it and continued.

"It's some shocking news," he said as he turned to look out the window.

"Oh, is it?" I asked. My heart felt like it was going to burst from the suspense. I wanted to know what was going on. I automatically assumed that it would probably be bad news. I wondered why he was trying to prolong the subject. Was it something that he didn't want me to know? Was it something he was telling me out of obligation?

"Minyoung," Jinyoung said turning to me with the serious glint in his eye. He reached out and grabbed me by the shoulders so he knew that I was looking right at him. "I'm getting released from the hospital."

It took me a moment to register what he had just said. Released? From the hospital? I probably stared at him in shock and zoned out. I'm not sure how long I was unresponsive for, but when I snapped back into reality, Jinyoung was waving his hand in front of my face with a gummy smile on his face. He had to know the kind of effect that the news had on me. Still, I couldn't believe it. Was he really getting released? Did the doctors really approve it?

"I'm serious, I'm not joking around," Jinyoung said. "I'm really getting released."

"I...what?" I somehow managed to get some part of my voice to say something in response. "Like...out of the hospital released?"

"Out of the hospital released," he chuckled.

I couldn't hold back anymore and immediately hugged him. It felt like I was in a dream. Jinyoung would be leaving the hospital. I really couldn't remember the last time that I saw him in normal clothes, that I met with him outside of the four white walls that held him in. My mind immediately went to think of all of the things that I wanted to do with him. It was weird to think about the couple things that people do, but my mind went there. I would have never thought about that a year ago. Relationships were always the last thing on my mind, but Jinyoung made the difference. He was someone important to me, someone that I wanted to be around for a very long time.

"Don't worry, we'll have time to do everything," he said as if he were reading my mind.

"When's your release?"